Nintendo Download: 23rd December (Europe)

The latest Nintendo Download update for Europe has arrived, and it’s bringing new games galore to the eShop in your region. As always, be sure to drop a vote in our poll and comment down below with your potential picks for the week. Enjoy!

Switch eShop – New Releases

8 & 9 Ball Pocket (SuperPowerUpGames, 24th Dec, £10.79 / €11.99) – 8 & 9 Ball Pocket brings you eight-ball pool and nine-ball pool, also known as American billiards. You can compete with up to 4 friends or against the AI in Versus mode, or challenge the best in the world in Arcade mode, where you can make combo shots and rack up points to become Number 1 in the online ranking. All of this comes in a setting with great graphics and Jazz music.

American Man (GAME NACIONAL, 25th Dec, £8.99 / €9.99) – Help a true American hero to defeat the evil forces of foreign countries that took over control of the poor animals, making them turn into frightful soldiers through advanced genetic experiments. That manpower, or rather, “animal power”, makes up the most fierce army against a one man army that could ever exist. That one man is known as American Man.

Carebotz (Takacs Peter, 20th Dec, £13.49 / €14.99) – Carebotz is a twin-stick arena shooter game spiced with metroidvania elements. You control BIBZ, a little maintenance droid. Collect the tons of blueprints, navigate the tight corridors, customize your toolset, learn to take advantage of gravity, upgrade, repair and encounter many different types of enemies! The journey is full of secrets, surprises. Discover the factory carefully as danger lurks everywhere, avoid deadly obstacles using your hover engine. The levels require investigation, and often patience and exploration are the key to survival.

Cold Silence (TERNOX, 26th Dec, £4.49 / €4.99) – This is minimalistic horror platformer about survival at snowy mountains. Follow the mysterious voice from the radio, fight your fears and reveal the truth!

Creepy Balls (D-Lo Games, 20th Dec, £3.99 / €3.99) – Help the mysterious cat to lead the pumpkin to its final target. To do this, you need to get all the same coloured balls together to get through. The more you can get, the better. There are no limits!

Gardener’s Path (Ratalaika Games, 22nd Dec, £3.99 / €3.99) – Gardener’s Path is a top-down turn-based puzzle game, about fighting giant insects and protecting underground gardens. Solve increasingly elaborate puzzles scattered throughout 60 handcrafted gardens, each one with their own set of friends and foes. Take the advantage in a fight by wielding powerful artifacts, allowing you to travel back in time and perform elemental attacks. Fulfill your duty as a gardener, and fight against the pest of giant insects, to protect the ones you love.

Horatio Goes Snowboarding (eastasiasoft, 22nd Dec, £5.03 / €5.59) – Paying homage to classic skiing and winter sports action of the past, Horation Goes Snowboarding is an arcade-inspired experience that’s straightforward and addictive, purely focused on thrilling gameplay without a story or complex mechanics to weigh it down! Start every run with a bunch of money and the urge to snowboard, then hire a board and head to the waiting chopper while avoiding traffic along the way.

Horror & Sports Pinball (SuperPowerUpGames, 24th Dec, £13.49 / €14.99) – Enjoy 6 games in one with the perfect reproduction of real pinball machines, with all kinds of graphic details and sounds. Discover all the secrets, in these thrilling games, a great challenge awaits you. Complete all the missions and become number 1 in the world or the best among your Friends, posting your high score on the online leaderboard.

Jigsaw Fun: Greatest Cities (Mindscape, 23rd Dec, £8.66 / €9.99) – Enjoy 100 hand-picked, high quality, images to solve of cities from all around the world. Change the size of your puzzle for increased difficulty and solve jigsaws up to 600 pieces. You can also play with up to 4 players to solve jigsaws together!

Lynn, The Girl Drawn On Puzzles (CFK, 23rd Dec, £5.93 / €6.56) – Once upon a time, when monsters and ghosts were seen in the human world. . . . . . One day, the Goddess of Plague crept into a village and bestowed people her pest, smallpox. There was a village boy fell ill with the plague none could cure. His sister, the only family, heard of the Fox Orb and its mystical light that could cure the sick. So she climbed the mountain, to the abandoned house the Fox was said to have lived.

