January2023
News Trek To Yomi, The Monochrome Love Letter To Samurai Films, Out On Switch Next Week
A samurai surprise
Devolver Digital has announced that it's bringing last year's stunning-looking action game Trek to Yomi to Switch next week. On 30th January, you'll be able to experience this gorgeous monochrome side-scroller in the palm of your hand. Heavily inspired by classic Japanese samurai films, particularly those from legendary director...
News Cult Of The Lamb's Latest Update Adds "Massive Quality Of Life Improvements"
Rename your cult, perform mass blessings and more!
At the very end of last year, the Cult of the Lamb developed mentioned how there was more content planned for 2023. It's now kicked off the new year with a "massive" quality of life update - allowing plkayers to perform mass blessings, auto cook and fish, rebind controls and even rename their cult...
News Return To Monkey Island Sets Sail For Physical Release
Pre-orders open this month
It has been a good few months now since the release of Return to Monkey Island, but many of the team here at Nintendo Life are still having a blast with it! After becoming the fastest-selling game in the series, there was the question of what is next for the comeback title? The answer: a physical release (of course)...
December2022
News Cult Of The Lamb To Receive Free "Major Content Update" In 2023
"It will add features many of you have requested"
One of the surprise indie hits of 2022 was Cult of the Lamb - a fresh take on the roguelite genre mixed with a "creepy but cute" aesthetic. If you haven't tried out this game yet, now might be the perfect time. The developer Massive Monster has announced it will be releasing a "major" content update...
November2022
News Dark & Disturbing Indie Hit 'Inscryption' Scores A Physical Switch Release
Pre-orders open December 1st
One of the many highlights at this week's Indie World was the "dark and disturbing" deckbuilding roguelike Inscryption. If you were hoping to display this one on your shelf, you're in luck - with publisher Devolver Digital announcing there'll be a hard copy of the game for the Nintendo Switch. It'll be handled by...
News Pepper Grinder Is The Unofficial Drill Dozer Sequel We've Been Dreaming Of
Dig in
Trust Devolver Digital to deliver something pretty unusual — and fun-looking. One of the surprise announcements from today's Indie World Showcase was Pepper Grinder, a fantastic-looking pixel art sidescroller from developer Ahr Ech. And our little Game Boy Advance hearts were beating when we saw just how Pepper, the shipwrecked,...
News Critically Acclaimed 'Inscryption' Draws December Release Date On Switch
Card'nt wait
Update [Wed 9th Nov, 2022 18:00 GMT]: After appearing on the PEGI website last month, hinting at its eventual Switch release, today's Indie World Showcase not only confirmed that Inscryption is coming to the Switch, but that it will be released on 1st December, 2022. The psychological horror-inflected roguelike deckbuilder appeared in...
October2022
News Cult Of The Lamb To Sacrifice Us To The Blood Moon In New Halloween Event
Starting today
Video games are embracing the spook, but one indie darling that doesn't need to go out of its way to do that just for Halloween is Massive Monster's Cult of the Lamb. But it's doing it anyway! Today, 24th October, the Blood Moon Festival kicks off. This is a brand new, limited-time event where you get a brand new ritual, new base...
News Milestone A-hoy! Return To Monkey Island Becomes Fastest Selling Game In The Series
Confirmed by Stan
What grew from many years in waiting has become a stellar opening month for Return to Monkey Island. We loved the game (our glowing 9/10 review proves it), and it looks as if we were not alone in our admiration as Devolver Digital has announced that Guybrush Ulysses Threepwood's wonderful return has become the fastest selling game...
September2022
Round Up The Reviews Are In For Return To Monkey Island
Here's what the critics had to say
September has been filled with all sorts of announcements, and there have even been new games released like Splatoon 3. To celebrate 'Talk Like A Pirate Day' one other title that's now available on the Nintendo Switch is Return to Monkey Island. Yes, this the next big entry in the Monkey Island point-and-click...
News Praise The One Who Waits For This 'Cult Of The Lamb' Vinyl, Pre-Orders Open Today
Cult-ure shock
Those of you with a good enough memory to recall anything before yesterday's Nintendo Direct announcements (were there even games back then?) might remember the release of the creepy life-sim-come-cult-builder, Cult of the Lamb. Well, we had a great time with it — as seen in our 8/10 review — and now those of you who had a blast...
August2022
News Cult Of The Lamb Version 1.0.3 Live For Switch, Here Are The Full Patch Notes
Fixes softlock and temple issues
We think Cult of the Lamb is pretty darn good, but if there's one issue we highlighted with the cult-forming roguelike, it's the game's various performance bugs. Fortunately, we haven't had to wait long for a patch that will fix these issues, and the developer has shared what to expect in version 1.0.3. Sharing...
News Return To Monkey Island Gets A Release Date And A Horse Armour Pre-Order Bonus
P-arrrr-ty time
The long-anticipated next entry to Monkey Island series, cleverly named Return to Monkey Island, has just been provided with a release date and brand new trailer at Gamescom 2022 Opening Night Live. Excitingly for fans of the classic point-and-click adventure series, the game is landing on Switch less than a month from now, on 19th...
