A couple of days ago, Nintendo revealed that they would be hosting a Nindies Showcase that would take place on March 20th aka today.
Round up now … items later
The showcase ran for 30 minutes, and NintendoReporters will be covering every announcement made by rounding up all the news first and make individual items later on.
Spoilers incoming
- Cuphead will launch for on Switch on April 18th.
- Overland is a turn based strategy game that has you control a squad of teammates in a post apocalyptic world. Launches this fall.
- My Friend Pedro will be a console exclusive when it launches in June.
- Neo Cab releases this summer. Cyberpunk-like game about driving a cab and looking for your lost friend.
- Timberline Studios will be bringing the dog sledding game The Red Lantern to the Switch. Roguelite game.
- Horror game Darkwood will get a port in May.
- Katana Zero is a 2D game that has you play as an assassin. Launches April 18th.
- Double Fine and Bandai Namco are teaming up to release RAD. 3D beat ’em up where you can mutate into your enemies and gain powers. Summer 2019.
- Pinball action adventure game Creature in the Well announced for this summer.
- Bloodroots releases this summer.
- Pine is an open world 3rd person game. August launch.
- Super Crate Box will have local multiplayer on Switch.
- Nuclear Throne out today.
- Ultra Bugs is an arcade-y will hit later this year.
- Swimsanity will be out this summer.
- Inti Creates to release Blaster Master Zero 2. Today.
- Stranger Things will get a game in the form of Stranger Things 3: The Game on July 4th.
- The final reveal is… Link and Zelda will be playable in Cadence of Hyrule, a version of the indie game Crypt of the Necrodancer features a few The Legend of Zelda characters and levels. Launches spring.
All in all it was a fun Nindies showcase even though we did hope that Silksong (Team Cherry) would have been in it … but well there where some unexpected and nice surprises for sure!
