The latest Nintendo Download update for Europe has arrived, and it’s bringing new games galore to the eShop in your region. As always, be sure to drop a vote in our poll and comment down below with your potential picks for the week. Enjoy!
Switch Retail – New Releases
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Complete Edition (CD PROJEKT, 15th Oct, £49.99) – You are Geralt of Rivia, mercenary monster slayer. At your disposal is every tool of the trade: razor-sharp swords, lethal mixtures, stealthy crossbows, and powerful combat magic. Before you stands a war-torn, monster-infested continent you can explore at will. Your current contract? Tracking down the Child of Prophecy, a living weapon that can alter the shape of the world. – Read our The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt review
Baldur’s Gate and Baldur’s Gate II: Enhanced Editions (Beamdog, 15th Oct, £39.99) – Forced to leave your home under mysterious circumstances, you find yourself drawn into a conflict that has the Sword Coast on the brink of war. Soon you discover there are other forces at work, far more sinister than you could ever imagine…Since its original release in 1998, Baldur’s Gate has set the standard for Dungeons & Dragons computer roleplaying games. Customize your hero, recruit a party of brave allies, and explore the Sword Coast in your search for adventure, profit… and the truth. – Read our Baldur’s Gate and Baldur’s Gate II: Enhanced Editions review
Planescape: Torment and Icewind Dale: Enhanced Editions (Beamdog, 15th Oct, £39.99) – Journey deep into Icewind Dale, a harsh and unforgiving territory settled only by the hardiest folk. Battle the cunning, ferocious beasts that survive among the snow-shrouded peaks, and confront an evil that schemes to wreak destruction upon the world. Then, explore the bizarre universe of Planescape, from the dirty streets of Sigil to the mysterious Outer Planes–and even the depths of Hell itself. This is a place where the word is mightier than the sword, where thought defines reality, and belief has the power to reshape worlds.
Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth: Complete Edition (BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment, 18th Oct, £54.99) – With engaging storylines, classic turn-based battles, and tons of Digimon to collect, Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth: Complete Edition delivers everything fans loved about Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth and Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth – Hacker’s Memory. Get the full experience with the Complete Edition which includes both titles in one!
Zombieland: Double Tap- Road Trip (Game Mill, 15th Oct, £34.99) – With its own unique story, set between the events of the first movie, Zombieland: Double Tap- Road Trip is a ridiculously fun top-down twin-stick shooter featuring local co-op multiplayer for up to four players. Play as your favourite heroes from the original — Tallahassee, Columbus, Wichita and Little Rock — as well as new unlockable characters from the upcoming sequel. The game embraces the game-like elements seen in the film by incorporating everything from the “Rules” to “Zombie Kill of the Week”.
Stranded Sails – Explorers of the Cursed Islands (Merge Games, 17th Oct, £16.99) Stranded Sails – Explorers of the Cursed Islands is an open world, exploration and farming adventure full of quests and discovery! You’re shipwrecked on a mysterious archipelago. It’s up to you to survive and solve the mysteries deep in the heart of the islands, then finally escape! – Read our Stranded Sails – Explorers of the Cursed Islands review
Ice Age Scrat’s Nutty Adventure (Outright Games, 18th Oct, £34.99) – Join Scrat’s quest for the Crystal Nuts Ice Age’s favourite sabre-tooth squirrel, Scrat, is at it again in an all-new adventure! A mysterious mechanism in an ancient Scratazon Temple has locked away his prized possession – and the only way to get it back is an epic quest to find four legendary Crystal Nuts, scattered across the land.
Raging Loop (Pqube, 18th Oct, £24.99) – Immerse yourself in a thrilling psychological horror story taking place in the secluded Japanese village of Yasumizu. A heavy mist surrounds the place, preventing everyone from ever leaving. Ancient gods have come back to hunt the villagers down one by one. The feast has begun, can you escape the village alive?
Switch eShop – New Releases
A Hat in Time (Humble Bundle, 18th Oct, £25.19) – In A Hat in Time you play as a tiny space-travelling girl with a big top hat. Her adventure is halted when all her fuel, the Time Pieces, is lost and scattered across a nearby planet. Hat Kid must now jump, fight and stitch new hats to make her way into every nook and cranny of this new world in order to restore her fuel and resume her journey.
