Big Releases on Switch This Week

This week Nintendo Switch gets a large number of new games with some sweet, sweet long-awaited releases among them. Check out the list below to see the biggest games coming to Nintendo Switch between now and May 29^th.

As always, check out the carefully curated list of all the upcoming Switch games on the official site.

Shantae and the Seven Sirens

• Single-player platformer
• Publisher: WayForward
• Release date: May 28

Shantae is back in an all-new tropical adventure! In her fifth outing, the Half-Genie hero gains new Fusion Magic abilities to explore a vast sunken city, makes new Half-Genie friends, and battles the Seven Sirens in her biggest, most thrilling quest yet! Featuring multiple towns and more labyrinths than ever before, an awesome aquatic journey full of danger and discovery awaits!

Synaptic Drive

• Action for up to 4 players
• Developer: Thousand Games
• Publisher: Yunio Games
• Release date: May 28

Set hundreds of years in the future, diverse fighters from space have assembled on one planet to battle in competitions. Some want to show off their abilities, some live to fight, while others are after prize money… Whatever the reason may be, they’re all aiming to come out on top. To attain superhuman reflexes, these fighters have mechanized their bodies to activate synapses in the brain. Such are the origins of Synaptic Drive.

Borderlands: Game of the Year Edition

• First-person Action for up to 4 players
• Developer: Turn Me Up Games
• Publisher: Take-Two Interactive
• Release date: May 29

Discover the co-op shooter-looter that started it all, crammed with content and enhancements! Equip bazillions of guns as one of 4 trigger-happy mercenaries, each with unique RPG skills. Take on the lawless desolate planet Pandora in pursuit of powerful alien technology: The Vault. With new weapons, visual upgrades, all 4 add-on packs and more!

Borderlands: The Handsome Collection

• First-person Action for up to 4 players
• Developer: Turn Me Up Games, Behaviour Interactive
• Publisher: Take-Two Interactive
• Release date: May 29

Shoot and loot as you explore the mayhem-filled world of Pandora in Borderlands 2 and the lunar madness of Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel in Borderlands: The Handsome Collection. Experience the award-winning FPS-RPG series, including its bazillions of guns, trademark cooperative gameplay, and piles of bonus add-on content.

Borderlands Legendary Collection

• First-person Action for up to 4 players
• Developer: Turn Me Up Games, Behaviour Interactive
• Publisher: Take-Two Interactive
• Release date: May 29

Get three times the mayhem, three times the loot, and three times the action with the Borderlands Legendary Collection! Kill bandits and beasts, collect powerful weaponry, and maybe even save the universe in Borderlands: Game of the Year Edition, Borderlands 2, and Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, along with piles of bonus add-on content for each game, adding 100+ hours of gameplay at an incredible value.

https://youtu.be/R08Bxbr9Tq0

Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition

• Single-player RPG
• Publisher: Nintendo
• Release date: May 29

Join the fight between man and machine in the definitive edition of this critically-acclaimed RPG

Discover the origins of Shulk as he and his companions clash against a seemingly-unstoppable mechanical menace. Wield a future-seeing blade, chain together attacks, and carefully position your party members in strategic, real-time combat as you journey across a massive world.

XCOM 2 Collection

• Single-player strategy
• Developer: Firaxis Games, Virtuous
• Publisher: Take-Two Interactive
• Release date: May 29

Aliens rule Earth, promising a brilliant future for mankind while secretly hiding a sinister agenda. As the leader of a guerrilla force facing impossible odds, you must ignite a global resistance to eliminate the alien threat and save the hum race from extinction.

The XCOM 2 Collection includes the award-winning strategy game XCOM 2, four DLC packs (Resistance Warrior Pack, Anarchy’s Children, Alien Hunters, Shen’s Last Gift) and the War of the Chosen expansion all in one package.

https://youtu.be/RQ1_qswDw1g

Adam’s Venture: Origins

• Single-player Adventure/Puzzle
• Publisher: Soedesco
• Release date: May 29

Start your adventure in Adam’s Venture: Origins. Set in the roaring 20’s, you play as explorer Adam Venture and go on a journey to unravel the secret of Eden. Together with your companion Evelyn, you explore ancient ruins and solve ingenious puzzles to find mysterious locales. As you travel to unique locations, you’re opposed by the evil Clairvaux company, who’s intentions for exploring artifacts could unleash chaos around the world.

https://youtu.be/DGtNEF4wdU4

BioShock Remastered

• Single-player First-Person Action
• Developer: Virtuous
• Publisher: Take-Two Interactive
• Release date: May 29

Explore the undersea city of Rapture, a haven for society’s greatest minds that has devolved into a dystopian nightmare wrought by one man’s hubris. Amidst the waterlogged ruins, a new ecosystem has emerged, where deranged Splicers hunt down the Little Sisters who would be helpless without their hulking Big Daddy guardians. Your only hopes for survival are quick thinking, reclaimed weaponry, and superhuman powers granted by DNA-altering Plasmids. To defeat Rapture’s mutated monsters, you must become one.

BioShock 2 Remastered

• Single-player First-Person Action
• Developer: Virtuous
• Publisher: Take-Two Interactive
• Release date: May 29

See Rapture through the eyes of Subject Delta, a fearsome Big Daddy prototype on a life-or-death mission to rescue his missing Little Sister. Eight years have passed since the events of the first BioShock, and Rapture’s denizens have rallied into a collectivist cult. Wield even more Plasmid types, face off against a host of new enemies, and venture beyond Rapture’s art deco architecture to traverse the ocean floor, all while being hunted by a new generation of supremely powerful predators: Big Sisters.

BioShock Infinite: The Complete Edition

• Single-player First-Person Action
• Developer: Virtuous
• Publisher: Take-Two Interactive
• Release date: May 29

Indebted to the wrong people, private investigator Booker DeWitt must take on an impossible task: travel to Columbia, a flying city above the clouds, and rescue a mysterious woman named Elizabeth. She has the power to tear at the fabric of reality—a power her captor thinks will fulfill his warped vision of the American dream. Soar above Columbia on gravity-defying Sky-Lines, use a variety of firearms and the superhuman abilities, and team up with Elizabeth in a desperate bid for salvation.

BioShock: The Collection

• Single-player First-Person Action
• Developer: Virtuous
• Publisher: Take-Two Interactive
• Release date: May 29

Experience the unforgettable worlds and monumental stories of the award-winning BioShock series with BioShock: The Collection. Journey to the cities of Rapture and Columbia across BioShock Remastered, BioShock 2 Remastered, and BioShock Infinite: The Complete Edition, including all single-player add-on content. Fight for your life and outsmart your enemies, be it deep beneath the waves or high above the clouds.

https://youtu.be/8SeJ8YqL2VM