February 2018 - games, that were released this month for Nintendo Switch

Night in the Woods - release date for Nintendo Switch

Arcade, Platformer, Indie, Side view, Adventure, Exploration

February 1, 2018 → Nintendo Switch

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 87/100

Night in the Woods is an arcade side-scrolling indie platformer. The game tells the story of a twenty-year-old cat who was expelled from college for truancy. After...

SteamWorld Dig

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie, Side view, Metroidvania, Steampunk

February 1, 2018 → Nintendo Switch

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 80/100

SteamWorld Dig is a charming side-scrolling arcade action-platformer about a robotic miner named Rusty, who arrives in a small town with the goal of finding...

Crypt of the NecroDancer

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Music game, Tactics, Roguelike, Dungeons, Indie

February 1, 2018 → Nintendo Switch; February 8, 2018 → Nintendo Switch

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 86/100

Crypt of the NecroDancer is a unique indie game where everything moves to the rhythm of the music of Danny Baranowski, the composer of Super Meat Boy and the...

Shiftlings

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Cooperative (co-op)

February 1, 2018 → Nintendo Switch

Steam: 73/100

Metacritic: 66/100

Shiftlings is a platform puzzle game about two alien twins joined by a cable as they make their way through levels toward the goal. It can be played solo or...

Sky Force Reloaded

Shooter, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Free game, Arcade, Action

February 1, 2018 → Nintendo Switch

Players: 10/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 78/100

Sky Force Reloaded is an arcade scrolling shooter in which players pilot a combat aircraft through futuristic environments and battle enemy forces. Stages feature...

Mad Carnage

Action, Strategy, Isometric, Turn-based, Post-apocalyptic, Tactics, Indie

February 2, 2018 → Nintendo Switch

Players: 2/10

Steam: 85/100

Mad Carnage is a post-apocalyptic tactical strategy with an isometric camera view. The events of the game will take you to the times after the Great War, which...

Mercenary Kings

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

February 6, 2018 → Nintendo Switch

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 74/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Mercenary Kings is a side-scrolling run-and-gun platformer similar to games like SNK's Metal Slug series. Players can jump, crouch, roll, shoot in four directions...

Dandara

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle, Side view, Metroidvania

February 6, 2018 → Nintendo Switch

Players: 7/10

Metacritic: 72/100

Dandara is an adventure action-platformer with a side view. You will witness the story of a young girl named Dandara, who wakes up in a world unfamiliar to her and...

Dandara Trials of Fear

Side view, Action, Platformer, Adventure, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Metroidvania

February 6, 2018 → Nintendo Switch

Steam: 85/100

Dandara Trials of Fear is a side-scrolling fantasy action-adventure platformer. The citizens, once free-spirited, are now oppressed and isolated. But all is not...

Darkside Detective

Adventure, Side view, Point & Click, Detective

February 7, 2018 → Nintendo Switch

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Darkside Detective is a noir adventure detective story that contains references to the popular TV series Twin Peaks and True Detective. The events take place in the...

RunGunJumpGun

Arcade, Action, Side view, Indie, Platformer

February 8, 2018 → Nintendo Switch

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 78/100

RunGunJumpGun is a 2D platformer set in the Extax System, where a swelling sun is devouring planets. The player controls a scavenger from beyond the system’s...

Disc Jam

Arcade, Action, Sports game, Indie, Online

February 8, 2018 → Nintendo Switch

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Disc Jam is a sports arcade game dedicated to the fictional game of discus. You have to go to a field that is somewhat reminiscent of a tennis court, only instead...

Aegis Defenders

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Indie

February 8, 2018 → Nintendo Switch

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 75/100

Aegis Defenders is an adventure action-platformer with tower defense elements and a side view. You will embark on a journey to conquer a magical world overshadowed...

Mercenaries Saga Chronicles

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

February 8, 2018 → Nintendo Switch

Metacritic: 68/100

Mercenaries Saga Chronicles is a game collection of classic adventure role-playing games with turn-based combat in the Mercenaries Saga universe. The game includes...

Aperion Cyberstorm

Arcade, Shooter, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Action, Adventure, Indie

February 8, 2018 → Nintendo Switch

Aperion Cyberstorm is a dynamic top-down arcade shooter in a sci-fi setting. Having chosen the ship you like, you will have to survive in various arenas, destroying...

Dragon Quest Builders

Arcade, Action, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Role-playing game, Japanese role-playing game, Platformer

February 9, 2018 → Nintendo Switch

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Dragon Quest Builders — arcade sandbox with a third-person view in an open world in the Dragon Quest universe. The plot of the game will tell the sweet story...

Owlboy

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Side view

February 13, 2018 → Nintendo Switch

Players: 9/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 87/100

Owlboy is a side-scrolling arcade platformer with a pixel art style. The main character is an owl boy, capable of both running around locations and flying. In the...

Fall Part 2: Unbound

Action, Adventure, Side view, Indie

February 13, 2018 → Nintendo Switch

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 72/100

This side-scrolling action adventure continues the story of a dystopian world through the perspective of Arid, an AI infected by an unknown program. After breaking...

Longest Five Minutes

Role-playing game, Adventure, Top-down view, Anime / Manga, Turn-based

February 13, 2018 → Nintendo Switch

Steam: 69/100

Metacritic: 67/100

Longest Five Minutes is a top-down adventure RPG with Japanese-style turn-based combat. You have to try on the role of a hero who will oppose the very real forces...

