In addition to video games available at retail stores, Nintendo also offers a variety of content that people can download directly to their systems. Nintendo adds new games weekly to Nintendo eShop on the Nintendo Switch console, the Wii U console and the Nintendo 3DS family of systems.
Nintendo eShop is a cash-based service that features a wide variety of content, including new and classic games, applications and demos. Users can add money to their account balances by using a credit card or purchasing a Nintendo eShop Card at a retail store and entering the code from the card. All funds from one card must be loaded in Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch, Wii U or the Nintendo 3DS family of systems, but can be used in any Nintendo eShop if the systems are linked to a single Nintendo Account.
Customers in the U.S. and Canada ages 18 and older can also link a PayPal account to their Nintendo Account to purchase digital games and content for the Nintendo Switch system both on-device and from the Nintendo website. Once the accounts are linked, users may also use PayPal as a payment option when buying digital content for the Wii U or Nintendo 3DS family systems from the Nintendo website.
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Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate – This critically acclaimed action RPG series makes its debut on the Nintendo Switch system. Choose from 14 different weapon types, mix and match them with unique Hunting Styles and Hunter Arts, or even play as an adorable but ferocious Felyne in Prowler Mode. The Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate game features the largest cast of monsters for any game in the series, from returning fan favorites to mysterious never-before-seen monsters.
You can join up to three other players for co-op multiplayer action, either online or in person using local wireless. Join the hunt in Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate for Nintendo Switch!
Monster Hunters Generations Ultimate will be available on Aug. 28. A free demo of the game is available to download now on Nintendo eShop.
(Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)
Blade Strangers – A malevolent force known only as Lina is devouring data from a vast, interdimensional network of servers overseen by sentient computers called “motes.” In desperation, the motes summon heroes from a variety of parallel game worlds to face off against each other in one-on-one combat. Fighter roster includes popular characters from previous Studio Saizensen and/or Nicalis games, including Code of Princess EX, Cave Story+, the Umihara Kawase series, and The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth+.
- Fighter roster includes popular characters from previous Studio Saizensen and/or Nicalis games, including Code of Princess EX, Cave Story+, the Umihara Kawase series and The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth+.
- Accessible and intuitive controls designed to bring fresh blood to the ranks of fighting game players everywhere.
- Play offline Story, Missions, Arcade and Versus modes or try to climb the leaderboards in the highly-competitive Online modes.
- Tutorial and Training modes are available for beginner and advanced players.
- Each character has alternate color settings and their own familiar “home” stage for players to select.
- Proprietary development system transforms 3D models and animation into 2D spritework; every frame looks like a gorgeous anime drawing come to life!
Other surprise entrants include the well-known indie superstar characters, Shovel Knight and Gunvolt. The Blade Strangers game will be available Aug. 28.
(Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)
Prison Architect: Nintendo Switch Edition – In the Prison Architect: Nintendo Switch Edition game, you will see the impact of your grand design on the lives of your inmates, be it a utopic center for rehabilitation, a brutal Super Max Prison, or anything in between. Acting as both architect and governor, you control every detail of your Prison – from building new cells and facilities to hiring staff and creating reform programs – all while dealing with informants, contraband smuggling, gang warfare, full scale riots and more!
(Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)
ACA NEOGEO REAL BOUT FATAL FURY 2 – “REAL BOUT FATAL FURY 2” is a fighting game released by SNK in 1998. It is the 7th title in the Fatal Fury series. New elements have been added on top of refining the previous systems. This entry adds Rick Strowd and Li Xiangfei as playable characters, and Geese Howard makes his return as well!
The “ACA NEOGEO” series has faithfully reproduced many classic NEOGEO masterpieces.
Players can change various game settings such as game difficulty, and also reproduce the atmosphere of arcade display settings at that time. Players can also compete against each other from all over the world with their high scores.
Please enjoy the masterpiece that built a generation for video games.
(Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)
Bad North – Your home is under attack. The king is dead at the hands of Viking invaders. Hope is a distant glimmer in the fog, fading fast with every passing moment. As you rise to take your father’s place as ruler, it will fall to you to stage your defenses. But make no mistake – this is no fight for victory, but a desperate grasp for survival.
Bad North is a charming but brutal real-time tactics roguelite. Defend your idyllic island kingdom against a horde of Viking invaders, as you lead the desperate exodus of your people. Command your loyal subjects to take full tactical advantage of the unique shape of each island. Everything is at stake: fail, and watch the blood of your subjects stain the ground red.
