Nintendo Download: 25th July (Europe)

The latest Nintendo Download update for Europe has arrived, and it's bringing new games galore to the eShop in your region. As always, be sure to drop a vote in our poll and comment down below with your potential picks for the week. Enjoy!

Switch Retail - New Releases

Fire Emblem: Three Houses (Nintendo, €59.99 / £49.99) - Three Houses takes place on Fódlan, where the Church of Seiros exercises great power over the land and its people. As the main character, you must not only fight on the battlefield, but also can move your character freely and interact with other characters to build relationships and gather information at some parts. This turn-based tactical RPG will put new strategic twists on battling, with formations of troops supporting individual units on the battlefield.

Songbird Symphony (Pqube, €14.99 / £13.99) - A heart-warming journey of discovery, as orphaned chick 'Birb' sets off to find his true origins. Follow this cheerful little bouncing bird who revels in singing, and guide him through this magical journey of stunning pixel art and gorgeous animation that shapes itself to your musical interactions!

KILL la KILL - IF (Pqube, €59.99 / £49.99) - From the makers of Dragonball FighterZ and writer of the anime, Kazuki Nakashima, comes “Kill la Kill The Game: IF”! Perform devastating combos, destroy your opponents, and relive the anime with your favourite scenes from the original series, revived with stunning visuals and cinematics!

Switch eShop - New Releases

Fire Emblem: Three Houses + Expansion Pass Set (Nintendo, €84.98 / £72.48) - This bundle includes the main title and the Expansion Pass Set. With the Expansion Pass, you will gain access to content, rolling out between launch and 30/04/2020

Rise: Race The Future (VD-DEV, €17.99 / £16.00) - Drift and slide like never before in an arcade rally game taken to the next level! RISE: Race The Future is a racing game set in a near future where a new kind of wheel technology will let you drift on all type of terrains and especially on water. - Read our Rise: Race The Future review

Automachef (Team17, €13.49 / £9.89) - Welcome to Automachef, a resource management puzzler where you design kitchens, program machinery and watch your genius come to life! Plan. Position. Program: Design and build automated restaurants, then program them to run like well-oiled machines! Do you have a can-do attitude and the know-how to conquer the world of automated restaurants? - Read our Automachef review

High Noon Revolver (Keybol Games, €2.59 / £2.29) - High Noon Revolver is a 2D Action Shooter; blast your way across 3 layers of platforming, collecting gold and obtaining upgrades helping you go from puny to powerhouse! Play as a cast of colourful characters, each with unique weapons and abilities (like Chickens with Shotguns and Robots with Swords!). Chase down and collect bounties on Wanted outlaws everywhere from Sunken Ships to Haunted Mansions!

Run the Fan (Silesia Games, €3.79 / £3.39) - Run the Fan is a unique game that requires strong strategic planning, as well as quick reflexes and precision. The game consists of over 50 boards, and your goal is the same on each of them: to switch on the fan. But to achieve that, you must do much more than just push the button!

Pawarumi (Manufacture 43, €14.99 / £13.49) - In a world where the Council rules the nations with an iron fist, you play as Axo, pilot of the legendary ship Chukaru. Experience her fight with the limitless armies of the Council, become the master of Chukaru’s power and find the true meaning behind all your actions. A dark secret is yet to be revealed! - Read our Pawarumi review

BATTLESHIP (Marmalade Game Studio, €19.99 / £19.99) - Call out your coordinates, fire your missiles and ... HIT! You sank my BATTLESHIP! Play a classic game of BATTLESHIP based on the popular Hasbro board game or bombard the enemy with airstrikes, mines and surgical strikes in the brand new Commanders mode. It takes a tactical commander to sink your opponent’s fleet before they find yours.

The Original Mobile Games (Second Avenue Learning, €1.99 / £1.79) - The Original Mobile Games collection puts 149 years of playable game history into the hands of game enthusiasts around the world! The game features playable digital reproductions of historic dexterity games and puzzles, complete with original art, photographs and background information for each game straight from the archives of the Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, NY

Animal Fight Club (Corvostudio di Amadei Marco, €3.99 / £3.99) - Invent new creatures by mixing real or legendary animals in thousands of possible combinations, create an army and get ready to fight!

