December2023
Soapbox Cassette Beasts Is The Monster-Catching RPG For A Disillusioned Pokémon Fan
"We’re all in the same ship..."
Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they've been chewing over. Today, in a year where Pokémon has let her down, another monster-catching game was there for Alana. Beware of story spoilers if you haven't played the game yet...
November2023
News Cosy Creature-Collector 'Moonstone Island' Brings Retro Zelda Vibes To Switch Next Spring
No (minish) cap
Publisher Raw Fury popped up in today's Indie World Showcase to give an update on the gorgeous creature-collecting deckbuilder, Moonstone Island, which we now know will be flying onto Switch in Spring 2024. Aside from the pull of the retro Zelda-style visuals, this game seems to have a little bit of something for everyone. This life...
Exclusive Gorgeous New 'Snufkin: Melody Of Moominvalley' Trailer Confirms Switch Release
Coming next year, we speak to developer Hyper Games
First revealed in March last year, at the time we hoped that the nebulous phrase "PC and consoles" included our favourite Nintendo system, and today we can exclusively confirm that, yes, musical adventure Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley is coming to Switch in Q1 2024 (alongside all those other...
October2023
News Kingdom Eighties Gives Micro-Strategy A Nostalgic Twist On Switch This Month
Release date beams into view
Raw Fury has revealed that summer is definitely not over, as Kingdom Eighties: Summer of Greed is launching on the Switch eShop on 16th October 2023. The popular micro-strategy series has shifted away from the medieval landscapes of previous titles and swapped it for the hazy summer of the 1980s. Stuffed full of...
September2023
News Creature-Collecting RPG Cassette Beasts Catches First Major DLC Next Month
And it's looking spooooky
Developer Bytten Studio and publisher Raw Fury have today announced that the Pokémon-style RPG Cassette Beasts will be pressing play on its first major DLC next month as 'Pier of the Unknown' comes to Switch on 4th October. With the perfect vibes for the season, this DLC package looks set to walk a little on the spooky...
April2023
News Cassette Beasts Mixes Lovely Pixel Art And Creature Catching On Switch In May
Hit play in May
Bytten Studios and Raw Fury have announced that the Pokémon-inspired monster-fusing RPG Cassette Beasts is coming to consoles, including Switch, on 25th May. You've only got a month to wait until you can get funky with some unusual, adorable pixel art creatures. The game is out today on PC via Steam and the Microsoft Store, and the...
Exclusive Mr. Sun's Hatbox Is A Hilarious Roguelite About Stealing Hats
Out later this month on Switch
Mr. Sun's Hatbox is a brand-new roguelike that's all about stealing hats and getting the job done. Announced last year for PC and consoles, we can exclusively reveal that the game will also be coming to Switch, and you don't have long to wait to become a bonnet burglar, as the game launches on 20th April. Developed by...
March2023
News Kingdom Eighties Beams Neon Nostalgia And Micro-Strategy Onto Switch This Year
Confirmed for consoles
Kingdom Eighties: Summer of Greed is the newest entry in the Kingdom micro-strategy series. Teased last year, publisher Raw Fury has now revealed that the game will be coming to consoles — including Switch — sometime in 2023. Developed by Fury Studios, Kingdom Eighties is a fair bit different from other games in the...
December2022
News Battle, Tame, And Collect Spirits In Beautiful Minish Cap-Like 'Moonstone Island'
Spirited Away
Raw Fury has shared a brand new trailer for the stunning-looking Minish-Cap-meets-Stardew-Valley deckbuilder Moonstone Island, showcasing one of the game's key mechanics that sets it apart from other farming sims and deckbuilders — spirit taming! Now, what's your spirit animal? A cat? A tortoise? How about a sentient cup of coffee,...
June2022
Exclusive Zelda-Meets-Stardew In 'Moonstone Island', The Game That Has It All
Farming, Fighting, And Fishbo
Disclosure notice: In the time since the publication of this article, Nintendo Life staffer Kate Gray has contributed writing to Moonstone Island. She has had no involvement in our coverage since joining the project, and we won't be reviewing the game. Moonstone Island is one of the games we're most excited about this...
May2022
News Raw Fury's Next Entry In The 'Kingdom' Series Is "A Love Letter" To The Eighties
No platforms announced yet
Publisher Raw Fury and developer Fury Studios have announced the next entry in the Kingdom series, but with a very different vibe. Kingdom Eighties will still be a strategy game like its predecessors, but instead, the game shuns the Medieval aesthetic for something a bit closer to home — the 1980s. The teaser doesn't...
March2022
News Pokémon And Digimon-Inspired 'Cassette Beasts' Gets A Cosy New Trailer
Gotta mix 'em all
Bytten Studio's upcoming open-world monster collector Cassette Beasts is shaping up to be a record-scratcher when it eventually comes out. Today, publisher Raw Fury has shared a brand new trailer that showcases the cosy, comfortable world of New Wirral. This turn-based RPG has the look and feel of Pokémon, but with the ability to...