It’s charmingly brutal, with beautiful procedurally-generated islands and adorable soldiers juxtaposed against the blood-stained realities of war. You control the broad strokes of the battle, giving high level commands to your soldiers who try their best to carry them out in the heat of the moment. It’s accessibly deep, with simple player inputs masking a dynamic combat simulation that make it inviting to new players while challenging veterans.
Keep fighting, warriors. Not for power or riches or glory, but for hope of peace to come once again in the harsh lands of the Bad North.
Key Features
REAL-TIME TACTICS ROGUELITE: Position and relocate your troops to fend off the Vikings, who each have their own counters to the threats you pose. Pick your battles and plan your evacuations carefully! Lose a commander and they’re gone forever; lose everything, and it’s game over!
INTELLIGENT UNIT CONTROLS: You command the broad strokes of your defenses and monitor positioning — your soldiers do the rest, navigating and engaging intuitively in response to the situation at hand.
PROCEDURALLY-GENERATED ISLANDS: Each island is both stylistically charming and unique in its layout. Plan your strategies around every nook and cranny, for you only get one chance to save them from the enemy invasion.
UNLOCKABLE UPGRADES: A stronger, smarter defense leads to greater rewards. Use these to develop your subjects from a ragtag militia into seasoned warriors.
(Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)
Behind the Screen – Are the news being spread in the world true?…
“Behind The Screen” is a suspense puzzle action game, set in Taiwan of an age when the internet was still not common, tracing the life of “a certain murderer”, seeking the truth which has been bent and can no longer be distinguished.
Why did the young man who got arrested as his father’s murderer had such an ending? Looking back at his childhood, boyhood, and to the moments leading up to the incident, the player will face truth and conflict.
During a nervous and mature childhood, incapable of separating reality and dreams, the world started looking like an eerie and fantastic place.
During his boyhood, he condemned the powers that be as an honest student reporter, and to get himself excited, he would impersonate ancient soldiers and politicians.
Did the young man, who ended up becoming “a certain murderer” that day and who still kept resisting, gain anything from facing himself?
The player will re-experience the murderer’s life, solve several mysteries, and search for the truth through the eyes of the murderer.
[Characteristics of the game]
- Several puzzle and action games according to the story, hidden elements within the stage as well.
- A story with the theme of fake news, connected to current, also linking to Taiwan and history.
- Nostalgic characters and setting design that are reminiscent of 1970s Taiwan.
(Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)
de Blob 2 – In de Blob 2 Comrade Black and the Inkies are back with a whole new plot to rid the world of color. With all-new help from Papa Blanc and his followers the Blancs, Blob and his friends will have their work cut out for them bringing color back to the citizens of Prisma City.
Imagine: Set off on an action packed color adventure with 12 new single player story levels where custom paints, patterns and music bring the world to life any way you want
Power: Speed smash through walls, jet jump over skyscrapers and slam squash Inkies with all new power-ups that turn you into a Super Blob
Explore: Paint your way past icy outposts, tropical bio domes and distant space stations to free the citizens of Prisma City
Transform: Inside, outside, above the Earth and below it, Blob embarks on mini missions and epic boss battles to restore color and music back to this rich universe
Share: Recruit your friends to join the color evolution in all new co-operative multiplayer modes.
(Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch) – Available Aug. 28
Earthworms –Demo Version – An abstract point and click featuring Daniel White, the detective.
Feel the thrill of horror mixed with a dose of humor, beauty, ugliness, and weirdness in the surreal world of Earthworms – brought to Switch specially for you to delve into! Play as Daniel White, a private detective endowed with parapsychic abilities, and solve investigations with the help of his visions. Soon, what he thinks is a typical missing person case, will lead him to a global conspiracy.
The game was redesigned specifically for Nintendo Switch™, so apart from many other changes, you can play any way you like:
- on touch screen,
- with Joy-Con controller/Pro Controller,
- AND one handed: everything you need is found on a single Joy-Con controller!
Key features:
- Explore and interact with 34 locations inspired by Edward Hopper’s work
- Challenging logical puzzles as addition to classic inventory interactions
- Original and whimsical soundtrack
(Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch) – Available Aug. 23
Earthworms – Feel the thrill of horror mixed with a dose of humor, beauty, ugliness, and weirdness in the surreal world of Earthworms – brought to Switch specially for you to delve into! Play as Daniel White, a private detective endowed with parapsychic abilities, and solve investigations with the help of his visions. Soon, what he thinks is a typical missing person case, will lead him to a global conspiracy.
