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, which offers a variety of options for 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.
This week’s Nintendo Download includes the following featured content:
Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch:
Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE Encore (Pre-Purchase) – Explore a hyper-stylish Tokyo bursting with music, pop idols and danger when the Fire Emblem series and ATLUS games collide on the Nintendo Switch system.
The Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE Encore game launches Jan. 17, with additional character stories, more battle elements and a new song.
For those who want to slay rogue spirits as soon as the game launches, pre-purchase is now available.
140 – 140 is a challenging platformer in an abstract world that moves to the beat of the music.
140 is an IGF award-winning rhythm platformer with a minimalistic style and abstract, colorful graphics. Use the rhythm to overcome challenging obstacles controlled by an energetic electronic soundtrack.
The game is independently designed by Jeppe Carlsen, former lead gameplay designer at Playdead.
Aborigenus – Adventure-RPG Platformer in a primal world. Choose your class, hunt the aggressive fauna, learn new abilities and fight the enemy army.
Invaders enslaved your peaceful tribe. The best fighters were sent to save your beloved and relatives but nobody ever returned. It’s now your turn to save the flying islands from the enemy. Choose who you are – a shaman, a warrior or a hunter. You are the last hope of your fellow tribesmen.
Features:
- Hunt the aggressive fauna
- Learn new abilities
- Divine landscapes with unique enemies
- Flexible perks system
- Chicken riding!
Available Jan. 10th.
Arcade Archives Penguin-Kun Wars – Fun ball-throwing action! Who will be smiling triumphantly in the end?
“Penguin-Kun Wars” is an action game released by UPL in 1985.
Set in the village’s original sports “DOJIBALL” tournament, unique animal characters face off across the table to throw a ball 10 times at each other.
The winner is the first side to throw all of the balls out of their area. Launch yourself through heated ball-battles, and aim for first place in the tournament.
The “Arcade Archives” series has faithfully reproduced many classic Arcade 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.
Atelier Ayesha: The Alchemist of Dusk DX – The promise begins.
The Dusk series, a trilogy of RPG titles from Gust’s popular Atelier series, tells the story of a world on the verge ruin, told from the perspective of its unique characters.
The 1st title in the series “Atelier Ayesha” is now available as a deluxe version.
<DX version features>
- Quickly explore fields with the newly added “Run” feature!
- The tempo of battles is improved with the newly added “Fast-forward Battle” feature!
- Elements added to the Plus version and numerous past DLC are included!
<Story>
A Dusk era has fallen upon this world many times, yet people have managed to survive and reclaim a meager livelihood thus far.
Here, in a remote atelier, there was a lone girl making her living by making medicine.
Her name is Ayesha.
Available Jan. 14th.
Atelier Dusk Trilogy Deluxe Pack – DX versions of these titles from the Dusk series are now available as a specially priced 3-game set!
- “Atelier Ayesha: The Alchemist of Dusk DX”
- “Atelier Escha & Logy: Alchemists of the Dusk Sky DX”
- “Atelier Shallie: Alchemists of the Dusk Sea DX”
<About the Dusk series>
A trilogy of alchemy themed titles from the “Atelier” series, characteristic for its gradually dilapidating Dusk world and the fascinating characters that inhabit it.
With character designs by Hidari, the Dusk world is richly depicted.
Available Jan. 14th.
Atelier Escha & Logy: Alchemists of the Dusk Sky DX – The promise is entrusted to two alchemists.
The Dusk series, a trilogy of RPG titles from Gust’s popular Atelier series, tells the story of a world on the verge ruin, told from the perspective of its unique characters.
The 2nd title in the series “”Atelier Escha & Logy”” is now available as a deluxe version.
<DX version features>
- Elements added to the Plus version and numerous past DLC are included!
<Story>
This world has seen its fair share of Twilights, and is slowly nearing its end.
Within this world, in the western reaches of the Land of Dusk, there exists a nation that has prospered through its use of alchemy.
In order to survive the inevitable arrival of the Dusk End, the people in that nation devote their every effort to rediscovering the lost alchemic technologies of the past.
Available Jan. 14th.
Atelier Shallie: Alchemists of the Dusk Sea DX – A story of two girls fulfilling their wishes.
