Nintendo has revealed the four (yes, four) free games that are now available to European Nintendo Switch Online subscribers as part of the 'Mega Game Trials' event.
From today until 25th August, those with an active NSO membership can play Tetris Effect: Connected, PowerWash Simulator, Enter the Gungeon and Cassette Beasts for free. You can play the games to your heart's content until the end of the week, where you'll then have to pay up if you like what you see in the trial period.
And that isn't a bad line-up! We awarded PowerWash Simulator a satisfying 7/10 when it sprayed onto Switch last year, the creature-catching Cassette Beasts scored an 8/10, Enter the Gungeon landed a 9/10 and the brilliant Tetris Effect: Connected slotted in nicely with a 10/10.
You can download the free game trial for each of the above from their respective eShop page.
The Mega Games Trials event comes as a part of Nintendo's 'Mega Multiplayer Festival' which is running throughout August. We still have the grand finale 'Mega Multiplayer Sale' to look forward to from 26th August to 8th September, and you can nab the extra two months of NSO with the purchase of any year-long membership until 8th September too.
Will you be sampling any of the four trials this week? Which are you the most excited to dove into? Let us know in the comments.
[source nintendo.com, via x.com]
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Why can't it be a month?
We US NSO subscribers want to experience this too
Doubt I'll have the time for this myself but still, love to see it and fingers crossed the US will get something similar, too!
Powerwash Simulator is brilliant. I’ve sunk over 105 hours on the base game alone (plus the heaps of free DLC)! So therapeutic and addictive. I play it on night shifts while listening to podcasts.
You know what? This is a pretty good line up. Last time they did a Multiplayer Festival with free trials, it was mainly multiplayer only games which was a little disappointing. This however is a much better lineup. I already own PowerWash and Tetris Effect (and they are brilliant. Don't forget to download all the free add-on content for PowerWash from the eShop too) but Gungeon and Cassette Beasts sound like they would be fun.
I'm also glad I own two of those games because there's no way I can juggle 4 games in one week!
Please have a go at Powerwash Simulator if you can. It’s awesome. And yes, get the D.L.C. The most fun I had was cleaning the Lara Croft mansion and the SpongeBob SquarePants level.
@FineLerv
So that you don't finish them and have no reason to buy them? 😆
@AJWolfTill "So that you don't finish them and have no reason to buy them?"
I don't even have a chance to PLAY them when it's only a one week trial.
Only one I'm interested in is Enter the Gungeon, but already have the physical sitting in my backlog, I'll get to it at some point.
Wow, they should do things like this more often; game trials are under-utilized. If by chance this comes to NA I will definitely try the 3 I don't have.
Cool! Tetris Effect has been on my wish list for ages, I’ll try it now, I was actually power washing yesterday though, but my son enjoyed helping so maybe he’d like to try the game 😅
Could be fun if I had any time this week, and lived in Europe.
I don’t want to be negative but this feels a bit stingy, but at the same time I understand that it helps protect the bottom line of these developers. I guess for younger players this could be a nice chance to hop on and try out some games.
I'd give PowerWash Simulator a try, and Cassette Beasts is on my wishlist.
...If I lived somewhere in Europe. Come to North America already!
@Mattgelo if you have a European account in addition to your North American account, you can download the Game Trials from the EU account and play them from your NA account.
@FineLerv
Download all
Play a bit of all
Decide from there
That shrimple
Why does Nintendo of American seem to give us the short end of the stick every time? I feel like Europe is starting to get cool or impactful stuff like Japan, while we don't get much of anything anymore.
Enter the Gungeon is so good, play it if you haven't already, you have no idea what you're missing.
@AmplifyMJ
Well he'll be able to power wash midgar so that's something though I think it was dlc.
This is awesome, but why not give more time to play all 4 games? Since these are monthly occurrences, why not give us the month? OR, do 4 trials per month, with each week getting a different game. It doesn't seem that hard to figure that out. Not to mention, I have no space usually for these game trials. So I'd have to go one by one.
May have to get the European account running on my Switch for Power Wash Simulator. Really hope I saved the password somewhere
Tried Cassette Beasts last night as it was highest on my Monster Catching game wishlist. I'm not sold on it, quite yet. While I enjoy the twist, I am not really down with the art direction for the world bit.
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