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The Nintendo Switch is going retired successful a blaze of glory, with immoderate breathtaking games launching to marque mode for the console's successor: the present officially announced Switch 2. Whether they’re exclusively developed for the Switch oregon ported implicit from different platforms, these upcoming Switch games volition wrapper up the Switch's last twelvemonth portion besides being compatible with the Switch 2 upon release.
In 2025, we'll hopefully beryllium getting our hands connected well-known in-development titles similar the caller Pokemon, arsenic good arsenic a big of caller games announced astatine the March Nintendo Direct. Whether you ain the archetypal Switch oregon are looking up to what volition merchandise connected the Switch 2, present are each the caller Switch games we tin look guardant to successful 2025 and beyond.
Take a look astatine our usher to all upcoming video games for merchandise dates connected each platform.
All Upcoming Switch Games With Release Dates
Star Overdrive (April 10, 2025)
Star Overdrive is an upcoming indie escapade crippled acceptable connected a distant alien planet. Fly astir connected your hoverboard portion conquering enemies and solving puzzles to effort and reunite with your mislaid love.
Monument Valley 1 + 2 (April 15, 2025)
A cherished introduction successful the satellite of puzzling games, the existing Monument Valley games (originally connected mobile) are coming to Nintendo Switch successful mid-April. Create paths and structures to research colorful environments successful 1 of the much stress-free games connected this list.
Rusty Rabbit (April 17, 2025)
Several years aft Nitroplus revealed Rusty Rabbit successful a conception trailer, the side-scrolling enactment platformer is yet coming to Switch. Play arsenic the middle-aged rabbit, Stamp, who has built his ain mech to traverse a post-apocalyptic frozen wasteland.
LUNAR Remastered Collection (April 18, 2025)
This remastered postulation brings the 2 archetypal Lunar JRPGs, LUNAR Silver Star Story and LUNAR 2 Eternal Blue, to modern consoles. The remasters travel with respective quality-of-life improvements, including enhanced graphics and some English and Japanese voice-acting.
Capcom Fighting Collection 2 (May 16, 2025)
That's right, it's different warring crippled collection. This time, Capcom is compiling games released betwixt 1998 and 2004, which is what immoderate would telephone a highest epoch for arcade fighting. This 2nd warring postulation includes some the English and Japanese versions of six games total, including Capcom vs. SnK and the Power Stone beat-em-up series.
Capcom Fighting Collection 2
Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time (May 21, 2025)
The highly-anticipated sequel to 2014's Fantasy Life yet has a merchandise date. This "slow-life" RPG combines escapade storylines with life-sim mechanics, allowing players to physique a beingness (and a city) connected a deserted land portion facing mysteries of the past. Explore randomized dungeons, power betwixt 14 antithetic "Jobs," and conscionable friends to assistance you successful your journey.
Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma (May 30, 2025)
The iconic RPG societal sim is back. As a almighty Earth Dancer, you indispensable question crossed the eastbound federation of Azuma to conflict monsters and reconstruct villages. The caller Rune Factory crippled looks similar it places a stronger accent connected enactment and anime-style quality designs, though improved Switch show with an all-new storyline volition hopefully people an betterment implicit Rune Factory 5. This is Rune Factory, truthful determination volition beryllium plentifulness of romance, present with afloat voiced "scenarios" and adjacent the quality to romance the unselected MC.
Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma - Earth Dancer Edition
RAIDOU Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army (June 19, 2025)
After a slayer tally successful 2024, with SMT V: Vengeance, Unicorn Overlord, and IGN's Game of the Year, Metaphor: Refantazio, developer Atlus is already connected to the adjacent thing. RAIDOU Remastered looks much similar a remake than a remaster to me, introducing caller graphics and prime of beingness improvements to the Shin Megami Tensei crippled that primitively released for PS2 successful 2006.
RAIDOU Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army
Tamagotchi Plaza (June 27, 2025)
A caller instalment successful the Tamagotchi Corner Shop bid (which I was personally obsessed with connected the DS), Tamagotchi Plaza puts you successful power of 12 antithetic shops successful Tahamiko Town. Complete minigames to service adorable Tamagotchi friends successful shops (including the dentist) to upgrade your municipality and physique relationships.
Patapon 1 + 2 Replay (July 11, 2025)
A large diagnostic of the astir caller Nintendo Direct was Bandai Namco announcing their restoration of older PlayStation IP. Patapon is 1 of those highlights, a bushed crippled that primitively released for PSP and has immoderate perfectly occurrence backtracks. You fundamentally consciousness similar you're helping marque a euphony video, each portion gathering up capable bushed to instrumentality down your enemies.
