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[Nintendo Switch eShop] – 05.21 – 05.27

By Brett Hrin May21,2018
Nintendo eShop

Out This Week
On The eShop
05.21 – 05.27

Trax – Build it Race it
Trax - Build it Race it Box Art

Price – $14.99
Release Date – May 21, 2018
No. of Players – 2 players simultaneous
Category-  Racing, Arcade
Publisher – Sabec

Build fast, fun and challenging tracks with the track builder.

CREATE CLASSIC TRACKS
Mix it up with your own track designs. Choose pieces of track and assemble new and exciting circuits or pick one from the twelve included pre-built World race tracks.

RACE YOUR FRIENDS OR A DIGITAL FOE
Play against your friends or play against the smart artificial intelligence (AI) player, either way, winning won’t come easy.

THE CAR’S THE STAR
Choose from four classic cars, then customise your ride.

CHOOSE YOUR VIEW
Adjust your point-of-view mid-game to get the best view of the action.

 

Disco Dodgeball – REMIX
Disco Dodgeball - REMIX Box Art

Price – $11.99
Release Date – May 22, 2018
No. of Players – up to 8 players
Category – Arcade, Action, First Person
Publisher – Zen Studios
Developer – Zen Studios
Disco Dodgeball – REMIX is a ridiculous physics-based futuresport combining robots, one-hit-kill projectile combat and crazy dodgeball action. Dodge, deflect and catch enemy fire as you perform ridiculous aerial stunt shots with your mustachio’d unicycle robot and enjoy the voice of a booming monster truck driver announcer when you score! Play a wide variety of classic and expert game modes in singleplayer, local multiplayer, or online multilpayer matches.

Mega Man Legacy Collection
Mega Man Legacy Collection Box Art

Price – $14.99
Release Date – May 22, 2018
No. of Players – 1 player
Category – Action, Platformer
Publisher – Capcom

Mega Man Legacy Collection is a celebration of the 8-bit history of Capcom’s iconic Blue Bomber. Featuring faithful reproductions of the series’ origins with the original six Mega Man games, the Legacy Collection will remind long-time fans and introduce newcomers to what made Mega Man such a popular and iconic character.

FEATURES

  • Includes the six 8-bit classics that originally released on the Nintendo Entertainment System™ (Mega Man, Mega Man 2, Mega Man 3, Mega Man 4, Mega Man 5, and Mega Man 6)
  • Explore the series’ history with rare concept art and original promotional materials in Museum Mode.
  • Tackle stage remixes in Challenge Mode and compete against your friends for the fastest completion times on the online leaderboards.
  • Unlock additional trials in Challenge Mode using the Mega Man amiibo™!
  • A handy new Rewind feature gives players the option to instantly reverse gameplay, correcting unexpected pitfalls or deadly enemy encounters.
  • The new Turbo CPU Speed feature also lets players take advantage of the performance power of Nintendo Switch to reduce slowdown when the action gets intense.
  • The magic of Nintendo Switch allows you to play Mega Man at home or on the go!

 

Mega Man Legacy Collection 2
Mega Man Legacy Collection 2 Box Art

Price – $19.99
Release Date – May 22, 2018
No. of Players – 1 player
Category – Action, Platformer
Publisher – Capcom

4 Hits in 1 MEGA Package! There’s a ton of extra content in Mega Man Legacy Collection 2!

The Blue Bomber is back in this second collection of classic Capcom titles! Featuring faithful reproductions of Mega Man 7, 8, 9, & 10, this collection spans the iconic series’ evolution and retro revolution. Take on the nefarious Dr. Wily and his diverse Robot Masters in these timeless 8-bit, 16-bit, and 32-bit adventures!

Mega Man Legacy Collection 2 is bursting with additional content, including time trials, remix challenges, a music player, and an extensive gallery of rare illustrations. Also included are the additional modes originally released as DLC for Mega Man 9 and 10, featuring extra stages and playable characters. For anyone who wants a little extra help with these challenging classic platformers, you now have the option to reduce the amount of damage received.

 

Runner3
Runner3 Box Art

Price – $25.49
Release Date – May 22, 2018
No. of Players – 1 player
Category – Platformer, Music, Arcade, Action
Publisher – Choice Provisions
Developer – Choice Provisions

The rhythm-music gameplay of BIT.TRIP RUNNER and Runner2 is back and better than ever!