Arcade Archives ROAD FIGHTER (HAMSTER, €6.99 / £6.29) - "ROAD FIGHTER" is a racing game released by KONAMI in 1984. Control your monster machine at speeds of up to 400 km/h, avoiding enemy cars and oil spills to finish all 6 stages faster than anyone else. If you start to swerve off-course, countersteer and use your driving techniques to power through it!

Collide-a-Ball 2 (STARSIGN, €4.99 / £4.49) - Roll the balls towards the goal. Use gimmicks and objects available in each stage to guide the balls to their goal! However, they have to reach the goal at the same time and crash into each other.

Divine Ascent (Timothee Paez, €4.99 / £4.49) - Ages ago, the gods contacted several civilizations all around the world. But since then, they remained silent. Now they need to hear our calls. Divine Ascent is a single and local-multiplayer strategy-puzzle game. The goal is to be the first to build towers and to reach their tops to place temples.

Fat City (Heavy Iron Studios, €9.99 / £8.99) - In this action-puzzler with 60 targets spread throughout the five boroughs of New York City, players will use their cunning and brainpower to plan raids and execute getaways to pull in the big bucks in the city that never sleeps.

Fantasy Strike (Sirlin Games, €32.99 / £28.99) - Fantasy Strike is a colourful fighting game where fantasy meets martial arts. It focuses on depth and strategy rather than difficult execution. It's designed for tournament play, but also to welcome you to the genre if you haven't played other fighting games before. Online play uses the excellent GGPO networking technology. Includes several single-player modes. - Read our Fantasy Strike review

Fobia (Eugene Lazebny, €9.99 / £8.99) - A little girl tries to escape from her fears overcoming various obstacles in her path. Fobia is a hard puzzle-platformer adventure game, where you will have an adventure in a mysterious world full of dangerous situations, enemies and challenging puzzles. Anything in the game can kill you. Everything is not what it seems.

Gunpowder on The Teeth: Arcade (Forever Entertainment, €4.49 / £4.04) - A platform game with simple intuitive controls, handy-dandy retro graphics and utterly egregious difficulty, ever-increasing as you progress through the game. You command a group of soldiers, charged with diverse equipment to attack the superior numbers of enemies, with the assistance of armoured vehicles and air forces. Your mission is to locate and to destroy different targets, and to evacuate military personnel at the end of the mission. There are 15 missions on 5 locations around the world, some bonus levels and battles against bosses.

Kiai Resonance (Timothee Paez, €4.99 / £4.49) - You take part in online or offline combats, as well as several challenges and mini-games to perfect your abilities. The player can change his katana position at any time to adjust to his opponent's, creating a mind game where you have to anticipate his next attack. You can choose to use motion controls as if the Joy-Con was the hilt of the ancient sword.

Mighty Switch Force! Collection (WayForward, €17.99 / £15.99) - Switch up the fun with four games in one! As cybernetic peacekeeper Officer Patricia Wagon, you'll use your platforming skills, puzzle-solving abilities, and special level-altering Siren Helmet to protect the people of Planet Land and smash enemies into the screen!

PICROSS LORD OF THE NAZARICK (JUPITER, €9.99 / £8.99) - A collaboration between Picross and Overlord. Experience the series Overlord as you solve Picross puzzles together with characters from the series. After founding the Sorcerer Kingdom, Ainz Ooal Gown and his followers meet within the Great Tomb of Nazarick to look back on their exploits. Awaken memories from 10 different characters as you solve Picross puzzles based on characters, monsters, and items from the story.

Raiden V: Director's Cut (UFO Interactive, €29.99 / £26.99) - Arcade hit Raiden first left its mark on the shooting genre 25 years ago. The easy to learn, hard to master series comes to the Nintendo Switch in its most modern and advanced form yet! Join the war for Earth’s future-where the tide of battle holds constant surprises.

