August 2020 - games, that were released this month for Nintendo Switch

Skully - release date for Nintendo Switch

August 4, 2020 → Nintendo Switch

Steam: 71/100

Metacritic: 63/100

After a skull washes ashore on a secluded island, a deity brings it back to life with magical clay. Skully hops, skips and rolls through varied island habitats...

West of Dead

Shooter, Isometric, Adventure, Roguelike, Replayability, Horror

August 5, 2020 → Nintendo Switch

Players: 7.4/10

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 71/100

West of Dead is a fast-paced adventure shooter with an isometric camera view. Together with the dead William Mason, you can plunge into the gloomy world of the Wild...

Swimsanity!

Arcade, Board / Group Game, Side view, Cooperative (co-op), Online, Action, Indie

August 6, 2020 → Nintendo Switch

Players: 6.7/10

Steam: 100/100

Swimsanity! is a cooperative underwater shooter with a side view. Together with your friends you will go to conquer the wonderful world of the ocean, where...

Aery - Broken Memories

Adventure, Indie, Third-person view, Arcade, Racing, Action, Casual game

August 6, 2020 → Nintendo Switch

Steam: 80/100

Aery. Broken Memories is a relaxing indie adventure where you enter another person's mind as a little bird to help them wake up from a coma. As you move through...

Drink More Glurp

Indie, Action, Side view, Casual game

August 6, 2020 → Nintendo Switch

Players: 7.4/10

Steam: 89/100

Drink More Glurp is an indie action game with a side view. After binge-watching Earth TV, the aliens are convinced that advertising is the most important part of...

King of Fighters R-2

Arcade, Action, Fighting, Third-person view, Anime / Manga

August 7, 2020 → Nintendo Switch

Metacritic: 71/100

A fighting game in the King of Fighters series, with selectable fighters and two-player battles. In Making Mode, players create a custom character and choose their...

Metamorphosis

Arcade, Platformer, First-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Adventure, Puzzle

August 12, 2020 → Nintendo Switch

Players: 7.1/10

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 69/100

Metamorphosis is an adventure platformer with a first-person view in a fantasy setting. One day, the main character Gregor, waking up in the morning, finds himself...

Faeria

Strategy, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Card game, Free game, Tactics, Online

August 13, 2020 → Nintendo Switch

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Faeria is a card-based tactical strategy game in a fantasy setting. You have to fight on a playing field consisting of hexagons, mine gold and mana, acquire...

Darkestville Castle

Adventure, Side view, Point & Click, Hidden Objects

August 13, 2020 → Nintendo Switch

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Darkestville Castle is a colorful 2D classic quest with a side view. The game tells the story of Sid, an evil orphan demon who found refuge in the village of...

Double Kick Heroes

Arcade, Music game, Post-apocalyptic, Side view, Zombies, Shooter

August 13, 2020 → Nintendo Switch

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Double Kick Heroes is a fiery mix of shooter and musical rhythm game. You have to fight for your life, shooting back from opponents on the steep Gundillac on the...

Bite the Bullet

Action, Adventure, Arcade, Indie, Platformer, Side view, Role-playing game, Cooperative (co-op)

August 13, 2020 → Nintendo Switch

Players: 6.8/10

Steam: 52/100

Metacritic: 64/100

Bite the Bullet is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer with RPG elements. In this game you have to eat opponents in order to upgrade your character...

Manifold Garden

Puzzle, Logic, Indie, First-person view, Exploration

August 18, 2020 → Nintendo Switch

Players: 7/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Manifold Garden is an atmospheric puzzle game from independent developer William Chir. The game is imbued with the creativity of the surrealist artist Escher. The...

Raji: An Ancient Epic

Role-playing game, Action, Isometric, Adventure, Exploration

August 18, 2020 → Nintendo Switch

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Raji: An Ancient Epic is an isometric action role-playing game in a fantasy setting. The setting is based on Hindu and Balinese mythologies. The game takes you into...