The Timbletot is determined to rid the multiverse of all its love and happiness. CommanderVideo, a lover if ever there were one, refuses to let this happen. He’s ready to jump, double-jump, wall-jump, slide-jump, slide, kick, float, drive, fly, and dance his way to victory, all across a medley of thrilling, challenging, and joyous levels!

Features:

  • Hero Quests! – Runner3 is filled with oddball characters in need of your help. Lend them a hand and they’ll reward you generously!
  • Vehicles! – Players will encounter wild vehicles that stand no chance of ever being deemed street legal. Eggplant planes! Celery cars! Cans propelled by carbonation! And so much more!
  • Branching Paths! – Every level in Runner3 offers branching paths of varying difficulties. Take the hard path and earn yourself some gems; opt for the normal path and line your pockets with precious gold bars. The choice is yours!
  • Retro Challenges! – A series tradition, every level in Runner3 has an accompanying “retro” level–it’s like two games for the price of one! These levels will also offer a series’ first: free movement! Control CommanderVideo in ways you never have before, and earn precious “Gildan” coins in the process!
  • Item Shop! – Players will be able to spend their hard-earned Gildans and gems on costumes, capes, accessories, and more. There are no in-game purchases in Runner3–keep your dang money!
  • New Playable Characters! – The Commanders are joined by friends new and old, including Dave of Woah Dave! fame, Unkle Dill, Frank ‘N Stein, Awnty Rewty, and more!
  • Charles Martinet! – Charles Martinet, known best as the voice of Mario, returns for his role of “The Narrator”

 

ACA NEOGEO TOP PLAYER’S GOLF
ACA NEOGEO TOP PLAYER'S GOLF Box Art

Price – $7.99
Release Date – May 24, 2018
No. of Players – 2 players simultaneous
Category – Sports, Arcade
Publisher – HAMSTER, Co.

The curtain rises on pro-golfers playing a splendid, quiet, but intense game!

“TOP PLAYER’S GOLF” is a sports game released in 1990 by SNK. Three modes, STROKE PLAY, MATCH PLAY, and NASSAU GAME, are available along with two types of courses. You’ll find yourself fully absorbed in this game’s immersive graphics and strategic skill planning.

The “ACA NEOGEO” series has faithfully reproduced many classic NEOGEO masterpieces.

Players can change various game settings such as game difficulty, and also reproduce the atmosphere of arcade display settings at that time. Players can also compete against each other from all over the world with their high scores.

 

Arcade Archives Ikki
Arcade Archives Ikki Box Art

Price – $7.99
Release Date – May 24, 2018
No. of Players – 2 players simultaneous
Category – Action, Arcade
Publisher – HAMSTER, Co.

Get the rice back! Help Ikki succeed against the cruel bailiff!

‘Ikki’ is an action game that was released from SUNSOFT in 1985.

Players control ‘Gombe’ of farmers, to go to raid evil magistrate, will defeat confronting enemies. In this work, players can enjoy ‘two coop play’. Player 2 will operate ‘Tago’.

‘In-Game Language: Japanese Only’

The “Arcade Archives” series has faithfully reproduced many classic Arcade masterpieces.

Players can change various game settings such as game difficulty, and also reproduce the atmosphere of arcade display settings at that time. Players can also compete against each other from all over the world with their high scores.

 

Baobabs Mausoleum Ep.1: Ovnifagos Don’t Eat Flamingos
Baobabs Mausoleum Ep.1: Ovnifagos Don't Eat Flamingos Box Art

Price – $5.99
Release Date – May 24, 2018
No. of Players – 1 player
Category – Adventure, Lifestyle, Communication, Other
Publisher – Zerouno Games
Developer – Celery Emblem

The town of Flamingo’s Creek is a place that appears every 25 years in Albatross Road, a neighborhood that only appears in nightmares.

Follow the FBI agent Watracio Walpurgis in his adventures trying to scape from this eerie and gooey village. Meet stranges and paranoids inhabitants, brake up your brain to solve puzzles in the most hilarius and surrealistic situations, defeat the Wendigo, get mad with cosmic laser chickens, scape from monsters that went out by the night to search ufos to eat, discover thousands of secrets…

Discover Baobab’s Mausoleum, a retro point and click adventure in J-RPG format that you will never forget.

