PAW Patrol: Dino World (Outright Games, 2nd Oct, $39.99) – ROARR! Sounds like trouble… Did that come from Dino Island? Mayor Humdinger is causing chaos, making the dinosaurs scared and run away. Leap into colossal rescue missions with Chase, Marshall, Rubble, Skye, Rocky, and Zuma. Explore the Dino Plains and care for dinos at the Paleo Center. Drive across the shores and jungle to discover collectibles.
Viractal: Will You Trust Your Party? Nintendo Switch 2 Edition (Sting, 1st Oct, $27.98) – Your journey begins with a single roll of the dice. A board game-style adventure where heroes journey through the miniature world of “Viractalia. ” Your movement depends on the roll of the dice—but the key to victory lies in your hand and how you build your deck! Embark on your own unique adventure in a world where strategy and luck are perfectly intertwined!
Switch 1 eShop – New Releases
Aery – Calm Horizon 2 (EpiXR Games, 1st Oct, $4.99) – This game is an interactive game experience that is designed to relax your mind and soul. You jump into the role of a little bird, explore beautiful landscapes and collect magical crystals that mark certain landscapes. Because there are no enemies or any other danger in this game you will be able to lean back and enjoy the scenery and the sensation of flying. It is a great game for relaxing and calming down after an exhausting day full of hassle.
Boreal Tenebrae Act 0 (REDDEER.GAMES, 1st Oct, $2.99) – Tamarack Narrows is a town running out of time – fading industry, mounting resentment, and a blood-red aurora bleeding across the sky. On the night of a centennial celebration meant to save it all, an unknown visitor arrives promising salvation, and brings something far older instead. Play through the interwoven perspectives of Sarah Walker, her sister Bree, and the townsfolk caught in the town’s final, unraveling night. Blending retro-style visuals, VHS-style distortion, and fixed-camera exploration, Act 0 stands on its own – no prior knowledge of the series required. This is the night the story begins. This is the night Tamarack Narrows changed forever.
Cat Magnifier (RandomSpin Games, 1st Oct, $4.99) – CAT MAGNIFIER Two cats sit side by side. One is correct. The other has been stretched, swollen, twisted, flattened, or bent in ways that should not be possible. Your job is simple: make them match. Use twelve different lenses to reshape the specimen in real time. Magnify, shrink, widen, flatten, swirl, bulge, pinch, shear, ripple, or erase distortions completely. Move, rotate, and resize each lens until the two cats line up perfectly.
Down Pit (Tackorama, 1st Oct, $19.00) – Down Pit is a relaxed mining platform game set across many off-world underground locations. You are a cuboid mining unit with a singular skill set sent out to extract ore from strange underground places. Dig. Get Paid. Upgrade. Relax, maybe. Collect. Go Back Down Pit. Dig. Find your favourite location and dig all the ore. Return to Ore Processing and get paid. All the pit locations from The Depot can be remined infinitely, for free – no unlocks, bail at any time with no penalty.
EGGCONSOLE Nyan Pi MSX2 (D4 Enterprise, 1st Oct, $7.34) – This action-puzzle gem originally debuted in 1990 as part of COMPILE’s Disc Station DX #3. The rules are deceptively simple: choose your favorite from eight adorable kittens and jump into the action. Your mission? Pop every balloon on the map and make your way to the goal (which looks suspiciously like a trash can! ). While it may look easy at first glance, the true heart of the game lies in its meticulously crafted puzzles.
Funi Raccoon Game (The Crayon Eating Company, 2nd Oct, $11.99) – Funi Raccoon Game, a 3D Platformer Collectathon. You play as a raccoon who has recently acquired a new home (Dumpster). Home is where the stuff is, but your home is pretty empty. Fill up your dumpster with cool, unique stuff. The more stuff you have, the more places you can go! Travel the lands, “help” the locals, and solve puzzles — all in the aim to get more stuff!?!
Highway Blossoms: Gold Rush Edition (Sometimes You, 7th Oct, $15.99) – This is the Gold Rush edition of the game, which includes both the base game and Next Exit DLC in one release! Highway Blossoms is a yuri kinetic novel set in the American Southwest. After an old gold rush miner’s journal is discovered, supposedly detailing where he hid parts of his stash, a nationwide craze begins as would-be prospectors try to solve its clues and strike it rich.
KESU-JI (peakvox / O-TWO, 1st Oct, $4.49) – Aim for the top of the World Rankings in each mode! Your scores are accumulated into a Total Score to compete in the overall rankings. Use your Total Score to unlock rewards: perks that give you an edge, or new skins and music for a change of pace. Enjoy a satisfying merging experience set in a chill, relaxing atmosphere!
Larcin Lazer (Seaven Studio, 28th Sep, $5.99) – In this puzzle game combining action and stealth, your memory will be your best tool! Remember the location of the lasers, they disappear as soon as you move. Avoid deadly lasers with style, steal from the richest and save your cat. Larcin Lazer is a puzzle game in which your memory is put to the test. Each level is filled with lasers that disappear as soon as you start moving. Move discreetly, relying on your memory to get to the end of the course. Be careful, lasers are not the only dangers standing in your way!
Mel The Pyramid Cat (Brainium Games, 24th Sep, $6.99) – Explore ancient pyramids with Mel in this cute and challenging 2D platformer! Conquer 40 handcrafted levels, dodge deadly traps, escape the mummy Theo, and uncover hidden treasures.
Mel The Space Cat (Brainium Games, 24th Sep, $6.99) – Help Mel survive her cosmic journey in this cute and challenging 2D platformer! Explore 40 handcrafted space levels, dodge alien traps, escape Theo, and overcome dangerous planets.
