So, what are you in the market for? We've got whatever it is you crave. We know eShop sales can be overwhelming, scary places, but we're here to guide you through the best of what's on offer.
We'll include our review score (and a link to the full review), the discount, and the price, which hopefully will be enough to help you decide! We've even put all the games below $10 in italics for you. Prices will all be in US dollars, but you can check out the eShop to find out the price in your local currency.
Big RPGs
If you like your games large and long, then these offerings will be right up your street.
- Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch - 8/10, 75% off, $12.49
- Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Edition - 8/10, 75% off, $12.49
- The Outer Worlds - 8/10, 50% off, $29,99
- Ori and the Blind Forest - 9/10, 30% off, $13.99
- Ori and the Will of the Wisps - 9/10, 15% off, $25.49
- DOOM - 8/10, 50% off, $29.99
- Bioshock: The Collection - 9/10, 50% off, $24.99
- Civilization VI - 9/10, 67% off, $19.79
Co-Op Games
You want to play with your friends? We got you!
- Overcooked!: Special Edition - 8/10, 75% off, $4.99
- Overcooked! 2 - 8/10, 50% off, $12.49
- Among Us - 8/10, 30% off, $3.50
- Moving Out - 7/10, 40% off, $14.99
- Jackbox Party Pack 6 - (no review, but it's good), 35% off, $19.49
- Jackbox Party Pack 3 - 7/10 (but widely understood to be the best pack), 35% off, $16.24
- Don't Starve: Nintendo Switch Edition - 8/10, 75% off, $4.99
- Diablo III: Eternal Collection - 8/10, 50% off, $29.99
- Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 - 8/10, 25% off, $29.99
A Bit Of Retro
You think games were better when they were bleepy and bloopy? That's alright with us! Here are some real old games, and some games inspired by real old games.
- DOOM (the original) - 8/10, 50% off, $2.49
- DOOM 64 - 8/10, 50% off, $2.49
- Ikaruga - 9/10, 33% off, $9.99
- Namco Museum Archives Vol 1 - 7/10, 50% off, $9.99
- Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair - 9/10, 75% off, $7.49
- Katamari Damacy REROLL - 9/10, 67% off, $9.89
- Huntdown - 9/10, 40% off, $11.99
Something Punishing
Looking to challenge yourself?
- The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth+ - 8/10, 25% off (only today!), $29.99
- Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition - 8/10, 60% off, $5.99
- Guacamelee! 2 - 8/10, 60% off, $7.99
- The Flame In The Flood - 7/10, 75% off, $3.74
- The Long Dark - 8/10, 33% off, $23.44
- XCOM 2 Collection - 8/10, 60% off, $19.99
Hidden Gems
You may not have heard of these games before, but trust us, these are worth checking out.
- Iconoclasts - 9/10, 66% off, $6.79
- Superhot - 8/10, 40% off, $14.99
- Steamworld Dig - 8/10, 75% off, $2.49
- Steamworld Dig 2 - 9/10, 60% off, $7.99
- Yoku's Island Express - 9/10, 75% off, $4.99
- Wide Ocean Big Jacket - (no review, but a lovely short narrative experience), 75% off, $1.99
- Crypt of the Necrodancer - 9/10, 80% off, $3.99
Wow, that was a long list to write. Hopefully this guide can help you make informed decisions about which games to spend all your pocket money on.
The sale ends on February 28th, but some of these games are stopping their discounts early, so it's worth checking out the sale before that happens!
Are there any games on sale that you'd love to recommend to fellow readers? Drop your recs in the comments!
Comments 63
There's no mention of Metro which is surprising.
Picked up borderlands
Nexomon: Extinction is on sale for $15 usd. For anyone interested its like pokemon, but better.
And It has a randomizer built in.
@jump I finished the first one the other week. Some of the best atmosphere in any game I've played.
@jump there are 1,250 games on sale right now, so I definitely won't say this is exhaustive. It was exhaustING though
Picked up Minit for about £3 which will be worth a dabble.
Might also finally get Katamari Damacacy which is only about a fiver - heard it’s a classic
I "picked up" Lonely Mountains: Downhill last night which is a lot of fun. I'll buy Taiko No Tatsujin tonight probably, and quite possibly Burnout Paradise, even though I played that many years ago. I had the Ultimate Collection which included motorbikes and probably DLC, which I don't think this one does.