Did I say Watracio is a vampire eggplant?

Creepy inhabitants and mysteries awaits…Welcome to Flamingo’s Creek: Population 64.

 

Discovery
Discovery Box Art

Price – $7.99
Release Date – May 24, 2018
No. of Players – up to 4 players
Category – Action, Adventure, Multiplayer
Publisher – noowanda

The ultimate block builder experience!

Explore a giant world made of blocks and modify it with your own creations. Construct houses, build entire villages, cities, monumental constructions or dig deep underground.

Place torches or design complex electric circuits to light up your creations in the dark and enjoy beautiful day and night cycles.

Build alone or together with friends in splitscreen multiplayer mode for up to 4 players.

  • Creative sandbox block-building experience: Create your own worlds with more than 250 unique materials.
  • Electric circuits: With light sensors, switches, wires and light bulbs.
  • Splitscreen Multiplayer: Build together with up to 3 friends.
  • Inking system: Customize the blocks with 16 different colors for your own look.
  • Easy accessibility: Suitable for children 6 years and older. No violence.
  • State of the Art graphics: Enjoy smooth visuals with shadows and modern effects.

 

Escape Game : Aloha
Escape Game : Aloha Box Art

Price – $5.99
Release Date – May 24, 2018
No. of Players – 1 player
Category – Adventure, Puzzle
Publisher – SilverStar
Developer – Silver Star Japan

Can You Escape This Place?

You are in a beautiful villa overlooking the sea in Hawaii. Find and combine items, solve puzzles, then escape! After the ending, play hide-and-seek with animals!? Can you find them all?

Features

  • There are many cute animals for kids to enjoy!
  • Easy for first-time players to begin. Take the challenge!
  • There are hints, so don’t worry!

How to Play the Game

  • Find the items hidden around the room, use them to solve puzzles, and open the exit to the room.
  • Move the cursor to search places where you sense something.
  • Solve puzzles and get items.
  • Select and examine some items to help you proceed to the next stage.
  • Check for clues in the MENU if you are stuck.

 

N++
N++ Box Art

Price – $14.99
Release Date – May 24, 2018
No. of Players – up to 4 players
Category – Platformer, Action, Arcade
Publisher – Metanet Software
Developer – Metanet Software Inc.

N++ is a fast-paced, momentum-based platformer about darting around obstacles, narrowly evading enemies and collecting gold in a beautiful minimalist landscape.

N++ is all about using your momentum to complete levels and get high scores, but in this sci-fi world, there’s a slew of inadvertently homicidal enemy robots trying to prevent you from completing your goal.

Through the hand-crafted (NOT procedurally generated) levels, you’ll experience platforming at its most intense. Using only your fluid movement, you need to ‘solve’ each level and get to the exit.

In addition to the lengthy and challenging single player campaign, we’ve packed a ton of features into this one last entry in the N series including:

  • 4340 hand-made levels
  • Custom Levels, Level Editor & Global Level Sharing
  • Leaderboards and replays for every level (even the ones you make)
  • Local Co-op Mode (up to 4 players)
  • Local Competitive Mode (up to 4 Players)
  • Hardcore Mode, an intense single-player challenge which only the best ninjas will survive
  • Intense, hidden Secret challenges to discover
  • 63 tracks by top electronic artists
  • 119 different color palettes let you customize the game’s look and keep it fresh every time you play
  • and more!

Play a little, or a lot — there’s no skill ceiling, so you can always get better and better. N++ is a game that has enough bite-sized gameplay to last you a lifetime.

 

Punch Club
Punch Club Box Art

Price – $14.99
Release Date – May 24, 2018
No. of Players – 1 player
Category – Simulation, Fighting, Strategy, Role-Playing
Publisher – tinyBuild Games

Train hard, fight crocodiles and find love.

Your father was brutally murdered before your eyes. Now you must train hard, eat chicken and punch dudes in the face to earn your place in the Punch Club ranks, and discover who ended your father’s life.

Punch Club is a boxing tycoon management game with multiple branching story lines. Your goal is clear, but how you get there depends on whether you want to legitimately climb the rankings, or take the more ridiculous, shady route.

