Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life, Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective, and The Lara Croft Collection are just some of the games coming to the Nintendo Switch this week.
🛍 Monday, June 26 — Sunday, July 2
It's a really busy week on the Nintendo eShop with over 40 titles arriving on the hybrid over the course of the next seven days.
Highlights include The Lara Croft Collection (although it really should have online co-op), the retitled remake of 2003's charming Harvest Moon game Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life, a new AEW wrestling game, and the remaster of DS cult classic Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective.
Of course, there's plenty of other games hitting the Switch — and we've gone through all of them. There's a list below of each and every game coming out this week (including the new $30 1-2 Switch game), along with a brief description of each and a link to where you can see a trailer and some screenshots.
Plenty of variety here! The full list of 40 upcoming Nintendo Switch games are below:
🗓 Upcoming Nintendo Switch Games:
Monday, June 26
- Soulvars — A pixel art turn-based deckbuilding RPG.
Tuesday, June 27
- 📦 Charade Maniacs — An otome visual novel. (Physical release)
- Dolmenjord: Viking Islands — This is a logic puzzler about building Viking villages. It kinda has Dorfromantik vibes.
- 🎮 Little Friends: Puppy Island — Like Nintendogs but on an island.
- Placid Plastic Duck Simulator — A 'high-tech' 3D rubber duck sandbox simulation.
- Raging Bytes — This is a neat looking story-driven zombie RPG that's 'full of drama and pixels'.
- 📦 Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life — 2003 Harvest Moon game comes back with a new name, and a fresh look. I played it on GameCube - it's fun!
Wednesday, June 28
- Abandon Ship — A Pirate-themed strategy game.
- Broodstar — An arcade shmup with roguelike elements.
- Deadliest Catch: The Game — A sim game about catching crabs at sea, really.
- Volleyball Heaven — Not a volleyball game, but actually a visual novel. M for mature.
Thursday, June 29
- 11111Game — Binary logic puzzler.
- 📦 AEW: Fight Forever — A new wrestling game from the Yuke's team. (Physical release)
- Athanasy — A biopunk sci-fi visual novel.
- Boo Party — A top-down 2D pixel art supernatural adventure set in a mansion. M for mature.
- Burnhouse Lane — Complete 'five tasks to win your life back' in this horror experience. M for mature.
- Bus Tycoon Night and Day — A passenger transport sim game, complete with classic isometric look.
- ChronoBreach Ultra — Robot with laser stars in this 'time-bending' action platformer shooter.
- Classic Racers Elite — A 3D time-attack racing game set in the 1960s.
- Enclave HD — An update of this 2002 Xbox third-person hack and slash game.
- Forever Lost: Episode 3 — First-person adventure/puzzler set in an abandoned asylum.
- Inner Ashes — An emotive first-person narrative adventure about how Alzheimer’s affects people and their memories.
- Medieval Royal Chess — Play chess with a middle-ages theme.
- Move the Box — Match three puzzle game.
- Moving Blocks Puzzle — Budget puzzler.
- 📦 Noob: The Factionless — A pretty meta looking 3D RPG. (Physical release)
- Picontier — A charming looking 'slow life' island RPG with GBA-style visuals.
- Shootvaders: The Beginning — A colourful arcade space shooter with two-player co-op.
- The Lara Croft Collection — These are fun co-op arcade games with combat and puzzle platforming. Like I said, it's a real shame these versions don't have online co-op though.
- WW2: Bunker Simulator — Defend a bunker in this war action sim.
- Your Computer Might Be At Risk — A first-person narrative puzzle game.
Friday, June 30
- A Tale for Anna — Fantasy setting hidden object game.
- Crime O'Clock — This puzzle point-and-click game looks to be quite novel, has evolving maps, and over 40 'black and white' cases to solve.
- 📦 Everybody 1-2-Switch! — Snark aside, I honestly think this will probably by quite good fun with a good group of folks, and its nice to see it priced lower than the first game. (Physical release)
- 🎮📦 Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective — An HD remaster of the original 2010 puzzle solving mystery adventure. It's from the creator of the Ace Attorney series which lends it some serious weight. (Phyiscal release)
- 📦 Master Detective Archives: Rain Code — A new 'lucid-noir' detective adventure from the Danganronpa folks. (Physical release) M for mature.
- 📦Ray'z Arcade Chronology — A collection of three 90s Taito shoot 'em ups in one package. (Physical release)
- 📦 RayStorm X RayCrisis HD Collection — Laser shooting sci-fi vertical shoot'em up - you get both the original arcade and HD version here. (Physical release.)
- The Lost and the Wicked — A grungy and 'brutal' twin-stick psycho-thriller action game. M for mature.
- Vision Soft Reset — This is a 2D sci-fi metroidvania with time-travelling elements.
Saturday, July 1
- Bruxa — A 2D platformer featuring a witch.
- Sokoball Dreams — Minimalist spacial puzzler.
All dates are EU and US unless noted. 📦 A cardboard box emoji denotes a game is also released physically. 🎮 A controller emoji means a demo is on the Nintendo eShop.
Release data is sourced via Switch Scores.
This list of upcoming Nintendo Switch games first appeared in Issue 337 of Switch Weekly — Chris Brandrick's Nintendo newsletter.