The Dusk series, a trilogy of RPG titles from Gust’s popular Atelier series, tells the story of a world on the verge ruin, told from the perspective of its unique characters.
The 3rd title in the series “Atelier Shallie” is now available as a deluxe version.
<DX version features>
- Elements added to the Plus version and numerous past DLC are included!
<Story>
Water sources go dry.
Plants wither and die.
All creatures thirst and starve.
The blue oceans turn to sand, and the life of the sea no longer has a place to call home.
Yet still, the sun continues to shine, mercilessly drying up what little water remains in the earth.
Slowly, but surely, everything fades away to nothing in this Dusk World.
Available Jan. 14th.
Cooking Tycoons – 3 in 1 Bundle – A series of great cooking games in one brand-new collection!
Cook tons of delicious meals from all over the world and become the best chef in the city!
Cook hundreds of tasty dishes with all the possible kitchen appliances and countless ingredients!
Try it all: coffee makers, juice machines, pizza ovens, frying pans, fryers and ice cream machines.
Upgrade and decorate your restaurants to attract more clients.
Upgrade your kitchen appliances and ingredients to cook tasty dishes faster and earn more money!
This comprehensive collection includes three great cooking games: Food Truck Tycoon, Burger Chef Tycoon, Pizza Bar Tycoon!
Features:
- More than 100 dishes to serve
- 3 unique locations
- More than 200 levels to explore
- Countless upgrades
- Unlock new items to upgrade your kitchen appliances, interiors and ingredients
- 100+ achievements to gain
Demolish & Build 2018 – Your company is going global. Use big machines to demolish huge buildings or go close and personal and use your hammer.
Your company is going global. Use big machines to demolish huge buildings or go close and personal and use your hammer.
Buy land properties, upgrade your machines and hire workers in different parts of the world.
- Various construction and demolition machines
- 4 different world locations with freely navigable world
- Hire and manage workers
- 2 players cooperative multiplayer
- Specialized hand tools
- Demolition site dust control
- Finish contracts or use your machines to gather resources and earn cash
- Invest in your own properties
- Demolition site preparation
- Manage your company and make sure it’s rating goes up
Available Jan. 15th.
Drunk-Fu: Wasted Masters – Drunk-Fu: Wasted Masters is a ludicrous physics based ragdoll brawler with over the top combat, online multiplayer and customizable characters.
Drunk-Fu: Wasted Masters is a physics based fighting game. Maniacally laugh to insane ragdolls both locally & online.
Flail around in intoxicated fury as you take down your enemies with a variety of techniques and melee weapons. Howl in a drunken rage as you team up with your friends or beat them to a pulp in multiple game modes.
Enjoy different alcohol inspired bars all over the world and customize your character to show impeccable taste.
Available Jan. 10th.
Invisible Fist – Create a billion-dollar startup, try to pay off your student loans or wait in the line for Food Stamps… And fight the Invisible Fist of the Free Market in this Late Capitalism Card Game!
Inequality has skyrocketed! It’s now the highest in over a century. The rich get richer, and the poor get poorer while the middle class disappears.
* 3 playable characters:
- Jeff Whiz – a self-made tech multibillionaire with crippling anxiety. Supported by his overprotective mother and jealous personal AI/Lover.
- Rena Bennett – a self-made college student with a crippling debt. Supported by her weed-dealing friend and a talkative cat.
- Diàn Huà – a self-made electronics factory worker. Supported by her long-distance boyfriend and long-distance family.
* 150+ cards – play Work, Relax and Sleep cards to balance your Life.
* Supporting characters – build relationships with your friends and family by doing missions for them. These relationships unlock powerful Special Cards.
* Create your story – Your play affects dozens of your character’s stories. You will deal with IRS investigation of your offshore accounts. Try to avoid a second shift in the local cafe. Or having to get money to see your family for holidays for the first time in years. Let’s find out how it goes!
* Sports Commentator – A sarcastic TV personality who snorted a little bit too much before your fight. Comments on your every move. Love him or hate him, he will talk you to death.
Jump Gunners – Who knew jumping with guns would be this much fun!
Both Single and Multiplayer support (couch play)
Includes 80+ levels of insane action with multiple themes, fully destructible terrain and procedural level content
20+ over the top weapons including Rifles, Flamethrowers, Rocket Launchers, and more!
