The Nintendo Switch has entered what is probably going its remaining 12 months in the console market, and it seems to be going out in a blaze of glory with some thrilling video games to make means for its successor, the Nintendo Switch 2. Whether they’re solely developed for the Switch or ported over from different platforms, we’ve rounded up the upcoming Switch video games that may make the hybrid console’s remaining 12 months one of the vital memorable.
The subsequent release we've acquired coming down the pipeline is Princess Peach: Showtime, the Mushroom Kingdom monarch’s first solo game since Super Princess Peach was launched on the Nintendo DS practically 20 years in the past. Then there’s the long-awaited remake of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD, World of Goo 2, and Epic Mickey: Rebrushed, simply to call a couple of superb titles that have been introduced in final month’s Nintendo Direct: Partner Showcase and prior. Here are all the brand new Switch video games we are able to stay up for in 2024.
All Upcoming Switch Games With Release Dates
Princess Peach: Showtime (March 22, 2024)
Princess Peach takes the highlight in Princess Peach: Showtime, an journey game in which she and her band of Toads should save Sparkle Theater from the clutches of the Grape and the Sour Bunch. Every degree has Peach altering her costume, which adjustments the gameplay model relying on what she’s sporting. For instance, Swordfighter Peach turns gameplay right into a hack ‘n slash, Patisserie Peach introduces a baking minigame in which you decorate cakes and stack carts with cookies, and Mermaid Peach takes you underwater. Whatever her costume, she’ll train these baddies to not mess with the princess.
South Park: Snow Day (March 26, 2024)
Cartman, Kyle, Stan, Kenny, and all the opposite children are having the most effective day without work from faculty in South Park: Snow Day. In this four-player co-op, you play because the New Kid, whom you possibly can customise any means you select, and battle it out in an enormous game of medieval make-believe. It’s like The Stick of Truth, however Trey Parker and Matt Stone set it in a snowy winter wonderland.
Pepper Grinder (March 28, 2024)
From Ahr Ech and Devolver Digital comes Pepper Grinder, a 2D fast-paced platformer in which you’ll dig for treasure utilizing your drill. You play as Pepper, a treasure-hunting pirate who units out to retrieve her misplaced loot after a gaggle of narwhal-type creatures make off with it following a storm that wrecked her ship and left her on an unfamiliar island. You can use the drill, named Grinder, to journey underground, energy numerous automobiles, and remedy environmental puzzles alongside the best way.
Freedom Planet 2 (April 4, 2024)
Freedom Planet 2, initially launched on PC in September 2022, is coming to the Nintendo Switch to provide gamers an opportunity to play the sequel to the Sonic-inspired game at residence and on the go. Play as Lilac, Carol, Milla, and Neera Li as they battle a military of robots led by Merge, a water dragoness hellbent on revenge for atrocities dedicated throughout Avalice’s deadliest conflict in historical instances. It’s positive to thrill followers who’ve been wanting a Switch port of Freedom Planet 2 for a while.
Grounded (April 16, 2024)
Grounded is an initially Xbox-exclusive survival game that shrinks gamers all the way down to the dimensions of ants. In 1990, 4 teenagers — Max, Willow, Pete, and Hoops — get up to search out themselves bug-sized and trapped in the yard of a scientist who invented a tool that shrinks objects and folks, therefore their disappearance and small types. Playing as one of many teenagers, you need to scavenge for meals to stave off hunger and dehydration and sources to build forts, and fight off different bugs and animals lurking in the scientist’s yard.
Read our review of Grounded.
Tales of Kenzera: Zau (April 23, 2024)
Tales of Kenzera: Zau is an EA Original Metroidvania title developed by actor Abubakar Salim and his developer Surgent Studios. Inspired by the actor’s journey of grief after dropping his father, the game takes gamers on a journey with the titular warrior-shaman, who works to seize the spirits of three monsters as choices to Kalunga, the God of Death who guarantees to deliver his father back to life. You’ll be geared up with two masks, the solar masks and the moon masks, that will let you assault enemies up shut and private and from a distance, respectively, and accumulate soul power that unlocks new skills for every masks.
Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes (April 23, 2024)
Produced and directed by the late Yoshitaka Murayama, creator of Konami’s Suikoden collection that Eiyuden Chronicle is a non secular successor of, Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes is a six-player turn-based RPG that permits you to select six characters out of 100, therefore the title, to kind a celebration to hitch you on a heroic marketing campaign throughout the war-torn continent of Allraan. You can handle your city and work along with your companions to assemble sources and build new services whereas taking up some fearsome foes.
Endless Ocean: Luminous (May 2, 2024)
If you discover scuba diving to be a soothing passion, Endless Ocean: Luminous, the second sequel in the Endless Ocean collection following Endless Ocean 2: Adventures of the Deep, is probably the most stress-free countless ocean game you’ll ever play. During your dive, you discover the Veiled Sea, a mysterious underwater area the place the surroundings adjustments each time you dive into the water. You may discover greater than 500 species of marine life inhabiting the world.