Evergate

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle, Indie, Side view

August 18, 2020 → Nintendo Switch

Players: 7.1/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Evergate is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer. The events of the game take place in an amazing afterlife, where two souls have to change their fate and...

Spiritfarer

Simulation, Business / Management, Side view, Adventure, Indie, Strategy, Cooperative (co-op), Construction

August 18, 2020 → Nintendo Switch

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 100/100

Metacritic: 84/100

Spiritfarer is a fun management simulator with a side view that tells the story of death. You take on the role of a ferryman for the dead and build your own ship to...

A Short Hike

Adventure, Indie, Logic, Arcade, Exploration

August 18, 2020 → Nintendo Switch

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 99/100

Metacritic: 85/100

A Short Hike is an adventure arcade game with a top-down view. The game will take you to the expanses of the colorful mountains of Hawk Peak Provincial Park. You...

Helheim Hassle

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle, Side view, Indie

August 18, 2020 → Nintendo Switch

Players: 6.5/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Helheim Hassle is an adventure game with puzzle elements. The player controls a pacifist Viking named Bjorn, who has a unique ability — he can detach and...

Ellipsis

Arcade, Action, Indie, Shooter

August 20, 2020 → Nintendo Switch

Steam: 96/100

Ellipsis — A top-down neon skydiving shooter where you control a futuristic spaceship. The main task — Avoid all sorts of obstacles on your way. In the...

Gleamlight

Arcade, Side view, Adventure, Action, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

August 20, 2020 → Nintendo Switch

Players: 5.3/10

Steam: 37/100

Metacritic: 42/100

Gleamlight is a side-scrolling indie adventure platformer set in a dark fantasy setting. You will set off to conquer the amazing stained glass world to unravel the...

Peaky Blinders: Mastermind

Logic, Puzzle, Isometric, Stealth, Tactics, Strategy, Adventure, Indie

August 20, 2020 → Nintendo Switch

Players: 7.3/10

Steam: 76/100

Metacritic: 63/100

Peaky Blinders: Mastermind is an adventure puzzle game based on the Peaky Blinders series. The game takes place before the events of the first season of the series...

Chinese Parents

Arcade, Adventure, Simulation, Indie, Role-playing game, Anime / Manga, Casual game

August 20, 2020 → Nintendo Switch

Steam: 92/100

Chinese Parents is a fun life simulator that explores the relationships between children and parents. You have to get used to the role of an ordinary child and go...

Inmost

Action, Adventure, Horror, Platformer, Indie, Side view, Exploration

August 21, 2020 → Nintendo Switch

Players: 9.4/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Inmost is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer with horror elements. The events of the game take place in two parallel worlds in which three brave main...

Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time

Action, Platformer, Slasher, Arcade, Adventure

August 21, 2020 → Nintendo Switch

Players: 9/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time is a colorful platformer based on the animated series “Samurai Jack”. The events of the new slasher take place before the final...

PGA Tour 2K21

Sports game, Golf, Third-person view, Simulation

August 21, 2020 → Nintendo Switch

Players: 7.2/10

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 75/100

PGA Tour 2K21 is a realistic golf simulator from a third-person perspective. This installment features a new career mode where you can compete for the FedEx Cup...

Paratopic

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Indie, Old school

August 21, 2020 → Nintendo Switch

Steam: 78/100

Atmospheric first-person horror with a surreal story and intentionally low-polygon graphics. The plot connects the fates of three strangers, whose stories gradually...

One Line Coloring

Puzzle, Logic

August 21, 2020 → Nintendo Switch

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 74/100

A puzzle game set in a pastel world, where connecting dots reveals pictures of objects. Players complete colorful dioramas based on a classic paper...

Children of Morta: Paws and Claws

Role-playing game, DLC, Fantasy / Medieval, Roguelike, Side view, Adventure, Indie

August 24, 2020 → Nintendo Switch

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 95/100

Children of Morta: Paws and Claws is a top-down RPG expansion set in a fantasy setting. Night hunters, creatures of the day. They howl, growl, hiss, and snarl: but...

