Ports galore announced for the Switch

From pirates to, well, more pirates

Nintendo really, really hopes you like old games! (Hint: we do!) During today’s Nintendo Direct presentation, the company revealed a bajillion of them coming to the Switch. The console/portable hybrid seems to be taking up the role of the “complete video game system,” grabbing as many games across generations as possible.

Assassin’s Creed: The Rebel Collection packages AC IV: Black Flag and AC: Rogue, and all of their expansions, in one edition. The pack launches December 6, 2019, and follows the Assassins Creed III release from earlier this year.

Divinity: Original Sin 2 – Definitive Edition from Larian Studios brings the heralded RPG to the Switch for the first time, with local split-screen for two players or online for four. The game is available right now.

In Return of the Obra Dinn, one of 2018’s best indie games, players take on the role of an insurance investigator for the East India Company, and examine what happened to the ill-fated Obra Dinn vessel using only their Memento Mortem device, which allows them to see the final moments of the the ships’ individual crew members. The game launches later this Fall.

Hot on the demonic heels of Doom I, II and III releasing on the Switch a few weeks ago, Bethesda and id have revealed that DOOM 64, the N64 classic shooter, will now make its way to the Switch. This marks the first time that the game will be available for a Nintendo system since the N64 edition. DOOM 64 launches November 22.

It feels like Capcom is slowly building up to something on the Switch. Having revealed a bunch of Resident Evil games coming to the console over the next several months, the company has turned its attention to the Devil May Cry series. The original game launched for Nintendo’s console back in Spring, and now it’s the sequel’s turn. Devil May Cry 2 arrives on Switch September 19.

Focus Home Interactive has announced several games coming to the Switch. Cyanide’s Call of Cthulhu, courtesy of port specialists Saber3D, brings its supernatural world to the system on October 9, 2019, while Vampyr, from DONTNOD and Saber Interactive, lands shortly after on October 29.

Finally, racing games are starting to make their way to the Switch in force, as Codemasters is bringing GRID Autosport, a sim-based experience featuring tight controls and class-based racing, arrives on September 19.