New Nintendo Switch Games This Week: Minecraft for Switch 2 Tops the eShop Drop — Week of October 29

Thursday means one thing for Nintendo fans — the eShop just got a fresh batch of games, and this week’s Nintendo Download for North America is stacked. Minecraft finally has a native Nintendo Switch 2 edition, Hello Kitty throws a party, a horror favourite crawls onto Switch in time for Halloween, and there are dozens more downloads, a few retail releases, three Game Boy classics and a big sale ending this weekend. Here is everything worth your time hitting the eShop this week.

Minecraft for Nintendo Switch 2

October 27 • Nintendo Switch 2 • $29.99

The best-selling game of all time finally gets a version built for Nintendo Switch 2. This edition adds the Vibrant Visuals graphics upgrade, with richer lighting and colour, and it bundles the Super Mario Mash-Up Pack with 15 tracks and 40 skins. Your existing worlds and saves carry over, and if you already own Minecraft digitally on Nintendo Switch, the Switch 2 upgrade is free. Watch the official launch trailer:

Hello Kitty Party Land

October 29 • Nintendo Switch 2 + Nintendo Switch • $49.99

Sanrio’s big party game lands this week with more than 140 characters to meet, 16 partner characters to team up with and more than 40 minigames to play. You can throw the party solo, or bring friends along in local and online multiplayer. Watch the official launch trailer:

Croc 2 Kingdom of the Gobbos

October 29 • Nintendo Switch • $29.99

The little green crocodile is back in this remastered sequel platformer. Baron Dante has returned, the Gobbos are in trouble again, and Croc has to jump, tail-whip and puzzle his way through another colourful adventure to save them.

PEAK

October 29 • Nintendo Switch 2 • $9.99

The hit co-op climbing game reaches Nintendo Switch 2. Work together, watch your stamina, help each other up the mountain — and try not to be the friend who slips at the worst possible moment.

Mouthwashing

October 29 • Nintendo Switch • $12.99

Perfectly timed for Halloween, this first-person horror story follows the doomed crew of the Tulpar freighter after a crash leaves them drifting in space with no rescue coming. It is short, strange and deeply unsettling in all the right ways.

STEINS;GATE RE:BOOT

October 29 • Nintendo Switch 2 + Nintendo Switch • $59.99

The beloved time-travel visual novel returns in a refined new edition, with refreshed presentation and a new worldline and ending to discover. If you have never bounced between worldlines with Okabe and the Future Gadget Lab, this is a polished place to start.

Cult of the Lamb – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition

October 29 • Nintendo Switch 2 • $24.99

Build your cult, appease the gods and dungeon-crawl as the possessed lamb, now in a dedicated Nintendo Switch 2 edition.

Darkest Dungeon II – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition

October 29 • Nintendo Switch 2 • $42.98

Red Hook’s gruelling roguelike road trip of the damned gets its own Nintendo Switch 2 edition. Form a party, keep their stress in check, and drive the stagecoach into a dying world.

Joe & Mac Retro Collection

October 29 • Nintendo Switch 2 + Nintendo Switch • $19.99

Three prehistoric platformers in one package: Caveman Ninja, Congo’s Caper and Joe & Mac 2: Lost in the Tropics. A neat, affordable slice of arcade and console history.

Look Outside

October 30 • Nintendo Switch 2 + Nintendo Switch • $9.99

A survival horror RPG set entirely inside one apartment building. Something outside the windows is changing everyone who looks at it, so you have to scavenge, fight and survive without ever stepping out — or looking too closely.

