The latest Nintendo Download update for North America 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!
Nintendo Switch
Battle Worlds: Kronos (THQ Nordic, Tue 11th June, $29.99) Battle Worlds: Kronos is a turn-based strategy game deeply rooted in the hexagonal tradition of the genre. The planet is once again torn by war, for the succession of a new emperor. Its destiny is in your hands!
Switch eShop
Slay the Spire (Humble Bundle, Today, $24.99) We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Arcade Archives ALPINE SKI (HAMSTER, Thu 30th May, $7.99) ALPINE SKI is an arcade sports game released by Taito in 1982. Hit the silver slopes and glide across 3 different stages!
Artifact Adventure Gaiden Dx (room6, Today, $9.99) The music and the color - The brand new 8-bit style "adventure" and "story" is here.
Bullet Battle: Evolution (TROOOZE, Today, $14.99) Team up with friends (or even your enemies! ), strategize and defeat your foes in this top-tier multiplayer TPS.
Car Mayhem (Sabec, Wed 5th June, $9.99) Car Mayhem is a collection of three fun-packed car games. Pursuit: Race around the city collecting coins to unlock new cars while being chased by the cops, but be careful if the cops catch up they will smash into you and explode.
Desktop Baseball (SAT-BOX, Fri 31st May, $7.29) Watch as your desk transforms into a baseball stadium! Come for the simple controls, stay for the deep strategy. Customize your team down to the uniforms, bats, and pitches and then aim for the big leagues!
Dyna Bomb (7 Raven Studios, Thu 30th May, $5.99) Experience the manic arcade action as you dodge enemies, fling bombs and grab the treasure - before making a mad dash for the exit. Do you have the skills to find the secret levels?
Fat City (Heavy Iron Studios, Today, $9.99) In this action-puzzler with 60 targets spread throughout the five boroughs of New York City, players will use their cunning and brain power to plan raids and execute getaways to pull in the big bucks in the city that never sleeps.
Geki Yaba Runner Anniversary Edition (QubicGames, Fri 31st May, $2.99) Run like there's gnome tomorrow! Join Bumb, Berzerk, and Speedster as they run, jump, fly, glide and break their way through the magical lands of Gnomia to reach their mysterious destiny.
Hue (Curve Digital, Today, $9.99) In Hue you explore a dangerous grey land, unearthing colored fragments on a journey to find your missing mother. As obstacles match the background, they disappear, creating new and exciting puzzles - full of peril, mystery… and colors unseen. Read our Hue review.
Legend of the Tetrarchs (KEMCO, Today, $14.99) The holy sword that sealed away an ominous power has been drawn out and darkness starts to spill out across the land, mutating people into monsters. The four Tetrarch heroes of ancient times will meet a new band of brave warriors to slash through the darkness with the light of courage!
Neon Junctions (Ratalaika Games, Fri 7th June, $4.99) Neon Junctions is a First Person Puzzle-Platformer imbued with atmosphere of synthwave and 80s.
Phantom Doctrine (Forever Entertainment, Today, $17.99) Phantom Doctrine is a strategic turn-based espionage thriller set at the peak of the Cold War. Drawing on a wide variety of influences and capturing the subtle intrigue of classic spy films, the game thrust the player into a mysterious world of covert operations, counterintelligence, conspiracy, and paranoia.
Pico Park (TECOPARK, Sat 8th June, $4.99) PICO PARK is very flexible because every level adjusts to the total number of players. So you can play with as many friends as you like.
Refunct (Dominique Grieshofer, Fri 7th June, $2.99) Platforming: Wall-jumps, slides, pipes, lifts, springboards.
Season Match 2 (Joindots, Thu 30th May, $9.99) The fairytale kingdom has been seized by Prince January. All the castles are trapped in ice and snow. The little dwellers of the kingdom butterflies, bees, ladybirds, dragonflies feel cold, and severe winter gives them nothing but hard frost.
She and the Light Bearer (Toge Productions, Today, $9.99) Follow the Journey of the Little Firefly to seek The Mother deep inside the heart of the unknown forest! Though, this journey won't be easy for such a bug. The Little Firefly has to earn the forest trust and prove their worth by solving riddles, challenges, and puzzles.
Summer Sports Games (Joindots, Today, $24.99) Be a champion! Prove your athletic skills and challenge your friends in twelve exciting disciplines! Master the athletic competition with intuitive and realistic movements. Who will finish on the podium?
Super Skelemania (Hidden Trap, Today, $4.99) Dive into Super Skelemania, a single-sitting Metroidvania about an acrobatic skeleton. Jump over a pit of thorns, roll your skull like a bowling ball, or headbutt a spider like any good skeleton would!
The Savior's Gang (Tue 4th June, $4.99) The player will have to guide his faithful through several dangers that could damage them in the most possible grotesque and cruel ways.
The Sushi Spinnery (Kairosoft, Today, $12.00) Expand your menu along with your conveyor belt by designing original creations to complement more classic fare. But it takes more than fine food to win customers over. Show your creative flair not only in sushi but in your business model by offering amenities ranging from salad bars to sumo rings.
Toon War (Lemondo Games, Thu 30th May, $4.99) Toon War is a twin-stick shooter game with colorful and vivid graphics. Your mission is to liberate peaceful villages from evil forces, eliminate enemies and win over dangerous bosses.