Sense: A Cyberpunk Ghost Story

Adventure, Horror, Futurism (Future), Cyberpunk, Side view, Survival horror

August 25, 2020 → Nintendo Switch

Players: 6.7/10

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 55/100

Sense: A Cyberpunk Ghost Story is a side-view horror adventure in cyberpunk style. The game takes place in 2083 in Neo-Hong Kong. The main character is a young girl...

No Straight Roads

Action, Adventure, Slasher, Music game, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Exploration

August 25, 2020 → Nintendo Switch

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 71/100

No Straight Roads is a musical action-slasher game with a third-person view. The game tells the story of an independent rock band that goes up against a powerful...

Giraffe and Annika

Adventure, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Action, Indie, Platformer, Music game, Fantasy / Medieval, Arcade

August 25, 2020 → Nintendo Switch; August 28, 2020 → Nintendo Switch

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 65/100

Giraffe and Annika is a third-person action-adventure platformer with Japanese-style rhythm game elements. You will learn the story of an anthropomorphic cat named...

Street Power Football

Sports game, Football, Third-person view, Simulation, Arcade

August 25, 2020 → Nintendo Switch

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 50/100

Metacritic: 41/100

Street Power Football is a dynamic sports arcade game dedicated to street football. The game has several modes and areas where you can play with the legends of...

World of Tanks Blitz

Action, Strategy, In real time, Third-person view, Tanks, Free game, Shooter

August 26, 2020 → Nintendo Switch

Players: 5.9/10

Steam: 74/100

Metacritic: 83/100

Multiplayer tank action from a third person perspective. The game has more than 90 legendary historical combat vehicles from three playable nations: the USSR, the...

Moon: Remix RPG Adventure

Role-playing game, Adventure, Third-person view, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Fantasy / Medieval, Exploration

August 27, 2020 → Nintendo Switch

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Moon: Remix RPG Adventure is a role-playing adventure set in a world of characters with unusual personalities and distinctive ways of communicating. Their traits...

The Last Campfire

Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle, Indie

August 27, 2020 → Nintendo Switch

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 97/100

Metacritic: 82/100

The Last Campfire — an adventure action game with various puzzles and a third-person view from the creators of No Man's Sky. You will play as a cute ember...

Skyhill: Black Mist

Action, Adventure, Horror, Isometric, Survival

August 27, 2020 → Nintendo Switch

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 41/100

Skyhill: Black Mist — the continuation of the captivating adventure Skyhill with survival elements and an isometric camera view. The main character wakes up in a...

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Remastered Edition

Role-playing game, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Anime / Manga

August 27, 2020 → Nintendo Switch

Players: 6.8/10

Metacritic: 60/100

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Remastered Edition is a remaster of the popular turn-based role-playing game in the fantasy universe of Final Fantasy. The game...

Hypnospace Outlaw

Adventure, Simulation, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Historical, Benchmark program, Point & Click, Detective

August 27, 2020 → Nintendo Switch

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 84/100

Hypnospace Outlaw is an unusual 90s internet simulator with pixel graphics and text game elements. The player explores various websites, monitors mail receipts, and...

Best Friend Forever

Visual novel, Indie, Casual game

August 27, 2020 → Nintendo Switch

Steam: 70/100

Metacritic: 60/100

A pet-care and dating simulation set in Rainbow Bay. The player trains, pets, and plays with a dog to build a lasting bond, while meeting and pursuing relationships...

Witcheye

Adventure, Casual game, Arcade

August 27, 2020 → Nintendo Switch

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 70/100

A platformer about a mild-mannered witch who turns into a flying eyeball to seek revenge on a knight and wizard who stole her spell ingredients. The adventure spans...

Jump Force

Action, Fighting, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Anime / Manga

August 28, 2020 → Nintendo Switch

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 59/100

Jump Force is a dynamic fighting game with a third-person view, uniting heroes from many different game universes, including heroes from the series of games and...