Smoots Summer Games (JanduSoft, €8.99 / £8.09) - Get ready for Summer Games!! Play athletics events from your sofa. Prepare yourself for the next season. Smoot Summer Games is a sports arcade game for 1-4 players where you can play 18 athletics events. Play with your favourite Smoot character in practice, Special Challenge and Championship game modes. Smoots Summer Games is the perfect game to play with your friends and family.

Super Mega Baseball 2: Ultimate Edition (Metalhead Software, €26.49 / £23.89) - The critically acclaimed Super Mega Baseball series arrives in full force on the Nintendo Switch with Super Mega Baseball 2: Ultimate Edition. Accessible mechanics. Deep skill curve. Visceral pacing. Light-hearted vibe. Serious simulation. The Ultimate Edition on the Nintendo Switch includes the complete set of Super Mega Baseball 2 content, fully-featured online play, and runs at 60 fps in both docked and handheld modes.

TERRORHYTHM (TRRT) (Forever Entertainment, €8.99 / £8.09) - In the middle of the 25th century the world has plunged into the totalitarian system of sound isolation that made the world absolute muted. In the world where the silence is the only anthem, you should break the law to bring back the sound and the music to humanity. But while there are those who still remember the melody of the former life, hope remains.

The Drama Queen Murder (Ocean Media, €9.99 / £8.99) - There's been a murder in the world-famous Eastville Opera House, which is the hub of high society in Eastville. Everyone who's anyone is a regular visitor. But tonight it's the final curtain for someone... because Dolores Molinero, the Queen of Drama, has been cruelly murdered.

Woodle Tree 2: Deluxe (ChubbyPixel, €12.99 / £11.69) - This time a new menace is taking over the Wood Lands with a black substance that is absorbing life and energy from all living creatures! Will you be skilled enough to help Woodle in his quest to repel this enormous new evil force? Explore the wonderful lands and find a way to restore balance in this new Open World Platformer Adventure with RPG elements.

Zombie Driver Immortal Edition (EXOR Studios, €13.49 / £12.14) - Insane mix of cars, speed, explosions, blood, and zombies! Fight through an epic narrative campaign or test yourself in the Slaughter and Blood Race modes. Engage huge bosses, save survivors, drive crazy vehicles such as a bulldozer, fire truck or even a tank and smash everything in your way.

Wolfenstein: Youngblood Standard Edition (International Version) (Bethesda Softworks, €29.99 / £24.99) - Wolfenstein: Youngblood is the first modern co-op Wolfenstein adventure. Wolfenstein: Youngblood features the most open-ended Wolfenstein experience to date. From a new base of operations located deep in the heart of the Paris catacombs, plan how and when to attack and dismantle the Nazi regime.

Wolfenstein: Youngblood Deluxe Edition (International Version) (Bethesda Softworks, €39.99 / £34.99) The Deluxe Edition includes:- The Cyborg Skin Pack- The Buddy Pass, allowing you and a friend to play the entire game together, even if they don't own the game themselves. Note: Players need to have the Trial Edition to play the full game with the person they receive the Buddy Pass from. The Buddy Pass only works if both players have the same version, i.e. both international or both German.

Classic Games Collection Vol.1 (Baltoro Games, €3.49 / £3.14) - Welcome to the "Classic Games Collection Vol.1"! We have chosen the five most beloved puzzle games and bundled them together! You can play them either against the AI or against a friend (on the same console). Fill your tea breaks with some brain stimulation!

Garage Mechanic Simulator (Ultimate Games, €5.94 / £5.34) - Now you can own and operate your own auto repair service with Garage Mechanic Simulator. Garage Mechanic Simulator gives you the behind-the-scenes view of the daily dealings at local garages and dealership repair shops.

