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title: "Earthfall: Alien Horde announced"
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description: "Nimble announced it’s bringing first player shooter Earthfall: Alien Horde to Nintendo Switch."
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Earthfall: Alien Horde announced | Nintendo Switch News | NintendoReporters

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Earthfall: Alien Horde will cost USD19.99 on the Nintendo eShop when it arrives on October 11, 2019. The game supports local wireless 4 player co-op exclusively on Nintendo Switch.

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Nimble, the newly formed pacific northwest game developer today announced Earthfall: Alien Horde, a revitalization of the hit FPS Earthfall — previously released on Xbox One, PS4, and Steam — is coming to Nintendo Switch on October 11, 2019.

## [](#about-earthfall-alien-horde)About Earthfall: Alien Horde

Featuring the entirety of Earthfall, plus all its many updates, Earthfall: Alien Horde brings online and all-new local wireless 4-player co-op exclusively to the Nintendo Switch. Featuring tons of content for players to enjoy, Earthfall: Alien Hordewill be available for $19.99 on the Nintendo eShop.

“Bringing Earthfall: Alien Horde to the Nintendo Switch made perfect sense to us,” said Russell Williams of Nimble. “The ability to play with your friends anywhere — online or with local wireless play — is really going to be a fun and unique feature that works extremely well with our 4-player co-operative FPS. Switch is a great console and Earthfall: Alien Horde is great on Switch. We hope everyone has fun taking on the apocalyptic horde of aliens and their overlords.”

**Earthfall: Alien Horde for Nintendo Switch features include:**

- A Horde of Content — 15 unique locations, including 11 campaign chapters, 5 invasion maps, and tons of unlockable items!
- Hardcore Co-op — Drop in, drop out and engage in classic four-player co-operative gunplay inspired by the greatest co-op shooters of our time. Now with local wireless co-op, in addition to online play.
- Death from Above — Fight the horde, a procedurally generated alien menace that makes every gameplay session tense, exciting, fresh, and utterly lethal.
- Well-armed Allies — Become one of four story-driven characters and battle through an alien-infested plot while utilizing advanced weaponry and printable guns.
- Constructible Defenses – Strategically place barricades that electrify or set the alien scourge afire.
- Deploy automatic sentries to create the perfect alien killing zones or set up mounted turrets to achieve firepower superiority.

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