The Plucky Squire, a new Karate Kid game, more EA football, and a lesbian road-trip RPG are just some of the titles coming to the Switch this week.
🛍 Monday, September 16 — Sunday, September 22
Yes, I'm looking forward to playing The Plucky Squire — it looks to be a charming and inventive adventure. Check out the trailer below and tell me you're not intrigued:
Anyway, in addition to this game landing on the eShop, there's also over 40 other games coming to Nintendo's hybrid over the next seven days.
As ever, I've gone through all of them, and put together a list for you — there's a short description of each upcoming game, along with a link out to more information should you want it, like screenshots, trailers, etc.
Ok, here's what games are coming to the Nintendo Switch this week.
🗓 Upcoming Nintendo Switch Games:
Monday, September 16
- Get in the Car, Loser! — A 'rowdy hot-blooded lesbian road trip' RPG. M for mature.
Tuesday, September 17
- The Plucky Squire — A lovely looking magical adventure about storybook characters going beyond the page. Can't wait to play this one.
Wednesday, September 18
- A Night on the Farm — Rural first-person horror.
- Japanese Rail Sim: Hakone Town of Natural Beauty and Hot Springs— A lovely train sim through the Japanese mountains.
- Keylocker: Turn Based Cyberpunk Action — It's a JRPG with a rhythm/music mechanic.
- Moonless Moon — A text-based adventure game that 'feels like a music video that you can play through'.
- Tamagoneko — A 2D platformer for fans of Kaizo games.
- The Last Shot — Platforming adventure set in a war-ravaged diesel-punk world.
- 📦🎮 The Town of Nie — A romance visual novel. (Physical release)
- Ziggy — 30 level 2D platformer.
Thursday, September 19
- Atama — A psychic stealth horror set in an isolated Japanese village. M for mature.
- Between Horizons — A modern 2.5D sci-fi pixel art adventure with branching narrative and a 'semi-open' world.
- Blokdoku — A unique, budget-friendly blend of Sudoku and block puzzle games.
- Byte the Bullet — A 2D arcade platformer about running around inside an infected computer.
- Bzzzt — I've had this on my Steam wishlist for a while, so to see it come over to Switch is neat. Looks to be a neat platformer with a slick nostalgic look.
- City Drive: Police Parking Simulator
- Coloring Pixels: Collection 4 — Paint by numbers, at the pixel level.
- Cricket: Jae's Really Peculiar Game — A curious looking hand-drawn JRPG. Some of the screenshots pay homage to Earthbound, FFVII, etc.
- Desktop Dodgeball 2 — A four-player arcade sports game.
- Egg Console Star Cruiser PC-8801 mkIISR — A sci-fi action RPG adventure originally released in 1988.
- Heavy Hand: Pixel Tree Forest Fury — Timber! Chop trees with pals.
- Hidden Cats in Berlin — You gotta find em.
- Highway Legends: Traffic Speed Racer — Basic racing game.
- Hunt and Fight: Action RPG — The award for most generic name of the week goes to....
- 🎮 I Got Isekai’d into a Shmup — A much more creatively named game. Arcade vertical shooter.
- Loddlenaut — A 3D open-world ocean cleanup adventure set on a vibrant alien planet.
- LUMbA: Redux — A challenging, fast-paced, bullet hell shooter, has a unique vibe about it.
- No Case Should Remain Unsolved — Detective game where players piece together a long-forgotten case.
- Pixel Game Maker Series Nyan x Tech — Action puzzler with 60 stages.
- Sinister Mansion — It's a horror game, in, get this: a mansion!
- They Came From the Sky 2 — A fast paced 2D arcade game, in which you're the alien taking on earth.
Friday, September 20
- Booom-Slang! — A weird top-down, twin-stick arcade action game for four.
- 📦 EA Sports FC 25 — Admittedly, I kinda stopped following this series given that EA all but gave up on FIFA on Switch. I'd wait for reviews. (Physical release)
- Farm It — Grow food, sell food.
- Home Safety Hotline — Spooky ain't my thing, but this 'analog horror' sim looks to be trying something unique.
- Jump, Dodge, Die, Repeat — An 'intense' side-scrolling adventure featuring a snake. Looks a bit quirky.
- 📦 Matchbox Driving Adventures — 3D racing, with missions to take on. (Physical release)
- Seasonspree — A cozy adventure that's giving strong New Horizons vibes.
- 📦 The Karate Kid: Street Rumble — Play as Daniel LaRusso, Mr. Miyagi, and others in this side-scrolling beat 'em up adventure featuring stuff from the first three movies. (Physical release)
Sunday, September 22
- Samurai Katana Rampage Stickman Saga — Fighting game featuring stickmen.
The dates found above are EU & US releases unless noted.
A 📦 box emoji means a physical release of a game is also available. The 🎮 controller emoji denotes that a demo is currently available on the eShop.
This release data is sourced in collaboration with Switch Scores.
The list of upcoming Nintendo Switch games found here first appeared in Issue 399 of Switch Weekly — Chris Brandrick's free Nintendo newsletter.