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Ori and the Blind Forest headlines Switch indies

By Jack Taylor – 19 August 2019

Numerous new indie games have been revealed for release on Nintendo Switch, including the Microsoft-published Ori and the Blind Forest.

The latest Indie World presentation from Nintendo featured a large number of new and upcoming indie games for Nintendo Switch, starting with Risk of Rain 2 and finishing with Ori and the Blind Forest.

Two surprise releases came in the form of Hotline Miami Collection, featuring the first and second games in the series, and SUPERHOT; both games are available from Nintendo eShop today.

Also featured in the presentation were:

  • Best Friend Forever (Alliance) - 14th February 2020
  • Blasphemous (Team 17 Digital Ltd) - 26th September
  • Cat Quest II (PQube Limited) - Autumn 2019
  • Close to the Sun (Wired Productions) - 2019
  • Creature in the Well (Flight School Studio) - 6th September
  • Dungeon Defenders: Awakened (Chromatic Games) - February 2020
  • EarthNight (Cleaversoft) - 2019
  • Eastward (Chucklefish) - 2020
  • Freedom Finger (Wide Right Interactive) - Autumn 2019
  • HYPERCHARGE: Unboxed (Digital Cyber Cherries Ltd) - Winter 2019
  • KINE (Chump Squad) - 2019
  • Munchkin: Quacked Quest (Asmodee Digital) - Autumn 2019
  • Northgard (Shiro Games) - 26th September
  • One Finger Death Punch 2 (Silver Dollar Games) - 2nd December
  • PHOGS! (Coatsink) - Early 2020
  • Risk of Rain 2 (Gearbox Publishing) - Summer 2019
  • Röki (United Label) - Winter 2019
  • Skater XL (Easy Day Studios Pty Ltd) - 2020
  • Skellboy (Fabraz) - 3rd December
  • SPARKLITE (Merge Games Ltd) - Autumn 2019
  • Spiritfarer (Thunder Lotus) - Spring 2020
  • The Touryst (Shin’en) - November 2019
  • Torchlight II (Perfect World Entertainment) - 3rd September
  • Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince (Modus Games) - 8th October
  • WHAT THE GOLF? (Triband) - Winter 2019
  • Youropa (frecle) - Winter 2019

The full presentation is available to watch above.

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