Nintendo Direct March 2025: Everything Announced

The Switch 2 looms connected the horizon, and successful little than a week's time, we'll larn much accusation astir Nintendo's adjacent console. Today, though, Nintendo hosted a Switch 1-focused Direct, and it felt similar a flurry of last-minute announcements for the record-shattering handheld hybrid console up of its successor.

Highlights from today's watercourse centered connected the archetypal Switch see caller footage of Metroid Prime 4: Beyond and Pokemon Legends Z-A, sequels to classical bid similar Tomodachi Life and Rhythm Heaven, positive immoderate caller Switch features and wide Nintendo updates up of the Switch 2 Direct adjacent week.

There's a small spot near successful the aged Switch, it seems, and it's highly apt each of these games volition inactive beryllium playable connected the forthcoming Switch 2. Still, determination were a batch of updates for games known and unknown, truthful here's a headline-by-headline round-up of everything announced astatine the March 2025 Nintendo Direct. Let america cognize your favourite announcements and reveals down below!

Dragon Quest I + II HD-2D Remake

Following aft Dragon Quest III HD-2D, the anterior 2 games are coming to Nintendo Switch arsenic Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake sometime this year. It's got the aforesaid ocular benignant arsenic the DQ3 update, which should marque for a bully classical postulation for each the Dragon Quest fans erstwhile it arrives sometime successful the future.

No Sleep For Kaname Date - From AI: The Somnium Files

A caller introduction successful the AI: The Somnium Files series, No Sleep For Kaname Date sees the protagonist of the archetypal AI searching for a missing Iris. Solve puzzles and analyse mysteries to find her connected July 25, 2025.

Raidou Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army

The latest Atlus remaster is bringing Raidou to the forefront, with a substance of devil summoning and action-RPG combat. With caller graphics and gameplay updates, you'll investigate, summation caller allies, and lick puzzles astir the town. Raidou returns successful Raidou Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army connected June 19, 2025.

Shadow Labyrinth

Remember the creepy Pac-Man abbreviated from Secret Level? Well, Bandai Namco's acheronian instrumentality connected a Pac-themed Metroidvania is arriving with Shadow Labyrinth connected July 18, 2025, with an ominous puck helper guiding you done a harsh and unsafe world.

Patapon 1+2 Replay

The archetypal Patapon 1 and 2 are some marching guardant connected the Nintendo Switch. New gameplay features look to enactment players, including ever showing commands. The bushed gets going connected July 11, 2025.

Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar

The infamous farming beingness sim bid returns with Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar. Taking inspiration from the archetypal handheld release, players volition acceptable retired to revitalize Zephyr Town and reconstruct it to glory done the classical methods: farming, ranching, and socializing. Set retired for a quiescent beingness connected August 27, 2025.

Metroid Prime 4: Beyond

We got immoderate much gameplay contiguous of Samus' caller 3D adventures successful Metroid Prime 4: Beyond. Starting the gameplay showcase connected the satellite Viewros, Metroid Prime 4 sees Samus unlocking psychic abilities that she tin usage to unfastened doors, run mechanisms, and alteration the trajectory of her beams. Nintendo reaffirmed a 2025 motorboat model and teased a caller suit for Samus, but nary quality yet connected a merchandise day for Metroid Prime 4.

Disney Villains Cursed Cafe

Serve beverage and wicked concoctions to celebrated Disney vilians aboriginal contiguous successful this java store sim. Ursula, Gaston, Cruella and much are each present to inquire for immoderate drinks and service up villainous dialog successful response.

Witchbrook

The long-awaited spellcrafting and witchery life-sim from Chucklefish showed disconnected immoderate caller gameplay today, spotlighting its chill vibes and co-op gameplay acceptable successful a cozy witch academy. Witchbrook volition beryllium unfastened for enrollment sometime this vacation season.

The Eternal Life of Goldman

Explore a unsafe archipelago and uncover its secrets successful The Eternal Life of Goldman, a caller enactment escapade rubric this vacation season.

Gradius Origins

Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the Gradius games with this postulation of classical arcade 'shmups, including the marque caller Salamander 3. Gradius Origins arrives connected August 7, 2025.

Rift of the Necrodancer

The Crypt of the Necrodancer unit takes connected rhythmic battles and amusive minigames aboriginal today. The Celeste DLC besides adds immoderate euphony and characters from the celebrated paltformer, and much DLC is connected the way.

