No Gravity Games Is Giving Away 6 Free Switch Games This Month

Cool! Always nice to go get free stuff, even if it's only a brief diversion.

Nintendo of America only - doh!

Was just looking to see if there might be anything worthwhile and I stumbled upon an absolute blast from the past. They've published "Bubble Trouble" on the Switch. I used to play that loads on either Miniclip or NotDoppler or something. An old flash game.

Free trash is still trash.

I did one of their switchmas giveaways (2025 I think) and got some decent games. I’ve been wanting some platformers to play so this is pretty well timed.

I really like having these in the back as low stress games. Since I didn't pick or pay for them, I don't have to worry about them meeting my expectations or about getting my money's worth. I can play with my brain off, and if something doesn't click with me, I can drop it regret free. I've been playing One True Hero from the last giveaway, and it's a perfectly fine action platformer with a couple rough edges but surprisingly good humor and facial animation. Sometimes that kind of thing is a nice break from the giant blockbusters and critical darlings that make up most of my backlog.

@dystome I disagree.

Our time is more valuable. A free bad game is still a bad game.

@ImpromptuR
Yes, and?
So just don't play the so called bad games.
I have never played GTA V, which I consider a horrible game.

No Gravity Games has given away tons of actually great games.

For example 2022 they gave away Golden Force, which is insanely well made and it's just bonkers that they gave it away for free. I even bought the physical release afterwards.
They also gave away Nova-111 during the same x-mas. That's another game that I purchased physically, sadly on PS4, because it's not available physically on Switch.
I also really enjoyed Star Horizon.

@AGuyWhoLikesNintendo

I hope Flippin Kaktus will be given away for free this time.
I missed Master Spy during a previous give-away.

I think I got Cyjin: The Cyborg Ninja in a previous give away, really well made game. Maybe it will be included this time again.

That's the ones I wish for.

I’ve never seen one of these mentioning “parental controls not enabled.” That seems odd.

@FortniteJ I know I got Cyjin and Master spy (both are really good games) but I haven’t gotten flippin’ Kaktus yet.

That American account i frantically made to get the mis-priced Cyperpunk (unfortunately i was too late) will come in handy.

First game is
STRIKE FORCE KITTY

Was already given away in 2022, but not a bad game at all.
it has cats.

Thanks for sharing this NL.
I have finally set up a US account and purchased credit, a few steps but very easy. I purchased the cheapest game that no No Gravity Games are selling, Rawr Off, and claimed the first freebie.

All classic platformers--too bad---I was hoping for Steve Jackson's Sorcery. Loved the books bitd, id like to try the game but there's no way Im buying a NG game.

I didn't get all of the games from the Switchmas Giveaway, just Pirates: All Aboard! But that means I'm eligible to get the games from this Giveaway, so I got Strike Force Kitty today, and am making sure that I get the other games since I really like platformers.

No update yet for today's game?

@RetroBox
Give away is granted 7 am GMT, so in 0.5 hours

Incredible:
Next free game is
CYJIN: THE CYBORG NINJA

Also a very good game, was previously given away as well. This time X-mas 2023.

Finally.
3rd free game is:
FLIPPIN KAKTUS

@FortniteJ Ahhh cool !
very good news

I'm glad this article is being updated daily so we can keep track of the freebies.

@gameovermarty
Yeah, I love the TBA game. Weird that they only give away TBA and it's successors, but it's free so who am I to complain.

Fourth free game:
PRIMAL LIGHT

already given away Christmas '23, also great. Was one of the 2 final games back then

@FortniteJ Flippin Cactus will probably be my only new gain from this - I only don't own four more from NGG's eShop lineup (not counting the delisted Will You Snail and Punch a Bunch), none of them looking very pixel and/or very platformer.😆

@nhSnork
I just bought Will You Snail? from Videogames+, who got a few left-over copies. It's only 30 CAD atm, and it's delisted digitally everywhere. Originally released by the super expensive Super Rare Games UK.

I already have 3 out of the 4 (from previous giveaways) got Flippin Kaktus from the giveaway.

It’s a shame they never send out an email about this until 2-3 days into the sale, which of course creates FOMO making you think you need to purchase the other titles meanwhile, I just move on

@Kerrsguy
Actually they released a video about this on the 16th of May.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgfLjRGTRrk

You can simply suscribe to their youtube channel to never miss a give-away.

And I'm sure their very first e-mail came 1 or 2 days after that.
EDIT: e-mail was sent out a day before this started. They are even sending daily e-mails since then.
Even Nintendolife had an article up days before it begun.

@FortniteJ a reliable site for eShop codes? If they accept Belarusian bank cards, it might be worth keeping in mind overall - they even have some Mario & Sonic Olympics in stock.

@nhSnork
there is switchup dot gg, site by the somewhat known youtube channel, you pay using credit card, they only charge as much as the value of the eShop card.
this works for US and European eShop cards.

For Japanese eShop cards, you can use amazon Japan, who also only charge the value that the card is worth. You may have to enter a Japanese address for them to sell you cards, idk for sure. I got a Japanese address.