Match Three Pirates II (Denda Games, 20th Dec, £6.49 / €7.49) – After Bobby has freed all pirates from the clutches of the ruthless Davy Jones, the pirates are finally enjoying a free life. They feel at home on their happy island, however without the joyful, carefree laughter of children, Pirate Island is awful quiet. Then, suddenly the clever Bobby has a brilliant idea. The pirate captain suggests building a theme park in the pirate world. This will be a 100% guaranty that laughter and joy will be all over the island. Help the pirates in this cheerful Match 3 Game to build an amazing amusement park to change the island into a world full of adventure and fun!

Merry Christmas Snowball Bubble (FuriouSoftPhoenix, 24th Dec, £5.39 / €5.99) – While you play, create mythical ***Christmas*** characters by matching the bubbles that are the same colour. You can make ‘Combos’ or get various special ‘PowerUps’, such as the guided rocket, the destructive bomb and the laser blaster, all with the aim of reaching the top of the scoreboard. Beautiful and nostalgic graphics set in a charming toy store from long ago, which will take you back to your most retro childhood. Relaxing and immersive game where you’ll be trapped until you discover which unusual character is hiding behind each snowball.

Moorhuhn Jump and Run ‘Traps and Treasures’ (Higgs Games, 23rd Dec, £9.03 / €9.99) – This is not Moorhuhn’s first appearance in a new game genre on the Nintendo Switch. We hunted it mercilessly in Moorhuhn Remake, defended the Wild Wild West with it in Moorhuhn Wanted and competed in heated races in Moorhuhn Kart. Guide the Moorhuhn through the jungle in his first jump and run platformer for Nintendo Switch!

Planet Quiz: Learn & Discover (naptime.games, 25th Dec, £8.63 / €9.59) – Planet Quiz is a charming way to expand your knowledge about Earth, animals, culture… and a guaranteed fun time for you and your friends.

Pure Chase 80’s (FuriouSoftPhoenix, 24th Dec, £13.49 / €14.99) – You’ll feel the essence of arcade racing oozing out of your pores and your adrenaline pumping non-stop. Mission: « A car bomb under your feet » If you don’t want to see chunks of your vehicle flying off, maintain your concentration in the race of your life. Escape to the border as fast as you can, and before the countdown reaches «(00:00)». With 3 levels of difficulty including longer routes and new scenarios.

Teratopia (eastasiasoft, 23rd Dec, £7.19 / €7.99) – Join Tucho in his quest to rescue his friends and liberate the colorfully grotesque lands of Teratopia! Traverse 13 unique zones packed with enemies bent on overtaking your homeland. But fear not! The power of friendship arms you with fellow Teratopians and a diverse set of skills to face a family of red invaders. Immerse yourself in an adventure full of action, and strategize on-the-go to better overcome your foes! Play as either Tucho the brawler, Benito the shooter, or Horacio the trickster, each with their own strengths and skills.

Tunnel of Doom (Digerati, 23rd Dec, £11.33 / €12.59) – Tunnel of Doom takes place in 1903 at Goldcrest, a small mining town. Due to an unknown incident, the mayor has shut down the mine until further notice. With her husband trapped inside, Angel enters the mine to investigate and search for survivors. Little does she know, hordes of ghoulish creatures are lurking in the darkness… An action rogue-lite hybrid, Tunnel of Doom mixes tower-defense with melee and ranged combat gameplay. Gather resources and use what you find to battle waves of monsters as you try to rescue survivors and escape the mine.

Twelve Minutes (Annapurna Interactive, 21st Dec, £19.99 / €20.99) – TWELVE MINUTES is a real-time top-down interactive thriller with an accessible click and drag interface. What should be a romantic evening with your wife turns into a nightmare when a police detective breaks into your home, accuses your wife of murder and beats you to death. . . Only for you to find yourself immediately returned to the exact moment you opened the front door, stuck in a TWELVE-MINUTE time loop, doomed to relive the same terror again and again. . . Unless you can find a way to use the knowledge of what’s coming to change the outcome and break the loop. Featuring James McAvoy, Daisy Ridley, and Willem Dafoe.

Zombie Watch (Wildlak, 21st Dec, £10.79 / €11.99) – Welcome to the world of Zombie Watch! You are one of a few people who survived a virus that has infected most of the population and turned them into flesh-eating zombies. They may be dead but they are not resting in peace and they will come after you. Take on the challenge of survival in a harsh and brutal environment and prove you can conquer them all.

Switch eShop – Demos

DLC / Add-On Content

Nintendo Switch

So that’s your lot for this week’s Nintendo Download. Go on, be a sport and drop a vote in the poll above, and comment below with your hot picks!