Little Town Hero (GAME FREAK, 16th Oct, £22.49) – The story is set in an isolated village on the edge of the world. The only gate leading outside is heavily guarded by a castle, and the villagers are not allowed to leave. Most of the villagers don’t give it a thought, and happily go on with their everyday lives. However, the protagonist is a little different from the others – he wants to see the world outside. One day, a “Monster” appears in the village, shocking everyone because until then, no one knew such creatures existed. – Read our Little Town Hero review
The Jackbox Party Pack 6 (Jackbox Games, 17th Oct, £25.99) – It’s the wildest Party Pack yet with five hilarious new games!The popular trivia deathmatch Trivia Murder Party 2 (1-8 players). Try to survive the bizarre new minigames.
Overwatch: Legendary Edition (Nintendo, 15th Oct, £35.99) – Join the fight for the future in the world of Overwatch and choose your hero from a diverse cast of soldiers, scientists, adventurers, and oddities. Bend time, defy physics, and unleash a dizzying array of extraordinary powers and weapons. Engage your enemies in iconic locations from around the globe in the ultimate team-based shooter.
Felix The Reaper (Daedalic GmbH, 17th Oct, £22.49) – Felix works at The Ministry of Death and is in love with Betty The Maiden from The Ministry of Life. He believes that going to the human world as a field reaper will enable him to one day meet her. Hence, he’s taken the job of making sure people die – and taught himself to dance to impress the love of his life.
Arcade Archives VS. CASTLEVANIA (HAMSTER, 17th Oct) – The demonic Count Dracula has awakened from his 100-year slumber. Play as Simon, as he sets out for Dracula’s castle of evil in order to defeat him. With the whip handed down through his family and a variety of weapons, control Simon to defeat the children of the night standing in his way. The “Arcade Archives” series has faithfully reproduced many classic Arcade masterpieces.
Home Sheep Home: Farmageddon Party Edition (Aardman Animations, 18th Oct) – Join Shaun the Sheep and his friends Timmy and Shirley on this epic adventure journeying through underground caverns, negotiating the busy streets of London and teleporting through outer space all in search of the green, green grass of home.
Billy Bomber (Ultimate Games, 15th Oct, £3.81) – Your goal is to transport Billy’s pyrotechnic to the exit using dynamites and springs. You can place them on the map wherever you want, then watch your TNT explode and send Billy into space! Billy Billy is not going to move anywhere, but the explosive dynamite should be the right motivation for him.
The Eyes of Ara (100 Stones Interactive, 15th Oct, £11.69) – Alone on a remote island stands a long-abandoned castle, the source of many a ghastly rumour and unsettling tale. Not all is as it seems. A mysterious signal has begun broadcasting from somewhere within the ancient halls. Something inside the castle has awoken, and someone needs to venture inside to discover the truth.
Gleaner Heights (ManolidisAimilios, 16th Oct, £8.09) – “Today is another typical day in Gleaner Heights. I got up, went to the general store, bought some seeds, planted them. Cooked some spaghetti bolognese, went out to chop wood. Milked my cows, fed them too. Got in my boat, went underwater with my diving suit. Found a cave entrance, fought a giant crab, grabbed some treasure.”
ZikSquare (TOMAGameStudio, 16th Oct, £4.49) – ZikSquare brings you a new concept. Each musical note is played by the game and is a block that your character has to slide on, to jump on or to dodge. 15 challenges on 15 original pieces of music.
Battle Planet – Judgement Day (EuroVideo Medien, 17th Oct) – Battle Planet – Judgement Day is a planetary rogue-lite top-down shooter. You are one of the universe’s 3 most wanted criminals on the run, fighting your way through hordes of aliens, military and police units. There is only one way to reclaim your freedom – destroy them all. . . Escape a crashed prisoner transport ship and fight the authorities in a non-stop mayhem of blazing gunfire and planet-destroying bombs sent to perforate you and the ground beneath your feet.
Domiverse (Haunted Tie, 17th Oct) – Face off against up to 3 friends locally in this fun and frenetic arena fighting game. A single mistake can be fatal, and there’s no room for mercy in Domiverse. Your friends are obstacles you must destroy in order to get the power crown. So go for it and become the ultimate champion! Play as one of Domiverse’s 12 completely crazy heroes.