Various game modes: Classic last man standing, team death-match, capture the flag and custom game modes so you can create the game you want to play!
Customizable characters so you can personalize your gaming experience
Available Jan. 13th.
Nicky – The Home Alone Golf Ball – Nicky is a fun and challenging strategy game in which you have to carefully calculate your movements to get to the end of the course.
Each time you play, you improve your skill which enables you finish the challenge in fewer movements.
If you like challenging games and mini-golf games, this is certainly for you!
Features:
- Easy to pick up and play – Just drag, aim and release;
- Family-friendly – Nicky is recommended to everyone;
- Global Ranking – Top 10 players who finish the game in fewer movements are listed for the whole world to see.
The ranking is refreshed monthly, so new people have the opportunity to have their names placed in the ranking.
Sir Eatsalot – Saving the kingdom is just a piece of cake
You are the righteous and corpulent Sir Eatsalot. Sally forth on an epic quest to track down Hysterica, a mean old sorceress who has poisoned Gluttington Kingdom with sour lemonade, and put an end to her shenanigans in this mouthwatering adventure platformer.
The kingdom of Gluttington was at peace… until one day, Hysterica poisoned the Isotonic Waters with sour lemonade. That evil witch! The kingdom’s crops are withering, but this plague has yet to befall all the lands. There is still hope! King Dietan III dispatches his greatest, bravest, stoutest knight to save the kingdom from certain ruin: Sir Eatsalot.
Explore a colorful world full of kooky characters, solve gripping puzzles, and make the most of the hardware features of the Nintendo Switch in order to interact directly with the game world around you.
Features:
- Interactive and varied gameplay through full use of different hardware features
- Humorous adventure in a silly cartoon world full of sweets and other delectables
- Immersive and detailed level design with hand-drawn graphics
- Interact with the game world to discover more quirky characters
- Collect over 20 stickers to learn more about the world of Sir Eatsalot
Sir Eatsalot is fully playable on Nintendo Switch Lite.
Squidlit – Every day is a wonderful day for invertebrates! Squidlit is a little platformer that strives to be an exact recreation of the favorite handheld of the early 90’s.
Are you ready for an invertebratey adventure? Do you have the gumption to take on a mighty quest for the good of oodles of squidlits everywhere? If so, many trials await you as you squrp your way to victory in the squishiest of escapades!
The mechanics are simple!
After jumping, jump again to ink downwards on the enemies you encounter as you blip and squip along your merry way! Can you stop Skwit Skwot before it’s too late?
Squidlit does everything it can to be as accurate to the original hardware as possible, including:
- No more than 10 8-pixel wide sprites in a line.
- No more than 40 sprites at any time.
- Four sound channels that are shared between “voices” of music and the sound effects.
- All sounds were made on real hardware (using LSDJ).
- 160 x 144 pixel resolution.
- And a whopping 4 shades of… “grellow”
Available Jan. 14th.
Super Mega Space Blaster Special Turbo – A modern take on the retro arcade shooter. Super Mega Space Blaster Special Turbo is a fast-paced frantic blast of a shoot ’em up (shmup) with loads to unlock and leaderboards to climb.
A modern take on the retro arcade shoot ’em up (shmup). Super Mega Space Blaster Special Turbo is an addictive, fast-paced space shooter with bullet hell elements, loads of unlockables, and leaderboards to climb. The ‘Turbo’ edition of Super Mega Space Blaster Special is the definitive edition giving you more ships, more game modes, more unlockables, more challenges, and more space blasting fun than any ever before.
Blast your way through 5 unique game modes including 2 new Turbo edition modes. Save cute astronauts and destroy the boss to claim victory in ‘Save The Colony’ mode. Manage your fuel and ammo to survive to the big-boss in ‘Survival’ mode. Protect your mothership from damage for as long as you can in ‘Protect Mother’ mode. Blast your friends into space dust in local competitive multiplayer modes ‘To The Death’ mode and the new ‘One Shot’ mode.
Play alone in single player, or with a friend in local co-op to take out the aliens. Collect coins to unlock more space blasters (ships), upgrade your weapons and power-ups, and explore the shop for extra perks. Complete over 40 fun challenges to get those extra coins.
