QUByte Interactive held its annual digital event this week and as usual there were a bunch of Switch announcements.
We've crammed everything into this round up post, so you can get a quick recap on what exactly was announced in the latest broadcast. Here's the full rundown:
Rage of Dragons NEO - 14th November 2024
"The arcade fighting title finally has a release date, and it’s closer than you might think! Rage of the Dragons NEO will launch on PC, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch on 14 November 2024. Reviving the classic originally released for NeoGeo but now with modern mechanics, the game recently underwent a Closed Beta period and had a demo available during Steam Next Fest, giving fans and fighting game enthusiasts a taste of its features. Now, QUByte is putting the final touches on the full release!"
MARS 2120 - Switch Update
"Released this year on Steam, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch, MARS 2120 is receiving a major update! This metroidvania-style game combines melee and ranged combat, inspired by classics like Super Metroid, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, and Guacamelee! Join Anna "Thirteen" Charlotte as she battles her way through the secrets of Mars."
Hands of Timber - TBC
"Upon waking up alive in a familiar but different world, Timber wanders around the places where her father took her for walks. Recognizing that her creator is missing, the little doll searches for him with eagerness and longing, realizing that the closer she is to her destination, the emptier her journey becomes. After all, these are memories, right? The good, the bad, and the incomplete. When playing as the Timber doll, the player must become familiar with controlling her opponents and utilizing her jumping skills to cross the hostile environments that surround her, all while searching for her father. Players must use logic, skill and resilience to cross the curtains of oblivion and see the carpenter again. Hands of Timber is a 3D platformer with a narrative focus."
Glover - 2025
Momo and the Mine - TBC
"Help this charismatic mole collect matchsticks in an abandoned mine in this challenging platform game!"
Plungeez - TBC
"Dive into the world of Plungeez, a platformer where Bonnie, a straight-laced Bahian woman who after falling into a manhole must explore the underground rooms of the city of Salvador in search of a way out. Light torches, boilers and use plungers to climb and solve puzzles!"
Runa & the Chaikurú Legacy -TBC
"A fantasy world like no other! Runa & the Chaikurú Legacy invites you to discover the mysteries buried deep in the ruins of the ancient Chaikurú civilization, in a classic and epic 3D adventure platformer.
With action elements and several areas to explore, immerse yourself in a fascinating but also dark story, facing the mysteries hidden by The Company in this game full of fun puzzles and a gameplay for the whole family."
Saborus - 2025
"Saborus is a thrilling horror adventure in which you guide a brave chicken through a deadly slaughterhouse where everything wants to kill you! You, as the chicken, will solve puzzles and face the relentless pursuit of the Saborus slaughterhouse workers. Make your way through the sinister surroundings of a creepy slaughterhouse, full of suspense and surprises! Can you survive?"
Shroomtopia - TBC
"Shroomtopia is an atmospheric puzzle game about manipulating soil and mixing colors. Use your logical thinking to solve the challenges and help bring nature back to life. Explore tranquil landscapes to the sound of a relaxing soundtrack."
Simulacro - TBC
"Simulacrum is a first-person puzzle-solving game with a narrative based on ancient Greek philosophy. Poísis, an art student, heads to an enigmatic island, recently discovered due to the receding waters of the majestic Lake Prespa in Greece, a result of global warming. Gifted with the ability to capture the essence of the landscapes through painting, she travels the island in search of inspiration. When she comes across traces of a forgotten civilization and mysterious portals, Poísis is confronted with a fundamental question of ancient philosophers: what is the true essence of reality?"
Blades & Battles - TBC
"Blades & Battles is an action game set in a fantasy world, where players take on the mission to rescue the wizard Merlin from the clutches of the evil witch Morgana. With two playable characters, Arthur and Lancelot, players will face powerful enemies threatening the safety of their people."
Top Racer Collection - Update Trailer
"The thrill of 16-bit racing from the 90s is back! Play the complete Top Racer series with Top Racer, Top Racer 2, Top Racer 3000 and Top Racer Crossroads, a brand new game with new cars and exclusive content made especially for this unmissable edition. Now featuring a major update that fixes several bugs and includes various adjustments!"
Deep Deep Deep Nightmare - TBC
"Deep Deep Deep Nightmare is a 2D Top Down Shooter. Survive by facing monsters in the nightmare of a little boy who didn’t heed his mother’s warnings that eating too much before bed can cause nightmares."
Clawed Cult - TBC
"Enter the strange world of Clawed Cult, where cute animals worship the ancient evil deity known as Catchulhu. As a cultist, you must navigate through hordes of enemies formed by previous failed summoning rituals, using powerful weapons and cunning strategies to survive the infinite hordes of enemies that stands in your way. Take control of the chaos, raining destruction down upon your foes while dodging their attacks. As you progress, you'll invoke and fight larger and more fearsome creatures, in order to use their power to call your elder god. Will you be able to master the art of the reverse bullet hell and invoke Catchulhu? Only the bravest and most cunning cultists will survive to bask in the glory of the ancient deity!"
Dawn of Fear - TBC
"Experience an intense survival horror journey as an investigative agent in a dark and cursed village. The quest for a leader has never been so hindered."
Beyond the Evil - TBC
"Beyond the Evil is an psychological horror game that places the player to a hard experience to find who created one supposed plague that might doom the world."
Accolade Sports Collection - TBC
"Accolade Sports Collection (QUByte Classics) is a retro collection featuring some of the most iconic sports games from the early 90s. This collection includes titles like Summer Challenge, Winter Challenge, Hardball 1&2 and Hoops Shut Up and Jam!. This collection offers a complete retro gaming experience, where players can easily select from the different titles available, with features like save states, filters options, manuals and more!"