Awww dang no Fortnite, jk jk plz don't kill me
@BongoBongo aw dang, Minit is on sale? I need to add it real quick, what a gem!
Edit: Welp, never mind, it's not on sale on the US eShop - which is what I based this post on
If you don't pick up Katamari Damacy, then...well...dammit, I can't force you but...nevermind.
@KateGray Huntdown is on sale and something I have wanted to play for ages, I think Nintendolife gave it a good review.
Doom is on "sale" for $30, when it is $20 regular price on PSN PlayStation store. 😂
I bought Namco Museum Archives Vol 1 a few days ago. I'm glad Nintendo finally implemented button mapping in the system menu (although I wish invert control stick options would have been added too) but I still wish this game had in-game button-mapping so I don't have to mess around with the system settings again when I choose a different game. It seems like a weird omission considering M2 has included it in most of their ports.
Steamworld Dig 2 is one of my favourite games on the Switch, if anyone hasn't played it they should get it now. It's fantastic!
@MarioBrickLayer good call, and well remembered - we gave it a 9/10! I've added it to the Retro list
I realize NL writers are people, and the Switch sale list is GiAnT! So I won't complain
I can't recommend the Talos Principle enough. I'm thinking of shelling out £6 to have it on Switch even though I already have it on PS4 and Steam
Keep meaning to pick up Alien isolation, the Switch version is supposed to be pretty good, and it's a decent price in the sale.
@WoomyNNYes I'm pretty sure I am a people.
And you can point out anything that you think deserves recognition if you like it's a collaborative effort to make sure everyone finds a game they love!
@MarioBrickLayer
I buy a lot of games. I’m also very picky with my games (they usually need to be reviewed very well and have longevity). I also love retro and shmup games. Huntdown is one of the best games I’ve played in a long time. It’s amazing in every respect and is woefully underrated and/or underplayed. Don’t think twice and buy it. You’ll thank me. More people need to know about this game.
Picking up disgaea 4 gonna prepare for disgaea 6. Alrdy done 1 and 5
Nice, thank you for the reccomendation!
eShop*, Eshop looks weird.
@KateGray Wunderling might be a good game to add. It's a fantastic and charming puzzle-platformer with some funny Mario parody elements that got 8/10 on here. 😃 Currently only £2.79 and has a demo too!
@thejuice027 You're right, I was trying to stick to house style but APPARENTLY eShop doesn't get capitalised like that! Thank goodness, I hate it too
@Clyde_Radcliffe good shout, and thank you for being so thorough! I appreciate it!
Edit: GOSH DARN IT Wunderling is also an EU only sale. Well, hopefully people will read the comments!
@KateGray No worries! Oh, just realised these are American sale prices, not British/European.. Maybe it's not on sale there.
Since I just finished Cyber Shadow, I picked up Huntdown for my next modern retro fix.
@Clyde_Radcliffe there were quite a few EU-only sales Scott Pilgrim, Divinity: Original Sin 2, Slay The Spire... all good games! All on sale if you have an EU account, unless some of them expired already. I can't check because the eShop is down!
@johnvboy I can't recommend Alien Isolation strongly enough. Genuinely one of the best games I've ever played. The graphics and atmosphere and intensity are just incredible. It takes a couple hours to really get good, but once it does, it's just fantastic.
I bought it physically and digitally on PS4, plus digitally on Switch.
Hi Kate
Yooka Laylee and the Impossible Lair is not retro, its a modern platformer
@KateGray oh yeah sorry it was a UK eshop price! Think I read about it in your Majora's Mask timeloop article and thought it would be good prep for Outer Wilds (plus my gold points covered it).
THE NINJA WARRIORS went on sale. Picked it up last night. It is amazing.
Aggelos is only $4.99. I downloaded it and am having a great time so far.
Thanks for this, had somehow missed Iconoclasts.
@BongoBongo GOOD CHOICE. It's fab. The folks behind it just made a spin-off racing game with all proceeds going to charity, btw - www.minitfunracer.com
We're stretching the definition of RPG by quite a lot, eh? 😂
Jokes aside, that's quite a cool selection! I already grabbed a couple of games so I'm gonna stop there cause my backlog is pretty huge!
