If you're are recovered from last night's Nintendo Labo hype, you'll notice that there's another fun packed European Nintendo Download to enjoy! This week's haul brings in plenty of new titles to choose from, including two versions of the gory Darkest Dungeon, the light-hearted puzzling of Tales Of A Tiny Planet and the blob-based RPG world of Ambition Of The Slimes. So break out your bank card and prepare to give your balance and good battering with these top new releases and deals...
Switch eShop
Darkest Dungeon (Red Hook Studios, €21.99/£17.99) - Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes through twisted forests, forgotten warrens, ruined crypts, and beyond.
Darkest Dungeon: Ancestral Edition (Red Hook Studios, €30.99/£25.99) - The Ancestral Edition includes the Darkest Dungeon core game plus the following content packs: The Crimson Court and The Shieldbreaker.
Tales Of A Tiny Planet (Joindots, €19.99/£17.99) - Tales of the Tiny Planet tells the story of a Planet searching through the galaxies for his lost friends. You have the ability to manipulate the world elements to guide him safely through the galaxies in this Physics-Puzzle-Adventure. Will the missing planet be behind the next portal? Find out, Beat the high-score or compete with your friends in this new Physics-Puzzle!
ACA NEOGEO POWER SPIKES II (HAMSTER, €6.99/£6.29) - Power Spikes II features its own Hyper Mode where the world's strongest eight teams compete along with the World Men's and World Women's teams in this futuristic fighting volleyball. In Hyper Mode, commands for special serves and spikes can be input for an intense battle.
Ambition Of The Slimes (Flyhigh Works, €5.00/£4.99) - Slimes are surprisingly versatile - they can use magic, they can multiply, they can use special abilities...but no matter how capable they are, unfortunately, they usually end up bashed into a mush, sometimes not even by the protagonist of the game but by a village commoner! Don't miss our review.
Oh... Sir! The Hollywood Roast (Gambitious, €3.49/£2.99) - The boys are back , and they look better than ever! Oh…Sir! The Hollywood Roast is a brand new spin-off to the surprise indie hi, Oh…Sir! The Insult Simulator. This time around we’re taking tinsel town down a few notches, whilst classing up the joint.
Oh... Sir! The Insult Simulator (Gambitious, €2.29/£1.99) - It does exactly what it says on the tin. Take on AI, players in local multiplayer or strangers online in this insult flinging comedy roast simulator.
Qbik (Forever Entertainment, €4.99/£4.04 - €4.49/£3.00 until February 1 if you own Sparkle 2 EVO, Violett or Frederic) - Enter the world of Qbik and explore a square land full of brainteasers, puzzles, and riddles – traverse all 63 levels and discover the origin story of this square little fella!
Rally Racers (System 3, €9.99/£8.99) - Wacky cartoon racing at its best, Rally Racers is an action packed family racing game that’s fast and furious fun for all.
World To The West (Rain Games, €19.99/£17.99) - A teleportation-mishap, a broken contract, a mysterious tree and a foolhardy expedition set the stage for our four heroes. Follow Lumina, Teri, Knaus and Clonington on a rip-roaring adventure full of twists and turns through the World to the West! Here's our review.
Baseball Riot (10tons, €4.99/£4.49) - Available 19th January. Help Gabe Carpaccio take vengeance on the unholy alliance of his former team and a corrupt energy drink manufacturer Explodz Inc.!
BRAWL (QubicGames, €9.99/£8.99) - Available 19th January. Step into the darkness of The Emporium with 8 unique characters, each with a rich back story and a surprising plot-twist.
Nuclien (SPRINGLOADED, €3.49/£2.99) - Available 19th January. Count as fast as you can in this mind-splitting game that forces you to locate numbers as fast as possible, and flip your perspective backwards and forwards at an almost impossible rate!
Vesta (FinalBoss Games, €14.99/£13.49 - €12.74/£11.46 until 26th January) - Available 19th January. Join Vesta as she explores various environments over 36 levels full of obstacles and enemy robots. She'll need her brains and DROID's power to traverse this varied landscape, properly manage the little energy left in the complex, solve the numerous puzzles she finds in her path, and even fight to survive.
