On 31st August, Nintendo released a Nindies Showcase Summer 2017, featuring indie games for Nintendo Switch that will be making an appearance at PAX West. The whopping 22-minute long video was released on YouTube, here’s a breakdown of what Nintendo revealed.
▍Super Meat Boy Forever
Super Meat Boy Forever is the sequel to the critically acclaimed Super Meat Boy.
Meat Boy and Bandage Girl have a little baby named Nugget. Dr. Fetus has kidnapped Nugget, forcing Meat Boy and Bandage Girl to rescue her. Levels are dynamically constructed based on difficulty. Each time you beat a level, it reconstructs into a harder version of itself (up to a certain point). The new game will have a new two button control, and players will be able to attack enemies.
Title: Super Meat Boy Forever
Release Date: 2018
Game Type: Action
Platform: Switch/iOS/Android/PC/PS4/Xbox
Price: TBD
Official Website
▍Shovel Knight: King of Cards
The final chapter to 2014’s Shovel Knight series. The game adds four new worlds and 30 different routes. The game is scheduled for release in 2018 on Nintendo Switch for USD9.99.
Title: Shovel Knight: King of Cards
Release Date: 2018
Game Type: Action
Platform: PS4/PS3/PS Vita/Xbox/Switch/Wii U
Price: 9.99USD
Official Website
▍Mom Hid My Game
A Nintendo Switch port of the mobile and 3DS title of the same name. Once again players will have to search for their beloved game that has been hidden by their mother!
Title: Mom Hid My Game
Release Date: Late 2017
Game Type: Puzzle Solving
Platform: Switch/3DS/iOS/Android
Price: 500JPY/Free
Official Website
▍Golf Story
Players play as a professional golfer, using your golf skills, you will have to solve puzzles from eight different stages, each with different puzzles, characters, and stories. Gold Story brings a new experience to Golf games.
Title: Golf Story
Release Date: Summer 2017
Game Type: Sports Simulation RPG
Platform: Switch
Price: TBA
Official Website
▍Floor Kids
Floor Kids is a game that revolves around street dancing. Players will be able to experience the game’s unique art style and original beats with the game’s unique controls that allow players to show off different dance moves in the game.
Title: Floor Kids
Release Date: Late 2017
Game Type: Rhythm Dance
Platform: Switch
Price: TBA
Official Website
▍Wulverblade
Wulverblade is a visceral, cinematic, side scrolling beatem-up, bringing a modern twist to the classic gameplay style of the 1990’s arcade scene. There’s no hand holding in Wulverblade, its straight into the action, old-school style.
Title: WULVERBLADE
Release Date: Sept/Oct 2017
Game Type: Action
Platform: Switch/PS4/Xbox/PC
Price: TBA
Official Website
▍Poly Bridge
Poly Bridge originally launched in 2016 for PC, followed by an iOS version.
Now the game moves to Nintendo Switch! The goal of the game is to build bridges strong enough to allow cars to get from one side to another. The interesting stages and physics settings of the game earned it a lot of positive reviews on Steam.
Title: Poly Bridge
Release Date: Late 2017 (Already Available on PC/iOS)
Game Type: Physics
Platform: Switch/PC/iOS
Price: TBA
Official Website
▍Earth Atlantis
Created by Bangkok, Thailand based developers, Earth Atlantis is a side-scrolling shooter with a retro art style. Players will have to explore ancient ruins and sunken cities whilst also hunting giant sea creatures.
Title: Earth Atlantis
Release Date: Fall 2017
Game Type: Side-scrolling Shooter
Platform: Switch/PC/PS4/Xbox
Price: TBA
Official Website
▍Next-Up Hero
Next Up Hero is a game that emphasizes multiplayer. Players can choose from nine heroes with an assortment of weapons and abilities, from swords and rocket launchers to AI laser turrets, bongo drums, and boomerangs. When a player dies they leave behind an echo. Other players can revive fallen heroes, or combine them to raise Ancients, an epic ally who can deal massive damage.
Title: Next-Up Hero
Release Date: Early 2018
Game Type: Action
Platform: Switch/PC/PS4/Xbox
Price: TBA
Official Website
▍SteamWorld Dig 2
Similar to its predecessor SteamWorld Dig on PC, 3DS, PS4, Wii U, and Xbox One, SteamWord Dig 2 is an action platformer that lets players explore a vast underground ruin through digging and upgrades.