So far half my new items from the second fortnight's discounts have been advance investments in the respective binge queues - God Eater 3, all the remaining Deponias... but I did finally get the two big Civ VI expansions, too. The remainder of the allocated funds went towards Dead End Job, The StoryTale, Hero Hours Contract and Her Majesty's Ship - all quite peculiar experiences. Especially the latter which feels somewhat like another Pirates-inspired title, but not playing as a pirate and spliced with a good dose of Bomber Crew vibes.
There's plenty more I had to pass up on again, though - speaking of Russian (so in most cases, European) sales, of course. The deeper discounts alone include stuff like Yomawari and God Wars, Red Faction Guerilla and Moero Chronicle Hyper, Ys Origin and Moonlighter, Armello and Far: Lone Sails, Gato Roboto and Puzzle Quest... and likely a lot of gems I already own - ironically harder to pick for a namedrop because my Deku Deals account is set to hide the collected games by default. But indeed, this is a massive sale with a variety of interactive worlds to splurge on.
Among us is on sale if you know if 5$ as to much for you.
Yo remember when DOOM got RPG of the year back in 2016? All jokes aside, GREAT selection of games from the enormous amount on sale! Kudos Kate!
@sketchturner,
Yes it does look amazing, somebody suggested I play it in my home cinema, as the sound would be amazing, and a very tense game on a large screen, plus you have the added portability.
@johnvboy Yeah it's amazing both ways. I've beaten it a few times. A couple on a big screen with amazing speakers (and sitting in the dark).
But it's also incredible playing through the game in handheld with headphones.
@sketchturner,
My thoughts exactly, the whole thing looks like a movie, and being a massive alien fan this will be awesome.
@sketchturner,
https://www.blu-ray.com/community/gallery.php?member=jonmoz
I can get it totally dark in my room and crank my receiver up for the full effect.
Also good to see Burnout at a sensible price, down to A$20 here in Australia.
Excited to play the new Ori too...
@Dman10 True, but you're not really comparing apples to apples - that version isn't on a portable system.
Full Metal Furies fits every one of these categories and currently has 66% off (£5.09 in the UK store). Rated 9/10: https://www.nintendolife.com/reviews/switch-eshop/full_metal_furies
Sadly review-bombed by a few, I think because the developers didn't enable drop-in online co-op despite having good reasons not to.
I've bought Lichtspeer in the sale, which looks fun for local co-op. I'm also thinking of buying Katamari Damacy REROLL and Blazing Chrome, but I have too many games already...
I will recommend Thumper. I'd not played rhythm games before buying this one, but I found it to be very enjoyable and challenging.
I will recommend caution before buying the Switch version of
Don't Starve. I would check the bug reports on Switch before diving in. (The game itself is creative, and unforgiving, and rewarding, as a survival game should be. The Switch version, however, proved completely unreliable for me in terms of crashing and bugs.)
Picked up Katamari Demacy already. Think I'll also go for Huntdown too.
Wait, Doom R.P.G. finally got re-released? Sweet! I hope they can get Wolfenstein R.P.G. to come next.
I got Wuppo and Golf Story. Very happy with both of these so far
@Elvie Those sound really good but I’m still waiting for Duke Nukem RPG it’s been in development Forever....
I'm getting Overcooked 2! We have always been wanting it but we weren't always sure as well. Time to play online for this game! Always wanted to play as granny.
That's a nicely laid out article. Kudos on the way you separated everything into meaningful categories.
Guacamelee, SteamWorld Dig, and Yoku's Island are must buys for those prices. All fantastic games.
So Katamari is 67% off in America & 70% off in Europe.
Bamcoooooo!
after doom eternal, i have a hanger issue for fps,
i am tempted by these games:
void *****(14.99£), the persistence(12.49), metro 2033&last light(8.99£ each) and borderland handsome collection (17.49)
I can only spend a maximum of 30-33 £ in total and I don't know what to buy!!!!!
@baller98 + @BaronMunchausen I'm going to get Huntdown! I have quite a few games on my backlog, but I might as well whilst it's 40% off!
I wanted Huntdown for a long time. Now it's a good time to buy it.
Ikaruga is a top-ten GameCube game - anyone who hasn't played it should give it a go now that it's cheap!
@InJeffable Cheers!
And for those of you saying DOOM isn't an RPG: you play the role of Doomguy! Ergo, role-playing game.
@jump No, not really, considering it's an extremely linear game with poorly planned learning curve spikes.
@MarioBrickLayer Do it and thank us later!
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