Hoggy2 (Ratalaika Games, €3.99 / £3.99) - The pink slime called Hoggy is back and a whole new wonderful adventure awaits. Except this time around, Hoggy isn’t on his own, as Hogatha is keen to join him and the two must work together to rescue their slime-mold children from the evil Moon Men that kidnapped them!

Seeders Puzzle Reboot (Bigosaur, €7.99 / £6.99) - Seeders Puzzle Reboot is a 2D puzzle-platformer with funky physics, tight and responsive controls, and really challenging puzzles. The game engine allows you to experiment with the world and try different approaches until you find one that works. Some of the puzzles can be solved in multiple different ways.

Sheep in Hell (EnjoyUp Games, €1.97 / £1.77) - You're a wolf and you've been bad. That's why you've been put in the deepness of a hell plagued with your most hated enemies: the sheep! But they're not normal sheep. No... They're possessed demonic sheep and won't hesitate to try to kill you! So run and defend yourself!

Tetsumo Party (Monster Couch, €4.99 / £4.49) - Riddle me this: what sumo, walls and dancing have in common? The answer is: all of these elements formed Tetsumo Party! Tetsumo Party is a game where sumo warriors gather to join an unconventional contest, inspired by Japanese TV shows. They need to fit into the funny-shaped holes in an approaching bamboo wall, otherwise… well, let’s say that it will result in rather ridiculous manner.

The House of Da Vinci (Blue Brain Games, €9.99 / £8.99) - Enter The House of Da Vinci, a new must-try 3D puzzle adventure game. Solve mechanical puzzles, discover hidden objects, escape from rooms and dive into the authentic atmosphere of the Renaissance. Use all your wits to find out what's behind your master's disappearance.

Titans Pinball (SuperPowerUpGames, €1.97 / £1.77) - Get ready for Titans Pinball, a pinball machine where you have to beat mythologic creatures. The cyclops, Medusa, The minotaur, and many more are waiting for you inside the temple. Discover all the secrets, including the minotaur's maze, a place where only the bravest warriors dare to enter and discover it's secrets.

Sweet Witches (Drageus Games, €4.99 / £4.49) - Play as the adorable witches Praline and Vanille who can only rely on their magic ladders, unique abilities and power-ups to claim the sweets they deserve! Brave the danger of 50+ levels in 5+ unique worlds all by yourself or in cooperation with another player. The party needs to grow?

3DS eShop - New Releases

Pinball Breaker 3 (nuGAME, €6.99 / £5.99) - Pinball Breaker 3 is a breakout game which combines the game mechanics of a traditional breakout game and a flipper game. Play through 15 exciting levels as you aim for a high score.

Switch eShop - Demos

Wolfenstein: Youngblood Trial Edition (International Version) (Bethesda Softworks, Free) - Wolfenstein: Youngblood is the first modern co-op Wolfenstein adventure. Wolfenstein: Youngblood features the most open-ended Wolfenstein experience to date. From a new base of operations located deep in the heart of the Paris catacombs, plan how and when to attack and dismantle the Nazi regime. Note: With this edition, you can try the first level of the game for free. Players require this edition to play the full game with the person they receive the Buddy Pass from.

KILL la KILL - IF Demo (Pqube, Free) - From the makers of Dragonball FighterZ and writer of the anime, Kazuki Nakashima, comes “Kill la Kill The Game: IF”! Perform devastating combos, destroy your opponents, and relive the anime with your favourite scenes from the original series, revived with stunning visuals and cinematics! Discover a brand new story through the eyes of Satsuki as she becomes the protagonist for the very first time!

Ape Out Demo (Devolver Digital, Free) - Ape Out is a wildly intense and colourfully stylized smash ‘em up about primal escape, rhythmic violence, and frenetic jazz. Build up nearly unstoppable momentum and use your captors as both weapons and shields to crush everyone on your procedurally generated path to freedom.

ONINAKI Demo (SQUARE ENIX, Free) - The new Action-RPG, ONINAKI tells the story of one Watcher on a journey to protect Life, after Death. ONINAKI features exciting hack and slash style battles, with deep customization of your daemons and weapons. Experience unique action gameplay combined with a deep and satisfying story.