Use each space blaster’s strengths to your advantage; from turrets that allow twin stick control, to fast manoeuvrable ships that can outrun your foes. Arm yourself to the teeth with awesome power-ups like big-bombs, homing missiles and lasers. Destroy the alien boss and continue the endless gameplay to rack up a massive score and become the ultimate space blaster pilot and top the leaderboards.
Features:
- Fast-paced addictive shmup gameplay with bullet hell elements.
- 5 play modes give varied gameplay and replay-ability.
- Play alone in single player or with a friend in local cooperative or local competitive multiplayer.
- Collect coins to unlock all 15 space blasters (ships) each with their own perks. From fast ships for darting around to slower ships that allow precision aiming.
- Exclusive space blaster called ‘Nabi’ only for Nintendo Switch.
- Some space blasters have turrets, turning the game into a twin-stick shooter.
- Loads of awesome power-up weapons to help you take down your enemies including lasers, homing missiles, and multi-shot.
- Use your coins in the shop to upgrade weapons and unlock more perks.
- Collectables to aid you in your mission. Big-bombs wipe-out nearby enemies, shields help you survive longer, and magnets drag fuel and ammo towards you.
- Endless high-score chasing gameplay with over 15 enemies and a boss for those who can survive long enough (gameplay continues after the boss).
- Over 40 in-game challenges to help you gain coins and develop your space blaster piloting skills.
- Simple hand-drawn art-style allows you to easily pick out the foes amongst the asteroids.
- Compete to be the greatest space blaster pilot in the leaderboards.
- Play along to the pumping 80s inspired synth-pop original soundtrack by Electric Fan Death.
Available Jan. 14th.
Technosphere – Go on a dangerous journey into the heart of asteroid to save humanity from disaster!
Control the TECHNOSPHERE, roll, jump, balance, solve puzzles and go through the mazes.
Atlas Corporation is mining crystals in the core of an asteroid in the orbit of the Earth.
Due to a failure in the asteroid systems, orbit correction was disabled.
Only the TECHNOSPHERE is able to reload the asteroid system and restore the orbit.
You have 10 hours to save the earth from disaster!
Available Jan. 10th.
THOTH – THOTH is a vibrant, frenetic shooter that will put your coordination to the test, alone or cooperatively with a friend.
From the creator of the award-winning ‘140’ comes THOTH, an intense and challenging arcade shooter. Each stage will put your puzzle solving and finesse to the test, as the arena changes, surprising you with new mechanics to wrap your mind around.
The game is independently designed by Jeppe Carlsen, former lead gameplay designer at Playdead.
Nintendo eShop on New Nintendo 3DS:
Silver Falls – 3 Down Stars – Survival Horror has a new home.
Strange lights have been appearing in the night sky above Silver Falls. When three mysterious objects fall from the sky, this secluded, sleepy town becomes frozen in a moment in time. Strange radiation has turned local wildlife bloodthirsty.
Only 3 people in Silver Falls seem to be unaffected.
Holt, a composer mourning the death of his grandfather with a fishing trip, Analise, an organizer for the annual Moose Steak Festival, and Moss, the local sheriff investigating reports of strange lights in the sky, must work together to figure out exactly what is going wrong in their town.
Why are they being attacked by wildlife? Why has time seem to have stopped? Using their wits and resources scavenged around Silver Falls, these three survivors must discover the mystery behind the three objects and return their town to normal.
Silver Falls offers a suspenseful, tensely paced Storyline Campaign for players looking for a classic, survival horror challenge. When players want to flex some muscle, the Frontier Fighters game mode features RPG style loot collecting, leveling up, skill customization, and weapon upgrading. This game mode allows the player to play short missions of varying difficulty.
These action focused missions let players enjoy short bursts of action for gaming on the go. With a variety of playable characters to unlock, each with unique strengths and skills, players will find hours of thrilling action, fighting back waves of enemies, unlocking more missions, earning unique, legendary weapons, and powering up characters in Frontier Fighters.
Nintendo eShop sales:
- Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch, Nintendo 3DS and Wii U
- Great deals this week! Check out the full list of deals available this week at https://www.nintendo.com/games/sales-and-deals.
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