Thousands of games are currently available on Switch, and there are a ton of demos out there for many of them. Not just Nintendo, but also third-parties are offering demos. We’ve now put together a comprehensive list of what’s out there.

Since our reader base is English-speaking, that’s what we’re focusing on here. In other words, we’re highlighting Switch demos that you can find in North America and Europe. Japan has a few extra demos on its end, but a majority of them are for titles that are not currently being sold in the west and are only playable in Japanese.

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The top-down survival game Monster Outbreak has popped up on the Switch eShop with a release date. According to the store page, it’s launching on May 16, 2024.

Monster Outbreak was originally expected a couple of years ago. It did make it out on PC in 2022, but we’ve been waiting on the Switch version since then.

Here’s an overview of the title:

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The latest Daily Demon video for Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance has arrived, courtesy of Atlus. The focus of Volume 31 of the series is Vritra.

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This week’s Switch eShop charts are as follows:

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System: Switch
Release date: April 28, 2024
Developer: Crim
Publisher: Crim

The seventh generation of video games was an interesting time, and gave us an abundance of action titles, with many becoming critically-acclaimed, genre-defining hits. El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron, released in 2011, never managed to make that kind of impact, although it did receive a particularly interesting continuation in The Lost Child six years later. Now thirteen years following its launch, the game has finally made its way to Switch in the form of El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron HD Remaster, largely due to fan demand. While it may still be destined to remain overlooked in the face of its far more successful contemporaries, it remains the unique and unforgettable experience it was when it first debuted, both for better and for worse.

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At this point, the code name “Switch 2” is pretty much burned into all of our minds. Rumors have been swirling around for some time now, and we’ve only recently received official confirmation from Nintendo that the new system exists at all. In fact, it’s being announced during this fiscal year, which means we’ll at the very least know its name before March 2025. In the meantime, we figured it’d be a good time to think about Nintendo’s next console and some of the features we’d most like to see on it.

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Fresh gameplay is now available for 1000xResist, which saw its Switch debut this week. Almost an hour of footage highlights the sci-fi adventure.

Additional details about the game can be found in the following overview:

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Thanks to GamesIndustry, we have new insight into the UK gaming market for April 2024.

The month is lacking in surprises, but if we’re talking about Switch games, EA Sports FC 24 is the highest on the chart at #2. Hogwarts Legacy is the only other title found on Nintendo’s console in the top ten, and that one comes in at #6.

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Feperd Games, in collaboration with port developer FreakZone Games, have revealed that a Switch port of Spark the Electric Jester 3 is in the works. As of now there’s no word on release timing.

Spark the Electric Jester 3 is a 3D action platformer that first debuted in 2022. We’ve got some information about it in the following overview:

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The 7 Star Primarina Tera Raid Battle event for Pokemon Scarlet and Violet is now live, and we’ve put together a guide explaining the best counters you can bring to take it down and claim its rewards for yourself. 

The new 7 Star Primarina event lasts until May 12, and it comes back from May 17 to 19. Primarina’s Tera Type is Fairy, and it knows Sparkling Aria, Moonblast, Psychic, and Sing. It also knows Encore and Surf as secondary moves. This Pokemon doesn’t actually boost its stats for this battle, but it does have some rather annoying status moves that we’ve prepared for. This is one of the easier 7 Star Tera Raid Battles, but you should still get ready as best you can.

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