An all new Pikmin game arrives on Nintendo's hybrid this week, along with 40 other games.
🛍 Monday, July 17 — Sunday, July 23
There's a massive 40 games arriving on the Nintendo Switch eShop this week, including the delightful looking Pikmin 4.
We've gone through all of the upcoming Switch releases, and you can find them all below, along with a short description of each, and a link out to more details.
🗓 Upcoming Nintendo Switch Games:
Tuesday, July 18
- Lisa: The Painful - Definitive Edition — This is a newly updated version of the 2014 wasteland side-scrolling RPG original. M for mature.
- Lisa: The Joyful - Definitive Edition — The finale of the above 'quirky' side-scrolling RPG series. M for mature.
- Madshot — A 2D Cthulhu action platformer game. M for mature.
- Remedium: Sentinels — A fast-paced roguelite auto-shooter.
- Wood Cube Block — Basic puzzle game.
Wednesday, July 19
- Agriculture — Top-down puzzle action farm sim.
- Haunted Hell House — A 2D horror adventure. M for mature.
- Lucy Got Problems — Visual novel. M for mature.
- Masquerade Kiss — Spy-themed romance. M for mature.
- NightmareScape — Narrative-driven horror adventure game combining sneak action with diverse puzzles.
- Spirit Hunters: Infinite Horde — A fantasy action roguelite in which you fight huge waves of monsters using passive attacks and abilities.
- Wathitdew Record Game Studio Battlefield — Turn-based JRPG.
Thursday, July 20
- Aery: Heaven and Hell — You play as a bird taking flight in this chill 3D exploration game.
- 🎮 Armored Lab Force Vulvehicles — A 'comedy filled' action shmup featuring alien girls.
- Bleed: Arcade Arena Shooter — A futuristic top-down shooter.
- 📦 Cross Tails — Tactical strategy RPG. (Physical release.)
- Crowded Mysteries — Crime-solving in a minimalistic city.
- Doomsday Hunters — A twin-stick shooter where magic and post-apocalyptic future tech collide.
- Forest Fire — Top-down fire-starting roguelite.
- Legends of the Eternal Flame — Budget 2D platformer.
- MetaDude — Comic-style visual novel.
- Might and Magic: Clash of Heroes Definitive Edition — A mix of puzzle, strategy and RPG.
- 📦 Nobunaga's Ambition: Awakening — You'll experience the life of a powerful Japanese leader in this strategy sim. (Physical release.)
- 🎮 Oaken — A turn-based tactical roguelike set in the 'spirit inhabited world'.
- Omnimus — Sci-fi/fantasy visual novel.
- Punch a Bunch — A boxing game.
- Sailing Era — A role-playing sailing sim set between the 15th and 17th century.
- Sephonie — A 3D puzzle-platformer, in which you parkour through an island's mysterious caverns.
- Sweets Pusher Friends — Arcade co-op 'pusher' game.
- Takoyaki Party Survival — Cooking party game, with online.
- The Kitty in the Spaceship — Escape room in space.
- Whispike Survivors — Another Vampire Survivors-like.
Friday, July 21
- D-Corp — Couch multiplayer tower defense puzzler for four.
- Otoko Cross: Pretty Boys Breakup! — Brick-breaking arcade game. M for mature.
- 📦🎮Pikmin 4 — Nintendo's plant life adventure returns, this time with cute little dog. (Physical release.)
- Ramp Car Racing — Budget arcade racing.
- 🎮 Ring Racer — Jet pilot racing.
- Super Dinoblasters — Retro-style budget platformer.
- The Snow Fable: Mystery of the Flame — Match three puzzler.
- Words of Wisdom — 2D pixel adventure platformer with riddles and puzzles.
All of the dates listed above are EU and US unless noted. 📦 A cardboard box emoji denotes a game is also released physically. A controller emoji 🎮 means a demo is available.
Release data is kindly sourced via Switch Scores.
This list of upcoming Nintendo Switch games first appeared in Issue 341 of Switch Weekly— Chris Brandrick's free Nintendo newsletter.