Finest video games from the August Nintendo Direct

Identical to the previous couple of Nintendo Directs, we had been explicitly advised to not count on any information in regards to the Switch successor throughout the newest Indie and Accomplice showcase. Whereas that may be an odd place for Nintendo to announce new {hardware}, followers are so anticipating the new console that I am certain loads of individuals would nonetheless get their hopes up. As an alternative, this 40-minute double-feature centered on a ton of implausible video games that may ensure your Swap would not collect mud for the remainder of 2024.

Indie World is a good highlight for these smaller video games and groups that so typically get buried and misplaced within the stampede of big-budget video games with large advertising and marketing campaigns, and this showcase gave us a pleasant number of totally different kinds and tones to take a look at. Should you, like me, had been relying on Silksong being current, properly, the anticipate that may be extra painful than the Switch 2 . After Indie World, a daily Accomplice showcase gave us a couple of new appears and bits of details about non-Nintendo video games on the way in which within the close to future. Most had been video games we already knew about, however with some new appears and launch dates to get us excited. Let’s go over 5 of essentially the most thrilling bulletins from the whole occasion.

1 Yakuza Kiwami

Be like a dragon on the go

We have been ready so lengthy for the Yakuza video games on Swap that the whole sequence has modified its identify to Like a Dragon. Whereas I might’ve appreciated Yakuza 0 extra as the primary entry, Kiwami is well the second-best selection. This can be a full remake of the unique PS2 recreation and follows Kazuma Kiryu on his dramatic journey via Japan’s felony underworld. It comes on October 24, which is simply in time for the Amazon adaptation.

2 Moth Kubit

Creepy firm horror Spring 2025

I am a complete sucker for distinctive horror video games, and Moth Kubit appears like the subsequent recreation I will not shut up about. The trailer confirmed off a couple of of the techniques and mechanics that draw from journey video games, RPGs, and even rhythm video games. There’s additionally a really off-beat plot with characters I am unable to wait to fulfill and work together with. It’s giving me numerous Undertale vibes blended with the unsettling nature of bugs. If it will possibly handle to drag off an awesome story, good creeps, and powerful music and presentation, I believe this might be a darkish horse for when it comes out subsequent yr.

3 Pizza Tower

Greater than a meme

When you’ve got any nostalgia for 90s cartoons or SNES platformers, Pizza Tower is a must-play in your Swap. This recreation has that delightfully gross animation type and virtually too fast-to-control velocity and momentum that makes it really feel like a recreation that is falling aside on the seams. It isn’t only a meme-game, both. This can check your response velocity, sample recognition, and talent to carry out below stress once you set off Pizza Time on the finish of every stage and have to race backwards to the start earlier than a large pizza face catches you. With loads of ranges, secrets and techniques, bosses, and unlockables, there’s numerous sauce on this pie.

4 SpongeBob Squarepants: The Patrick Star Recreation

Patrick’s time to shine

It is a little bit insulting that SpongeBob will get prime billing on Patrick’s first recreation, however it’s what it’s. For all of the followers of the lovable pink starfish, your cries have been answered and Patrick is getting his personal recreation. Set in an open-world Bikini Backside, you possibly can go by yourself chaotic rampage via the city on this physics sandbox. Somewhat than a predominant plot or ranges, the sport seems to be centered round doing small challenges or trials utilizing the varied techniques. The sport guarantees cameos from all the enduring characters, callbacks to the present, and loads of outfits to unlock when it launches on October 4.