The game was redesigned specifically for Nintendo Switch™
(Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch) – Available Aug. 2
EXTREME POKER – From classic to original, 5 games based on poker rules are included!
A new standard for poker games for poker lovers!
Not to mention game poker familiar in the game room and COOL 104 (What if?), Of course, changing soldiers, you can experience the fun of making fun of not being able to meet usually, bingo × poker, nervous breakdown × poker nervously Includes poker game.
- From standard to original, enjoy 5 games
- VIDEO
General video poker
Change your hand only once and make a role! - SOLITAIRE
Let’s make a role by replacing your hand with a set of 53 cards
Earn chips based on the number and strength of the roles you made! - COOL 104
Let’s take out the same mark or number cards in succession from the hand
If you can play poker in hand, win bonus chips! - BINGO
Bingo game using playing cards
Earn bonus chips if you can play a role in the bingo column by swapping the card’s squares! - MEMORY
Let’s hold cards by turning cards in the manner of nervous weakness and hold 5 cards!
Acquire chips by strength of the role of held cards! - DOUBLE UP
Challenge double up with chips acquired in game!
Let’s draw more cards from your hand than the cards presented!
- VIDEO
- Customize card with acquired chip
- Consuming the acquired chip, you can customize each side of the front and back of the card to your favorite design!
- Let’s play with a card of your choice from among many designs!
- Recommended for this type of person
- Those who like poker but get tired of regular poker
- Those who like card games
- Those who like standard games
- Those looking for killing time games that can play crisply
(Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)
Fernz Gate – Travel to the other side and beyond and find a way back home in a fantasy RPG!
After awaking in unfamiliar woods, Alex, an ordinary high schooler living an ordinary life, learns he has somehow ended up in Fernland, a world dominated by conflict and destruction.
Fighting monsters, the ever-ominous threat of the Overlord, and a succession of chaotic events as he tries to find his own place in this new world, Alex comes across Lita, a young woman from a peaceful world like his own.
Hitting it off, they soon become friends and set out together, but what hidden truth awaits them as their adventure begins to unfold…?
Join forces with buddies and fight! Take advantage of the Secret House and dispatch buddies to collect items or place them on stands to gain special-effects. Grow parameter-increasing fruit, upgrade and customize weapons, take on variety of sub quests and enjoy plenty of content!
(Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)
Flood of Light – Flood of light is a puzzle game with beautiful arts and wonderful music.
You control a mysterious girl who arrives at a city that is completely flooded with water. Only she possesses the ability to control light.
By using the girl’s supernatural power, you can solve various puzzles to gradually make the water recede and ultimately save the city.
However, by doing so, the true purpose of this mysterious girl will also be slowly revealed to you.
(Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)
Hacky Zack – Bounce! Bounce! Keep it up!
You are Zack. Juggle balls, bounce off walls and avoid fatal falls as you try to make it through more than 100 levels of precision puzzle-platforming. Collect stickers along the way to unlock optional time-trial challenge levels as well as extra playable characters (who are also extra cute!).
Key Features
- Precision-platforming puzzle-stunt game
- Multiple ways to conquer 100+ levels across 6 challenging worlds
- Keepy-up with a variety of balls, including extra-bouncy and slo-mo
- Master movement and aiming: Bouncing! Ricochets! Wall jumps! Much more!
- Goal Mode: guide the ball to the exit to complete the stage
- Target Mode: use the ball to smash all diamonds on a stage as quickly as possible
- Collect stickers to unlock Target Mode levels and additional playable characters
- Relaxing, stress-alleviating soundtrack by Vincent Rubinetti
- Local 2-player mode: Take on Hacky Zack with a friend, exclusive to Nintendo Switch (supports split Joy-Con play) .
(Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)
Kero Blaster – A frog has the adventure of a lifetime in this lovely stage-based action game.
You play a bipedal frog employed by the mysterious start-up company “Cat & Frog Inc.”. Fend off enemies seeking to stop you and overcome the challenging landscape as you head toward your destination.
When you start the game, you’ll likely be surprised by your skimpy amount of life and your crappy weapon. And when the frog runs out of life, he “enters the hospital” and has to restart from the beginning of the stage. But you can keep collecting and saving up money to go “shopping” to increase your life and carefully select powered-up weapons to take down enemies you couldn’t defeat before. The further you get, the stronger you can feel yourself becoming – and it feels good.