Warlocks 2: God Slayers (Fat Dog Games, Fri 7th June, $17.99) In God Slayers you take on the role of one of the members of The Order of Warlocks. This time around you’ll have to face a much bigger threat, than in the original game.
Word Wheel by POWGI (Lightwood Games, Today, $7.99) The classic word wheel puzzle goes digital! Find as many words as you can from the letters shown, always using the middle letter! There are 100 puzzles to solve and 100 groan-worthy jokes to reveal! Up to four can play! Connect extra controllers to solve the puzzle as a team, or see who can find the most words.
Nintendo eShop Sales
Check out the full list of deals available this week here.
So that's your lot for this week's North American Nintendo Download. Go on, be a sport and drop a vote in the poll above, and comment below with your hot picks!
Comments 29
I ordered Persona Q2 on 3DS and it should be arriving today. I thought I was done buying 3DS games after WarioWare Gold, but I figured I’d participate it what is likely the little handheld’s grand finale.
Nothing for me this week. Waiting on next week to see if they have an E3 sale.
"Skelemania, a single-sitting Metroidvania"
What does this mean that the game is just really short or something?
I've been playing Battle Worlds Kronos for review, and let me tell you - this game is only for the most hardcore strategy fans. Not only is it excruciatingly difficult, it's also massive, unwieldy, obtuse, and stylistically bland. If you love deep hexagonal strategy games then there's plenty to love, but for everyone else, you might want to reconsider it!
Nothing for me this week. Plus i used some platinum points to get earthbound. Really trying to hold out until e3. I got about $30 of eshop cred including gold points
Nothing for me. Got plenty of Resident Evil and Devolver Digital games to play on Switch at the moment. I'm also planning on sending my 3DS in for repairs to the circle pad (keeps sticking in the up position) and the A and left D-pad buttons (unresponsive). Then I'm gonna track down a Mugen 3DS XL battery to give my 3DS a new breath of life.
Save your money for the inevitable e3 “available just after the video” drop on Tuesday. Cadence of Hyrule will be that game. This week is a garbage heap.
Alpine Ski came out last week. For some reason you've been a week behind on North American Arcade Archive releases for months.
@HeroOfCybertron
$5 also says short.
Looks pretty cool, though, if you like retro metroidvania. Rated 4/5 and same price on Steam.
Artifact Adventure Gaiden DX also looks very interesting. Again, retro styling, but JRPG with action/arena style for combat.
Slay the Spire is the one that should be featured, I think. In case some haven't heard of it, it is a beloved game on Steam 10/10 (same price as there, too)
Battle Worlds Kronos looks interesting, too. The cinematics in the trailer don't do much for me, but the gameplay looks hardcore for strategy war game fans wanting something more complicated than the Advance Wars inspired games. Mixed reviews on Steam, though.
It appears that it is the last day of the sale for Pikuniku (50% off). I just picked that one up.
Also, Iconoclasts is 40% off. I may pick that one up later.
Whole lot of nothing this week. I’m hoping for a review on Warlocks to help sway me one way or the other. Slay the Spire looks interesting, but that’s about it. Might not be spending a dime this week and that’s ok with me.
@Zach777 May not be to your taste, but Slay the Spire, at least, will likely be preferred by many over Cadence of Hyrule.
Nothing wrong with saving money until you have a fuller picture, but for those who have the funds this weekend, $5 to $10 on one of the shorter games seems like a good deal to have fun while waiting.
@abbyhitter They announced that they're having one starting like, an hour after their E3 Direct.
I still doesn't understand why the NA list always lists last week's ACA instead of this week's (Solomon's Key).
@ilikeike Yeah I think I will pass.
Still getting my arse kicked on the second boss of Gato Roboto....yeah, I know, I know...
Nothing for me and I'm not even mad. Time to knock another off the backlog.
More NES games zzzzzzzzzz
Slay the Spire is amazing, sad to see so many in the comments gloss over it. I'm considering grabbing it again - already have it on Steam - just to have a portable version.
Car Mayhem, Dyna Bomb, Super Skelemania and Artifact Adventure Gaiden DX all SOUND promising to me, but thank you @aaronsullivan for those videos to help me confirm. As usual, I'll hold out on the probable physical versions of these.
@aaronsullivan
I actually did buy Slay the Spire after seeing your recommendation and reading the NLife and NWorldReport reviews.
Thanks for the recommendation!
@Zach777 also the smash DLC charchter you know we get and free moblie games too
Please review Desktop Baseball Nintendo Life. The Switch has 0 good baseball games on it so far, I need to know if this is one.
@Zach777 Oh good.
So different from the Wii and Wii U days, I think Nintendo Life needs to adjust these download articles and give some sort of simple preview, picture or just video links. Obviously they can't review everything but the titles and descriptions are woefully inadequate to make even simple judgements.
@KIRO Enjoying Gato Roboto, though? Probably picking that up today.
I’m REALLY enjoying it! I beat the second boss after realizing autofire worked and swapping to the pro controller. That got back me back to what I like most, just pottering about exploring, shooting a few nasties. The controls are so tight it just fun moving about. Personally, I like the black and white style, seems to add to the atmosphere. The story is silly but so what. Music is solid. Yup. Worth the money for sure! I hope you like it.
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