Title: SteamWorld Dig 2
Release Date: 21st September 2017
Game Type: Action Adventure
Platform: Switch/PC/PS4
Price: 19.99USD
Official Website
▍Mulaka
Dive into northern Mexico’s breathtaking landscapes with Mulaka, a 3D action-adventure game based on the rich indigenous culture of the Tarahumara. Embark on the journey of a Sukurúame – a Tarahumara shaman – as you fight back the foulness corrupting the land, while drawing upon the powers of demigods.
Title: Mulaka
Release Date: 2018 (Already available on PC/PS4/Xbox)
Game Type: Action Adventure
Platform: Switch/PC/PS4/Xbox
Price: TBA
Official Website
▍Yono and the Celestial Elephants
Yono and the Celestial Elephant is a grand adventure, featuring carefully designed puzzles, treasure hunts, a sprinkling combat and a world full of people. Play as a young elephant tasked to save a world he’s never seen before, and explore the rich history of a kingdom where humans, zombies and robots live side by side.
Title: Yono and the Celestial Elephants
Release Date: 13th October 2017 Switch Exclusive, followed by PC Ver. 21st October 2017
Game Type: Adventure
Platform: Switch/PC
Price: TBA
Official Website
▍Dragon Marked For Death
Dragon Marked for Death is a 2D side-scrolling action game that supports up to 4 player co-op. Players can choose between 4 classes, each with a different role to play. The game is developed by Inti Creates, the creators of the Rockman Zero series.
Title: Dragon Marked For Death
Release Date: Winter 2017
Game Type: Action
Platform: Switch/3DS
Price: TBA
Official Website
▍Battle Chef Brigade
Battle Chef Brigade features fantasy chefs, including Orcs, Elves, and Humans, who need to hunt dangerous monsters for ingredients. With those ingredients, before the critical eye of the judges, the chefs create culinary masterpieces in an intense tournament. Battle Chef Brigade pairs one part combo-based action hunting and one part puzzle-based cooking, all as the round clock ticks down.
Title: Battle Chef Brigade
Release Date: Winter 2017
Game Type: Action 3-in-a-Row
Platform: Switch/PC/PS4
Price: TBA
Official Website
▍Morphies Law
Morphies Law is a robot morphology driven 3D shooter. The basic law of the game is simple: each weapon hit transfers mass from the victim’s damaged limb to the corresponding limb of the attacker. As an immediate consequence, skilled players become tall and easy to hit, whereas beginners shrink until they become difficult targets. Highly skilled players may, therefore, play with casual players in the same match and both can enjoy the Game. Your skill will not be expressed by your kill-death-ratio, but rather by your body size.
Title: Morphies Law
Release Date: Holiday 2017
Game Type: 3D Shooter
Platform: Switch/PC/PS4
Price: TBA
Official Website
▍Sausage Sports Club
Sausage Sports Club is a physics-sports game about adorable, floppy animals competing on a reality TV show! Duke it out with up to 8 friends in Free Play, where you’ll compete in tons of game modes like Soccer, Sumo and Capture the Flag. Tha game also features a replayable Adventure mode.
Title: Sausage Sports Club
Release Date: Fall 2017
Game Type: Action, Brawl
Platform: Switch/PC/PS4
Price: TBA
Official Website
▍Light Fingers
Light Fingers is a turn-based multiplayer game with real-time action and devious opportunities for misdirection in the pursuit of securing more loot than your opponents.
Title: Light Fingers
Release Date: Early 2018
Game Type: Turn-Based, Multiplayer, Table Top
Platform: Switch/PC/PS4
Price: TBA
Official Website
▍Nine Parchments
Nine Parchments is a Beat’em Up game which supports up to 4-player co-op. the game features a variety of different environments, enemies, puzzles and magic spells that players can unleash.
Title: Nine Parchments
Release Date: 2017
Game Type: Action, Adventure
Platform: Switch/PC/PS4/Xbox
Price: TBA
Official Website
▍Travis Strikes Again
Created by Japenese game creator Goichi Suda (a.k.a. Suda51), creator of the No More Heroes series. The new game will once again star Travis Touchdown, the video-game obsessed star of the No More Heroes series.
Title: Travis Strikes Again
Release Date: 2018
Game Type: Action
Platform: Switch
Price: TBA
Official Website
▍Worms W.M.D.
Technically not part of Nintendo’s PAX West announcement video, but Team 17 has announced that their iconic Worms W.M.D will be coming to switch in 2017. The game will come with additional contents.
Title: Worms W.M.D.
Release Date: 2017
Game Type: Turn-Based Tactics
Platform: Switch
Price: TBA
Official Website
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