The Rest of This Week’s eShop Drop

Everything else hitting Nintendo Switch 2 and Nintendo Switch this week:

Nintendo Switch 2 Retail

• Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee Remastered (Nintendo Switch 2) • Nov 3 • $29.99
• Let’s Sing 2027 (Nintendo Switch 2) • Nov 3 • Price not listed

Nintendo Switch 2 Download

• ANOMALITH (Nintendo Switch 2) • Oct 29 • $49.99
• Arcade Archives 2 Ace Driver Victory Lap (Nintendo Switch 2) • Oct 29 • $16.99
• Burggeist for Switch 2 (Nintendo Switch 2) • Oct 29 • $12.00
• Console Archives Raiden Project (Nintendo Switch 2) • Oct 29 • $11.99
• Crymelight (Nintendo Switch 2) • Nov 4 • $19.99
• Fangtopia (Nintendo Switch 2) • Oct 29 • $12.99
• Glow Box (Nintendo Switch 2) • Oct 29 • $2.99
• Queen’s Domain (Nintendo Switch 2) • Oct 30 • $19.99
• Reel Fishing: Days of Summer Switch 2 Edition (Nintendo Switch 2) • Oct 29 • $39.99
• RV There Yet (Nintendo Switch 2) • Oct 29 • $7.99
• Tales from Toyotoki: Arrival of the Witch (Nintendo Switch 2) • Oct 29 • $29.99
• The Spectrum Retreat: Redux (Nintendo Switch 2) • Oct 29 • $12.99
• Tomb Raider: Definitive Survivor Trilogy (Nintendo Switch 2) • Oct 29

Nintendo Switch Retail

• Asylum (Nintendo Switch) • Oct 30 • $29.99
• Goodboy Galaxy (Nintendo Switch) • Oct 30 • $34.99
• The Cat in the Hat: Rainy Day Mayhem (Nintendo Switch) • Oct 30 • $39.99

Nintendo Switch Download

• Air Hares (Nintendo Switch) • Oct 29 • $4.99
• Arcade Archives Ace Driver Victory Lap (Nintendo Switch) • Oct 29 • $14.99
• Bella Umbrella and the Mysterious Garden (Nintendo Switch) • Oct 29 • $19.99
• Beyond the Evil (Nintendo Switch) • Oct 29 • $12.99
• DIY Dadish (Nintendo Switch) • Oct 29 • $15.00
• Glow Box (Nintendo Switch) • Oct 29 • $2.99
• Hellbound Inc (Nintendo Switch) • Oct 29 • $12.99
• Innocent Memory (Nintendo Switch) • Oct 31 • $24.99
• Isekai Princess: Monster Siege (Nintendo Switch) • Oct 29 • $14.99
• Kowloon’s Gate Suzaku (Nintendo Switch) • Oct 29 • $36.00
• Meiji Tokyo Renka Twilight Kiss (Nintendo Switch) • Oct 29 • $47.50
• Melting Attacker (Nintendo Switch) • Oct 29 • $1.26
• MeowPower Yachiyo (Nintendo Switch) • Oct 29 • $12.99
• Momolitos (Nintendo Switch) • Oct 29 • $7.99
• Olivia (Nintendo Switch) • Oct 29 • $3.99
• Pardon My French Toast (Nintendo Switch) • Oct 29 • $19.99
• Pinballoid Crush (Nintendo Switch) • Oct 30 • $11.99
• Scarlet Deer Inn (Nintendo Switch) • Oct 29 • $19.99
• SimsalaGrimm: The Chaos Crystal (Nintendo Switch) • Oct 29 • $19.99
• Slime Jump (Nintendo Switch) • Oct 29 • $2.49
• Tape to Tape (Nintendo Switch) • Oct 29 • $19.99
• The Last Cat in the Universe (Nintendo Switch) • Oct 29 • $6.99
• The Night of the Exorcism (Nintendo Switch) • Oct 30 • $6.99
• The Zibbo Show (Nintendo Switch) • Oct 29 • $19.99
• Titanium Court (Nintendo Switch) • Oct 29 • $14.99
• We Are Eva (Nintendo Switch) • Nov 4 • $4.99
• X-Force Genesis 2 (Nintendo Switch) • Oct 29 • $10.00

Game Boy – Nintendo Classics

Nintendo Switch Online members get three more Game Boy games this week in the Nintendo Classics library: Avenging Spirit, Mole Mania and Revenge of the ‘Gator.

Sale and Pre-orders to Watch

The Screaming Deals Sale is still running on the eShop, but not for long — it ends October 31 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Looking ahead, pre-orders are open for Stellar Blade Complete Edition, launching November 5 on Nintendo Switch 2, and Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy: Encore Edition, also launching November 5 on Nintendo Switch 2.

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