Most other sites especially yesasia rip you off. they charge extra, so you pay way more.

@FortniteJ I was asking about shopping for delisted game codes on the previous site you mentioned, but kudos for this heads-up as well - if it sells legit cards and proves to work without curveballs in my case, their stock could bid farewell to all the extra money I've been begrudgingly paying during eShop's bank card failures that I've already experienced twice (for a month last autumn and for what's shaping to be TWO months right now). Based on the allegations I've scrapped up about the issue (with tech support on both sides routinely scratching their heads in confusion), I'm hoping to go back to straighter purchases in early June, but even then it would be damn nice to have a backup plan.

Not sure about Amazon because it wouldn't even sell me US eShop cards after I put in a US address (you son of a Bezos, I'm not even ASKING you to "ship" a redeemable digital code anywhere beyond my Gmail in the first place👹😆), and most Japan-only titles seem to lack English support anyway. Including the Girls und Panzer game that I've been ironically tempted to toggle the Hong Kong region for instead, although it apparently involves its own share of hoop jumps.

@nhSnork
Oh I see.
No, videogamesplus is not about digital codes but physical games.
That delisted digital game is in fact on physical cart and you can buy new physical carts of that game on videogamesplus DOT ca
They are still the same ones made by Super Rare Games, it's a limited batch, somehow they are cheaper on there.

I wouldn't want to buy overpriced digital codes anyway, because in the end it's a scam. You don't own any of these. I only "buy" digital games when they are really dirt cheap. Everything else is physical.

>most Japan-only titles seem to lack English support anyway
Nope, I buy tons of Japanese titles and most are in fact multilingual. You can check in the Japanese eShop.
When it says 英語, that means English is supported.
Tons of times it's 1:1 the same release. Sometimes you get a Japanese game cover, but everything else is the same. And in rare cases only some of the game is actually English.

For example right now there's "Jack Move" for 239 Yen. That's around 1.20 - 1.50 bucks. In the west the best price has been 3 bucks. It's the exact same release everywhere.

One of the rare cases where the western and Japanese releases differentiate is for example Dragon's Lair collection. That HAS English voice acting even in Japan, BUT all cutscenes have hardcoded Japanese subtitles. At the same time you can get it dirt cheap compared to the western release.

>if it sells legit cards
I can vouch for both of them. Have been using them for years. Not a single problem. And you don't give switchup gg your credit card info. You pay using a 3rd party payment processor anyway. And Amazon Japan is well Amazon. They are not that trustworthy, but won't sell your credit card data lol

@FortniteJ “like and subscribe, and make sure to ring that bell” 😉. Nah…. First email I got was yesterday (3rd day of sale)I’m subscribed to their mailing list. Definitely didn’t get caught in a spam filter. Unless it happened before it even hit my inbox. But I’m for sure not going to subscribe to yet another YouTube channel just in hopes for another free game announcement. My backlog libraryof games has hundreds of GOOD games. ✌🏼

@Kerrsguy
this here was the first e-mail via their mailing list, from the 18th.
https://i.imgur.com/gsqtafI.jpeg

so you either subscribed yesterday, or at least 2 e-mails were swept away.
you can simply use a RSS feed for youtube channels, no need to ring any bell.
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UC8GUYwcNiMTNy9rn9ZrjMxQ

@FortniteJ My guy --- I have a BUNCH of their games. I've been through several of these sales for years now as well, mostly at Christmas, and I hardly ever get an email before the event begins, only in the middle. If I had just subbed yesterday I wouldn't have even commented up here. I'm good. I dont need yet another subscription or any RSS feed to be notified about for a low budget free game, when as I said I have hundreds of great AA & AAA games in my backlog. I just wish the email would come sooner to my inbox, but it doesn't. Moving on. Cheers. Good luck on the next one

@Kerrsguy
I received 2 e-mails before their day 3 e-mail.
Sounds like an e-mail problem on your end.
Great that you enjoy movie-games, I don't.

New free game
DREAM ALONE
(was already given away October '23)

Nova 111. Also REKT and Okinawa Rush. I'm NoE or NoUK or whatever so...ah well

@FortniteJ third party payment processors are exactly what I'm worried about - for all I know, it may be their kind that's forcing me to buy top-up cards instead of direct card transactions for weeks on end (which would certainly explain why Nintendo support staffers remain clueless about the phenomenon). But I'll be waiting out a few days past the alignment of next disposable income batch and discount deadlines before chancing my MasterCard on eShop once again, so perhaps the first couple days of June will see me put this SwitchGG biz to the test.

Good to have the VG+ bit clarified - I'm a digital buyer overall, but while delisted items would warrant an exception (like the first Project X Zone, my only physical 3DS game), a website with CAD prices certainly doesn't sound like somewhere to easily ship a Switch card in the flesh to Minsk from; not only western stores were reluctant to do so even last decade, but for all I know, we may still have the 22 euro limitation buffoonery in place here (the duty-free limitation on international parcels since 2016). I'll be keeping your notes on Japanese eShop games in mind as well (the English support kanji I was already aware of, but reminders rarely hurt), thanks!