ChromaGun (Pixel Maniacs - £19.99). Available 22nd January. In this love letter to the Portal series, use a paint-throwing gun to solve environmental puzzles and explore myriad test chambers on your Switch.
Arcade Archives DOUBLE DRAGON (HAMSTER, €6.99/£6.29) - Players can change various game settings such as game difficulty, and also reproduce the atmosphere of arcade display settings at that time. Players can also compete against each other from all over the world with their high scores.
Demos
Death Squared: The Employee Evaluation | Demo (SMG Studio) - Free
League Of Evil Demo (Ratalaika Games, Free) - Use your acrobatic skills to punch your way through levels filled with deadly traps and defeat your enemies. The world is counting on you!
DLC
Stern Pinball Arcade: Limited Edition Add-on Pack 1 (FarSight Studios, €8.48)
This add-on pack includes the pinball tables: AC/DC Back in Black Limited Edition, AC/DC Let There Be Rock Limited Edition and Star Trek Enterprise Limited Edition
Stern Pinball Arcade: Limited Edition Add-on Pack 2 (FarSight Studios, €8.48)
This add-on pack includes the pinball tables: Mustang Limited Edition “50 Years” and Ghostbusters Limited Edition
LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2 - Champions Character Pack (WB Games, €1.99)
Ms. Marvel! Nova! Miles Morales! This generation’s greatest Super Heroes unite with other young heroes from around the world to form The Champions! If you download, you can play as: Ironheart, Devil Dinosaur, Moon Girl, Viv Vision & Sparky, Amadeus Cho, Nadia Pym Wasp, Kate Bishop and Nova.
Chess Ultra: Pantheon Game Pack (Ripstone Publishing, €5.99)
This pack features a Roman temple where Imperial Roman soldiers clash on a stone checkerboard. Chess is a battle, and what better chess pieces to do battle with than the Imperial Roman army!
Darkest Dungeon: The Crimson Court (Red Hook Studios, €8.99)
Darkest Dungeon: The Crimson Court is the first expansion for the grim and gothic RPG by Red Hook Studios. Crimson Court is a parallel campaign experienced alongside the main Darkest Dungeon content that will provide you with new challenges and variation at every difficulty level.
Darkest Dungeon: The Shieldbreaker (Red Hook Studios, €3.49)
The Shieldbreaker is a powerful ally in the fight to reclaim the Estate and banish the evil that squats in the Darkest Dungeon. A highly-tactical and solid damage dealing hero, she truly excels when countering monsters with high protection and those who guard their allies.
Pic-a-Pix Deluxe - Classic 01 (Lightwood Games, €2.99)
An additional pack of classic black-and-white puzzles in various sizes.
Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Expansion Pass (Nintendo)
New contents for owners of the Season pass are now available! Details about individual elements of the Expansion Pass will be released in the future.
Quests:
- Passion of the Artisan
- M.I.A. Nopon
- Industrial Sort of Tour
- Midnight Feasting
- The Lone Watchman
Helpful items:
- Driver Essentials Set 2: Rare Core Crystal x10, Legendary Core Cystal
- x1, Overdrive Protocol x1
- Tora's Favourite Thing: Juicy Samod x3
- Poppi α's Favourite Thing: Fizz Juice x3
- Charming Driver Gear: Auto-Balancer x1
3DS eShop
Picross e8 (JUPITER, €5.00)
The 8th game in the Picross e series! It retains all the functions of Picross e7, with all-new puzzles. Enjoy Picross in a comfortable play environment refined from all the previous series.
Raining Coins (Crazysoft, €3.99/£3.59)
The skies have opened up but it’s not raining cats and dogs! It’s raining gold coins! Help poor Eve catch the gold coins and buy the toys she loves. Super addictive family game fun for kids, teenagers and grownups. New 3DS only.
Link-a-Pix Color (Lightwood Games, €7.99)
Link-a-Pix is a clue-linking puzzle where every grid has a picture hidden inside. The aim is to reveal the picture by painting paths to link the clues.
That's everything for this week - let us know what you'll be downloading in the comments below.
Comments 50
Nothing really interesting me this time.
Nothing interesting enough.
Darkest Dungeon: Ancestral Edition is tempting.
