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New Indie Games Bring Even More Quality and Variety to Nintendo Switch in 2019
The Nintendo
Switch system has quickly become the go-to platform for indie
developers. As more and more top indie developers bring their creations
to Nintendo's console, they continue to deliver high-quality experiences
that can be played at home or taken on the go. A new Nindies Showcase
video today demonstrated the breadth of the Nintendo Switch indie
library and the enthusiasm developers have for the platform. This
includes the revelation of the rhythmic action-adventure game Cadence
of Hyrule - Crypt of the NecroDancer Featuring the Legend of Zelda
from Brace Yourself Games. That's in addition to announcements from
indie houses like Devolver Digital, bringing system-exclusive content
like Katana
ZERO and My
Friend Pedro, and new game reveals like RAD
from award-winning studio DOUBLE FINE PRODUCTIONS.
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In the latest rhythmic action-adventure from Brace Yourself Games, you can enjoy the gameplay of Crypt of the NecroDancer in the setting of The Legend of Zelda series. (Photo: Business Wire)
To view the Nindies Showcase video in its entirety, visit https://live.nintendo.com.
"Top indie developers look to Nintendo Switch to showcase their games to
a broad audience," said Steve Singer, Nintendo of America's Vice
President of Publisher and Developer Relations. "The diversity of indie
content we discussed today demonstrates how Nintendo Switch players can
find quality indie games of nearly any type."
The games discussed during today's video include:
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Cadence of Hyrule - Crypt of the NecroDancer Featuring the
Legend of Zelda: In the latest rhythmic
action-adventure from Brace Yourself Games, you can enjoy the gameplay
of Crypt of the NecroDancer in the setting of The Legend of
Zelda series. As Link or Princess Zelda, players explore randomly
generated overworld and dungeons on a quest to save Hyrule, and every
beat of the 25 remixed Legend of Zelda tunes is a chance to
move, attack, defend and more. From modern-looking Lynels to the
Hyrulean Soldiers of old, players must master the instinctive
movements of each pixel-art enemy and strategically outstep them in
rhythmic combat using an arsenal of iconic items from The Legend of
Zelda, as well as the spells and weapons from Crypt of the
NecroDancer. The game is scheduled to launch this spring.
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Cuphead:
Studio MDHR brings its run-and-gun action game to Nintendo Switch.
Inspired by cartoons of the 1930s, the visuals and audio are
painstakingly created with the same techniques of the era, such as
traditional hand-drawn cel animation, watercolor backgrounds and
original jazz recordings. The game launches on Nintendo Switch on
April 18.
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Stranger
Things 3: The Game: Play through and delve deeper
into the events of Stranger Things 3 in a retro-style adventure
game from BonusXP. Explore Hawkins, solve puzzles and team up with a
friend in local co-op to battle the emerging evils of The Upside Down
as one of twelve playable characters from the hit original series. The
game launches on Nintendo Switch on July 4, the same day the third
season debuts on Netflix.
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Red
Lantern: Timberline Studios, Inc., challenges
players to survive the Alaskan tundra with a team of five sled dogs.
The Musher becomes lost while training for the grueling Iditarod race
and must fend off bears, resist frostbite and take care of the dogs
while navigating the wilderness and trying to return home. The game is
coming to Nintendo Switch later this year.
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RAD: DOUBLE FINE PRODUCTIONS and BANDAI NAMCO
ENTERTAINMENT AMERICA INC. present a 3D action rogue-like set in a
post-post-apocalyptic world. As a teenage protagonist, players
must journey into the Fallow, an ever-changing, procedurally generated
wasteland that holds the secrets of the past and answers for the
future. Here, radioactive toxins wll randomly mutate your character,
giving you powerful new abilities that challenge you to constantly
adapt your play style. Using these abilities and your trusty bat, you
have been tasked with saving humanity's future by healing the world.
The game launches on Nintendo Switch this summer.
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Katana ZERO: Devolver Digital and askiisoft have
created a stylish neo-noir action-platformer featuring breakneck
action and instant-death combat. Players take on the role of an
assassin, the Dragon, to slash, dash and manipulate time to unravel
their past in a beautifully brutal acrobatic display. Players can
overcome the opposition however the situation requires, as each level
is uniquely designed for countless methods of completion. Deflect
gunfire back at foes, dodge oncoming attacks and manipulate enemies
and environments with traps and explosives. Leave no survivors. The
game launches on Nintendo Switch on April 18, and is available for
pre-purchase starting today.
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Nuclear
Throne: Vlambeer's post-apocalyptic roguelike-like
top-down shooter challenges players to fight their way through the
wastelands with powerful weaponry, collecting radiation to mutate some
new limbs and abilities. The game offers 12 playable characters, seven
playable main worlds, 30 ways to mutate characters and more than 120
weapons. The game launches on Nintendo Switch - today!
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Super
Crate Box: Vlambeer's Super Crate Box (News - Alert)
is coming to bring back the glory of the golden arcade age, when all
that really mattered was getting on that high score list. The Nintendo
Switch version will include exclusive two-player co-operative and
competitive multiplayer for even more arcade mayhem. Prepare for an
arcade delight with tight controls, refreshing game mechanics,
cracking retro art and a terribly hip chiptune soundtrack when Super
Crate Box launches in April.
