🛍 Monday, October 23 — Sunday, October 29
It's another busy week ahead on the Nintendo eShop with over 50 games coming to the Switch over the next seven days — including the likes of Frog Detective, and the first Metal Gear Solid Collection. If that wasn't Kenough, there's also a Barbie interior designer game. 💅
As ever, I've gone through all of the upcoming releases, looking over each, and providing you with a short description of each to give you an idea of what all of the upcoming titles are about. You'll also find a link out to more information, such as screenshots, trailers, install size, and player information.
Let's get to it – here's what games are coming to the Nintendo Switch this week.
🗓 Upcoming Nintendo Switch Games:
Monday, October 23
- Golf: Hole in Two — This is a budget-priced, 3D minimalist golfing game in which you need to score in just two strokes.
Tuesday, October 24
- 📦 Archetype Arcadia — This is a rather dark looking, sci-fi themed visual novel that's set in a post-apocalyptic world. M for mature. (Physical release)
- Car for Sale Simulator 2023 — You have to build your very own car dealership empire.
- Dreams of a Geisha — A match three puzzle game with 120 levels.
- Enchanted Portals — This is a 2D platformer with Cuphead-esque cartoon visuals and a magic theme.
- Just Dance 2024 Edition — This entry has 40 new songs to get your grove on too. You can either pay for all tracks or download for free and pay as you go.
- 📦 Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Volume 1 — This first volume has a handful of classic Metal Gear games including the PlayStation 'Solid' original, and the two sequels. You can snag them either as an all-in-one bundle, or as separate downloads. M for mature. (Physical release)
- 📦 Pickleball Smash — A party sports game for four players. (Physical release)
- Springtime Hike — A chill, budget-friendly walking sim set in a forest.
Wednesday, October 25
- Composer World — This is a music making tool/app with hundreds of built-in instruments and soundsets to use.
- 🎮 Dave the Diver — This popular RPG meets management game was something of a smash when it debuted on Steam — it's now coming to Switch. You dive for fish by day, and serve it in your sushi restaurant by night. One of this week's highlights.
- even if Tempest: Dawning Connections — An otome/romance visial novel.
- 📦 Get Me Out, Please — You have to escape an abandoned school in this horror action game for up to four players. (Physical release)
- LumiereMagna — A magic themed 3D action combat game.
- Swapshot — This is a kinda neat looking 2D platformer with a teleportation mechanic. Cheap too.
Thursday, October 26
- A Perfect Day — This is an interesting looking interactive fiction game that's set in the 'final moments of 1999'.
- Animal Kart Racer 2 — A 3D kart racer featuring a selection of animal drivers.
- Frog Detective: The Entire Mystery — Another highlight here — a lovely trio of family-friendly, witty detective games.
- Gordian Quest — Here is a deckbuilding fantasy RPG with roguelite elements and turn-based strategic combat.
- Great Ambition of the Slimes — A neat looking slimy isometric tactical sim.
- Hamster on Rails — Puzzle adventure featuring a problem solving hamster.
- 📦🎮 Hana Awase New Moon — An otome visual novel with added hanafuda battles. There are four individual 'volumes' arriving on the Nintendo eShop this week, or an all-in-one physical bundle. M for mature. (Physical release)
- Horror Gallery — A spooky game just in time for Halloween. M for mature.
- Horror Tale 2: Samantha — A 3D horror adventure set in 90s America.
- Illuminaria — You control bunch of robots in this resource management game.
- Kickback Slug: Cosmic Courier — This is described as an 'avoidance-based' physics game featuring a fast slug in space.
- Nyanzou and Kumakichi: Let's make a flower garden — Create your own flower garden.
- Paintball 3: Candy Match Factory — Another match three puzzler.
- Paper Dash: Ghost Hunt — A 3D action game in which you play as a paper plane taking out ghosts...
- Save the World — Sci-fi visual novel. M for mature.
- Seaside Driving — An 80s style arcade racer.
- Space Storeship — A puzzler set in an empty spaceship.
- ⭐️ Spin Rhythm XD — An interdimensional electronic music rhythm game.
- The Kitty in the Trapping Garden — A budget escape room.
- Varenje: Don't Touch the Berries — Here's a quirky hidden object game with a rather unique look to it.
- Visco Collection — There's a total of seven arcade games here, with some added modern enhancements.
- Wet Steps — Visual novel.
Friday, October 27
- 📦 30 Sport Games in 1 — A wide variety of sports here. (Note: The physical release arrives in November)
- Alive Paint — A kids digital colouring book with an animation component.
- 📦 Barbie DreamHouse Adventures — A home decor/interior designer Barbie game. (Physical release)
- 📦🎮 Crymachina — A rather striking action-heavy sci-fi RPG featuring 'synthetic beings'. (Physical release)
- 📦 Desolatium — Lovecraftian graphic adventure point and click game. M for mature. (Physical release)
- 📦 DreamWorks Trolls Remix Rescue — Kids game based on the Trolls movie. (Physical release)
- Hero Survival — Another Vampire Survivors style roguelite, but this time featuring classic horror film enemies.
- Kraken Odyssey — A seafaring 3D action meets racing game.
- Murder is Game Over — This is a murder mystery game in which you play as a crime-solving detective and his dog.
All of the dates listed above are EU and US unless noted. A 📦 box emoji means a physical release is also available. A 🎮 controller emoji means a demo is available.
The release data seen above is kindly sourced via Switch Scores.
This list of upcoming Nintendo Switch games first appeared in Issue 355 of Switch Weekly— Chris Brandrick's free Nintendo newsletter.
