The Nintendo Switch has entered what is probably going its closing yr within the console market, and it seems to be going out in a blaze of glory with some thrilling video games to make manner 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 can make the hybrid console’s closing yr some of the memorable.
The subsequent large launch we have got coming down the pipeline is the HD remaster of Luigi’s Mansion 2. Following that there is a bunch of latest video games coming that have been introduced in the course of the June 2024 Nintendo Direct, together with the long-awaited Metroid Prime 4. Here are all the brand new Switch video games we are able to look ahead to in 2024 and past.
Take a take a look at our information to all upcoming video video games for launch dates on each platform.
All Upcoming Switch Games With Release Dates
Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble (June 25, 2024)
Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble shocked followers in the course of 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 alternative 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 within the Super Monkey Ball collection, you’ll be able to play with as much as 16 folks in on-line multiplayer mode.
Available June 25 Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble Preorder
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 sport, 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 selected theme, comparable to a frozen mine, an overgrown greenhouse, and a sandy clock manufacturing facility. Get your flashlights prepared!
Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD
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Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown Deluxe Edition (July 11, 2024)
Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown Deluxe Edition is an enhanced model of the unique sport developed solely for Nintendo Switch. The sport 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 within the authentic sport.
Darkest Dungeon 2 (July 15, 2024)
Darkest Dungeon 2 is a turn-based roguelite horror sport the place you experience a stagecoach with your mates up the mountain to flee the approaching apocalypse. You can play as one in all 12 characters, customise your problem, uncover 10 companion pets, and discover the progession hub known as The Altar of Hope. And should you pre-order the Oblivion Edition, you may get The Binding Blade DLC, which comes with two new characters, a particular storyline, a wandering boss, and extra.
Bo: Path of the Teal Lotus (July 18, 2024)
Bo: Path of the Teal Lotus is a hand-drawn 2.5D motion 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 by the paranormal land to participate in a mysterious historic ritual. The bo workers helps you bounce and glide seamlessly from place to position all through the dreamlike realm, and also you’ll get to fulfill yokai and monsters of assorted sorts, shapes, and sizes.
Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition (July 18, 2024)
Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition is a compilation of 13 basic NES video games — together with Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda, Ice Climber, Kid Icarus, Kirby’s Adventure, Donkey Kong, and Excitebike — which are full of mini-games primarily based on the challenges that have been performed on the real-life Nintendo World Championships there have been held in 1990, 2015, and 2017. There’s three modes of gameplay to partake in: Speedrun Mode, the place you runthrough sections of video games as quick as doable to set a brand new private report; World Championship Mode, the place you’ll be able to compete with different gamers and stand up the worldwide on-line leaderboard; and Party Mode, the place you play regionally with as much as eight gamers.
Out July 18 Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition
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The New Denpa Men (July 22, 2024)
The New Denpa Men is a free-to-play RPG that can have you ever scouring radio waves to search out different Denpa Men and crew as much as uncover dungeons and combat monsters. You can even customise your Denpa Men, design your radio wave island Animal Crossing model, and take part in native four-player co-op to fish for much more Denpa Men.
Ace Attorney Investigations Collection (September 6, 2024)
Ace Attorney: Investigations Collection could have you enjoying as Miles Edgeworth in his adventures past the courtroom in remasters of Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth and Ace Attorney Investigations 2: Prosecutor’s Gambit, the latter of which is making its debut outdoors of Japan. You can swap between the revamped anime artwork model or the unique pixelated artwork model, play in extra languages, and uncover extra bonus content material.
Ace Attorney Investigations Collection 1 More Edition
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Funko Fusion (September 13, 2024)
In Funko Fusion, you may play as 60 totally different characters modelled after the Funko Pop figures you acquire from 20 totally different popular culture franchises, together with Jurassic Park, Five Nights at Freddy’s, Invincible, Back to the Future, M3GAN, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, and The Walking Dead. It’s a crossover journey of extraordinarily cute proportions!
The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom (September 26, 2024)
The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom options Zelda because the protagonist for the primary time within the franchise’s historical past. The princess is tasked with rescuing Link and different folks in Hyrule after unusual rifts popped up everywhere in the kingdom and took them. She’ll work with a fairy named Tri and use the Tri Rod to create echoes of objects present in her atmosphere to beat obstacles and remedy puzzles. She’ll create echoes of enemies she fights and get them to hitch her crew as properly! This would be the eighth Legend of Zelda sport on Nintendo Switch because it’s launch.
