Following the last week that has been on the quieter side when it comes to the new Switch games, Nintendo is back with vengeance as another set of titles drops on the console this week. Between now and April 11, Switch players can get their hands on a variety of new projects of various genres.
Check out the official site to find the entire list of the upcoming games or check out the list below for the hottest releases of this week:
Breathedge
- Single-player action-adventure
- Publisher: HYPETRAIN DIGITAL
- Release date: April 6
Survive in outer space! Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage.
Breathedge is an ironic outer space survival adventure game. Take on the role of a simple guy called the Man who is just carrying his grandpa’s ashes to a galactic funeral and suddenly finds himself in the middle of a universal conspiracy.
STAR WARS Republic Commando
- Single-player action-adventure
- Publisher: Aspyr
- Developer: Aspyr
- Release date: April 6
Boss, Fixer, Scorch, and Sev, better known as Delta Squad, are back on Nintendo Switch! Relive the legendary campaign.
Welcome to the Clone Wars: Chaos has erupted throughout the galaxy. As leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately annihilate the enemy.
Always Sometimes Monsters
- Single-player adventure RPG
- Publisher: Vagabond Dog
- Developer: Vagabond Dog
- Release date: April 8
Out of money and out of luck you find yourself heartbroken and on the verge of collapse. Your landlord’s taken the key back, you can’t finish your manuscript, and your beloved is marrying someone else. With no choice but to handle whatever life throws at you, you set out on the open road on a mission to win back the love of your life. The story from there is up to you. Can your life be salvaged, or are we always sometimes monsters?
ISLAND
- Single-player adventure/visual novel
- Publisher: PROTOTYPE
- Release date: April 8
Urashima is a tropical island paradise that was lush with life, but along with a complicated past, it suffered from an endemic disease that threatened to quietly wipe it from history.
A young man claiming to be a time traveler washes ashore. All he remembers is that he must complete some “mission”. He ends up meeting three girls belonging to the Three Families who prove to be the key to saving the island and starts his journey to change the future. How will he end up altering the fate of the girls, the island, and the world?
Super Fowlst 2
- Single-player platformer
- Publisher: Thomas K Young
- Developer: Thomas K Young
- Release date: April 8
The world has been overrun by demons and there’s only one chicken that can stop them. How? By smashing into them head-first. Why? I’m not sure.
Fowlst returns in a new adventure that’s all about squashing bad guys, dodging danger and striking it rich. There’s sprawling stages to conquer, huge bosses to defeat, and all manner of gadgets and gizmos to interact with. Trade your treasure for cool powers like egg bombs and rockets so you can really show those demons who’s boss!
Cozy Grove
- Single-player adventure/puzzle
- Publisher: The Quantum Astrophysicists Guild
- Developer: Spry Fox
- Release date: April 8
Welcome to Cozy Grove, a life-sim game about camping on a haunted, ever-changing island. As a Spirit Scout, you’ll wander the island’s forest each day, finding new hidden secrets and helping soothe the local ghosts. With a little time and a lot of crafting, you’ll bring color and joy back to Cozy Grove!
Legends of Talia: Arcadia
- Single-player adventure
- Publisher: Gamuzumi
- Release date: April 8
Arcadia is a legendary knight who’s fought in innumerable battles in the war-torn land of Talia. She has defeated hundreds of Talia’s enemies with her sword… But there’s one legend about Arcadia nobody speaks of.
More than ten years, a horned dragon attacked Freycross Village. The village burnt to the ground, and almost all the villagers perished.
Arcadia might be a hero, but those who survived the attack on Freycross Village resent her. They hate her.
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DON’T GIVE UP: A Cynical Tale
- Single-player RPG
- Publisher: Nuchallenger
- Developer: Taco Pizza Cats
- Release date: April 8
Four years ago, Tris had a mental breakdown that left him an anxious wreck. Now, he lives in a new city, trying to make it as an independent developer while barely getting by. To make things worse: old demons have surfaced and they’re looking to conquer more than just Tris this time. The fate of the city is at stake. Does he have what it takes to find the hero deep within?
DON’T GIVE UP: A Cynical Tale is the sarcastic and darkly comedic RPG about facing down your inner demons. With a bustling city, a dimension-hopping storyline, and entertaining tactical battles against bullies who will stop at nothing to take your pizza, A Cynical Tale is a must-play for anyone who loves RPGs.
Graviter
- Single-player puzzle
- Publisher: No Gravity Games
- Release date: April 8
A real world physics-based game about manipulating the gravitational forces. Shrink and enlarge bodies, move them around to find your way through over 100 different levels!
Potion Party
- Puzzle/arcade for up to 4 players
- Publisher: Top Hat Studios
- Release date: April 8
Step into the colorful world of Potion Party, and run your own alchemy shop in this fast-paced party game!