Mister Scary – Where Are You? (Ratalaika Games, 2nd Oct, $5.99) – In this halloween themed game you will play as Mister Scary a purple monster that has lost his family. Make your way through the creepies and crawlies of a strange land to find them! Directly inspired by a toddler´s imaginary friend, and brought to life by calgames. When ducking, Mister Scary takes a nap and becomes immune to damage.
Monster Nursery (MifaGames, 1st Oct, $7.19) – 1. Hatch Eggs: Obtain juvenile monsters of random rarities 2. Raise Monsters: Wait for juvenile monsters to grow up 3. Sell Monsters: Sell monsters after they mature 4. Collect: Complete 100 × 2 monster handbook entries 5. Music: Enjoy relaxing Lo-fi music while idling 6. Offline Progress: Monsters continue to grow and earn income even while you’re away
Muchi Muchi Pork! & PinkSweets Boosted (Clear River Games, 1st Oct, $35.99) – MUCHI MUCHI PORK! & PINKSWEETS BOOSTED With this collection, you’re not just getting one fantastic shoot ’em up, but two! This Boosted re-release features a fully arranged soundtrack with brand new tracks from a fresh lineup of arrangers. (These differ from the 2011 console version. ) In addition, you get several different game modes, including Arcade and Arrange, Online Rankings that let you compete with players worldwide, and Local Replay Support where you can save your best runs for review. A tasty deal indeed!
Quern – Undying Thoughts (Blue Brain Games, 6th Oct, $13.49) – Quern – Undying Thoughts is a first-person puzzle adventure about exploring a place and slowly coming to understand it. The puzzles are not isolated boxes to tick off. A mechanism you learn in one building turns up again somewhere else, and the island rewards you for thinking about it as a whole rather than one room at a time.
SEEK (Happy Player, 1st Oct, $13.49) – In this unique survival horror game, classical music intertwines with psychological terror to create an oppressive, chilling atmosphere. You play Alice, an ordinary girl who wakes up to find herself trapped in a bizarre, ever-changing world. A snowbound orphanage, monsters lurking in the shadows, and intricate puzzles—every step is fraught with danger and uncertainty. To survive, you must gather supplies, evade pursuit, and uncover the secrets hidden in the darkness. But as the truth gradually comes to light, can you bear the cruel reality behind it all?
Sip Fisher (Alchemy Games, 7th Oct, $5.99) – Have you ever wanted to drink an entire lake through a straw? Well now you can in this cozy incremental fishing game! There’s so much to sip in the lake, so upgrade your straw, drink up schools of fish, and maybe find what’s at the bottom of the Lake! Sip Fisher is an incremental fishing game about draining a lake of all its water.
Skel the Heroes Hunter: Trap Dungeon! (TROOOZE, 24th Sep, $19.99) – Become the skeleton. Defend your dungeon. Hunt the heroes. An acclaimed indie title recognized for its achievements! ・Winner — Excellent Game of the Month, Indie Game Category ・Selected for INDIE CRAFT TOP 50 In countless games, the hero is the one who storms into the dungeon and slays the monster. This one flips that formula on its head. The dungeon belongs to a small skeleton named Skel, and the heroes marching toward it are nothing more than trespassers on his turf. The moment the hunted becomes the hunter, you’ll find yourself in an entirely new kind of hack-and-slash roguelite RPG, one with a wildly different point of view.
Sorcerer’s Servant SweetWitch (2202GAMES, 1st Oct, $14.99) – As a sorcerer’s servant, you’ll strategically use weapons and items to gain the upper hand in battle. Featuring deck-building mechanics, the items you acquire appear on the slot reels and power up through chain combos. You can experiment with a variety of strategies—like healing endlessly with herbs, or maxing out your attack power to one-shot your enemies. Plus, it features a highly unique gameplay system where getting a “Game Over” actually progresses the story.
Soup Weather (GiantMargarita, 1st Oct, $5.00) – Soup Weather is a short narrative exploration game in which you play as Bean, she’s unemployed, doesn’t seem to have any hobbies and all she does to fill up her time is talk to her neighbors. Over a week, you’ll explore the town, play mini games, and get to know the characters as Bean’s mental health starts to slip. Watch relationships blossom or crumble as you discover Bean’s story.
Tales from The Dancing Moon (DjMonkey, 1st Oct, $17.99) – After the events of a shadow-beast invasion on a seaside town, complete villager quests and find hidden diaries to understand your role in this mysterious character-driven story. From The Dancing Moon Inn to the Stoknel Swamp regions. Explore both hand-crafted and procedural zones with seasonal and weather effects, providing different moods as time progresses throughout the game.
Viractal: Will You Trust Your Party? (Sting, 1st Oct, $19.99) – Viractal is a board game-style RPG featuring procedurally generated maps that change with every playthrough, as well as randomized enemy and event placements that deliver a high level of replayability. Set in the mysterious world of “Viractalia,” players use card decks and dice to build strategies and forge their own path through adventure. A challenging adventure awaits, where success depends on strategic deck-building and making the right decisions in every situation. The game also supports online multiplayer. By planning strategies and working together with friends, players can enjoy a cooperative experience that offers a different kind of excitement and fun from solo play.
EXTRA EXTRA! Three discounted Switch eShop games to consider this week…
None of the above floating your boat? Here’s a trio of intriguing old games on sale this week – not necessarily The Best™ or The Highest Scoring™, but Switch games that still deserve your attention, especially when they’re discounted.
Castlevania Advance Collection – $19.99 $5.99 until 8th October
Masses of great games on sale this week, but seeing as I’m in a ‘Vania mood, let’s go with one of Konami’s Collections. I’ve gone with the GBA one, because Aria of Sorrow, but the others are on offer, too ($3.99 for Anniversary, 12.49 for Dominus).