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 sport 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 construct your individual metropolis on an deserted island, journey by time, and meet new characters with some mysteries of their very own.
Super Mario Party Jamboree (October 17, 2024)
Super Mario Party Jamboree is the third Mario Party sport to return to the Switch following Mario Party Superstars and Super Mario Party. You’ll be taken to a big island resort to play over 110 minigames between 5 new sport boards with totally different environmental hazards, together with Rainbow Galleria and Goomba Lagoon, and compete in Koopathlon mode with as much as 20 gamers. Plus, it’ll carry again Mario’s Rainbow Castle and Western Land from Mario Party and Mario Party 2, respectively.
Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven -Remake- (October 24, 2024)
After 31 years of Japanese exclusivity, Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven is getting a full-blown remake therapy within the West, English voice appearing, enhanced graphics and all. You play as an emperor or empress of Avalon, constructing the dominion and defending as you combat the seven heroes who’ve returned as villains hellbent on revenge on those that have forgotten their sacrifices.
Farmagia (November 1, 2024)
From the creator of Fairy Tale and Rave Master comes Farmigia, a sport about monster fight and farming. In the realm of Felicidad, you play as Ten and assist him develop monsters in a backyard — critically — and lift them as a military to combat in opposition to a despotic king of the underworld.
Mario & Luigi: Brothership (November 7, 2024)
Mario & Luigi: Brothership is the primary entry within the Mario & Luigi collection to make the bounce to the Switch with 3D graphics and a novel animation model. This sport will see the Super Mario Bros. go island-hopping throughout Concordia on an element ship, half island known as Shipshape Island, visiting rainforests, cities, and working into different characters from the Mushroom Kingdom, together with Princess Peach and Bowser.
Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D (November 14, 2024)
Announced in 2021, Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake has lastly been confirmed for the Switch to the delight of Dragon Quest followers. Developed with the gameplay kinds of Octopath Traveler and Triangle Strategy, Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D takes you again to the place the franchise started as you save the world from the evil Baramos. Chronologically talking, that is the primary sport of the Erdrick Trilogy, with Dragon Quest 1-2 HD 2D Remake popping out in 2025.
Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake
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Donkey Kong Country Returns HD (January 16, 2025)
Donkey Kong Country Returns will get the HD therapy for Switch, and it’ll have new options that can make you go bananas. You’ll play by 80 ranges from the unique Wii sport, extra ranges from the 3DS model, and play in two-player native co-op as you combat the Taki Tak Tribe to win again Donkey Kong’s earlier banana pile.
Upcoming Switch Games With Unknown Release Dates
Over the final yr, we’ve been listening to rumors in regards to the Nintendo Switch 2 relating to its look, launch date, and identify. Though the Switch 2 ought to have been launched by now per the 7-year console launch rule, Nintendo has reportedly delayed its launch 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 closing 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 yr and the subsequent that don’t have a stable launch date but, however will replace them as quickly as we hear them. Here are the video games with out launch dates.
- Dragon Quest 1-2 HD-2D – 2025
- Epic Mickey: Rebrushed – TBA
- Fantasian – Holiday 2024
- Fairy Tail 2 – Winter 2024
- Hello Kitty Island Adventure – 2025
- The Hundred-Line -Last Defense Academy- – Early 2025
- Hollow Knight: Silksong – TBA
- Just Dance 2025 Edition – October 2024
- LEGO Horizon Adventures – Holiday 2024
- Looney Tunes: Wacky World of Sports – Fall 2024
- Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics – 2024
- Metroid Prime 4: Beyond – 2025
- MIO: Memories in Orbit – 2025
- Phantom Brave: The Lost Hero – 2025
- Professor Layton and the New World of Steam – 2025
- Pokemon Legends: Z-A – 2025
- Stray – Holiday 2024
- Tales of the Shire: A Lord of the Rings Game – Holiday 2025
Cristina Alexander is a contract author for IGN. She has contributed her work to numerous 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 a giant deal. Follow her on Twitter @SonicPrincess15.
