Nintendo’s latest Indie World showcase featured more than a dozen new (and new to Switch) indie games coming through 2024, with some of those titles dropping on the Switch eShop today.
Here’s a look at the biggest announcements from November’s Indie World.
Mobius Digital is (finally) bringing Outer Wilds to Nintendo Switch on Dec. 7. The Switch version of the time-looping, open-world space exploration game, known as Outer Wilds: Archaeologist Edition, will include the excellent Echoes of the Eye expansion. Outer Wilds was Polygon’s Game of the Year in 2019, praised for its challenging, beautiful planetary exploration and delightful mysteries. A physical version of the Switch release of Outer Wilds is due sometime in 2024.
The previously unfinished sequel to Game Boy Color platformer Shantae is coming to Nintendo Switch after a 20-year wait. Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution is coming to Switch in 2024. As the hair-whipping half-genie Shantae, players will spin the game world, explore layered levels, and dance to transform into different creatures. Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution will also include a new four-player battle mode for local multiplayer.
The beloved mining sandbox adventure Core Keeper is digging toward a Switch release in summer 2024. Currently in early access on Steam, Core Keeper lets up to eight players explore procedurally generated biomes, craft, harvest crops, build bases, and fight monsters in online cooperative multiplayer.
Narrative life sim On Your Tail sends players on a sleuthing getaway in 2024. As Diana, players will explore the seaside village of Borgo Marina, hunting down a masked menace as they search for leads and collect Clue Cards to solve a mystery. It’s not all detective work, though;
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