Grow exotic fruits, and synthesize them together to produce fabulous potions! Earn gold, grow your humble shop, and unlock new and unique characters, each with their own special skills. Using your earnings, decorate and grow your shop with an array of different items. Beware however – enemies and intruders lurk in the shadows, who want to mess up your shop! Defend against them and maintain the best shop possible.
What the Dub?!
- Multiplayer/board game for up to 12 players
- Publisher: Wide Right Interactive
- Developer: Wide Right Interactive
- Release date: April 8
What The Dub is a multiplayer party game where each player overdubs missing dialogue from hilariously awful B-movies, woefully outdated PSAs, and bizarre industrial films, with their own witty (or just plain stupid) dubs.
Players watch the dubs and vote on the best one. The player with the highest score at the end of the game wins! It’s just that easy!
What The Dub takes “bad movie night” and expands it into an interactive, fast-paced, multiplayer game that friends and family, both local and afar, can enjoy!
ASTRO AQUA KITTY
- Single-player action/arcade
- Publisher: Tikipod
- Developer: Tikipod
- Release date: April 8
The Aqua Kitty cats have launched into space in an all new action RPG shoot-em-up adventure!
Pick your crew, then blast off to investigate mysterious water filled asteroids.
Battle bizarre enemies, mine magnificent gems, grab new weapons, install enhancing devices, and unlock your crews’ unique skills as you level up XP.
Just watch out for marauding pirate rabbits, always trying to be first to the loot!
Skyland: Heart of the Mountain
- Single-player adventure/puzzle
- Publisher: Artifex Mundi
- Developer: Artifex Mundi
- Release date: April 9
In the world built on the shoulders of sleeping giants, join your sister Adrianne to prevent a terrifying annihilation that may irreversibly change the world. Explore the history of a forgotten civilisation to save the citizens of Skyland and reveal the mystery of your father’s death.
In an outlandish world the surface of the planet withered and died below the toxic fumes. Survivors fled and settled atop the sleeping giants. Those relics of forgone age proved to be a source of endless energy that allowed entire civilization to flourish again.
However, something sinister looms over the Skyland. People are disappearing without trace and it seems it might be connected to your father’s tragic death. It’s up to you and your trusty crew of airship Nightingale to uncover the truth behind it.
Ravensword: Shadowlands
- Single-player adventure RPG
- Publisher: Ratalaika Games
- Developer: Crescent Moon Games
- Release date: April 9
After the fall of Ravengard, the world descended into chaos. The Kingdom of Tyreas stood alone against a sea of dark elven invaders. The Ravensword was lost, and the dark times began. As a descendant of an ancient line of kings, you alone have the power to wield the Ravensword again and restore that which was lost.
Explore a vast and richly detailed world, gather powerful weapons and items, increase your skills, and follow a deep storyline to solve the mysteries of the Kingdom of Tyreas.
Seamlessly switch between First and Third Person view while mastering different skills, making quest-altering and reputation-altering decisions!
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV
- Single-player action-adventure
- Publisher: NIS America
- Developer: Falcom
- Release date: April 9
In a world ablaze with war, heroes must unite
The long-awaited finale to the epic engulfing a continent comes to a head in the final chapter of the Trails of Cold Steel saga!
IT’S WAR! The continent of Zemuria is dragged into conflict as the Erebonian Empire mobilizes the full force of its military. The heroes of Class VII old and new must unite to end the conflict before it consumes the continent.
Gravity Heroes
- Action-platformer for up to 4 players
- Publisher: PQube
- Developer: Studica Solution
- Release date: April 9
Gravity Heroes is a fast-paced, chaotically beautiful 2D platform shooter. Take control of your character’s gravitational pull with the gravity shifter mechanic and fight hordes of robotic enemies on the ground, walls, or ceiling. Fuelled by 80’s and 90’s nostalgia with an electrifying soundtrack and stylistically popping pixel art style, Gravity Heroes offers action-packed fun playing either by yourself or joined by up to three others locally.
The House in Fata Morgana: Dreams of the Revenants Edition
- Single-player visual novel
- Publisher: Limited Run Games
- Developer: Novectacle
- Release date: April 9
A gothic suspense tale set in a cursed mansion. ‘The House in Fata Morgana’ is a full-length visual novel spanning nearly a millennium that deals in tragedy, human nature, and insanity.
This version includes three games and more:
1: The House in Fata Morgana: the main storyline.
2: A Requiem for Innocence: a prequel shedding light on the origins of Fata Morgana’s terrible curse.
3: Reincarnation: a sequel featuring the central cast members reincarnated in the present day. *The part including voices*
4: Other additional short stories.
Hike
- Single-player adventure
- Publisher: Ultimate Games
- Developer: Morning Shift Studios
- Release date: April 11
You finally get a chance to leave the city behind for the first time in years and head out for a relaxing weekend hike in the middle of nowhere.
Explore the massive world of unknown and discover the secrets of the wilderness. During your hike a lot of different scenarios happen, for example, thunderstorms and such.
Hike offers you a relaxing and exploration-filled experience. Complete camping-related quests in many parts of the magical forests.
