Between now and July 30th, Nintendo Switch gets a new selection of games that might pick your interest. Check out the official site to find the full list of games coming to the console in the near future or scroll down to the list below for the best Switch games arriving this week!
Clone Drone in the Danger Zone
- Multiplayer action for up to 15 players
- Release date: July 27
Clone Drone in the Danger Zone is a robot voxel slice-em-up where any part of your body can be sliced off.
With your mind downloaded into a robot gladiator, you must survive the sinister trials of the arena.
Singleplayer Game Modes:
• Story Mode – One part epic tale of human defiance, another part laser swords.
• Endless Mode – Challenge yourself to fight through 86 level variants spread across 7 difficulty tiers. Can you make it to TITANIUM?
• Challenge Mode – Bow-only, hammer-only, can you still survive the arena?
Multiplayer Game Modes:
• Last Bot Standing – A Battle-Royale-like game mode with short, 5-10 minute play sessions and up to 15 players. Survive, and shower in the remains of your fellow robot competitors.
• Private Duels – Challenge your friend to a 1v1 duel!
• Online Co-op! – Use the power of human friendship (and laser swords!) to survive in the arena!
Unbound: Worlds Apart
- Single-player platformer/puzzle
- Release date: July 28
Unbound: Worlds Apart is a challenging, atmospheric and hand-drawn puzzle-platformer set in a universe where all worlds are connected by portals. You control Soli, a gifted young mage who has the power to open portals and control the unique properties of each world – such as inverse gravity, time manipulation, super strength and more.
Using these newfound skills, Soli must journey across dangerous and mysterious worlds, each brimming with secrets and challenges. You must use every skill Soli has to defeat a ruthless evil that is tearing reality apart, while learning the shocking truth behind your world’s collapse.
Fuga: Melodies of Steel
- Single-player RPG
- Release date: July 28th
One fateful night, a peaceful village is thrown into the flames of war. Determined to save their families, a group of children boards a giant tank and begins an offensive charge!
Fuga: Melodies of Steel is an RPG where you place children, each with their own unique characteristics and skills, at different gun turrets in a tank to fight against the enemy.
Living inside the tank, the children show emotion and gain affinity amongst each other. Manage these both to change the outcome of their journey!
Paint the Town Red
- Single-player action-adventure
- Release date: July 29th
The voxel-based enemies can be punched, bashed, kicked, stabbed and sliced completely dynamically using almost anything that isn’t nailed down.
In the Scenario levels you’ll need to use your wits, speed and anything you can get your hands on in epic bar fights, disco brawls, old west saloon rumbles and more.
In the epic rogue-lite Beneath you’ll have to delve deep underground battling terrifying monsters and unlocking powerful upgrades in a battle against ancient evils.
B.ARK
- Arcade action for up to 4 players
- Release date: July 29th
Blast through waves of the evil cybernetic fish armada Dark Tide, and fight to take back the Solar System as the members of Team B.ARK: good boy Barker the Dog, Felicity the wise-cracking Cat, Lucio the overprotective Bear and cautious-but-quick Marv the Rabbit.
Dark Tide has taken over the Earth and are spreading their reign of terror into outer space! Hop in a mech for up to 4-player co-op as you battle through multiple galactic stages full of hand-animated characters and enemies.
Banners of Ruin
- Single-player strategy RPG
- Release date: July 29th
The Blackfoots have been dealt a mighty blow by the fearsome House Ender – you must infiltrate their defences and cut out the rot.
Build your deck and fight your way through the city of Dawn’s Point with card based combat and up to 6 members in your party. Characters loyal to your cause have a set of unique cards and abilities that may augment your deck in powerful, exciting ways. Defeat each of the elite opponents in your path to the city’s Guard Captain and cripple the Enders at their core. You and your brethren may fall at this attempt, but there will always be others to carry the torch. House Blackfoot will remember, and they will never relent. Encounter a series of scenarios as you travel through the city which may help you, but at the expense of some moral ground.
The Long Gate
- Single-player adventure/puzzle
- Release date: July 29
Explore ancient caverns filled with mysterious puzzles and traverse relaxing oases of nature. Repair the three types of ancient circuits and unravel the mystery of what happened to their creators. The Long Gate is a challenging and elaborate puzzle game with puzzles based on real-world physics and circuits.
Skydrift Infinity
- Multiplayer racing for up to 8 players
- Release date: July 29th
Skydrift Infinity is an action-packed arcade game focusing on the experience of flying alone, and with others, in a light, quick, fast-paced style.
During the various game modes you can partake in deathmatches and armed races as well as other armed competitions, using modern airplanes, which are tuned to the max, with extreme weapons. Your goal is simple: if you can’t overtake them, shoot them down!
Play alone, with your friends or compete against previously unknown online challengers! For relaxation explore the exotic islands, used as the venues of the races and arena modes, where you can break free of the 2 dimensionality, that binds known racing games! Your possibilities are limited only by your own imagination!
