Nintendo eShop new releases (week 34)
Posted 27 Aug 2021 at 05:17 by Dennis Tummers
Often praised as one of the best roguelite platformers made, both Spelunky and Spelunky 2 are coming to the Switch this week. The game lets you draw your own path through a randomized environment, pushing you to explore further on every run. Spelunky 2 does the same but takes it a step further with more variation and multiplayer.
Travis strikes again (again!) as No More Heroes 3 slashes its way onto the Nintendo Switch. In this third chapter of the main series, Travis tries to make his way up to the top of the Galactic Superhero Rankings.
As always the full list of new releases, DLC and demos can be found below, after the highlights.
Highlights: New Game Releases
| Title | Content Type | Release Date |
| King's Bounty II (Koch Media) | Game - Dual Distribution | 24/08/2021 00:00 LT |
| Description from publisher: Darkness descends over the world of Nostria. Conspiracies, sabotage, and necromancy are overshadowing the country. But maybe a saviour – the kingdom's last hope – is already here, to fight back and finally restore peace and order in Nostria! King’s Bounty II is the long-awaited sequel to the legendary King’s Bounty video games franchise, one of the most iconic representatives of the turn-based RPG genre. Expanding on this legacy with an entirely new epic story, fractions, enemies, and new features to forge an open and breaking fantasy world Antara. With the kingdoms in disarray, counties demanding independence, bandits prowl the roads, all the overseas nations have denied the King’s authority over them, and blighted creatures lie in wait for the unwary, new accidental heroes emerge as last hope. | ||
| Spelunky (Mossmouth) | Game - Digital Only | 26/08/2021 15:00 CEST |
| Description from publisher: Spelunky is a unique platformer with randomly generated fully destructible levels that offer a challenging new experience each time you play. Journey deep underground and explore fantastic places filled with all manner of monsters, traps, and treasure. You'll have complete freedom while you navigate the fully destructible environments and master their many secrets. To stay or flee, to kill or rescue, to shop or steal... in Spelunky, the choice is yours and so are the consequences! | ||
| Spelunky 2 (Mossmouth) | Game - Digital Only | 26/08/2021 15:00 CEST |
| Description from publisher: Meet the next generation of explorers as they find themselves on the Moon, searching for treasure and missing family. Spelunky 2 builds upon the unique, randomized challenges that made the original a classic, offering a huge adventure designed to satisfy players old and new. Explore the game alone, play locally with up to four players, or, for the first time, join up with friends online to unravel its mysteries together (or battle it out in competitive Arena modes). Spelunky 2's world is even denser than the one in the original game, offering more areas, characters, traps, and items, as well as new ways to interact with them (and for them to interact with each other). The world has expanded in other ways, too, with branching paths and multi-layered levels adding a third dimension to the classic 2d platforming gameplay. | ||
| Townscaper (Raw Fury) | Game - Digital Only | 26/08/2021 21:00 CEST |
| Description from publisher: Build quaint island towns with curvy streets. Build small hamlets, soaring cathedrals, canal networks, or sky cities on stilts. Block by block. No goal. No real gameplay. Just plenty of building and plenty of beauty. That's it. Townscaper is an experimental passion project. More of a toy than a game. Pick colors from the palette, plop down colored blocks of house on the irregular grid and watch Townscaper's underlying algorithm automatically turn those blocks into cute little houses, arches, stairways, bridges and lush backyards, depending on their configuration. | ||
| No More Heroes 3 (Grasshopper Manufacture) | Game - Dual Distribution | 27/08/2021 00:00 LT |
| Description from publisher: In No More Heroes 3, the otaku assassin Travis Touchdown wields his beloved Beam Katana against a host of baddies brimming with attitude in the hopes of rising to the top of the Galactic Superhero Rankings. ・ Hack and slash your heart out! ・ Ranking fights are even more chaotic! ・ Explore the open world of Santa Destroy! Bonus: You can change Travis's T-shirt to a special bonus design called "CAT (overseas ver)". | ||
| Baldo The guardian owls (Naps Team) | Game - Digital Only | 27/08/2021 00:00 LT |
| Description from publisher: Journey through a magical land teeming with mysteries to unravel. Baldo: the Guardian Owls is full of challenging puzzles to solve and intricate dungeons to explore. Traverse this captivating open world as Baldo, and meet a host of quirky and unforgettable characters, as you struggle to decipher the cryptic prophecy, and thwart destiny. From delightful whimsy to thrilling adventure, discover new towns and their distinctive inhabitants, fight ferocious foes, locate hidden temples, and collect objects both magical and mundane to obtain powerful new weapons, or to help unveil the myriad secrets of this strange land. | ||
Highlights: New DLC Releases
| Title | Release Date |
| DOOM Eternal: The Ancient Gods - Part Two (Bethesda) | 26/08/2021 (exact timing TBC) |
| Description from publisher: This DLC is also available as part of the DOOM® Eternal: The Ancient Gods - Expansion Pass The Ancient Gods – Part Two is the epic conclusion to the DOOM Slayer’s Saga and the second campaign expansion to the critically acclaimed DOOM Eternal. You denied the gods and awoke an ancient evil. Now rally the scattered Sentinel armies, lay siege to the last bastion of Hell, break through the fortress walls, and face the Dark Lord himself. The soul of the universe hangs in the balance. Your war against Hell ends here. | |
Highlights: New Pre-Orders
| Title | Pre-Order Start Date | Pre-Order End Date |
| Monster Harvest (Merge Games) | 24/08/2021 15:00 CEST | 31/08/2021 14:59 CEST |
Download versions of packaged software
- King's Bounty II
- No More Heroes 3
Nintendo Switch download software
- Dark Thrones
- Eternal Hope
- Garden Paws
- Green Phoenix
- Hammer 2 Reloaded
- Have a Blast
- Hoa
- Inked: A Tale of Love
- Instant Farmer
- May's Mysteries: The Secret of Dragonville
- Mickey Storm and the Cursed Mask
- Moonshades
- Murder Mystery Machine
- Night Flight
- Off The Road Unleashed
- One-Eyed Lee and the Dinner Party
- Orbibot
- Pretty Girls Panic!
- Secret Neighbor
- Space Wars
- Spelunky
- Spelunky 2
- Titans Black Ops
- Wildbus
- Witch Hunter
Nintendo Switch downloadable content
- King's Bounty II
- GROOVE COASTER WAI WAI PARTY!!!!
- MONSTER HUNTER RISE
- No More Heroes 3
- PAC-MAN 99
- STORY OF SEASONS: Pioneers of Olive Town
- The Wonderful 101: Remastered
- Tools Up!
- Urban Flow
- Zaccaria Pinball
Nintendo Switch demos
- Sakura In Gameland
- The Plane Effect
