Another week packed with games for the Nintendo Switch. There's nearly 40 titles hitting the eShop over the next seven days — let's take a look at them.
🛍 Monday, February 26 — Sunday, March 3
It's that time again! Every week, we go over what games are coming to the Nintendo Switch over the course of the next seven days, and this week we've got nearly 40 titles arriving on Nintendo's ageing hybrid. Last week was another busy one with over 30 games releasing.
Plenty of neat titles to check out this time, including a farm life meets picross puzzle mash-up, the return of a classic Star Wars FPS, a history lesson told through the medium of Cricket, another Picross collection from Jupiter, and much more.
The full list below has a quick description of what each game is about, and you can always tap through should you want to learn more and add things to your wishlist.
Right, let's get to it — here's what games are coming to the Switch this week:
🗓 Upcoming Nintendo Switch Games:
Monday, February 26
- Hike Adventures — A pretty chill walking sim in the wilderness.
- Pocket Fishing — Fishing sim.
- 📦 Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island — The latest release of this JRPG series is seemingly getting pretty good review scores across the board. (Physical release)
Tuesday, February 27
- Piczle Cross: Story of Seasons — A mash-up of farm life meets nonogram/picross puzzles.
- Sandstorm Strike Force — A military-themed 3D first-person shooter. M for mature.
- Spear Master — Fast-paced 2D action game, all about throwing spears funnily enough.
- 📦 Sympathy Kiss — Office romance drama. (Physical release)
Wednesday, February 28
- Dead End City — A retro vertical shoot'em up set in a post-apocalytpic wasteland.
- Pecaminosa: A Deadly Hand — A film noir-style Police action RPG. M for mature.
- Star Wars: Dark Forces Remaster — This FPS from 1995 returns, fully remastered.
- We Need to Go Deeper — A unique looking 2-4 player co-op roguelike set on a submarine.
- World War II Shooting Simulator — The name kinda tells you what you need to know here.
Thursday, February 29
- A Void Hope — A 2D 'atmospheric' narrative adventure set in a 'harsh and unforgiving' city.
- Anglerfish — A creepy 2D survival horror adventure which claims to change each time you die. M for mature.
- Another Bar Game — Serve drinks in this arcade game. Remember Tapper?
- Cape's Escape Game 7th Room — Mystery escape room puzzle adventure.
- Cavern of Dreams — A surreal magical platformer which seems to have all the hallmarks of an N64-era 3D romp.
- Desktop BaseBall 2 — A well-presented arcade sports game.
- Escape Game: The Old Folk House — Point and click escape room, featuring cats.
- Freddi Fish and the Case of the Missing Kelp Seeds — Some classic under the sea edutainment.
- Heavenly Bodies — A challenging physics game about the "ever-changing nuances of weightless motion" in space.
- Looking Up I See Only a Ceiling — Short psychological adventure about a girl who wants to explore her attic.
- 📦🎮 Of the Red, the Light, and the Ayakashi Tsuzuri — A Japanese-style fantasy visual novel. (Physical release)
- Olllo — An interesting looking puzzle action title in which players advance through a series of screen loops.
- One More Dungeon 2 — A dungeon crawler roguelite in a fantasy setting.
- Picross S+ — Includes 300 picross puzzles from the Nintendo 3DS 'e' Series.
- 🎮 Take it Racing 2 — A pseudo racing game about improving your car, all taking place on a retro handheld.
- Tamarak Trail — Deckbuilding roguelike about a 'malevolent presence'.
- The Lost Ashford Ring — Hidden object adventure game set in Victorian England.
- Time Trap: Hidden Objects — A hidden object game about a mystery surronding a missing journalist.
- Xelan Force — 8-bit style side-scrolling shooter.
Friday, March 1
- Cricket Through the Ages — A one button, physics-driven arcade sports romp that looks like a bit of silly fun. Devolver Digital are publishing.
- Helicopter Simulator: Rescue Sim — Aerial missing a plenty.
- 📦 Ufouria 2: The Saga — A side-scrolling roguelike action game, a reboot of a 1991 Famicom game. (Physical release)
- Virus Rush — A 3D bullet-hell boss rush game "set in a world of microbes".
Saturday, March 2
- Buggy Race: Racing Master — Racing over sand dunes.
- Gravityscape DX — An 8-bit arcade space challenge.
- Pool Together 2 — 8-Ball and 9-Ball modes for up to four local players.
All dates listed above are EU & US unless noted.
A 📦 box emoji means a physical release is also available. A 🎮 controller emoji means there is a demo available on the eShop.
Release data is sourced in collaboration with Switch Scores.
This list of upcoming Nintendo Switch games first appeared in Issue 371 of Switch Weekly — Chris Brandrick's free Nintendo newsletter.