Along the way you’ll want to focus your talents. Will you take the Way of the Tiger, the Way of the Turtle, or the Way of the Bear? Your strength, accuracy and agility all depends on whichever Way enlightens your path. Do you have stripes, or flippers?

And every decision will matter, especially in your social life. You’ll be juggling friendships, love life, work, recreational time, relationships, and possible stardom, all alongside your gym time and fighting alligators. It’s not all just pumping iron, you know.

– Fighter management sim with RPG and tycoon elements

– Find out who killed your father, and maybe learn something about yourself along the way

– Heavily story-driven, with multiple different narrative branches and game endings to discover

– Get as deep with stats as you like, and find your own way through extensive skill trees

– Gorgeous pixel visuals with 80-90s references and nostalgia all over the place

 

Zen Bound 2
Zen Bound 2 Box Art

Price – $14.99
Release Date – May 24, 2018
No. of Players – 1 player
Category – Puzzle, Lifestyle
Publisher – Secret Exit
Developer – Secret Exit Ltd.

This is an opportunity to slow down, zone out, and focus on a task that’s challenging but not stressful: a set of gentle spatial puzzles.

The goal of the game is to paint wooden sculptures by wrapping them with rope. You accomplish this by rotating the Joy-Con in your hands like it were the sculpture on the screen – a simple task with surprising complexity.

Zen Bound 2 is a calm and meditative gameplay experience, with tactile, dusty visuals and a sublime, enveloping soundtrack by the electronic artist ‘Ghost Monkey.’

FEATURES:

  • Motion controlled gameplay
  • Over 100 levels
  • Achievements
  • Exclusive 5.1 surround soundtrack
  • Beautiful high definition visuals

 

ATOMINE
ATOMINE Box Art

Price – $8.99
Release Date – May 25, 2018
No. of Players – 1 player
Category – Arcade, Action, Role-Playing
Publisher – MixedBag Srl
Developer – Broken Arms Games Pty Ltd

Procedural! Rogue-like! Twin stick shooter!

Atomine is a twin stick procedural rogue-lite shooter set in a virtual world with minimalist design, where the player recounts on the screen the real events of STUXNET, the first weapon ever created in the form of computer virus.

Fast and Fun
Atomine is fast. There are a lot of enemies and you have to kill all of them to complete the levels. But don’t worry, you have infinite ammo and a (great) modular weapon system.

Weapon System
In Atomine the player can modify his weapon using special modules that can be find in the game. The modules have effect to specific parts of the weapons: type of bullet, number of bullets, rate of fire and other mutators.

Procedurally Generated
During a run, the system can detect the intrusion and modify the game, so player must act quickly!

Boss Battle
There are not only “small” enemies. Atomine must also defeat big and powerful bosses

 

Dungeon Rushers
Dungeon Rushers Box Art

Price – $14.99
Release Date – May 25, 2018
No. of Players – 1 player
Category – Adventure, Strategy, Role-Playing, Fighting
Publisher – Plug In Digital
Developer – Goblinz Studio

Dungeon Rushers is a 2D tactical RPG combining dungeon crawler’s gameplay and turn based fights.

Manage your team, loot dusty dungeons, crush armies of monsters and craft mighty equipment. Be part of an epic adventure with a colorful cast of characters in an off-beat universe.

The Game:

Over the course of an epic quest, explore many dungeons and loot their guarded treasures. Build your own team by choosing the best hero combination to overcome traps and monsters lurking in the shadows.

Upgrade the skills of your heroes to make them even more fearsome and place them strategically to achieve victory.

Craft your equipment on your own with components gathered during your journey thanks to an advanced system consisting of six different craftsmen.

Complete dungeons and their bonus challenges to unlock the Heroic difficulty, where only the best can make their way to the treasure!

Features:

  • Campaign mode full of humor with various sound and graphic environments
  • Interactive exploration system
  • Revised turn based fights with a hint of nostalgia
  • Advanced team management (equipment, skills upgrade, in-fight position, …)
  • Wide range of skills to use (scout, heals, dodge, trap deactivation, monsters stalking)
  • Crafting system featuring many recipes to unlock
  • High replay value with a Heroic difficulty for each dungeon
  • Epic custom-made soundtrack

 

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