The Nintendo Switch has entered what is probably going its last yr in the console market, and it seems to be going out in a blaze of glory with some thrilling video games to make method for its successor, the Nintendo Switch 2. Whether or not they’re completely 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 last yr some of the memorable.
The following launch we have coming down the pipeline is the long-awaited remake of Paper Mario: The Thousand-12 months Door, which we lately received to preview. Following that there are some thrilling video games like Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD, World of Goo 2, and Epic Mickey: Rebrushed, simply to call a number of of the superb titles you possibly can count on later this yr. Listed below are all the brand new Switch video games we will sit up for in 2024.
Check out our information to all upcoming video video games for launch dates on each platform.
All Upcoming Switch Video games With Launch Dates
Paper Mario: The Thousand-12 months Door Remake (Could 23, 2024)
Paper Mario: The Thousand-12 months Door has lastly gotten the remake therapy for the Switch almost 20 years after its launch on the GameCube. Clever Techniques redid the graphics and animations to make the sport modernized, clean, and extra theatrical as Mario races to rescue Princess Peach from an alien race known as the X-Nauts after they kidnap her. This might possible be the ultimate Mario recreation on the Switch.
Out Could 23, 2024
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World of Goo 2 (Could 23, 2024)
World of Goo 2 comes 15 years after the discharge of the unique physics-based puzzle recreation on the Wii and PC. Because the identify closely implies, gamers will use tiny balls of goo to construct bridges, towers, and comparable constructions to beat chasms, cliffs, spikes, hills, and different obstacles to achieve objective factors. The difficult half is, while you construct these constructions, you need 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 recreation, with an extra storyline and different new content material. The sport’s story mode permits you to select between two storylines: Canon of Creation, the unique storyline, or the titular Canon of Vengeance, which undergoes drastic modifications in the latter half of the sport stemming out of your selections, in addition to new characters like Yoko Hiromine. The sport may also have 40 new demons, new areas, quality-of-life upgrades, and new gameplay mechanics.
Obtainable June 21
Shin Megami Tensei 5: Vengeance Preorder
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Tremendous Monkey Ball Banana Rumble (June 25, 2024)
Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble stunned followers in the course of the Nintendo Accomplice Direct with cute new character designs for AiAi and the opposite monkeys and a great deal of new gameplay options. You may customise your monkey and Monkey Ball in 300 other ways, use the brand new Spin Sprint transfer to zip previous opponents and create shortcuts (a la Sonic) in 200 new ranges. And for the primary time in the Tremendous Monkey Ball sequence, you possibly can play with as much as 16 folks in on-line multiplayer mode.
Obtainable June 25
Tremendous Monkey Ball Banana Rumble Preorder
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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: Darkish Moon. Within the recreation, Luigi is shipped to Evershade Valley by Professor E. Gadd to seize ghosts in 5 haunted mansions together with his invention, the Poltergust 5000, and retrieve a Darkish Moon fragment hidden inside it. Every mansion is constructed round a particular theme, similar to a frozen mine, an overgrown greenhouse, and a sandy clock manufacturing unit. Get your flashlights prepared!
Out June 27, 2024
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Ace Fight 7: Skies Unknown Deluxe Version (July 11, 2024)
Ace Fight 7: Skies Unknown Deluxe Version is an enhanced model of the unique recreation developed completely for Nintendo Switch. The sport follows fighter pilot Set off, who will get assigned to a penal squadron after being accused of homicide throughout a struggle between Osea and Erusea. The Switch-exclusive deluxe model will include six DLC packs and bonus content material not seen in the unique recreation.
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 Video games and funded on Kickstarter. You play as Bo, the celestial blossom (fox tentaihana) descended from the heavens to embark on a journey by way of the magical land to participate in a mysterious historical ritual. The bo employees helps you bounce and glide seamlessly from place to put all through the dreamlike realm, and also you’ll get to fulfill yokai and monsters of assorted sorts, shapes, and sizes.
Fantasy Life i: The Woman Who Steals Time (October 10, 2024)
Fantasy Life i: The Woman Who Steals Time is the long-awaited sequel to the unique RPG-style life-sim recreation that launched on Nintendo 3DS in 2014. Along with 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 way of time, and meet new characters with some mysteries of their very own.
Upcoming Switch Video games With Unknown Launch Dates
Over the past yr, we’ve been listening to rumors in regards to the Nintendo Switch 2 concerning its look, launch date, and identify. Although 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 last identify, has the identical hybrid performance as the unique, however with an even bigger display screen.
In the meantime, 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. Listed below are the video games with out launch dates.
Cristina Alexander is a contract author for IGN. She has contributed her work to varied publications, together with Digital Traits, 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. Observe her on Twitter @SonicPrincess15.