October2021
News Digimon, Eat Your Heart Out: Monster-Fusing RPG Cassette Beasts Is Coming To Switch
Erase and rewind
Pixel art game fans, still thy heart: Cassette Beasts is coming to you from a team who've worked on Starbound, Wargroove, and Stardew Valley. Pokémon and Digimon fans, still thy heart as well, because Cassette Beasts is all about catching, training, collecting and fusing monsters together to create unique, powerful creatures to...
News Point-And-Click Adventure Kathy Rain Heading To Switch This Month
"Director's Cut" adds new content
Publisher Raw Fury and developer Clifftop Games have announced that Kathy Rain, an adventure point-and-click about a woman (Kathy) studying journalism in the '90s, and investigating the strange and sudden death of her grandfather, is coming to the Nintendo Switch later this month. What's more, it'll be the...
August2021
Round Up All The Switch News From The Indie Houses Direct
New DLC, new games, and more!
The Indie Houses Direct just finished airing, bringing together seven different indie publishers (Akupara Games, Fellow Traveller, Neon Doctrine, Raw Fury, Those Awesome Guys, Toge Productions, and Whitethorn Games) to share their bounty of game news over the course of an hour. "When indie games succeed, video games...
News Indie Publishers Team Up To Run Their Own Direct Showcase
Everyone gets a Direct!
Nintendo really hit on something big with its Directs, a showcase intended to bypass the usual way of announcing games at big conferences like E3, and now everyone wants a slice of that pie. Following in Nintendo's successful footsteps, we've seen multiple studios and groups do it themselves, from the Wholesome Direct and the...
May2021
News Raw Fury's Xbox Release Call Of The Sea Has Been Rated For Nintendo Switch
Is an announcement near?
The Xbox, Game Pass and Windows game Call of the Sea is coming to the Nintendo Switch, according to a new rating in Taiwan. It was also confirmed for a PlayStation release in the month of April. This adventure puzzle story is Out of the Blue's debut title - a Spanish studio comprised of a small group of veteran developers...
April2021
News Star Renegades Special Editions Up For Grabs On Switch
5000 copies in total
Star Renegades was rather highly regarded when it arrived on Switch eShop in late 2020; it's a stylish game with its own unique take on the roguelike turn-based battle genre. We were pretty glowing in our review, describing it as "a title that absolutely belongs in your Switch library". For big fans of the game the good news is...
News Kingdom Two Crowns To Expand Co-Op In Free 'Never Alone' Update
Also adds the 'Trade Routes' challenge
Kingdom Two Crowns is a title that's continued to grow and improve since its Nintendo Switch release back in late 2018; we thought it was rather good in our original review. The latest changes will come in the free Never Alone update, which is due to roll out on Switch and other platforms on 20th April. The...
March2021
News Townscaper Is An Idyllic Toy-Like Game That'll Melt All Your Worries Away
Also, several hours of your life
As the top Steam review of town-building toy Townscaper says, "bloop bloop game make depression go away". Indie developer Oskar Stålberg first made Townscaper as an experimental thing, which he showed off on his Twitter as he added new features. Its instantly likeable style and the clever design made it a hit,...
June2020
News Developer Of Turn-Based Monochrome Mech Mash-Up Wolfstride Wants To Bring It To Switch
"A fully caffeinated turn-based mech combat RPG"
Brazilian studio Ota Imon recently lifted the lid on its turn-based mech RPG Wolfstride, a Japan-influenced genre mash-up that sports a "hyper-stylized black and white aesthetic." Taking on the role of former Yakuza Dominique Shade, your goal is to come top in Rain City's lucrative world of mech...
News "Hard As Heck" Roguelite Star Renegades Brings Turn-Based Combat To Switch This Year
From Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander developer Massive Damage Games
Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander developer Massive Damage Games has just shown off a new animated trailer for its "hard-as-heck roguelite" Star Renegades, which is headed to Nintendo Switch this year, with Raw Fury handling publishing duties. Described as a turn-based strategy title...
News West Of Dead Brings More Twin-Stick Shooter Action To Switch This August
Step into the boots of a dead man
The upcoming "grim and gritty" twin-stick shooter West of Dead appears to have locked in a release date for Switch. According to the publisher Raw Fury, it's arriving this August - although Nintendo of America's YouTube page narrows down the eShop release date to 5th August. You'll take control of the dead man...
April2020
News The Next Update For Kingdom Two Crowns Is A Bloodstained Crossover Event
Discover the Dead Lands on 28th April
Raw Fury - the creator of Kingdom Two Crowns - has announced it's rolling out a free update that will add a Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night themed crossover event to the game. It's officially titled 'Kingdom Two Crowns: Dead Lands' and will become available on the Switch, Xbox One, PS4, and PC on 28th April...
November2019
News West Of Dead Is Bringing The One And Only Ron Perlman To Your Switch
Be quick or be dead
Raw Fury's West of Dead got announced last night during Microsoft's X019 event, but guess what – it's coming to Switch too. A twin-stick shooter set in a procedurally-generated, monster-filled version of the Wild West, West of Dead showcases the vocal talents of Ron Perlman, who is perhaps most famous for playing the lead...
