The latest Nintendo Download update for Europe has arrived, and it's bringing new games galore to the eShop in your region. As always, be sure to drop a vote in our poll and comment down below with your potential picks for the week. Enjoy!
Switch Retail eShop – New Releases
Curved Space (Maximum Games, 13th Jul, £14.99 / €19.99) – Inspired by arcade classics, players will have to hunt for weapon power-ups and upgrades while dodging enemy fire, blasting interdimensional bugs, and wrangling some enormous boss monsters. Simple to learn as you fight your way through the branching story-driven campaign, but tough to master as you chase the glory of the leaderboards.
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD (£49.99 / €59.99) – The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword game soars onto Nintendo Switch! Take to the skies, draw your sword, and experience the earliest story in the Legend of Zelda series. Join Link in his high-flying quest to save Zelda, a childhood friend who must confront her destiny. Soar between floating islands and descend to the treacherous surface world in this updated HD version of the Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword game. Master realistic swordplay that corresponds to your movements Gently swing your sword and angle your slashes to uncover and break through opponents’ defenses using intuitive motion controls. – Read our The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD review
Switch eShop – New Releases
3D Air Hockey (Pix Arts, 14th Jul, £4.99 / €4.99) – Enjoy fast-paced action in this very close to reality Air Hockey Game. Easy to play, tough to master. main features: – Vey Accurate Controls, easy to pick up – 3D and 2D Views – Top Full 3D Graphics – Real Physic Engine – 3 AI Levels – 6 Tables, 4 Mallets
Akinofa (Pixel Lantern, 15th Jul, £4.49 / €3.99) – Take control of Akinofa, a mysterious undead fish of green flames, in this difficult Roguelite shoot em' up! Beat as many enemies and get the highest score possible. Challenge your friends and the world Rankings! Every action counts! Even if you don't finish a level, every coin you collect will be in your treasury to use for permanent upgrades.
ASMR Journey – Jigsaw Puzzle (QUByte Interactive, 13th Jul, £2.69 / €2.99) – The journey starts with a girl opening the door to her bookstore in the corner of living room. It was the little witch who sell magic books. At hand was his new volume, with a peculiar name. But what journey would that be? Maybe we all need to know. The secrete for a creative and serene mind is the magic for an eternal life
Car Wash – Cars & Trucks Garage Game for Toddlers & Kids (winterworks, 15th Jul, £8.99 / €9.99) – Welcome to the world of car wash! In this amazing game for toddlers and kids of any age, you take care of washing and cleaning 25 different vehicles. Hose, brush, wipe, wax, dry, polish and even enchant the cars with a touch of magic to make them shine even brighter. No skill required. Just pick your tool and start swiping on the car to get the work done! Earn stars while working to unlock the remaining cars. Suitable for all car-enthusiast all over the world This game was designed and created with the help of kids and media-educators to ensure a relaxing, frustration free yet rewarding gaming experience for even the smallest kids. This game makes use of the touch screen functionality only. So the menu and every scene can be played with touch controls only.
Dark Nights with Poe and Munro (D'Avekki Studios, 15th Jul, £9.99 / €11.99) – “You’re listening to Radio August. Dark nights, with Poe and Munro…” Adventure in the strange town of August with local radio hosts and secret lovers Poe and Munro, as they encounter six unique mysteries on and off the air. Direct the banter and the action as they fend off a nightmare stalker who just won’t let go, a vengeful ghost looking for everlasting closure, a demonic painting that grants wishes – and more – but can you keep Poe and Munro together, and alive…?
Defend the Kingdom (Kistler Benjamin, 15th Jul, £3.14 / €3.49) – Defend the kingdom is a classic tower defense game where you build up towers and upgrade them to defend one end point from evil creatures approaching from one or more lanes. Different towers have different pro s and cons and it is always a trade off which tower suits the best for each situation. Explore three biomes and 35 levels each have three difficulties. Earn stars by completing each difficulty to upgrade your stats and earn gems to buy skills and power ups. A fun tower defense game for every tower defense game fan.
Fates of Ort (8BITSKULL, 12th Jul, £10.16 / €11.24) – Magic is powerful, but it is not free. Every spell you cast requires a little bit of your life energy to spark it. Cast enough spells and you will extinguish your very soul. This means you need to be strategic when fighting, balancing the cost of magic with the risk of taking damage from your enemies. How each spell manifests in the world depends on what divine power you choose to combine it with. For example, the Evoke Force spell will cause the ground to erupt with a series of sharp ice crystals, summon a thunderous lightning strike, or barrage the ground with a meteor shower – all depending on what the spell is combined with.