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Vlambeer Arcade with ULTRABUGS: Vlambeer Arcade is a
collection of bite-sized games with a growing catalog that starts with ULTRABUGS,
a fast-paced, high-score-centric game in which players pilot a ship to
fight endless space bugs. The only problem is that those bugs then
split up into more space bugs when they're defeated. By beating
boss monsters, players will unlock enemy DNA that they can use to
customize their ship. Vlambeer Arcade with ULTRABUGS is coming
to Nintendo Switch later this year.
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My Friend Pedro: Devolver Digital and Deadtoast
deliver what is undoubtedly the first game about friendship,
imagination and one man's struggle to obliterate anyone in his path at
the behest of a sentient banana. Players unleash a torrent of
destruction with an incredible level of control over both their
weapons and body. They can twist and turn through the air while aiming
both hands at priority threats or lining up a perfect ricochet to drop
an unsuspecting gangster from behind. The game launches as a
system-exclusive on Nintendo Switch in June.
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Creature
in the Well: Flight School Studio challenges
players to this top-down, pinball-inspired hack-and-slash dungeon
crawler. Players venture deep into a desert mountain haunted by a
desperate Creature to restore power to an ancient facility by charging
energy orbs and having them bounce around and ricochet to reactivate
dormant machinery. They will uncover and upgrade powerful gear to help
them save the city of Mirage from a deadly sandstorm. The game
launches on Nintendo Switch this summer.
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Blaster
Master Zero 2: INTI CREATES CO. LTD. sets its
sequel months after the events of Blaster Master Zero. Jason
and Eve must venture into the depths of space to stop the mutant
infection that's slowly corrupting Eve's body. Thankfully, stopping
mutant outbreaks is Jason's specialty. The game launches on Nintendo
Switch - today!
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Pine:
Kongregate and Twirlbound offer a stirring open-world adventure with
beautiful biomes to explore, puzzles to solve and secrets to discover.
Players take on the role of Hue, a brave young adult who belongs to
the last remaining tribe of humans on the island of Albamare. The
island's factions trade and fight with each other over food and
territory, while Hue learns about ways to influence the ecology in
search for a new home for the humans. The game launches on Nintendo
Switch in August.
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Bloodroots:
Paper Cult delivers ultraviolence in a twisted Western revenge tale
with a deranged cast of characters. Betrayed and left for dead, Mr.
Wolf is hell-bent on finding his attacker and exacting revenge.
Players can choreograph spectacular, bloody combos by making use of
everything around them, from hatchets and ladders to … carrots? The
game launches on Nintendo Switch this summer.
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Overland:
Finji delivers a new game from Adam Saltsman, the creator of Canabalt.
In this turn-based survival game, players take care of a group of
travelers on a post-apocalyptic road trip across the United States.
Fight off scary creatures, rescue stranded survivors and scavenge for
supplies like fuel, first aid kits and weapons. There are consequences
for every action. The game launches on Nintendo Switch this fall.
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Darkwood:
Acid Wizard Studio and Crunching Koalas set their survivor horror game
in East-Central Europe, in a forest possessed by unknown evil forces
that corrupt all the inhabitants of the woods: people, animals and
even the plants. Players can get new powers by extracting a strange
essence from mutated fauna and flora and injecting it into their
bloodstream. The game builds an atmospheric, psychological feeling of
tension without the usual horror tricks of jump scares and creaking
doors. The game launches on Nintendo Switch in May.
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Neo
Cab: Fellow Traveller and Chance Agency offer an
emotional survival game about staying human in a world disrupted by
automation. Lina, the last human driver on the neon-drenched streets
of Los Ojos, California, interacts with a diverse cast of characters
with individual story arcs. Players must balance their income, sustain
a positive rating and manage their emotions, as fulfilling Lina's job
as a rideshare driver is the only way they might reunite with her best
friend Savy, who's mysteriously gone missing. The game launches on
Nintendo Switch this summer.
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Swimsanity!:
Decoy Games takes a deep dive with this multiplayer underwater shooter
with action-packed co-op and versus game modes, all supported by
online and local play. The game comes with an ocean of content, with
more than 150 challenges across eight game modes. Players can toggle
between classic dual-stick controls and motion aiming, whether they're
playing locally or online*. The game launches on Nintendo Switch this
summer.
To celebrate indie games (and their creators!), Nintendo is offering
discounts of up to 30 percent on select indie games currently available
in Nintendo eShop for Nintendo Switch. The sale runs from 10 a.m. PT on
March 20 until 8:59 a.m. PT on March 27, and includes standout games
like Firewatch
from Campo Santo Productions and Yoku's
Island Express from Villa Gorilla and Team 17.
Remember that Nintendo Switch features parental
controls that let adults manage the content their children can
access. For more information about other features, visit https://www.nintendo.com/switch/.
*Nintendo Switch Online membership (sold separately) and Nintendo
Account required for online play. Not available in all countries.
Internet access required for online features. Terms apply. https://www.nintendo.com/switch-online
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