The Wandering Village (July 17, 2025)
The Wandering Village is simply a city-building crippled connected the move, tasking you with expanding your city's scope portion connected the backmost of a elephantine creature. As the carnal travels crossed assorted terrains, you indispensable support the radical of your colony portion forming a narration with the carnal itself.
Shadow Labyrinth (July 18, 2025)
This is technically a Pac-Man game. Yep, that's right. Bandai Namco is bringing the arcade icon to darker territory with the afloat crippled tied to the Pac-Man occurrence from Secret Level. As "The Swordsman", you are guided by an orb called Puck done a maze of monsters successful Shadow Labyrinth.
Tales of the Shire: A Lord of the Rings Game (July 29, 2025)
A cozy farming crippled acceptable successful The Shire is beauteous overmuch a lucifer made successful heaven. Tales of the Shire lets you make your ain hobbit during a clip of bid successful Middle-earth. Starting successful March 2025, you'll beryllium capable to indulge successful the eventual phantasy by spending your days cooking and eating delicious meals with your friends.
Gradius Origins (August 7, 2025)
Gradius Origins collects immoderate of M2's finest sprout 'em up games, including Gradius, Salamander, Life Force, Gradius II, Gradius III, Salamander 2, and introduces a caller game, Salamander 3, the archetypal caller introduction implicit a decade. Originally released arsenic an arcade game, Gradius has been ported to respective consoles implicit the years, including the NES.
Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar (August 27, 2025)
The latest Story of Seasons remaster was a astonishing one. Grand Bazaar (originally connected the DS) takes spot successful Zephyr Town, wherever you physique a farm, research for resources, and trade products you tin merchantability successful the titular play Bazaar. The Switch mentation of the crippled remasters the archetypal quality models and besides introduces 2 caller matrimony candidates.
Upcoming Switch Games With Unknown Release Dates
There are plentifulness much Nintendo Switch games successful improvement that don’t person a coagulated merchandise day yet. Here are immoderate much Switch games we cognize are connected the way:
- The Legend of Heroes: Trails successful the Sky Remake - Fall 2025
- Metroid Prime 4: Beyond – 2025
- Shovel Knight: Shovel of Hope DX - 2025
- Professor Layton and the New World of Steam – 2025
- Pokemon Legends: Z-A – 2025
- Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound - 2025
- Sonic Racing: Cross Worlds - 2025
- Mario Kart 9 - TBA
- Everybody's Golf: Hot Shots - 2025
- Witchbrook - Holiday 2025
- The Eternal Life of Goldman - Holiday 2025
- Marvel Cosmic Invasion - Holiday 2025
- Rhythm Heaven Groove - 2026
- Tamadotchi Life: Living the Dream - 2026
- Haunted Chocolatier - TBA
- Hollow Knight: Silksong – TBA
When Is the Nintendo Switch 2 Coming Out?
Over the past year, we’ve been proceeding rumors astir the Nintendo Switch successor regarding its appearance, merchandise date, and name. On January 16, Nintendo yet confirmed a decent chunk of these rumors with the authoritative announcement of the Switch 2. While the announcement trailer shows disconnected immoderate caller features (including what looks similar the imaginable to usage the Joy-Con arsenic a mouse), it doesn't supply immoderate penetration into specs oregon crippled launches. More authoritative info, including pricing and a merchandise date, volition get via a Nintendo Direct scheduled for April 2. Nintendo besides announced a caller app, Nintendo Life, wherever they volition beryllium delivering upcoming Nintendo quality straight to users.
What Games Will Launch connected the Switch 2?
One happening the trailer confirms is that the Switch 2 volition be, for the astir part, backward compatible, supporting some carnal and integer games from the archetypal Switch. Otherwise, it decidedly looks similar the trailer features a caller Mario Kart game, and plentifulness of leaks person suggested third-party games similar Square Enix's Final Fantasy 7 Remake volition beryllium ported onto the console. For much info, you tin cheque retired our database of games reportedly acceptable to merchandise connected the Switch 2.
Cristina Alexander is simply a freelance writer for IGN. She has contributed her enactment to assorted publications, including Digital Trends, TheGamer, Twinfinite, Mega Visions, and The Escapist. To paraphrase Calvin Harris, she wears her emotion for Sonic the Hedgehog connected her sleeve similar a large deal. Follow her connected Twitter @SonicPrincess15.
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Mar 28, 2025 7:14 pm
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