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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 eShop - New Releases

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX (£49.99 / €59.99) What if you woke up one day, and you were a Pokémon? You can meet and recruit Pokémon in a dungeon-crawling adventure within their world! Build a rescue team to take on mysterious, changing dungeons and strategically plan your moves as you venture forth to make the Pokémon world a safer place…and uncover your true purpose along the way. Read our Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX review.

Switch eShop - New Releases

Afterparty (£14.39 / €15.99) - In Afterparty, you are Milo and Lola, recently deceased best buds who suddenly find themselves staring down an eternity in Hell. But there’s a loophole: outdrink Satan and he’ll grant you re-entry to Earth. Control Milo and Lola with an intelligent conversation system that changes the story and your relationships based on every decision. Uncover their personality quirks and foggy history during the wild events of the night.

Amoeba Battle - Microscopic RTS Action (Grab, 3rd Mar, £13.49 / €14.99) - Unlike other RTS games, there are no bases to build - new amoebas are created through the miracle of binary fission! First, though, your amoebas must forage for food in the beautiful yet alien environments that make up their world. Once well-fed, these amoebas can replicate into two identical amoebas of the same type, doubling your army with a press of a button! But multiplying amoebas won't always be enough. You will need to introduce mutations to evolve your weaker amoebas into stronger species. Experiment with different amoeba combinations to field a diverse force that can face any threat!

AvoCuddle (Ultimate Games, 2nd Mar, £10.52 / €11.69) - AvoRa and Avoln live on AvoPlanet, a peaceful garden planet. They love each other, but sometimes they argue or do stupid things that hurt. The game starts with a peaceful view of the world breaks when we see the two Avos angry at each other. AvoRa walks stomps away to be alone – and very sad. Then AvoLn unfortunately gets kidnapped by a stranger in spaceship where AvoRa starts his journey to search and free his true love.

Baron: Fur Is Gonna Fly (Dogmelon Games, 4th Mar, £18 / €20) - In the world of Baron, the Great War rages on. Aircraft are new, exciting machines that defy gravity! Those who fly them -- those brave animals -- are daring, flamboyant, and impossibly glamorous. Choose your creature, and take to the sky in your trusty biplane to join intense battles against other pilots. Up to 8 players can battle either all-on-all or in teams. Arm your aircraft to the teeth with wonderful wacky weapons that include Giant Anvils, Freeze Rays, or the ever-popular Banana Peel!

Bleed Complete Bundle (Digerati, 5th Mar, £3.77 / €4.19) - This bundle contains Bleed and Bleed 2. A double-dose of the indie smash hit action-platformer series in one super stylish bullet-dodging bundle. Help pink-haired heroine Wryn defeat a relentless barrage of baddies and bosses and be the Greatest Hero of All Time! Both games feature Arcade mode (try and beat the game with just one life! ) and couch-friendly 2-player local co-op.

Breeder Homegrown: Director's Cut (£3.81 / €4.24) - Breeder Homegrown is a short horror game about a family dealing with a strange creature over several generations. You will encounter some puzzles but the game relies mostly on atmosphere, music and dialogues. The whole experience takes about 40-90 minutes depending on how much you want to explore. This is the «Director's Cut» version of Breeder Homegrown. Dialogues have been streamlined, some issues have been fixed and if you look close enough, you might find some new little surprises.

Darts (Sabec, 5th Mar, £8.09 / €8.99) - Pick up your darts and take a shot in this incredibly realistic fun and easy to play darts simulation game, anytime and anywhere! Darts is based on the classic 501 dart game, starting with a score of 501 your goal is to 0 with the minimum number of dart throws and just like the classic game you can score doubles and triples. There are 15 rounds and in each round, you throw 3 darts, the player to either reach 0 or has the lowest score wins the game. Play against a friend or play against the computer’s smart artificial intelligence (AI) player, either way, winning won’t come easy. Customise your dart board and darts with over 100 different combinations to choose from.

Dude, Stop (SIA Team HalfBeard, 5th Mar, £12.99 / €12.99) - Play it, break it, abuse it, skip the tutorial, ignore tips and tricks in the loading menu and - most importantly! - mute the narrator. For example, stop reading this paragraph and skip to the next one. You're still reading. Still looking here. Annnd. . . done. You've broken your first rule and annoyed us a little bit. And didn't even buy the game yet! Wow, you're talented. Have you considered quitting your job and doing this fulltime?

I am Ball (ManolidisAimilios, 4th Mar, £4.49 / €4.99) - Never stop bouncing! I am Ball is a challenging, minimalistic puzzle platformer with an emphasis on precise controls and exploration. You control an always bouncing ball. Direct its bounce height and horizontal movement and navigate levels one screen at a time. Never stop exploring! Find awesome new ball materials and gain game-changing powers! Explore nine different levels and show your ultimate skills by getting all 30 collectables!

ibb & obb (Sparpweed, 5th Mar, £13.49 / €14.99) - ibb & obb is a two-player cooperative game set in a puzzle filled world where gravity goes both up and down. You can only succeed by working closely together. Find a friend for some true local cooperative couch fun or match up online. Fall up and jump down through 15 levels filled with double gravity puzzles and discover 8 hidden worlds that will test your new non-Newtonian skills to the maximum.