Kine (Chump Squad, 17th Oct) – Kine is a 3D narrative puzzle game about three daring machines that aspire to be musicians. Embark across a theatrical dreamscape by solving a wide variety of increasingly difficult 3D puzzles. Guide Euler, Quat, and Roo as they struggle to form a band and find their big break!
Miniature – The Story Puzzle (Run-Down Games, 17th Oct) – The Miniature is a unique 3D story-based puzzle game with a stunning visual world, fascinating music and original game mode. This is a special puzzle game, all dioramas come with new locations, which require being put into the right order to learn the different stories.
Rabi-Ribi (CIRCLE Ent., 17th Oct, £26.99) – Rabi-Ribi? Why is there a bunny girl? There never quite seems to be enough bunny girls in the world, so here is another for you aficionados out there. This 2D sidescrolling exploration platformer follows the adventure of Erina, whose humdrum life as a regular rabbit is turned upside-down when she finds herself in an unknown world and turned into a human (with rabbit ears)!
SEGA AGES Columns II: A Voyage Through Time (SEGA, 17th Oct) – The classic puzzle game Columns II returns in SEGA AGES for Nintendo Switch. Match jewels, fossils, and disks as you jump through time! Control the falling pieces and aim for three-in-a-row to clear the screen before they stack to the top! Switch between multiple game modes, like Flash Columns where you target flashing jewels and unlock secret Jewel Case characters, or Versus Columns where you challenge your friends.
SEGA AGES Ichidant-R (SEGA, 17th Oct) – Releasing in the West for the first time, Ichidant-R, the wacky series of timed puzzle mini-games, is now available in the SEGA AGES series for Nintendo Switch. Push the limits of your brain and your coordination by hunting for hidden vampires, conducting an orchestra, warping your way through mazes, shooting down UFOS, and much more across 20 wildly varied mini-games!
Where the Bees Make Honey (Whitethorn Digital, 17th Oct, £5.59) – Where the Bees Make Honey tells a story about reflecting on different moments from a childhood, which is played and experienced from an adult perspective. At its core Where the Bees Make Honey is a puzzle adventure game, but gameplay variation is filtered throughout. It’s a dreamy, ethereal, and thoughtfully crafted experience about nostalgia. The game is capturing that grace period in a childhood where playing dress-up was larger than life and changed the environments around you.
Just Ignore Them (Ratalaika Games, 18th Oct) – Growing up we all knew that one kid who was absolutely terrified of the dark and convinced that there were monsters hiding beneath his bed, but what if it were true? Just Ignore Them is a Point and Click game that revolves around a boy named Mark, who is locked in a never-ending chase to escape the monsters that pursue him.
Megaquarium (Auroch Digital, 18th Oct) – Design your displays, look after your fish, manage your staff and keep your guests happy! It’s all in a day’s work as the curator of your very own Megaquarium.
Pig Eat Ball (Mommys Best Games, 18th Oct) – King Cake, the dessert-headed monarch, has decided it’s time for his daughter to get married, but she other plans! The King has devised “The Royal Games” in which the winner will marry Princess Bow. Since she can’t talk her father out of it, Bow decides to put on a disguise and enter the competition herself.
Return of the Obra Dinn (3909, 18th Oct) – In 1802, the merchant ship Obra Dinn set out from London for the Orient with over 200 tons of trade goods. Six months later it hadn’t met its rendezvous point at the Cape of Good Hope and was declared lost at sea.
StarBlox Inc. (IlluminationGames, 18th Oct) – Welcome to the team at StarBlox Incorporated – where sorting cargo is a contact sport! Load your rocket resource blocks quickly and efficiently to beat the competition. But watch out – the shipping world is fierce! Your opponent can sabotage your work by stealing blocks, delivering punches or throwing you in the incinerator! As you deliver cargo to the far corners of the solar system, each of the planets, moons and asteroids you visit will present new challenges – from black holes to gravity to waves of lava.