Xeodrifter

Arcade, Platformer, Side view, Metroidvania, Indie

February 15, 2018 → Nintendo Switch

Players: 10/10

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 74/100

This side-scrolling metroidvania follows an interstellar drifter exploring a small cluster of four planets in the Omega sector. After a collision with a rogue...

Bayonetta

Action, Slasher, Third-person view, Adventure

February 16, 2018 → Nintendo Switch

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 87/100

Bayonetta is a fantastic action-slasher game with a third-person view. Bayonetta is the only survivor of an ancient clan of witches that maintained the balance...

Joe Dever's Lone Wolf: Blood on the Snow

Role-playing game, Adventure, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Visual novel, Indie

February 16, 2018 → Nintendo Switch

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 78/100

Joe Dever's Lone Wolf: Blood on the Snow is a fantasy RPG adventure in the style of a visual novel. Make meaningful choices and forge your own path in this epic...

FE (2018)

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Action, Puzzle, Fantasy

February 16, 2018 → Nintendo Switch

Players: 6.6/10

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 71/100

FE is a fantasy arcade platformer with a third-person view. You will play the role of a funny animal who travels through a mysterious forest with equally strange...

Bayonetta + Bayonetta 2

February 16, 2018 → Nintendo Switch

Metacritic: 90/100

Bayonetta + Bayonetta 2 brings together two games about the witch Bayonetta; in the sequel, she battles angels and demons across stylized combat sequences. The...

Bayonetta 2

Action, Slasher, Third-person view

February 17, 2018 → Nintendo Switch

Players: 8.3/10

Metacritic: 92/100

A third-person action slasher and sequel to Bayonetta, centered on large-scale battles against angels and demonic creatures. Its fights unfold amid fast-moving set...

Old Man's Journey

Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle, Side view, Casual game, Indie

February 20, 2018 → Nintendo Switch

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 78/100

Old Man's Journey is a side-scrolling puzzle-platformer adventure that puts you in the role of the titular old man as he travels to various locations and reminisces...

Layers of Fear: Legacy

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Survival

February 21, 2018 → Nintendo Switch

Players: 8.8/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Layers of Fear: Legacy — a special version of the psychological horror game with a first-person view for Nintendo Switch. Players will get into a huge mansion...

Radiation Island

Action, Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Survival

February 22, 2018 → Nintendo Switch

Players: 9/10

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 67/100

Radiation Island is an action-adventure game with a first-person view and horror elements. This is a game where you determine your own destiny in a huge open world...

Hollow

Action, Shooter, Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie

February 22, 2018 → Nintendo Switch

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 73/100

Metacritic: 36/100

Hollow is an indie shooter with horror elements and a first-person view in a fantasy setting. You are the pilot of the first mining spaceship. You wake up in an...

Pac-Man Championship Edition 2 Plus

Arcade

February 22, 2018 → Nintendo Switch

Metacritic: 80/100

An arcade game about navigating mazes, chomping through them and giving chase. Pac-Man Championship Edition 2 Plus builds on ideas from Pac-Man Championship Edition...

Membrane (2018)

February 22, 2018 → Nintendo Switch

Metacritic: 71/100

A creative-action puzzle game in which the player reshapes the world to solve challenges. Bridges, ladders and other structures can be built, bent or broken. The...

Typoman

Arcade, Platformer, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Logic, Side view, Indie

February 22, 2018 → Nintendo Switch

Players: 10/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Typoman is an unusual side-scrolling adventure puzzle platformer. The creators of Typoman were inspired by the biographies of dedicated writers. It will take you on...

Pac-Man Championship Edition 2

Arcade, Top-down view, Casual game

February 22, 2018 → Nintendo Switch

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 71/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Pac-Man Championship Edition 2 is an exciting sequel to the popular top-down arcade game starring Pac-Man. You will again have to return to the expanses of neon...

Payday 2

Online, Action, Shooter, First-person view, Cooperative (co-op)

February 23, 2018 → Nintendo Switch; February 27, 2018 → Nintendo Switch

Players: 8/10

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Payday 2 is a continuation of the cooperative online shooter with a first-person view. The main characters are still four robbers, each of whom wears memorable...

Toki Tori 2

In real time, Top-down view, Puzzle, Logic, Metroidvania, Open world, Side view

February 23, 2018 → Nintendo Switch

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 79/100

This open-world puzzle adventure follows Toki Tori, a young chicken tasked with saving a forest island from a floating crystal and strange pollution. Along the way...

The Final Station

Action, Platformer, Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Side view, Survival

February 23, 2018 → Nintendo Switch

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Action platformer in a post-apocalyptic setting. The player will have the opportunity to become a train driver in a desert world, carrying his passengers from...

Outlast

Action, Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Survival horror

February 27, 2018 → Nintendo Switch

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Outlast is an adventure horror game with a first-person view. The events of the game take place in the Mount Massive Asylum, which for a long time served as a home...

Outlast: Whistleblower

Action, Adventure, Horror, DLC, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie

February 27, 2018 → Nintendo Switch

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Outlast: Whistleblower is an add-on for the first-person horror adventure game Outlast. The add-on will tell the story of software engineer Waylon Park, who worked...

Bridge Constructor Portal

Arcade, Puzzle, Logic, Side view, Simulation, Strategy

February 28, 2018 → Nintendo Switch

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Bridge Constructor Portal is a driving crossover of the Bridge Constructor and Portal series. You will play the role of a new employee of the Aperture Science...