Kairobotica (Kairosoft, 5th Mar, £11.69 / €13) - In a galaxy not so far away, miscreants and monsters are wreaking havoc, and it's up to everyone's favourite mechanical mascot to dole out a heaping helping of bot-kicking justice! And he's bringing an army of his Kairobotic brethren to do it. In this new spacefaring sim, you command the Kairobot Corps, a state-of-the-art brigade of mass-produced guardians of galactic peace. Heed calls for help to patrol planets and vanquish villains to build your reputation as the most elite interstellar security force this side of the Andromeda!

Lost Horizon (Koch Media, 5th Mar, £5.39 / €5.99) - It's the year 1936: When former British soldier and failed smuggler Fenton Paddock sets out to find his lost friend in the Himalayas, little does he suspect that this adventure will lead him across three continents to an ancient mystery that could turn the world upside down. A mystery that the Nazis are also deeply interested in, sending expeditions to the most remote corners of the Earth to hunt for occult artefacts in aid of their maniacal plans for world domination.

Murder by Numbers (The Irregular Corporation, 5th Mar, £10.79 / €11.24) Los Angeles, 1996. Honor Mizrahi was just an actress on a hit TV detective show. But when her boss ends up dead just minutes after he fires her, she finds herself starring in her own murder mystery.

Save Koch (£14.39 / €15.99) - In Save Koch you play mafia Godfather, who is basically besieged inside his own panic room. Danger-danger! Someone in the Сity decided to take your place, and there is a sleeper “mole” inside your Family, who is acting as we speak. Time is running out, you have only six days to solve the plot, resolve who is standing behind this conspiracy, resolve the problem and send the challenger to feed the fish. Each new game session of Save Koch is played in a completely different manner.

Swordbreaker The Game (£4.49 / €4.99) - Make crucial decisions that will lead your path to glorious or fatal outcomes. . . illustrated by over 300 beautiful images. You are an adventurer brought by fate to an abandoned castle. You only have your favourite sword and the remains of an old armour with an unusual device - a sword-breaker. Step in and try to overcome the obstacles and foes that stand between you and the treasure you’re hunting. In this interactive fiction, you take every action and decision. How your story unfolds and ends is entirely up to you. Some moves can change your karma and others may lead to the darkest corners of the castle. . . it is strongly advised to choose your next step carefully, as it might also be your last!

Syrup and The Ultimate Sweet (Ratalaika Games, 4th Mar, £3.99 / €3.99) In a magical town there lives a candy alchemist, Syrup, who one day discovers a candy golem in her basement. Where did she come from? Who could've made her? Go find out!

The Story Goes On (Scarecrow Arts, 2nd Mar, £5 / €5) - You are the hero inside the storybook of an obsessed author pondering with his life’s work. Explore repeating worlds, befriend a talking scarecrow and swing your sword really fast, while uncovering the true, overarching adventure within. Every item is designed to shift the way you play: from standard buffs to combat enhancements to new ways of traversing puzzles, items are made to work together and grant the player cool item combinations every time they play.

Unlock The King (QUByte Interactive, 5th Mar, £0.89 / €0.99) - Move the pieces and create a path to Unlock the King. Features: 100 hand-crafted levels with increasing complexity. Originally designed concept, including electronic board, lightning-fast piece movements, trigger buttons and movable parts; Extremely easy to learn and complex to master; Original Soundtrack composed to help you focus and relax while solving the puzzles; A fun puzzle game now available to everyone (even to those who never played chess);

Wunderling (Retroid Interactive, 5th Mar, £13.99 / €14.99) - In Wunderling, a retro video game henchman (the title character) is revived and given the power to jump by its master – the evil sorceress Kohlrabi. Seeking to tighten her hold on the Vegetable Kingdom and defeat its hero (the Carrot Man), she tasks the Wunderling with protecting her prisoner – the lovely Princess Pea. Unable to stop or change direction at will, planning ahead becomes a must. The Wunderling’s special abilities will be essential to navigating the game’s lengthy scrolling levels!

Switch eShop - Demos

Explosive Jake (Demo)

Switch eShop Special Offers

Title

Discount

Until

Football Manager 2020 Touch
(SEGA)

25% off

09/03/2020, 23:59 local time

Koloro
(QubicGames)

90% off

29/03/2020, 23:59 local time

Warlocks 2: God Slayers
(QubicGames)

94% off

29/03/2020, 23:59 local time

Mana Spark
(QubicGames)

90% off

29/03/2020, 23:59 local time

Super Hero Fight Club: Reloaded
(QubicGames)

90% off

29/03/2020, 23:59 local time

Unit 4
(Qubic Games)

90% off

29/03/2020, 23:59 local time

BRAWL
(QubicGames)

90% off

29/03/2020, 23:59 local time

One Strike
(QubicGames)

80% off

29/03/2020, 23:59 local time

Blazing Beaks
(QubicGames)

85% off

29/03/2020, 23:59 local time

Akane
(QubicGames)

80% off

29/03/2020, 23:59 local time

Rocket League
(Psyonix)

50% off

18/03/2020, 23:59 local time

Resident Evil 5
(CAPCOM)

33% off

26/03/2020, 23:59 local time

Resident Evil 6
(CAPCOM)

33% off

26/03/2020, 23:59 local time

KILL la KILL - IF
(Pqube)

33% off

19/03/2020, 23:59 local time

Celeste
(Matt Makes Games)

66% off

12/03/2020, 23:59 local time

TowerFall
(Matt Makes Games Inc.)

66% off

12/03/2020, 23:59 local time

Submerged
(Uppercut Games)

80% off

15/03/2020, 23:59 local time


DLC / Add-On Content

Nintendo Switch

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