@FortniteJ who said anything about movie games? In fact, what IS a movie game? 🧐 Please enlighten us with your wisdom and expertise.

Kinda stinks this is all Switch owners ever get for free, this one shovelware company. Think I got 20 or so games from them over the years and maybe spent a total of two hours playing them.

PC got Tomb Raider Remaster 1-3 and Down in Bermuda from Epic plus a Warhammer game on Steam for free this week. Although Epics weekly free games are usually trash (so many 'free' online games that have nobody playing them still...gee thanks, what a gift lol) and also im weary of any cheaply made looking game that goes on sale for free on Steam as there have been cases of developers being hacked and having updates to their games pushed through Steam with malware and whatnot added.

@FrylockJ with the real winning comparison here. “Shovelware” was the exact term I had cued up. But hey we’ll just stick to our “movie games”.

@FortniteJ It's no Cat Quest though. I wanted to like Strike Force Kitty, but I just couldn't get into it.

Final free game
MASTER SPY

finally,I got it.Yeeessss

@nhSnork
Videogames+ ships internationally FOR FREE as soon as orders reach 75 CAD. Of course you will have to pay tax to your local
customs, they are imports after all.

@FrylockJ
What is actually funny is that Steamies will still keep using that online DRM infested trash, instead of using Epic Games Store.
100% free games, tons of times even without online DRM vs Steam, which doesn't even have a 3rd party client.
Same with GOG, who also give away games every few months.
GOG is 100% DRM free, which is the only acceptable way to go with digital downloads.
"No, let's go with Steam instead, they only lock me out of my purchases until I buy a new PC/Switch"

But of course let's not forget that Epic likes to throw away Fortnite money. Nintendo doesn't do that. The games on Epic Games Store are not given away by the publisher, but they are paid for with Fortnite money. This here is in fact given away for free by the publisher.

Complaining that Aspyr isn't giving away Tomb Raider 1-3 on Switch is absolutely ridiculous. They also don't give it away for free on PC. Epic is.

@Kerrsguy
Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered is low budget, I doubt you would like these. Almost no cutscenes, no magnetic jumps also perfectly accurate controls, where you control the game. No realistic graphics either, but functional ones.

I would recommend Tomb Raider 2013 onwards. That's AAA budget. Lots of cutscenes and modern controls, so you don't fail or fall off a cliff.
https://imgur.com/a/uCBnMd8
You should love these.

@Kerrsguy
A movie "game" is a "game" that prioritizes cinematic presentation over gameplay aka throws away tons of money for presentation and doesn't care about the gameplay, in fact reduces the game to a minimum, because it needs to sell 10 trillion copies because of the insane inflated budget.

Think of Super Mario Bros, but the opposite of that.
Just strip the shiny graphics away and see what you have left.
For AAA "games" there is often not that much left if anything at all.
For example:
Core Tomb Raider 2 (actual game) vs Tomb Raider 2013 (a "game")
https://imgur.com/a/0oGP1A3
Sure, it looks shiny, but there is nothing under the hood.

For one of the few exceptions see Zelda Breath of the Wild. That's AAA budget, but uses it for gameplay and not for presentation BS. It still looks nice though. For a negative example see Red Dead Redemption 2. Very shiny but nothing under the hood either. Everything is fully scripted. In Breath of the Wild you ACTUALLY build a camp, you ACTUALLY make fire using wood. In Red Dead Redemption 2 you press X to camp, which is ridiculous. And you can't even camp everywhere.
In Breath of the Wild I can climb basically everything including trees. The world feels alive because of that. In RDR2 you can't do anything like that. The world feels like a sterile movie set. Worse yet they couldn't even be bothered to make the people you are around with react to the things you do in the game world. Be evil af and no one actually cares. Sterile movie set. But it looks pretty.

You can see the same with movies. There are tons of low budget movies that are great and creative. As soon as the budget climbs, creativity typically drops.

@FortniteJ Wow. What an enlightened understanding you have of all AAA games. I guess we just don’t all have the refined palate that you have for great gameplay like No Gravity Games provides in all of these amazing titles. I’ll just go back to my Fallout New Vegas and Horizon Zero Dawn. Enjoy Strike Force Kitty.

@FortniteJ Oh boy lol I didn’t even see your first comment about what games I would love! Bravo! The level of presumptuousness you embody is just mind blowing. Must be a burden to carry all that insight and wisdom every day. Thanks for introducing me to the world of quality video games today. I don’t know what I would have done!

I had most of these titles from previous giveaways; Cyjin and Primal Light were new for me. I was hoping for One True Hero.

Doh... I missed free games again!

@FortniteJ regarding SwitchUP, I tried it today... and both of my bank cards (Visa and MasterCard) bounced off with the trademark nondescript "something went wrong". I even got a bunch of emails reporting payment failure and suggesting to "contact the bank" before trying again (the same bank I've poked multiple times over the last few months, every tech support agent swearing that they have no international payment hurdles factoring in and their systems aren't even detecting the transaction requests).

Cross-region purchases are evolving, just backwards.🍻