Best upcoming Nintendo Switch games to look forward to in 2021

(Pocket-lint) - The Nintendo Switch has proven to beryllium a precise susceptible rival to the PS4 and Xbox One, portion offering thing other too - portability. It's inactive conscionable arsenic awesome present that the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S person launched, too.

And, with the Nintendo Switch Lite besides going large guns, positive the Nintendo Switch (OLED model) connected the way, determination are a ton of fans looking for the champion games to buy.

That's wherefore we've gathered a database of the upcoming Switch games we've got our ain beady eyes on. You tin find them successful chronological bid – soonest archetypal – and with trailers for each. 

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Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania

• Release date: 5 October 2021
• Switch exclusive? No, besides connected PS5, PS4, Xbox and PC
• Publisher: SEGA

The archetypal 3 Super Monkey Ball games are getting remastered, and they'll beryllium releasing connected Switch alongside conscionable astir each different console. These superb balance-based platformers are immoderate of the champion amusive you tin person successful a integrative ball, truthful we're looking guardant to rolling backmost in.

Metroid Dread

• Release date: 8 October 2021
• Switch exclusive? Yes
• Publisher: Nintendo

We were each waiting connected Metroid Prime 4, but Nintendo had a throwback Metroid astonishment successful store astatine E3 2021. Dread is simply a 2D sidescroller similar the Metroids of aged and looks similar it's going to beryllium terrific, creepy amusive erstwhile it comes retired soon.

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Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl

• Release date: 19 November 2021
• Switch exclusive? Yes
• Publisher: Nintendo

These upcoming remakes of Pokémon Diamond and Pearl look perfectly brilliant, updating the graphics of the classical DS titles but retaining their creation style, and letting a full caller procreation of players bask their story.

They're from the existent heyday of the franchise, successful our opinion, truthful we can't hold to descend backmost into the Sinnoh portion and research everything each implicit again. 

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Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp

• Release date: 3 December 2021
• Switch exclusive? Yes
• Publisher: Nintendo

Two of the precise champion turn-based strategy games ever made, this bundle volition bring remasters of some Advance Wars titles from the Game Boy Advance days. They've got a beauteous updated look which really brings the aforesaid benignant of polish arsenic the Pokémon remasters above. We'll surely beryllium strapping successful to pb the troops erstwhile it comes out.

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Hollow Knight: Silksong

• Release date: 2021
• Switch exclusive? No
• Publisher: Team Cherry

Hollow Knight: Silksong is an upcoming Metroidvania action-adventure video crippled that's the sequel to 2017's award-winning Hollow Knight. You'll beryllium journeying to each caller lands with peculiar powers to conflict the bug hordes. It has been suggested that this crippled volition motorboat successful June but there's nary authoritative connection yet. 

Pokémon Legends: Arceus

• Release date: 28 January 2022
• Switch exclusive? Yes
• Publisher: Nintendo

This looks similar a reasonably extremist caller introduction successful the mainline Pokémon bid - it's a flashback to a feudal-style time, wherever players volition research Sinnoh for the archetypal time, compiling its archetypal ever Pokédex arsenic they go.

It looks similar we'll person a existent unfastened satellite to explore, without boundaries and restrictions, and the caller clip mounting looks perfectly gorgeous truthful far. It's a mode disconnected release, but this could beryllium a peculiar infinitesimal successful the franchise's past if it comes off. 

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Kirby and the Forgotten Land

• Release date: Spring 2022
• Switch exclusive? Yes
• Publisher: Nintendo

It's a large switch-up for Kirby astatine agelong past - arsenic the pinkish small sucker gets a afloat open-world 3D crippled for america to explore. It's acceptable successful what looks similar a overmuch friendlier post-apocalypse than games mostly connection up, and it looks similar a vibrant bully time.

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2

• Release date: 2022
• Switch exclusive? Yes
• Publisher: Nintendo

Although we don't yet cognize the authoritative name, we're blessed to spot that the sequel to 1 of the astir fashionable games connected Switch is getting a sequel. That's close The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild is getting different outing. It's aiming for a 2022 merchandise day astatine present, aft cropping up again during E3 2021.

Bayonetta 3 

• Release date: 2022
• Switch exclusive? Yes
• Publisher: Nintendo

Bayonetta 3 was announced mode backmost successful 2017, but it took until September 2021 for america to yet spot thing concrete, and so immoderate gameplay. The supra trailer confirms that it's going to beryllium conscionable arsenic bombastic and fantastic arsenic the past 2 games, and it's acceptable to merchandise successful 2022.

Splatoon 3

• Release date: 2022
• Switch exclusive? Yes
• Publisher: Nintendo

A 3rd crippled successful the fan-favourite ink-shooting series, Splatoon 3 volition beryllium a much-needed multiplayer offering for the Switch erstwhile it comes retired successful 2022. That said, it'll besides person a large run to enjoy, called The Return of the Mammalians, and it looks similar furry mammals volition beryllium returning to the game's world.

Metroid Prime 4

• Release date: TBC
• Switch exclusive? Yes
• Publisher: Nintendo

Nintendo announced a caller instalment of Metroid Prime, this clip for Switch, during its E3 2017 Spotlight presumption but fewer different details person emerged successful much than a year. We bash cognize though that Bandai Namco is moving connected the crippled arsenic its improvement studio.

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Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga

• Release date: 2022
• Switch exclusive? No
• Publisher: EA

Another perchance awesome Lego Star Wars game. This 1 volition fto you play through all 9 Star Wars saga films successful a azygous game. Expect the accustomed humour, plentifulness of adventures and each your favourite Star Wars characters too. 

Writing by Rik Henderson and Max Freeman-Mills. Originally published connected 12 June 2017.