The May edition of the Indie World Showcase unveiled a variety of titles that will be coming to the Nintendo Switch, which includes Omori, Opus: Echo of Starsong, Card Shark, A Guidebook of Babel, OneShot: World Machine Edition, Cursed to Golf, and more. In case you missed anything this morning, here is all the biggest announcement in the event.
▍Indie World Showcase May 2022 Live Stream Archive
Indie World Showcase May 2022 Announced Titles
▍Another Crab’s Treasure
Another Crab’s Treasure is a soul-like adventure set in a crumbling underwater world plagued by a mysterious curse. As Kril the hermit crab, you’ll need to wear the trash around you as shells to withstand attacks from enemies many times your size. Embark on an epic treasure hunt to buy back your repossessed shell, and discover the dark secrets behind the polluted ocean. Another Crab’s Treasure is sidestepping onto Nintendo Switch next year.
■ Another Crab’s Treasure Trailer
▍Gunbrella
Gunbrella is a noir-punk action-adventure set in a world dependent on a rapidly diminishing natural resource. Players take the role of a gruff woodsman on a quest for revenge, armed with the mysterious Gunbrella: a firearm that doubles as an umbrella. His investigation becomes entangled with the inner workings of ghouls and gangsters, cops and cut lists, and the fallout of corporate exploitation. Gunbrella launches on Nintendo Switch next year.
■ Gunbrella Trailer
▍Mini Motorways
In Mini Motorways, the city’s traffic problems are in your hands. Draw and build roads to create a bustling metropolis, redesigning your city to keep the traffic flowing while carefully managing upgrades, like highways and roundabouts, to meet changing demands. How long can you keep the cities of the world moving? Currently available now via the Nintendo eShop.
■ Mini Motoways Trailer
▍Ooblets
Ooblets is a farming, creature collection, and town life game where you build up your farm, befriend townsfolk, grow ooblets, and have dance-offs. Customize your character, befriend the locals, decorate your house, craft items, run your own shop, and have epic dance battles, as Ooblets waddles its way onto Nintendo Switch this summer!
▍ElecHead
ElecHead clever and challenging 2D puzzle platformer that will spark your imagination. You play as Elec, a small robot on a mission to bring backlight to the world. When Elec touches walls, floors, platforms, and switches, he activates them by making electricity run through them. Find a way out of this trap-ridden facility as ElecHead hits the Nintendo Switch this summer.
■ ElecHead Trailer
▍Soundfall
Soundfall is a fun blend of music-based rhythm gaming, dungeon crawler, and looter shooter action, guide your Guardian of Harmony solo or with up to 4 players! Time your actions to the music to increase your power, with more than 500 pieces of equipment for skill customization and thousands for loot combinations. Get your head boppin’ to Soundfall, available now on the Nintendo eShop.
■ Soundfall Trailer
▍OPUS: Echo of Starsong – Full Bloom Edition
Previously released on PC, OPUS: Echo of Starsong makes its way on the Nintendo Switch. Seek out elusive asteroids, engage with a colorful cast of characters and unravel the mystery of starsongs in this narrative puzzle game. Eda, a girl who can hear mysterious sound waves known as starsongs, crosses paths with a young man in search of their source.
■ OPUS: Echo of StarsongTrailer
▍Omori (Nintendo Switch Port)
Explore a strange world full of colorful friends and foes as you uncover a forgotten past that will determine your fate… as OMORI finally comes to the Nintendo Switch on June 17!
■ OMORI Trailer
▍Totally Accurate Battle Simulator
Be the leader of red and blue wobblers from ancient lands, spooky places, and fantasy worlds. Watch them fight in simulations made with the wobbliest physics system ever created. You can also send your wobblers to fight your friends or strangers in online multiplayer! Totally Accurate Battle Simulator wobbles its way onto Nintendo Switch this summer.
■ TABS Trailer
▍Gibbon: Beyond the Trees
Gibbon: Beyond the Trees is a hand-drawn adventure following a lost gibbon as they embark on a dangerous journey into unknown lands. Race to freedom in liberation mode, or play through an hour-long narrative that captures the real struggle of living creatures around the world. Currently available on the Nintendo eShop!
■ Gibbon: Beyond the Trees Trailer
What do you feel about this year’s Indie World Showcase? Let us know which games you expect the most on the Switch port!