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Nintendo Switch 2 games

  • Hades IIHades II arrived without warning on the 5th of May 2024, and a rival studio rearranged its calendar because of it. Evil Empire had planned to release The Rogue Prince of Persia on the 14th of May. It pushed the launch to later that month…
  • Red Dead RedemptionRed Dead Redemption is a 2010 Western from Rockstar San Diego, and it opens with a man who has run out of choices. In 1911, federal agents take the wife and son of a former outlaw named John Marston. The price of their freedom is his skill…
  • The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the KingdomIn The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, fusing a rocket to a shield is enough to send Link soaring through the air. That one trick says a great deal about this 2023 action-adventure game for the Nintendo Switch. Nintendo EPD built it…
  • Resident Evil RequiemResident Evil Requiem sold five million copies in its first five days, which made it the fastest-selling game in the long-running Resident Evil series. Capcom released it on the 27th of February 2026, and critics greeted it warmly. It is…
  • The Elder Scrolls V: SkyrimA modder made Falskaar for Skyrim as a job application to Bethesda. Bungie hired him instead.
  • 007 First Light007 First Light sold 1.5 million units within the first day of release. That is a loud return for James Bond on the games shelf after an extended hiatus. The action-adventure game comes from IO Interactive, the studio behind the Hitman…
  • Final Fantasy VII RemakeFinal Fantasy VII Remake's reveal sent Square Enix's stock to its highest point since November 2008.
  • Final Fantasy VII RebirthFinal Fantasy VII Rebirth was released on Leap Day, the 29th of February 2024. Square Enix chose that date deliberately.
  • Stardew ValleyStardew Valley had sold more than 50 million copies by February 2026, and one person made it. That person is Eric Barone, who works under the name ConcernedApe. After college he could not find a job in the games industry and ended up…
  • Hollow KnightHollow Knight has sold more than 15 million copies as of August 2025, and it was built by Team Cherry, a small independent studio based in Adelaide, Australia. The player controls a nameless insectoid warrior, commonly called the Knight,…
  • Fallout 4Fallout 4 begins on the 23rd of October 2077, the day the nuclear bombs fall. The 2015 action role-playing game comes from Bethesda Game Studios, and it is the fourth main entry in the Fallout series. Earlier games in the series start long…
  • DeltaruneDeltarune began as a fever dream. In 2011, while Toby Fox was in college, he saw the ending of a video game in his sleep and resolved to build it. The result is an episodic role-playing game from the American indie developer, set in a…
  • Elden RingGeorge R. R. Martin wrote Elden Ring's backstory, not its in-game story. Some critics found his role unclear.
  • Marvel RivalsMarvel Rivals reached 10 million players within 72 hours of its release on the 6th of December 2024. NetEase Games built this free-to-play hero shooter in collaboration with Marvel Games, and it draws its fighters from Marvel Comics. A…
  • The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the WildThe Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild had sold 34.51 million copies by March 2025. That made it the bestselling Zelda game and one of the bestselling video games ever. It is a 2017 action-adventure from Nintendo EPD, built for the Wii U…
  • Hollow Knight: SilksongHollow Knight: Silksong, a 2025 Metroidvania from the Australian independent studio Team Cherry, spent years as a game people talked about more than played. On the 16th of January 2021, a YouTube fan channel called Daily Silksong News…
  • FortniteFortnite is a 2017 online game from Epic Games that now behaves more like a platform than a single title. Seven distinct modes share one engine and one overall look. They include a contest where up to 100 players fight to be the last one…
  • Final Fantasy XIVSquare Enix rebuilt Final Fantasy XIV from scratch while the failed original kept running.
  • Dispatch (video game)Robert Robertson III has no superpowers, a heap of debt, and a hero's suit that no longer works. That is where Dispatch begins. Dispatch is a 2025 episodic adventure game from the American developer AdHoc Studio, and it calls itself a…
  • Hitman 3Hitman 3 was announced on the 11th of June 2020 at the PlayStation 5 reveal event, under the tagline 'Death Awaits'. It is a stealth game from IO Interactive, the eighth main installment in the Hitman series and the third game in the World…
  • Cyberpunk 2077Cyberpunk 2077 broke a record within hours of its midnight GMT launch on the 10th of December 2020. More than one million people played it at once on Steam, and one million viewers watched live on Twitch. Together, the figures doubled the…
  • Resident Evil VillageResident Evil Village is a 2021 survival horror game from Capcom, and its launch came with a drawing visible from far away. On the 7th of May 2021, Capcom marked the release with a chalk Lycan on a hillside in Somerset. The figure stood 58…
  • The Exit 8The Exit 8 is a 2023 indie game that asks the player to do almost nothing but walk down one passageway in a Japanese metro station. Its creator works under the name Kotake Create, and is also known as Kotakenotokeke. By August 2025 the…
  • Bravely DefaultThe team behind Bravely Default never expected the 3DS game to leave Japan. It sold a million copies by July 2014.
  • Final Fantasy TacticsFinal Fantasy Tactics tells of a war that its own church secretly engineered.
  • Donkey Kong BananzaDonkey Kong Bananza gives a gorilla one job: dig down, and smash whatever gets in the way. Nintendo EPD developed the 2025 platform game for the Nintendo Switch 2, and its landscapes crumble under nearly every punch, slap and throw. The…
  • Star Wars OutlawsStar Wars Outlaws is a 2024 action-adventure game developed by Massive Entertainment and published by Ubisoft. Its hero is not a Jedi. She is a young thief named Kay Vess, and her story unfolds in the gap between The Empire Strikes Back in…
  • Street Fighter 6Street Fighter 6 sold more than one million units within five days of going on sale. Capcom both developed and published the 2023 fighting game, and it counts as the seventh main entry in the Street Fighter franchise. That early number…
  • Resident Evil 7: BiohazardResident Evil 7: Biohazard, a 2017 survival horror game from Capcom, begins with an email. It comes from Mia, a woman who has been missing for three years. Her husband, systems engineer Ethan Winters, follows the message to a derelict…
  • Hogwarts LegacyOn the 7th of February 2023, Hogwarts Legacy reached a peak of 1.28 million people watching it at once on Twitch. That was the first day of early access, and it made the game the most-watched single-player title the platform had hosted.…
  • Indiana Jones and the Great CircleIndiana Jones and the Great Circle is a 2024 action-adventure game from MachineGames, published by Bethesda Softworks. Its mystery begins with a line drawn on a map. Scattered around the world are strange sites that, once joined, form a…
  • Assassin's Creed ShadowsAssassin's Creed Shadows is the fourteenth major game in Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed series, released in 2025 as the follow-up to Assassin's Creed Mirage. It sends players to 16th-century Japan, near the end of the Sengoku period, and hands…

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