Axiom Verge 2, Garden Story, and more indies are surprise-dropping on Nintendo Switch today

There is no shortage of rad games on the Switch today

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Nintendo aired a game-packed Indie World Showcase today, highlighting a bunch oꦏf indie games coming to the system. And surprise, a lot of them are out today!

Of the many, many indies shown off during today’s stream, a whopping seven games are hitting the Nintendo eShop sometime today. Here’s a quick rundown of the list:

  • Necrobarista: Final Pour
  • Garden Story
  • Axiom Verge 2
  • Boyfriend Dungeon
  • Islanders: Console Edition
  • Slime Rancher: Plortable Edition
  • Curious Expedition 2

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The lineup of indie games hitting the Switch today is, frankly, pretty stellar. It’s a good mix of ports and brand-new games, and some surprisingly high-profile ones at that.

Axiom Verge 2 is the follow-up to indie Metroid-alike hit Axiom Verge, bringing a more melee-focused approach to combat and switching up some of the previous game’s conventions. Garden Story, meanwhile, is a Zelda-style adventure game about a heroic grape, and their journey to fight the darkness and restore their community. And it’s a grape. That’s adorable.

Boyfriend Dungeon turns your love interests and fleeting flames into weapons, mixing dating sim with dungeon-crawling. If you’ve ever been so enamored with a loot drop that you’d like to date it, well, here’s your shot.

Other games like IslandersCurious Expedition 2, and Slime Rancher: Plortable Edition bring some PC indie hits over to the Nintendo handheld. And let me draw special attention to Necrobarista, a quiet favorite indie of mine that mixes striking, kinetic visuals with text and occasional exploration. It’s a genuinely wonderful story that would make for perfect bedtime reading on the Switch. Plus, it’s about a coffee shop that exists between the real-world and the afterlife, and also ghosts and death.

Aside from just the “out-today” announcements, there were also a ton of other games confirmed to be coming to Nintendo Switch. Honestly, it’s a pretty good time to be an indie fan.


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