Guild of Darksteel (Digerati, 15th Jul, £10.79 / €11.99) – Guild of Darksteel is a cinematic, side-scrolling adventure set in a lush, layered dark fantasy world. Embark on a dark fantasy adventure and follow the Sellsword, an immortal, as he seeks a purpose in eternal life by joining the Guild of Darksteel. Become one of their immortal mercenaries and investigate the mysterious tunnels underneath the cities of Ravenrock. Key Features Engrossing Combat: Utilize a refined combat system to defeat anyone who stands in the way of your mission. Unlock combos and level them up to your liking.
Induction (Bryan Gale, 14th Jul, £4.33 / €5.17) – Induction is an abstract puzzle game about time travel and paradoxes. As you master its logic, Induction will rewire how you think about cause and effect. Across more than 50 meticulously designed puzzles, you must explore the counter-intuitive possibilities time travel permits. You will learn to choreograph your actions across multiple timelines, and to construct seemingly impossible solutions, such as paradoxical time loops, where the future depends on the past and the past depends on the future.
Is it Wrong to Try to Shoot 'em up Girls in a Dungeon? (PQube, 15th Jul, £0.99 / €0.99) – Take control of Aiz Wallenstein, Loki Familia's first-class swordswoman, and fight through hordes of enemies in this shoot'em up side-scroller based on DanMachi (Is it Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? ). Choose from a total of five support characters from the story and utilize their diverse shooting styles to complete the dungeon! The game has five stages, each with a boss, so get ready to change tactics and blast them away before trying again!
Junkyard Builder (Ultimate Games, 15th Jul, £4.49 / €4.99) – In the beginning was the junkyard. Abandoned and despised by most people. But not you! Since you’re the owner, the business is booming! See that rusty car over there? Let’s do some makeover. Several corroded pipes? Let’s turn them into bales and sell. There’s junk everywhere I see. You know what that means. That’s how you make the profit! Don’t forget to invest. Why should you do everything around here? Don’t waste time, get your money’s worth!
Labyrinth City: Pierre the Maze Detective (15th Jul, £10.79 / €11.99) – From the award-winning studio behind Homo Machina (2018) and Californium (2016), Labyrinth City: Pierre the Maze Detective is another one-of-a-kind revolutionary puzzle. Fun, engaging, and beautiful, Labyrinth City: Pierre the Maze Detective lets you explore the visually stunning universe created by IC4DESIGN Playing as detective Pierre, you must find your way and solve puzzles to retrieve the magical stone stolen by the nefarious Mr. X.
Lambs on the road : The Beginning (Flynns Arcade, 15th Jul, £2.99 / €2.99) – From the creators of Eternum EX, in collaboration with Gone Mad studio. Lambs on the road is a survival horror story of a father looking for her daughter. Help John to find her daughter, Mary, throught different dangers, lost in a post-apocalyptic world where the chaos reigns. Try to escape from the starving and desperate people, hide, run, fight and overall, never look back.
Lost Grimoires 3: The Forgotten Well (£13.49 / €14.99) – King Raphael returns victorious from the expedition against the army of the mysterious Elf Sylvanheir. While king's subjects are preparing for his triumphant arrival, his sister – startled by his strange letters from during the war – suspects that Raphael has been cursed and that a real war is about to begin. The war between the Kingdom of Phoenix and the possesed army of elves and their leader Sylvanheir is coming to an end. When the subjects await the arrival of their king, his sister – the alchemist – is full of bad feelings.
Macrotis: A Mother's Journey (eastasiasoft, 15th Jul, £8.79 / €9.59) – Macrotis is the story of a mother’s relentless search for her missing children, an emotional tale told through lush 2. 5D platforming filled with thought-provoking puzzles. Climb, jump and gnaw your way through beautiful yet dangerous environments, avoid traps and use water physics to your advantage. As you progress, you’ll gain a variety of natural and supernatural abilities to overcome the obstacles in your path. Will you help Mother Bilby rescue her family?
Red Colony 2 (Shinyuden, 15th Jul, £6.29 / €6.99) – The Blue Colony was a place of opportunity, a capitalist metropolis where hard work, determination and a keen eye for business could punch you a one-way ticket to the top of the illustrious Sky City. . . That was until the Virus hit. Now the elite are hunted by flesh-eating monster that were once their former workers. You play as Nicole, a mother desperate to get her daughter out of the terrifying slum at the bottom of the bottom in the Blue Colony. Your task is not an easy one, the slum has been hit hardest by the outbreak and zombies are not the only thing stalking you from the shadows.