Epic Astro Story Demo (Kairosoft, Free) - Ready to test your mettle against the final frontier? Pioneer an untamed planet, building roads and houses for your fellow denizens of the future. Cultivate your quaint colony into a stellar space citadel, and you'll pull alien tourists from everywhere this side of Alpha Centauri!

Invisiballs Demo (Digital Kingdom, Free) - Invisiballs is a competitive local multiplayer game for 2 to 4 players. Everyone controls an invisible ball inside a maze and must capture a golden artifact to win the game. Designed entirely around a new type of gameplay set in a minimalist universe, Invisiballs is simple with a deep learning curve. Nervous and precise, Invisiballs is for players who love to play competitive games with their friends.

Switch eShop - Pre-Orders

ONINAKI (SQUARE ENIX, €44.99 / £40.49, pre-order from 23/07/2019) - The new Action-RPG, ONINAKI tells the story of one Watcher on a journey to protect Life, after Death. ONINAKI features exciting hack and slash style battles, with deep customization of your daemons and weapons. Experience unique action gameplay combined with a deep and satisfying story.Bonus until 22/08/2019, 07:59 local time: Katana: Ouka-Setsugetsu

Super Jumpy Ball (Casual Games, €4.99 / £4.99, pre-order from 23/07/2019) - Super Jumpy Ball is a simple & fun 2D platform game for 1-8 players, inspired by retro platformers. Faced with clever level design and challenging obstacles, players must find their way through each level while bouncing, wall jumping, avoiding spikes and spike balls.

The Church in the Darkness (Fellow Traveller, €15.99 / £14.39, pre-order from 23/07/2019) - No one is forced to join a cult. It welcomes you. It understands you. It envelops you until the words become more than truth—they make you whole. In the late 1970s, the charismatic Isaac and Rebecca Walker lead the Collective Justice Mission. Labelled radicals and feeling persecuted by the US government, they relocate their followers to the one place they believe they can create a socialist utopia: the jungles of South America. There they build Freedom Town. But relatives left behind in the US become worried: what exactly is going on at this compound in the jungle?

Damsel (Screwtape Studios, €14.44 / £12.99, pre-order from 24/07/2019) - Cause distress in this fast-paced, challenging action platformer! Speed through dozens of missions as Special Agent Damsel, the first and last line of defence against the seedy world of corporate vampires. Rescue hostages, disarm bombs, hack servers and dispatch the undead with precision, speed, and style. Balance frenetic action with split-second choices, and pay attention, you never know where the next vamp will come from.

Cryogear (PolarityFlow, €17.49 / £15.79, pre-order from 25/07/2019) - Cryogear is a unique Metroidvania inspired Pixel Art platformer, set in an open sci-fi world and driven by rewarded exploration. Control the reprogrammed clone G.3.4.R as he discovers the world, learns new abilities and unveils the mystery of the Emperor AI.

Doughlings: Invasion (HERO CONCEPT, €8.99 / £8.09, pre-order from 25/07/2019) - Another tribute paid to yet another arcade classic from the Hero Concept team! Doughlings: Invasion promises a fun gaming experience to gamers of all ages with the innovations it brings to the shooting genre.

Illusion of L'Phalcia (KEMCO, €11.69 / £10.52, pre-order from 25/07/2019) - The Sword of Amal, a legendary treasure said to grant any wish. Ryser is travelling around the world as a seeker with his buddy, Cougar, from the Leopard clan, in search of this artifact of legend. Their journey will lead them into fateful encounters with both allies and rivals only to find a mysterious truth awaiting at the end of their adventure.

Rogue Singularity (Nnooo, €14.99 / £13.49, pre-order from 25/07/2019) - Survive the destruction of the galaxy in this fast-paced race through space! A supermassive black hole is tearing the cosmos apart, and one plucky little robot has to race across the shattered fragments of countless worlds, into the heart of the rogue singularity itself!