The characters appearing in between stages are the game’s other charm point. You’ll meet your coworker, who is a cat (for some reason), your president (also a cat), and an office lady of indeterminate species. They work like us, slog through overtime like us, complain, get chewed out, and even comfort each other, just like us.
Experience the unique and intricately detailed world of Kero Blaster!
(Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)
Little Dragons Café – Little Dragons Café opens with a twin brother and sister learning to cook and manage a small café with their mother. All was routine until one morning when the twins discover that their mother won’t wake up. Suddenly, a strange old man appears and tells them that they must raise a dragon to save her.
Working with three quirky café employees, the twins must wrangle a dragon and run the family business while finding a way to save their mother.
(Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch) – Available Aug. 24
Morphies Law – A mass stealing, robot morphing shooter where size matters
Morphies Law is a 3rd person 3D shooter where you can steal mass from other players making them shrink while you grow, which balances the game.
Size affects everything! what you can do, how you can navigate the different maps, how to play each gamemode and more.
Customize your Morphie, choose your weapons and go steal some mass!
(Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)
My Farm – Amazing breeding simulation game!
You start with just a hen, an empty field and a few pennies. You have to feed your hen, take care of it and improve its living conditions!
If you give it plenty of seed to eat, your hen will lay eggs that you can sell to the Shopkeeper. In exchange, you can buy more animals at the Farmers’ Fair. But be careful! If your hens are not fed regularly they will run off to find food somewhere else! And they will continue to leave even if your game is not running…
All your animals have to be fed, but they also need to be clean and healthy … And you will also have to clean the complete farm and plant crops to get some more food!
The aim of the game is to earn money by selling eggs and other farm produce, in order to buy more animals at the Farmers’ Fair, and items that improve your farm from the Shopkeeper. Little by little, as your Farm develops, you will unlock bonuses items such as a wind turbine, a rooster, a dog, a tracter, etc. And you will be able to customize all our animals!
10 kinds of cartoon animals: hens, ducks, turkeys, rabbits, pigs, goats, sheep, cows, donkeys and horses.
During days and nights, take care of your animals : food, cleanliness, disease, etc.
Sell your Farm products to win more money.
Goals and events lead in a real adventure!
Many farm improvement to unlock, as incredible bonuses to collect!
(Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)
Night Trap – 25th Anniversary Edition – You’ll get caught in the night – NIGHT TRAP!
Originally developed by Digital Pictures in 1987 and released in 1992, Night Trap has been completely rebuilt, bringing it to a level of video quality never before seen.
Night Trap tells the story of five teenage girls spending the weekend at the Martin home. As a member of the Special Control Attack Team, your job is to monitor the home and protect the girls using an intricate system of cameras and traps as it is being invaded by vampires.
Night Trap – 25th Anniversary Edition also includes new features such as deleted scenes, two documentaries, the all-new Theater that allows you to watch all story-related videos uninterrupted, a new mode called Survivor that will test your skills at trapping intruders and behind the scenes production images. For the first time ever, the unreleased prototype Scene Of The Crime will be fully playable and included with Night Trap – 25th Anniversary Edition.
(Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch) – Available Aug. 24
Shio – Everything turns to ash, in the end.
“Shio” is a challenging platformer game in which you deep and moving story by jumping from lantern to lantern. If you like challenge yourself, you will like Shio as well!
(Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)
Sky Gamblers: Storm Raiders – Epic scale historic WWII dogfights
THIS IS THE ULTIMATE WWII AIR COMBAT GAME! You’ll participate in visceral dogfights, protect cities and fleets, bomb enemy structures and even fly through tunnels. Everything is set up in accurately recreated real life locations like Pearl Harbor, Coast of Dover, Midway, Germany and France.
Unparalleled visuals, special effects and audio including: specular masks, bump mapping, atmospheric scattering, volumetric clouds with realistic lighting, sun glare, day & night transitions, God rays, high definition textures, 4x anisotropic filtering, High Dynamic Range (HDR) rendering, radial blur, heat haze, refractive raindrops and more!
IMMERSIVE GAMEPLAY
Take off and land on landing strips and carriers. You will fly in fully recreated cities with realistic weather, accurate atmospheric scattering with aerial perspective and highly detailed planes with interactive cockpits.
HUGE HISTORIC FLEET
Fly highly detailed WWII top aces planes. Watch the progressive damage affecting planes and finally being shredded into pieces.
HUGE COLLECTION OF ONLINE MODES
Invite your friends to play online! Choose between cooperative and competitive modes: Survival, Last Man Standing, Free Flight, Free for All, Team Match, Capture the Flag and the new Assault.
(Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)
Space Ribbon – The year is 2132 and the earth’s remaining resources have been mined to create Space Ribbon, a reality TV racing platform set in the far reaches of the galaxy. Giant pandas and tigers spew illuminated ribbons of solid space junk from their mouths (space ribbons.) Humans compete by racing on these platforms, using the beaten up cars left strewn across the dystopian earth of 2132.
This hedonistic pastime has become the fastest growing sport in the galaxy.
The aim of game is to chase down a giant space beast and race to enter the creature’s mouth as it spews out a series of different psychedelic racetracks. Modify your junked up classic car and compete to become the intergalactic winner. The world is watching you…
FEATURES
- Never the same track twice!
- Intelligent track generation combines procedural AI with great track design.
- Navigate a twisting, turning, unpredictable racetrack as it appears ahead of you.
- Race your friends with up to 4 Player split-screen.
- 2 classes of car, with 4 in each class, each with different strengths.
- Level up your racer to unlock new and harder race modes including cosmic mode.
- Unlock new cars and upgrades to improve engine, grip and slipstreaming.
(Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch) – Available Aug. 24
The Low Road – Lie, blackmail, and steal your way down The Low Road.
The Low Road is a point-and-click graphic adventure game in which rookie agent Noomi Kovacs must navigate her way through the world of corporate espionage in this dark spy comedy set in the 1970s.
Sporting a unique visual style inspired by gouache paintings and a pulsating rock and roll score, “The Low Road” will captivate players through intricate puzzles, branching moral dilemmas, and a quirky cast of memorable characters.
Features:
- A unique digitally hand painted 2D illustration style with 1970s television influences.
- Over 32000 words of dark comedic dialogue fully-voiced from a cast of characters
- Play from the perspective of two corporate espionage agents
- A mergence of traditional storytelling and engaging game play
- An original score of swirling psychedelia and dusty Americana
- Nostalgic point-and-click style gameplay influenced by LucasArts and Sierra classics
- Branching conversation puzzles that will challenge your deductive and intuitive abilities
- Over 15+ first person puzzle sequence
(Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)
Victor Vran Overkill Edition – Become Victor, hunter of demons. Forge your own hero on a quest to liberate the cursed city of Zagoravia. Explore ‘Motörhead: Through the Ages’ – a wild tour through the mythos of the loudest band in the world, and enter the Fractured Worlds, a dimension formed from the fragments of broken realms.
Change how you play at any moment, even in the heat of battle. Modify your demon slaying loadout as you dodge deadly attacks, leap from towering locations and take on hordes of hideous beasts and cunning boss monsters. Fedora or no fedora, you decide!
- Experience the complete award-winning action RPG
- Hunt in over 50 locations including whole worlds inspired by Motörhead
- 10 distinct weapon classes including Guitars and Revolvers
- Unlimited gameplay in the Fractured Worlds
- 10 breeds of demon stand in your way
- Face off your enemies in Dynamic Combat
- Choose from 12 game-changing outfits
- Build your own class with combat defining loot
- Summon 19 different demon powers to crush your enemies
- 4 player online, and 2 player couch co-op
- Become the Victor in The Circus PvP arena
- Original soundtrack PLUS music by Motörhead
- Guest starring legendary director Lloyd Kaufman
(Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch) – Available Aug. 28
Western 1849 Reloaded – Become the Ultimate Bounty Hunter in this Bullet-Fast Shooting Gallery set in the Wild West!
Back in 1849, when the West was Wild and gunslingers faced off on the street, gold was discovered in the sleepy town of Sunset Bluff. Like a coyote drawn to the scent of blood, the Quicksilver Bandits rode into town to seize the mines and establish the law of the gun. The helpless citizens have suffered, and now they’re looking to you, their savior. Draw your weapons! It is time to clear Sunset Bluff of the bloodthirsty vermin!
Features:
- GUNSLINGER ROLE – aim with your Joy-Con controllers like with a real Gun or use the Left Stick and Right Stick (in andheld Mode)
- Upgradeable weapons (Revolvers, Shotguns, Rifles …)
- Immersive, ultra-slick, toon-shaded graphics
- Five unique, action-packed levels
- Unlockable Perk Cards and Charms – to refine each playthrough
- Rage Mode – to make you invincible and boost the pace even more!
Western 1849 Reloaded is a captivating Arcade Shooter, that will take you through the ultimate gunfights across various locations of the Wild West.
(Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch) – Available Aug. 29
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