Risk System (Hidden Trap, 15th Jul, £8.99 / €9.99) – This complete cohesion between controls, gameplay and aesthetics means that when you play, you'll feel like you're a daredevil ace pilot from the most awesome mecha anime! Risk System features multiple endings and character interactions based on player performance, mirroring the experience of the protagonist gaining mastery of their ship and using the systems of gameplay to tell a story.
Rogue Star Rescue (Chute Apps, 15th Jul, £10.25 / €11.24) – A New Kind of Roguelite Shooter. It's time to bring roguelites to the next level! Rogue Star Rescue is a unique mix of bullet hell roguelite and tower defense games. We've added strong strategy elements to the all-out insanity of bullet hell shooters. The action is smooth, the gameplay is challenging, the story is complex and nonlinear. It's a game you'll get sucked into and will end up spending months exploring the multiple intricacies and outcomes. Keeping the game fun well past the 50-hour mark is our core design focus.
Rogue Wizards (Spellbind Studios, 15th Jul, £10.79 / €11.99) – The Council oversees the elam families, aristocrats who are descended from the first humans in Rilfanor, and the banlits, who were originally people born without magical abilities. The Guild has never admitted banlits because of their lack of magical capacity; and they've never admitted women because they believed women were too weak-minded to control such power. Now, many generations later, the elam magic is weakening, and latent magic talent has reappeared among the banlit population.
SpaceEx Commander (£4.49 / €4.99) – After hundreds of years of waging wars with space invaders, the human fleet grew weaker. The devastating conflict took many lives. But your will to live is strong and your crew is loyal. Startup your engines, repel conquerors and as you do, collect powerful crystals. Use them to enhance your ship and give it your best shot to level an uneven playing field. The enemy showed some of his forces, but true evil still lies behind front lines. . .
Squeakers II (£2.69 / €2.99) – Have you ever faced forthcoming death? Or have you ever imagine how it is to rush yourself just to get another minute of your life? Forge ahead, against all odds, not knowing what’s waiting there for you and if you are strong enough to bear the suspens. The end is getting closer. Will you manage to survive? Startling originality, firing imagination, engaging and amazing chain of events. The simplicity of this pixel-art game entails players to unite and cooperate in order to get higher and escape chasing them water. Gripping and full of humor.
Theofil (Ultimate Games, 12th Jul, £1.79 / €1.99) – Theofil is an action arcade game in which you'll guide a hooded hero wearing an ancient robe. Your weapon is a magical wooden staff that brave Theofil uses to destroy his enemies. His abilities will help you fight against dangerous enemies. The action takes place somewhere in ancient Egypt, full of mysterious temples and caves, which are protected by deadly traps. Access to them is defended by powerful opponents who will not give up without a fight. Stone golems throwing boulders at you and goblins wanting to stab you with a spear.
Within the Blade (£9.99 / €10.99) – Within the Blade is an epic game in stealth, platforming, and RPG genres, in which the player takes on the role of a Ninja. Explore the scenic world of feudal Japan, using your stealth to complete missions. Collect various materials to craft weapons: shurikens, poisons, elixirs, grenades, mines. As well as the main weapon the Ninjato and Kusarigama to build your power.
Wizodd (JanduSoft, 15th Jul, £3.81 / €4.24) – Wizodd is a dungeon crawler roguelike game where you find various equipment and upgrades while encountering dangerous monsters and bosses to advance down to the lower floors. This game is easy to play and simple to get the mechanics, all you do is find monsters and make them explode in different ways, and as you improve on Wizodd, you get to be stronger, dodge the various traps and clear levels more quickly.
Word Crush Hidden (Kistler Benjamin, 15th Jul, £3.36 / €3.74) – Word Crush Hidden is a fun word search puzzle game where you need to connect each letter to the words searched for. Daily challenges, achievements and over 1399 levels bring you an enjoyable word search experience and if you are stuck the power ups help you to find the words. FEATURES IN GAMES: – Power up hints – Daily rewards! – Daily Challenges – Achievements – 1400 levels
Switch eShop – Demos
DLC / Add-On Content
Nintendo Switch
- Disgaea 6: Defiance of Destiny
- Evolution Board Game
- FUSER™
- Jigsaw Masterpieces
- Sid Meier's Civilization VI
- WorldNeverland – Elnea Kingdom
So that's your lot for this week's Nintendo Download. Go on, be a sport and drop a vote in the poll above, and comment below with your hot picks!