Solo: Islands of the Heart (Merge Games, €15.99 / £11.99, pre-order from 25/07/2019) - Love is a universal feeling, but each of us experiences it in a different way. Solo: Islands of the Heart explores the theme of love in an introspective way, allowing players to identify and reflect on their own experiences. The world is divided into archipelagos, with each island representing a unique puzzle. Solving puzzles will award the player with a Sleeping Totem, awakening them to answer a question about love and relationships.

Subdivision Infinity DX (Blowfish Studios, €10.39 / £9.59, pre-order from 25/07/2019) - Step into the cockpit of an intergalactic fighter and explore the great expanses of outer space. With more than 30 engaging story missions and side-quests spanning several star systems, Subdivision Infinity is an action-packed journey brimming with dogfights, boss battles, and more set against the stunning wild outer reaches of the cosmos.

Swaps and Traps (Drageus Games, €4.49 / £4.04 for owners of Robonauts, Jumping Joe & Friends, Escape Doodland, or Geki Yaba Runner Anniversary Edition, pre-order from 25/07/2019) - Mike is a decent man. An ordinary one, you might say. But he is no pushover when it comes to capturing the enchanted hat from his nemesis, Divider.

Pillars of Eternity: Complete Edition (Versus Evil, €39.99 / £35.99, pre-order from 26/07/2019) - Take your party on the ultimate role-playing experience, Pillars of Eternity finally comes to Nintendo Switch! Created by the masters at Obsidian Entertainment, Pillars of Eternity released to critical acclaim and dozens of awards on PC. Now the fantastical world, tactical combat, and unforgettable storyline can be taken anywhere you go.

Welcome to Hanwell (SteelArtsSoftware, €13.89 / £12.49, pre-order from 26/07/2019) - Hanwell, once a safe haven from the horrors of the world, now a cesspit of anomalous scum. Explore a dense open world of terror, every building a unique location with its own story to tell. Using efficient, state of the art compression techniques we've managed to squeeze Welcome to Hanwell into a tiny 3GB install for Nintendo Switch with no perceivable loss in visual quality!

Switch eShop - Special Offers

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DLC / Add-On Content

Nintendo Switch

• Fire Emblem: Three Houses Expansion Pass (Nintendo) - €24.99 / £22.49
• Rocket League® - Knight Rider Car Pack (Psyonix) - €1.68 / £1.50
• SENRAN KAGURA Peach Ball - Busty Special DLC Set (Marvelous Europe) - €14.99 / £13.49
• SENRAN KAGURA Peach Ball - Outfit Sextet 1 (Marvelous Europe) - €9.99 / £8.99
• SENRAN KAGURA Peach Ball - Outfit Sextet 2 (Marvelous Europe) - €9.99 / £8.99
• Gems of War - Various (505 Games) - from £4.49 to €49.99 / £44.99
  
• Block-a-Pix Deluxe: Extra Puzzles Pack 5 (Lightwood Games) - €2.99 / £2.99
  
• Nelke & the Legendary Alchemists ~Ateliers of the New World~ -Extra stories (KOEI TECMO EUROPE) - €9.99 / £7.99
• Dragon Quest Builders 2 - Hotto Stuff Pack (Nintendo) - €5.99 / £5.39
  
• Dragon Quest Builders 2 - Knickknack Pack (Nintendo) - Free
• Super Neptunia RPG - Noire Swimsuit Outfit (Reef Entertainment) - €0.99 / £0.89
• Super Neptunia RPG - Sentai Brave Ranger Outfit [Brave Black] (Reef Entertainment) - €0.99 / £0.89
• Super Neptunia RPG - Swimsuit Outfit Bundle (Reef Entertainment) - €4.99 / £4.49
• Super Neptunia RPG - Sentai Brave Ranger Outfit Bundle (Reef Entertainment) - €4.99 / £4.49

So that's your lot for this week's Nintendo Download. Go on, be a sport and drop a vote in the poll above, and comment below with your hot picks!