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Remake (May 23, 2024)
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door has lastly gotten the remake therapy for the Switch practically 20 years after its release on the GameDice. Intelligent Systems redid the graphics and animations to make the game modernized, easy, and extra theatrical as Mario races to rescue Princess Peach from an alien race referred to as the X-Nauts after they kidnap her. This may possible be the ultimate Mario game on the Switch.
World of Goo 2 (May 23, 2024)
World of Goo 2 comes 15 years after the release of the unique physics-based puzzle game on the Wii and PC. As the identify closely implies, gamers will use tiny balls of goo to build bridges, towers, and comparable constructions to beat chasms, cliffs, spikes, hills, and different obstacles to succeed in goal factors. The difficult half is, whenever you build these constructions, it’s a must to use as few goo balls as you presumably can.
Shin Megami Tensei 5: Vengeance (June 21, 2024)
Shin Megami Tensei 5: Vengeance is an enhanced model of the unique game, with a further storyline and different new content material. The game’s story mode enables you to select between two storylines: Canon of Creation, the unique storyline, or the titular Canon of Vengeance, which undergoes drastic adjustments in the latter half of the game stemming out of your selections, in addition to new characters like Yoko Hiromine. The game may even have 40 new demons, new areas, quality-of-life upgrades, and new gameplay mechanics.
Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble (June 25, 2024)
Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble stunned followers through the Nintendo Partner Direct with cute new character designs for AiAi and the opposite monkeys and a great deal of new gameplay options. You can customise your monkey and Monkey Ball in 300 other ways, use the brand new Spin Dash transfer to zip previous opponents and create shortcuts (a la Sonic) in 200 new ranges. And for the primary time in the Super Monkey Ball series, you possibly can play with as much as 16 folks in on-line multiplayer mode.
Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD (June 27, 2024)
Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD is a remaster of the 2013 Nintendo 3DS title, Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon. In the game, Luigi is distributed to Evershade Valley by Professor E. Gadd to seize ghosts in 5 haunted mansions together with his invention, the Poltergust 5000, and retrieve a Dark Moon fragment hidden inside it. Each mansion is constructed round a particular theme, reminiscent of a frozen mine, an overgrown greenhouse, and a sandy clock manufacturing unit. Get your flashlights prepared!
Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown Deluxe Edition (July 11, 2024)
Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown Deluxe Edition is an enhanced model of the unique game developed solely for Nintendo Switch. The game follows fighter pilot Trigger, who will get assigned to a penal squadron after being accused of homicide throughout a conflict between Osea and Erusea. The Switch-exclusive deluxe model will include six DLC packs and bonus content material not seen in the unique game.
Bo: Path of the Teal Lotus (July 18, 2024)
Bo: Path of the Teal Lotus is a hand-drawn 2.5D action platformer impressed by Japanese folklore developed by Squid Shock Studios in partnership with Humble Games and funded on Kickstarter. You play as Bo, the celestial blossom (fox tentaihana) descended from the heavens to embark on a journey via the paranormal land to participate in a mysterious historical ritual. The bo workers helps you bounce and glide seamlessly from place to put all through the dreamlike realm, and also you’ll get to satisfy yokai and monsters of varied sorts, shapes, and sizes.
Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time (October 10, 2024)
Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time is the long-awaited sequel to the unique RPG-style life-sim game that launched on Nintendo 3DS in 2014. In addition to working any job you need — from woodcutter, blacksmith, paladin, cook dinner, and extra — every with its personal set of quests, you’ll get to build your individual metropolis on an deserted island, journey via time, and meet new characters with some mysteries of their very own.
Upcoming Switch Games With Unknown Release Dates
Over the final 12 months, we’ve been listening to rumors about the Nintendo Switch 2 relating to its look, release date, and identify. Though the Switch 2 ought to have been launched by now per the 7-year console release rule, Nintendo has reportedly delayed its release to March 2025 in an effort to curb scalping and garner sufficient inventory to fulfill demand. There are additionally rumors that the Switch 2, if that’s its remaining identify, has the identical hybrid performance as the unique, however with an even bigger display.
Meanwhile, there are different upcoming Nintendo video games popping out this 12 months and the subsequent that don’t have a stable release date but, however will replace them as quickly as we hear them. Here are the video games with out release dates.
- Epic Mickey: Rebrushed – TBA
- Hollow Knight: Silksong – TBA
- Metroid Prime 4 – TBA
- Professor Layton and the New World of Steam – 2025
- Pokemon Legends: Z-A – 2025
Cristina Alexander is a contract author for IGN. She has contributed her work to varied publications, together with Digital Trends, TheGamer, Twinfinite, Mega Visions, and The Escapist. To paraphrase Calvin Harris, she wears her love for Sonic the Hedgehog on her sleeve like an enormous deal. Follow her on Twitter @SonicPrincess15.