I downloaded Darkest Dungeon. I decided to go with the main game and download DLC afterwards if I really want it. Next week I'll be getting Celeste. I was also looking forwards to Gal Metal which is coming on February on Japanese eShop but I saw the price and it's 40€. A bit too steep for an instant buy. I will wait a bit to see if it has enough content and if others like it.
Might have to get the Xenoblade DLC... Other than that, nothing terribly interesting.
This list is incomplete (and man, that was a lot of ads).
I finally picked up Rune Factory 4 (50% off). Have been waiting for a discount on this for a while, now.
Sorry to nitpick, but a typo by the third word of the article isn’t a great start. Also, what’s with the underwhelming sub heading?
Wow this list is really incomplete. Return to PopoloCrois is at £8.99 at the moment.
A new Picross?? YAY!
Darkest Dungeon. Then I also download Xenoblade content.
Wow, do you even check your copy before posting?
"If you're are"
"balance and good battering"
I completely ignored your content because of your pitiful grammar or lack thereof.
Oxenfree is 75% off (€5 in EU store)! Picking that up for sure. I wonder if it sold poorly for it to drop so drastically.
No new games for me this week, but Celeste is releasing next week and that looks great and full of charm!
Might get Darkest Dungeon when it’s on sale, but currently playing Thumper and it’s scratching that difficult-game itch nicely. What a must-have title.
Can we have Thomas back?
Agreed about the typos. They don't normally bother me, it happens but nearly every single article has them recently, sometimes several per article. I find it really off putting.
10 ads before I get to the comments too, never seen that amount before.
Here’s the complete list (without prices):
http://www.nintendo.co.uk/News/2018/January/Weekly-download-news-1329087.html
@Sinton Thanks Sinton. I have been wanting to pick Rune Factory 4 also and this sale has made gone and pick it up.
Nintendo have been making a balls of their Press Releases for the last lengthy period of time. No mention of discounts and Wii U completely shunned.
@SLIGEACH_EIRE as far as Nintendo is probably concerned, the Wii U is done. All we see is a few Konami/Hudson VC Games here n there....which to me don’t even make much sense as Konami should be putting them on the Switch instead or at least alongside the Wii U’s releases they’ve done thus far.
No sales?
This copy and paste is a bit disappointing. Preferred the older approach to these articles that had some context and independent content.
Yes, I'm am recovered.
Also: Poll? UK prices? Sales? Not just copying and pasting a press release?
A lot of rubbish this week....and many recent weeks!
According to Nintendo.co.uk, Tales of the Tiny Planet is also a Retail release. Does NintendoLife no longer split that stuff out?
@OorWullie Oh Boy. Complaining about typos, but calling them "typo's"?
@gaga64 It's been on retail shelves ever since November.
The darkest dungeon was high on my lost until I realized that you can buy heroes and dlc for real money. The game is expensive enough on it's own. Waiting for a discount.
@KeeperBvK I'm not sure which retail shelves you're talking about, but I don't think they're in this universe.
@KeeperBvK Interesting. The point really was that NL used to list “Retail Downloads” and “eshop only Downloads” separately, but now they don’t bother - though Nintendo’s own site still does.
@KeeperBvK Yep, my bad. It's not a word that I've ever written much as I'm normally not one to complain about such minor things, unlike yourself. I'm not a professional writer though so I can get away with it.
Actually, I'm surprised I've not seen you on here more recently what with the large Increase in typos we've had.
Sloppy article still with the grammar error in the first line and so full of adverts, after every ten lines of text it seems. Shows site staff don't read the comments any longer.
There are better sites to get your Nintendo fix.
@DavidH Are there?
The comment section really has taken a nose dive the last year or so, more so than the articles. I’m sure the staff is working as hard as they can, it’s not as if they’re busy counting the billions of dollars they get paid for giving us these news segments.
This site is going down the pan fast; typos in almost every article, even in some headlines, authors never check comments anymore (or at least never fix their mistakes), articles about absolutely nothing (Nintendo's 2018/19 typo, oh the irony), more and more ads as time goes on, etc. Ryan, Shiryu and Mitch seem to be the only ones keeping this site ticking over.
What's that you say? Oxenfree on Switch for only £3.99? A massive 75% saving? Oh, wait a minute you didn't mention it...
Since NintendoLife can't even be bothered to add special offers to downloads releases anymore, 'ill just post which games are on offer here.
