Video: 15 Exciting New Games Coming To Nintendo Switch In January 2025

Blade Chimera, Tales of Graces f, and Ys Memoire: The Oath in Felghana intrigue me most.

Donkey Kong Country Returns was excellent to me and in my blasphemous opinion a large step up in fun than the snes trilogy.
The first Tails of Iron took getting used to but overall I had fun with it. The final boss is killer, and attacks are very methodical but good game. I'll wait on reviews for Tails 2

Phantom Brave 2 is pretty exciting. It's been 20 years since the first one!
Hopefully it's the start of NISJ's return to SRPG form.

A Wii port is hardly a "new game". 😅

But seeing as I'd somehow skipped both the Wii and 3DS versions of DKCR, I'm looking forward to finally getting to play it.

Ender Magnolia has been on my radar, though actually I just recently sold my copy of Ender Lillies when I realized I never wanted to play it again.

I actually don’t think it did anything more special than other Metroidvania titles I desperately do want to replay (Dread, Prince of Persia, Vernal Edge, Guacamelee, or Sheepo.)

Replaying games is underrated! Forget a backlog, checkout that… frontlog!

I'll be adding Citizen Sleeper 2 to the backlog made longer by end of year sales. Looking forward to playing it in a few years.

Only:

• Donkey Kong
• Guilty gear Strive

Definitely getting the 4k physical copy of Hello Kitty Island Adventures on Switch 2 this spring. Not wasting my time/money with the digital only version on the original Switch.

Only things I'm really interested in are Donkey Kong and Guilty Gear and not sure either's going to be a right now thing. DK probably will and Guilty Gear probably won't but we'll have to see.

Oh boy! A lazy Wii port and a bunch of third parties I don't care about!

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Announce the Switch 2 already Nintendo!

Can't say any of these are too exciting for me. The best games there are just rereleases of stuff I played years and years ago.

Ender Magnolia is the only title that remotely interests me. DKC Returns I already own twice and don't see much point getting it day 1. In fact, I don't think I'll get anything day1 this year, except for the Switch successor as soon as it's getting launched.

Guilty Gear Strive definitely. Looking forward to getting more time with the game.

Hello Kitty Island Adventure sweeps all of these.

Actually more games shown here that I have on my wishlist than not. Good start of the month!
But then we have the ever-growing backlog hahaha...

2025 starting off hot with some neat games! I'm personally not getting these at the moment as I'm working through my backlog but it's good to see several highly anticipated remakes and sequels of indie games and retro classics come to Switch. Might seriously need to try out the Ender series one day.

Already ordered physical version of Island Adventure off PlayAsia.

Donkey Kong, Ender Magnolia and Tails of Iron 2 for me! And perhaps Oath in Felghana later on, to give it another try.
Not a bad month, actually

For those who say DKC Returns is a lazy port, well, at least it has HD visuals for the first time! DKC Tropical Freeze didn't add ANYTHING substantial to the WiiU game, rather than being more expensive... Lol. And people love it. I will never understand that.

Both are lazy ports, anyway, but Returns is much more welcome in my opinion. We actually needed a proper version of that fantastic game already, with good graphics and good controls.

I'm not entirely sure I'll actually play all of them, but Blade Chimera, Citizen Sleeper 2, Cuisineer, and Ender Magnolia are currently all on my wishlist. I love Tales of Graces f so should be picking up a physical copy of that one. I totally forgot about Hello Kitty: Island Adventures, but that did seem fun based on the previews, I'll definitely be checking the reviews for that one.

I'd never heard of it before, but after looking it up Dance of Cards looks pretty cool too, kinda like a mix between Danganronpa and Balatro.

I beg to differ. Apart from perhaps Ys, nothing in the January line up is exciting to me. Not complaining though, as there's lots to catch up on.

I was interested in trying Citizen Sleeper after the positive buzz around it but the text looked tiny in every screenshot and video I saw. One of my biggest bugbears in modern gaming.

Freedom Wars Remastered is a day one buy for me but that might be the only game I grab this month.

Very interested in Tales of Graces f Remastered but I’ll get that later.

Pretty nice line-up, imo. I'm definitely getting Tales of Graces f, GG Strive and Ender Magnolia this month. Maybe DKC Returns and Phantom Brave too later down the line.

Only Ys and Jedi Power Battles for me and only if the get physical releases!

@Spider-Kev Glad to see someone else interested in Jedi Power Battles! I get the impression sometimes that this site is personally offended that it’s getting a re-release. 😉

@Rhum17
I loved the game when it first came out and completely forgot all about it.

I liked Episode 1 for PS1 better though for Single Player.

I hope that one and Battlefront 1 & 2 come out for Switch soon!

Bounty Hunter is on its way! Can't wait to play that one again!

I would like to play Y`s sometime.

that thumbnail goes way harder than it should

For a second i thought the "wii port" people were mentioning was Tales of Graces (since it came out on wii first though the ps3 "F" version has a lot of extra content)

I do hope that the switch version of Graces F still keeps 60fps in battle since iirc even the wii version had that and its a game where things like last-second dodges are vital especially on harder difficulties.

if the port turns out well im 100% picking it up on switch, it has one of my fave Tales combat systems alongside lots of things to do.

I’ll pick up Ys and Tales of Graces eventually.
Picked up Cuisineer on the Steam sale around Christmas and have been enjoying it as a low-stress game. Picked up Freedom Wars on PC to play on my Legion Go; it should be a nice grinder until Monster Hunter.
Ender Magnolia sounds nice in theory, but I played Ender Lillies and quit after the fake ending and don’t want to pick it up again.