This week’s Nintendo eShop update is the quiet before the storm

This week’s Nintendo eShop update is light on new Switch games, filled mostly with ports and smaller titles. The reason seems obvious: Arguably the biggest Nintendo Switch game of the year is out next week — it’s called Super Smash Bros. Ultimate — and at this point, it’s probably best to just stay out of its way.

There’s at least one notable newbie: Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom is out Dec. 4, about a month after its originally scheduled release date. It’s the latest attempt at reviving Sega’s classic platforming series Wonder Boy. DotEmu published a remake of Wonder Boy 3: The Dragon’s Trap last year, and Monster Boy also draws upon that old game. First announced in 2015, Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom is considered the first canonical entry in the Wonder Boy franchise since 1994, when its last game launched.

Retro adventure game Superbrothers: Sword and Sorcery EP and the serene Abzu are some of the bigger-name ports coming to eShop this week. Here’s everything else that’s arriving between now and Dec. 5:

• ABZÛ
• ACA NEOGEO KING OF THE MONSTERS 2
• Akihabara – Feel the Rhythm Remixed
• Animal Hunter Z
• Asterix & Obelix XXL 2
• Cattails
• Coffee Crisis — available Nov. 30
• Crimson Keep Demetrios – The BIG Cynical Adventure — available Dec. 3
• Dexteritrip
• Energy Cycle Edge — available Dec. 5
• Escape Doodland — available Nov. 30
• Freedom Planet — demo
• Gear.Club Unlimited 2 — available Dec. 4
• Gelly Break
• GensokyoDefenders
• Harvest Life— available Nov. 30
• I Am The Hero — available Nov. 30
• Marenian Tavern Story: Patty and the Hungry God
• Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom
• Mordheim: Warband Skirmish
• NAIRI: Tower of Shirin
• OkunoKA — available Nov. 30
• Professional Farmer: Nintendo Switch Edition
• ROCK BOSHERS DX: Director’s Cut — available Dec. 1
• Screencheat: Unplugged
• Secret Files: Tunguska — available Nov. 30
• Stardust Galaxy Warriors: Stellar Climax
• Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP — available Nov. 30
• The First Tree — available Nov. 30
• Toki — available Dec. 4