Extinction Rifts - TBC
"As the Ancient Monoliths appeared and the wrong people took them over, the operation “Last Breath” started! It’s just a matter of time until our extinction… Unless we can stop them! Equip yourself by selecting between 8 different weapons and 5 unique skills, fight enemies on secret headquarters and make sure to destroy the Ancient Monoliths! An absurd amount of power is required to destroy them! Luckily you’ve got the Extinction Gauntlet, a punching gadget that is connected to your adrenaline, making combos raises your adrenaline making your punches more destructive, only a truly powerful punch can obliterate a Monolith! Can you destroy them all and avoid our extinction?"
See anything here you like? Let us know in the comments.
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I was starting to think I'd never see a Rage of Dragons release date, so this is excellent news!
The Accolade Sports Collection is a pleasant surprise too.
Still no Grapple Force Rena. I'd love to know what's going on there because last I checked, the developer sure doesn't. Unless things changed behind the scenes.
What on earth has been the holdup on Glover, that port was announced two years ago.
Rage of the Dragons NEO! YES! Finally!
@Lizuka It took them ~4 years to rerelease Breakers games...
Rage of Dragons Neo looks suspiciously similar to Blades & Battles. Hmm...
Was hoping they announce physical release for Top Racer Collection. Oh well.
Hoops shut up and jam? Isn’t it Barkleys shut up and jam?
@GameOtaku Yes but probably they couldn't get the rights to use Charles Barkley's name anymore so they re-titled it and altered him out to avoid any license conflict.
The Accolade compilation needs 4th & Inches as well.
@Serpenterror seems very likely. Top Racer collection up there is also renamed (they were Top Gear on the SNES) due to licensing of the title.
Glover. I’ve been waiting nearly forever for Glover. 😊
Glover for me first and foremost whenever it comes out, but there are some pretty cool games here beyond that, Rage of Dragons NEO for example (had to check it out elsewhere because of the current mistake)!
@Liam_Doolan Rage of Dragons NEO has the Blades & Battles video, please fix it when you can.
Momo and the Mine has my attention just for the music. Most of the rest look pretty rough around the edges, though the Glover remaster might be fun to check out if it ever actually releases.
Glover Really looking forward to this.. The soundtrack is amazing and control method unique if just a tad hard in the later levels.
QuByte has Directs?!
Fair ones listed but I've been waiting for Glover to come to ANY modern console now for too long. PC then Evercade. Like it's cool but seriously I'm at the point I'll just emulate it it's not that hard, then wait for 2025 to support it.
Top Racer looks like the most bland, boring generic racing game I am sick to death of in the genre right now. Can racing games by ANYONE actually offer content worthwhile then artstyle, done to death content or so little it's boring. Driving a vehicle/playing as an animal I've experienced so why do they make them as bland and like its so new to casuals and playing as a human is still the most boring thing every because they don't have items to use just guns/fists/boring tasks to do in games. Why are games so casual/nostalgia focused bore fests.
AAA ones are bland and graphics focused, 'wow it's racing' really I hadn't noticed thanks for making it BLAND and BORING of a product. Skip. You used to offer cone/gate modes with time or drift or a little spin to offer 3 different drift modes, or derbies or other things. Now it's 'racing' or time trial..... Wow what real effort made. XD
It's like COD with only deathmatch, give us more than that.
While Indie arcade old school ones are just as well boring & bland. Wow the nostalgia. I'm sorry but it's like with platformers, Banjo/Spyro had so much variety, can Indies replicate it no but at the same time they still make bland Indie games as they still don't fill it with enough still for their skill level they make the bare minimum & level design is boring, the tasks are boring if that kind of platformer in a Banjo/Spyro 3 kind of way then a sometimes more interesting simplicity of level design fun in a Spyro 1 kind of way.
I want modes not wow your graphics/cars are there, the physics being fair but MODES.
I don't play games with animals going you know what it needs more story, or to be very basic & illusion of playing an animal. Like come on. Make even the most bland of animal movesets compelling with a cat climbing, meowing for a voice door opening thing or attack, a tail to open key holes, ANYTHING in the level design but nope they don't anymore just boring bland tasks, characters to play as & dialogue.
I play one for the jumping, combat, the movesets aspects OF ANY ANIMAL DEVELOPERS, using them well in level design to be a good climb, a good chameleon twist tongue pole vault or suck up enemies, a good dig, fly, anything else. I look/ignore Glover & I go this is great the ball changes of heavy to crystal, the animations & glove aspects are really creative. It being a glove is still exciting then another insert human here. Why else wouldn't I want to play it it's got appeal then generic human with generic drama problems & generic tasks to do for people.
It's why I enjoy them not playing as boring humans (they don't have to be superhero type abilities either just offer something of items to use not the most generic no item focused game design we see with boring moves and wow guns, give me something exciting in a fantasy/sci-fi/otherwise).
If I can find Pitfall Lost Expedition more fun as a metroidvania close to Metroid Prime 2 of release with an explorer and the shield, ice picks for combat spinning around or climbing, canteen to fill or drink (making that actually small but fun to do seriously), gas mask, sling and more are well paced and fun in a some magic but still more normalised world even if cartoony way.
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Why are all these modern games so bland and boring in offer some ITEMS to use, not so much on Nintendo platforms but just PS/Xbox or third parties on any, if Zelda games can do it to make using the ice power on water to get a treasure in BOTW or magnet for the gates or other stuff (let alone any other past Zelda games items to use on the level design) why is everything else so bland and pathetic). I don't play racing games for wow it's a car, I play them to use them in different modes not just the physics.
Even playing as a doll would be if done well more exciting then a human character and boring themes/dialogue and such offered with boring graphics/level design in games.
I need Glover ASAP!
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