Special offers
Aqua Moto Racing 3D (Nintendo 3DS)
Beach Buggy Racing (Nintendo Switch)
Bleed (Nintendo Switch)
BOX UP (Wii U)
Breakout Defense 2 (New Nintendo 3DS)
COLOR BOMBS (Wii U)
The Coma: Recut (Nintendo Switch)
Corpse Party (Nintendo 3DS)
Crimsonland (Nintendo Switch)
DON'T CRASH GO (New Nintendo 3DS)
Exile's End (Wii U)
FOUR BOMBS (New Nintendo 3DS)
GALAXY BLASTER (Wii U)
Grand Prix Rock 'N Racing (Wii U)
Job the Leprechaun (Wii U)
Lord of Magna: Maiden Heaven (Nintendo 3DS)
Oxenfree (Nintendo Switch)
PENTAPUZZLE (Wii U)
PINK DOT BLUE DOT (New Nintendo 3DS)
PIXEL SLIME U (Wii U)
Qbik (Nintendo Switch)
Portal Knights (Nintendo Switch)
REPTILIAN REBELLION (Wii U)
Return to PopoloCrois: A STORY OF SEASONS Fairytale (Nintendo 3DS)
Riptide GP: Renegade (Nintendo Switch)
Rune Factory 4 (Nintendo 3DS)
SENRAN KAGURA 2: Deep Crimson (Nintendo 3DS)
SENRAN KAGURA Burst (Nintendo 3DS)
SHOOTY SPACE (Wii U)
Spelunker Party! (Nintendo Switch)
Spheroids (Wii U)
SUPER ROBO MOUSE (Wii U)
SWIPE (New Nintendo 3DS)
TABLE TENNIS INFINITY (New Nintendo 3DS)
Tachyon Project (Wii U)
TAP TAP ARCADE (Wii U)
TAP TAP ARCADE 2 (Wii U)
TOUCH SELECTIONS (Wii U)
Transcripted (Nintendo Switch)
Vesta (Nintendo Switch)
VoxelMaker (Wii U)
VoxelMaker (Nintendo 3DS)
@Sinton Yup, GoNintendo, NintendoEverything. They are also fair quicker at posting news.
Thanks for that link to offers btw.
It was much better before when the weekly download articles were more detailed and well written.
Thanks for sharing the discounts @YamAsereht
I’m also not one to usually complain about such things but I have noticed significantly more typos recently.
Wow! Return to PopoloCrois is so worth that price! Get it!
Double Dragon for me, plus any Switch demos (I grab them all) and if these comments about OxenFree being reduced are correct. I'll def bite as that one has been on the wish list for a while. I did notice it had a been on sale for 5 dollars in the US store and was hoping we'd get offered the same in the U.K. eShop. Time to boot up Switch and see.
Quite interested in Vesta and World To The West but would like to read reviews on them first.
@YamAsereht Those are good, but yet you seldom see any of their articles get more than 10 comments (I’d guess 0 is the most frequent number), and here I am, adding comment number 41 to this particular article. I wonder why that is.
I'm reading that Xenoblade pass stuff... the quests are new, but weren't the items already released some time ago? Or is this an entirely new set of items?
Does the Wii U not get anything anymore? If so, when was the last game and what was it?
@Moon 2 Wii U eshop games last week: Breakout Defense 2 and Jolt Fanily Robot Racer.
But before that, all we got in December was discounts and some TurboGrafx VC games (all but 1 of which were already on the Wii Shop).
October and November continued a slow trickle of 2 new eshop games a month.
It’s not dead yet, but can’t be long left for this world.
@gaga64 Poor poor Wii U.
Thanks for the comment.
@YamAsereht Cheers, I’m going to give them a try
Picross~
Grabbing that~
Well I guess I'll have to get a European Nintendo account to grab that Death Squared demo.
So in short I can't even trust the download-lists on this site anymore. Pathetic!
The only thing they seem to care about nowadays is making Amazon-money!
Why are these Nintendo downloads news posts so poorly written these days? No mention of discounts of the week and no more voting for what is the user interested in.
Please get your act together, this has been for years the top Nintendo news site in internet. It would be a shame that after a few good guys leave the staff, everything goes downwards after that.
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