Tamagotchi Plaza

A caller introduction successful the Tamagotchi Connections series, this volition fto you and your pals prosecute successful antithetic activites astir antithetic shops done cute minigames. Meet much Tamagotchi and turn your municipality connected June 27, 2025

Pokemon Legends Z-A

Still acceptable for sometime aboriginal successful 2025, Nintendo showed immoderate much gameplay of Pokemon Legends Z-A and its chaotic areas acceptable astir Lumiose City. New Pokemon won't conscionable look successful grassy areas, but astir rooftops and different parts of the metropolis too. Plus, we get a tease of the Z-A Royale, a tourney held astir Lumiose City wherever Trainers volition conflict for a privation granted.

Rhythm Heaven Groove

A caller introduction successful the classical Nintendo bushed bid is connected the mode with Rhythm Heaven Groove. Quirky challenges, amusive rhythmic activites, and its fantabulous creation each look acceptable to support the enactment going. The bushed kicks up with Rhythm Heaven Groove sometime successful 2026.

Virtual Game Cards connected Nintendo Switch

Nintendo is introducing a caller strategy for playing games, mimicking carnal crippled cards with thing called Virtual Game Cards. These volition fto you displacement games betwixt 2 Switch systems by virtually "ejecting" and "loading" games to each console, and let constricted lending betwixt members successful your NSO family. This diagnostic is planned to get successful precocious April.

Sizzle Reel

Several upcoming Switch games got a item successful the accustomed sizzle reel, locking successful immoderate dates and windows. These include:

• High connected Life - May 6
• Star Overdrive - April 10
• The Wandering Village - July 17
• King of Meat - 2025
• Lou's Lagoon Summer - 2025
• Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time - May 21, 2025

SaGa Frontier 2 Remastered

Another SaGa bid classical is getting an updated look with SaGa Frontier 2 Remastered. Featuring the archetypal communicative and brand-new events that grow the story, this picturesque instrumentality connected a classical arrives aboriginal contiguous connected Nintendo Switch.

Monument Valley 1, 2, and 3

Several classical puzzle games from mobile devices, Monument Valley 1 and 2 are acceptable to get you scratching your caput connected April 15, 2025. Also, Monument Valley 3 volition bring adjacent much gorgeous vistas and puzzles to Switch this summer.

Everybody Golf Hot Shots

A caller introduction successful the Everybody's Golf bid is teed up for the greenish connected Nintendo Switch. Tournaments, challenges, rivals, and much await, arsenic good arsenic immoderate of the sillier modes similar Wacky Golf. Everybody's Golf Hot Shots arrives sometime this year.

Marvel Cosmic Invasion

Marvel's finest bushed 'em up successful this throwback arcade-style brawler, Marvel Cosmic Invasion. Made by the aforesaid squad down Teenage Mutan Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge, you tin tally it solo oregon squad up with up to four-players section oregon co-op play. Fight for the destiny of the Marvel beingness this vacation season.

Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream

Tomodachi Life returns with Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream. The archetypal caller introduction successful implicit 10 years sees assorted Tomodachi surviving beingness retired astatine sea; getting married, dancing, fighting, smelling the flowers, and mostly hanging out. Plus, a weird imagination sequence? Look guardant to learning much astir that successful Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream successful 2026.

Nintendo Today

Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto took the signifier astatine the extremity to denote Nintendo Today, a caller app that volition present news, comics, and much for Nintendo fans. Miyamoto confirmed that aft the Switch 2 Direct adjacent week, much accusation astir the Switch 2 volition beryllium published connected the Today app, which goes unrecorded aboriginal today.

Nintendo Direct March 2025: All the Games and Announcements

There's inactive much successful store for adjacent week with the Switch 2-focused Direct connected April 2, but contiguous had a astonishing fig of games and announcements, for some this twelvemonth and the aboriginal of Switch. Here's everything announced:

• Dragon Quest I+II HD-2D Remake
• No Sleep For Kaname Date - From AI: The Somnium Files
• Raidou Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army
• Shadow Labyrinth
• Patapon 1+2 Replay
• Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar
• Metroid Prime 4: Beyond
• Disney Villains Cursed Cafe
• Witchbrook
• The Eternal Life of Goldman
• Gradius Origins
• Rift of the Necrodancer
• Tamagotchi Plaza
• Pokemon Legends Z-A
• Rhythm Heaven Groove
• Virtual Game Cards connected Nintendo Switch
• High connected Life
• Star Overdrive
• The Wandering Village
• King of Meat
• Lou's Lagoon Summer
• Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time
• SaGa Frontier 2 Remastered
• Monument Valley 1, 2, 3
• Everybody Golf Hot Shots
• Marvel Cosmic Invasion
• Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream
• Nintendo Today

Still looking for much Nintendo Switch games to capable up on? Check retired our database of upcoming Nintendo Switch games successful 2025 and beyond.

Eric is simply a freelance writer for IGN.