Safari Pinball (SuperPowerUpGames, 18th Oct) – Get ready for Safari Pinball, a pinball machine where you’ll try to photograph and record many animals through Africa. Elephants, Lions, Zebras, and many more are waiting for you on this table. Discover all the secrets, including the Rhinos cave, a secret zone with its own mechanics. Complete all the missions and become number 1 in the world or the best among your Friends, posting your high score on the online leaderboard.
Worbital (TJR Games, 18th Oct) – Break the Space! Worbital is space war in real-time with tension-filled gameplay and gravitational destruction. Interplanetary Artillery Warfare Exploit the shifting gravity by manoeuvring your shots across space to inflict maximum damage on the enemy. Sling asteroids, create black holes, make it rain with solar flares! Cosmic Chaos Planets blow up. They might take other planets with them.
A Hat in Time – Deluxe Edition (Humble Bundle, 18th Oct)
Summer Sweetheart (Fengyun, 17th Oct)
Sublevel Zero Redux (Coatsink Software, 17th Oct)
Roof Rage (Early Melon, 16th Oct, £13.49)
Override: Mech City Brawl – Super Charged Mega Edition (Modus Games, 15th Oct)
Tower Climb (11Sheep, 20th Oct)
Rawr-Off (No Gravity Games, 18th Oct)
MilkChoco (GameParadiso, 17th Oct)
Switch eShop – Demos
Disgaea 4 Complete+ Demo (NIS America)
Galaxy Champions TV Demo (Silesia Games)
Switch eShop – Pre-Orders
Disgaea 4 Complete+ (NIS America) – When the ruling powers of Hades are revealed to be corrupt, Valvatorez must spark a rebellion to bring them down! Armed to the teeth with dynamic, over-the-top gameplay and a horde of special features, this is the ultimate Disgaea!
Spaceland (Ellada Games, pre-order from 15th Oct)
Mary Skelter 2 (Idea Factory, pre-order from 16th Oct)
Zumba® Burn It Up! (505 Games, pre-order from 17th Oct)
〇× LOGIC PUZZLE 1000 ! (SUCCESS, pre-order from 17th Oct)
Ghost Blade HD (eastasiasoft, pre-order from 17th Oct)
Soul Searching (QubicGames, pre-order from 17th Oct)
Pixel Gladiator (Drageus Games, pre-order from 18th Oct)
Into the Dead 2 (Versus Evil, pre-order from 1st Jan)
Into the Dead 2 Bundle (Versus Evil, pre-order from 1st Jan)
Switch eShop – Special Offers
DLC / Add-On Content
Nintendo Switch
- Mortal Kombat 11 K- Terminator T-800 (WB Games)
- Overwatch League – Latin American Spanish Language Pack (Nintendo)
- Overwatch League – German Language Pack (Nintendo)
- Overwatch League – Italian Language Pack (Nintendo)
- Overwatch League – Brazilian Portuguese Language Pack (Nintendo)
- Overwatch League – Russian Language Pack (Nintendo)
- Overwatch League – Castilian Spanish Language Pack (Nintendo)
- Overwatch League – French Language Pack (Nintendo)
- Overwatch League – Japanese Language Pack (Nintendo)
- Overwatch League – Korean Language Pack (Nintendo)
- Mortal Kombat 11 K- Double Feature Skin Pack (WB Games)
- GRIP: DeLorean 2650 (Wired Productions)
- Mortal Kombat 11 K- Masquerade Skin Pack (WB Games)
- Pic-a-Pix Deluxe – Giant Puzzles 16 (Lightwood Games)
- WorldNeverland – Elnea Kingdom:White Wizard Coats Set (althi)
- A Hat in Time – Seal the Deal (Humble Bundle)
- Stern Pinball Arcade: Add-on Pack 2 (FarSight Studios)
- The Pinball Arcade: Stern Table Pack 2 (FarSight Studios)
- Stern Pinball Arcade: Ghostbusters Premium (FarSight Studios)
- Stern Pinball Arcade: Limited Edition Add-on Pack 2 (FarSight Studios)
- The Pinball Arcade: Gottlieb Table Pack 1 (FarSight Studios)
So that’s your lot for this week’s Nintendo Download. Go on, be a sport and drop a vote in the poll above, and comment below with your hot picks!