Every Upcoming Nintendo Switch Game Releasing in 2024
21.03.2024 - 01:27
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The Nintendo Switch has entered what is likely its final year in the console market, and it appears to be going out in a blaze of glory with some exciting games to make way for its successor, the Nintendo Switch 2. Whether they’re exclusively developed for the Switch or ported over from other platforms, we’ve rounded up the upcoming Switch games that will make the hybrid console’s final year one of the most memorable.
The next release we've got coming down the pipeline is Princess Peach: Showtime, the Mushroom Kingdom monarch’s first solo game since Super Princess Peach was released on the Nintendo DS nearly 20 years ago. Then there’s the long-awaited remake of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD, World of Goo 2, and Epic Mickey: Rebrushed, just to name a few amazing titles that were announced in last month’s Nintendo Direct: Partner Showcase and prior. Here are all the new Switch games we can look forward to in 2024.
Princess Peach takes the spotlight in Princess Peach: Showtime, an adventure game in which she and her band of Toads must save Sparkle Theater from the clutches of the Grape and the Sour Bunch. Every level has Peach changing her costume, which changes the gameplay style depending on what she’s wearing. For example, Swordfighter Peach turns gameplay into a hack ‘n slash, Patisserie Peach introduces a baking minigame in which you decorate cakes and stack carts with cookies, and Mermaid Peach takes you underwater. Whatever her costume, she’ll teach those baddies not to mess with the princess.
Cartman, Kyle, Stan, Kenny, and all the other kids are having the best day off from school in South Park: Snow Day. In this four-player co-op, you play as the New Kid, whom you can customize any way you choose, and battle it out in a big game of medieval make-believe. It’s like The Stick of Truth, but Trey Parker and Matt Stone set it in a snowy winter wonderland.
From Ahr Ech and Devolver Digital comes Pepper Grinder, a 2D fast-paced platformer in which you can dig for treasure using your drill. You play as Pepper, a treasure-hunting pirate who sets out to retrieve her lost loot after a group of narwhal-type creatures make off with it following a storm that wrecked her ship and left her on an unfamiliar island. You can use the drill, named Grinder, to travel underground, power various vehicles, and solve environmental puzzles along the way.
Freedom Planet 2, originally released on PC in September 2022, is coming to the Nintendo Switch to give players a chance to play the sequel to the Sonic-inspired game at home and on the go. Play as Lilac, Carol, Milla, and Neera Li as they battle an army of robots led by Merge, a water dragoness hellbent on revenge for atrocities committed during