News Cult Of The Lamb Shepherds In 1 Million Sales In Just One Week
Slaughtering the competition
Cult of the Lamb, the cute but evil Animal Crossing cult simulator, seems to be slaughtering the competition on the scene right now. Publisher Devolver Digital has bleated about the game's success today, revealing that Massive Monster's not-so-cuddly (or maybe very cuddly, depending on what your tolerance for sheep...
Lamb do the slaughter
Devolver Digital's latest game in their stables of gory, bizarre, and irreverent releases is Massive Monster's Cult of the Lamb, a game so perfectly-pitched to the Devolver crowd that it's hard to believe it wasn't an in-house project. It's a cult simulator, but with cute li'l woodland animals instead of bloodthirsty...
July2022
News Learn How To Run Your Own Successful Murder Cult In New 'Cult Of The Lamb' Trailer
SHUN the non-believers!
One of the games we're most excited about this summer is Cult of the Lamb, a gory-cute simulator that's a bit like if Animal Crossing went totally off the rails, and was about forest critter Satanists instead of forest critter capitalists. Ahead of the game's August 11th release date, a new trailer has just gone live,...
June2022
Random Devolver 'Invents' Tom Clancy's Animal Crossing, And Now We Need It
Okay, we're in
Trust Devolver Digital to give us a very unique showcase. The publisher hosted its annual Digital Showcase yesterday, which gave us a few fun announcements — including James Turner's adorable-looking new game. But what people remember from Devolver Digital is its ridiculous tongue-in-cheek presentations which do everything from...
News Former Pokémon Art Director Reveals 'Plucky Squire', The First Game From His New Studio
A new 2D & 3D storybook adventure
Yesterday, Pokémon artist James Turner - known in recent times as the art director of Pokémon Sword & Shield - announced he had moved on from Game Freak to form a brand new game studio with his old friend (@onebitbeyond), known as All Possible Futures. Turner at the time teased the studio'
April2022
Random Devolver Cheekily Prods Sega Over Sonic Origins Pre-Orders
To promote Trek to Yomi
Ahhh, you can always count on Devolver Digital to take the bull by the horns and have fun with any kind of situation. And this time, Sega is the butt of the joke. Earlier this week, Sega's long-awaiting Sonic compilation, Sonic Origins, got an official release date of 23rd June after a few days of leaks. And while some...
February2022
News Devolver Nails Down Launch Window For Cutesy Blood Sacrifice Game, 'Cult Of The Lamb'
Shun the non-believer! Shhhhhunnnn
Haven't you always wanted to run a cult with adorable forest animals? Of course you have! It's number one on most people's wishlists! Thanks to Devolver (who else, really), Cult of the Lamb will be welcoming you into its fold "soon", although we don't have a release date yet. Here's the game spiel: Cult of the...
October2021
News Devolver Digital Is Bringing The Indie Gem Death's Door To Switch Next Month
From the creator of Titan Souls
At Sony's State of Play livestream today, the focus was on third-party and indie offerings. While it was a PlayStation event, some of the announcements were for other platforms, too. As highlighted by our colleagues over at PushSquare, the highly-rated fantasy action-adventure
August2021
News Loop Hero Is A Timeloop Game, Looping Its Way To Switch Later This Year
Loop de loop
Pixel art, timeloops, and the ability to make the screen look like a CRT monitor: these are all excellent reasons to enjoy things, and Loop Hero has all three. Set in a world where everything has been forgotten, and almost all is lost, players will be cursed to walk around a procedurally-generated loop, which fills with monsters as the...
June2021
News Hotline Miami Appears To Be Getting Another Physical Run On Switch
The super brutal collection is back
In August 2019, the super brutal Hotline Miami Collection got a bit of a surprise release on the Nintendo Switch. Special Reserve Games followed this up with a two-in-one physical release in 2020. If you didn't manage to get hold of a hard copy last year, the good news is there'll soon be a more widely available...
News Wizard With A Gun Brings Online Co-Op Sandbox Survival Action To Switch In 2022
Embark on a magical journey alone or with friends
Devolver Digital held another absolutely crazy E3 presentation this year. In between all of the skits, was a handful of video game announcements. Some of them were even for the Nintendo Switch. Apart from Demon Throttle one of the other surprises was Galvanic Games' Wizard with a Gun. It's described...
News Devolver Digital Is Publishing A Physical-Only Nintendo Switch Game
Update: And pre-orders are now live
Update (Sun 13th Jun, 2021 07:15 BST): During Devolver Digital's E3 broadcast, it gave fans a proper look at Demon Throttle - a physical-only release coming to the Nintendo Switch in 2022. Here's a bit about it, along with a first look. "Demon Throttle tells the story of a beautiful vampiress and dusty...