Trigger Witch
- Action/adventure for up to 2 players
- Release date: July 29th
Recalling the visual style and intuitive gameplay of 16-bit action-adventure classics, Trigger Witch puts an ultra-violent spin on cute and colorful pixel art. With a compelling and original narrative, puzzling environments to explore, a dynamic soundtrack, twin-stick shooter mechanics and a vast array of enemies to blast into smithereens, this is a tale that will grip you from start to bloody finish.
From the creators of Reverie, Trigger Witch is a stylized 2D twin-stick action game set in an odd open world where magic is outdated and firearms are the new way of life. Players assume the role of Colette, a prospective graduate from the Stock, an academy for Witchcraft and Triggery. After a mysterious man invades her realm, events are set in motion that turn Colette’s life upside-down, casting her as the sole heroine with enough firepower to restore peace.
OS Omega
- Single-player action-RPG
- Release date: July 29th
OS OMEGA is an action-adventure game set in a hostile operating system environment. You are Binary Boy, an agent of OS Omega and your goal is to defeat the virus that wants to format the C drive of the computer you must protect.
The game mixes perma-death twin-stick shooter with RPG-style quest fullfilling.
The gameplay consists mostly of fighting and exploring, but there’s also talking, puzzle-solving and quests fullfilling.
Blaster Master Zero 3
- Single-player action
- Release date: July 29th
Blaster Master Zero 3’s hybrid of sidescrolling and top-down action is back for its 3rd chapter, and more intense than ever before! Series protagonist Jason travels to where the series all began, the planet Sophia, in order to save series heroine Eve in this final installment of the BMZ trilogy.
In the previous game, Blaster Master Zero 2, Jason and his partner Eve finally reach their destination, the planet Sophia, after a long and arduous journey through space. However, a new threat was already lying in wait for them upon their arrival.
Eldest Souls
- Single-player action-adventure
- Release date: July 29th
Following centuries of servitude, Man finally rebelled against the Old Gods, imprisoning these colossal calamities within the sacred walls of the Citadel. But an evil stirred within… In a final act of vengeance, the Old Gods have unleashed a great Desolation upon the world. Mankind is fading, with but a glimmer of hope remaining. Heavy is the burden that lies on one lone Warrior. Armed with a greatsword… of the purest Obsydian.
Fast-paced and challenging souls-like combat awaits, where every moment counts. Yet fortune favors the bold, and defeating the Old Gods may grant the player powers beyond mortal comprehension. Eldest Souls focuses on only the toughest and most engaging of combat encounters – the Bosses! – with each Old God presenting a new and unique challenge for the player to overcome… with fitting rewards for those who triumph!
10 Second Ninja X
- Single-player platfromer
- Release date: July 30
10 SECOND NINJA X is a shockingly fast, overwhelmingly intense action/puzzle game. In this thumb-blistering sequel, the nefarious Captain Greatbeard has kidnapped you and trapped your forest friends inside of his army of robots like some kind of psychopath. Greatbeard doesn’t think you’re the fastest ninja who ever lived – he is WRONG.
Destroy all of Greatbeard’s robots in each level in ten seconds or less. Be fast enough to get the coveted three star rating in each. Fight through 100 levels, explore Greatbeard’s airship, discover secrets, climb the leaderboards and show everyone what it means to be THE FASTEST, COOLEST HERO EVER.
Xenogunner
- Single-player action-platformer
- Release date: July 30th
In the future year of 2011, Zeta Reak, kind, gentle king of the Xenolians, is overthrown by a powerful tyrant named the “Xenogunner”.
The Xenogunner is a mysterious being capable of many frightening feats, using a power known as “Xenonature”, a powerful energy that grants one trained in the use of it many elemental and non-elemental powers.
Zeta, too, is gifted with the powers of Xenonature. It’s up to Zeta to overthrow the Xenogunner and reclaim the throne…
…but is the Xenogunner actually the one pulling the strings…?
HORROR TALES: The Wine
- Single-player action-adventure
- Release date: July 30
Mediterranean Horror: Explore the forsaken capital of an awe-inspiring archipelago. Do not let yourself be fooled by the gentle sea breeze, the Mediterranean vistas or the comforting summer sun. Since the Devil’s Fevers pandemic ravaged the city, it was abandoned, and now only horrific nightmares await there.
Alone With You
- Single-player adventure
- Release date: July 30th
You’re the last survivor of a doomed space colony, trying to escape a planet before it implodes around you. Equipped with a scanner, you’ll reveal clues, solve puzzles, and discover the fates of over two-dozen colonists and the secrets of their interwoven lives.
By day you’ll explore this richly detailed world with the help of the colony’s troubled AI. And each night, you’ll spend quality time with several holographic companions, forging lasting relationships while gaining further insight into the colony’s tragic downfall.
