Back in August, Nintendo put out a video showcase highlighting some indie games that were coming to the Nintendo Switch. As the year starts to close out, Nintendo has decided to put out another video to show what kinda indie games we can expect in 2020 and beyond.

The showcase kicked off with Sports Story, by Sidebar Games. It’s a sequel to Golf Story, which was an early Switch indie game. Golf Story is an RPG/sports game hybrid with exploration elements where you can whack a golf ball around outside of the courses. Sports Story expands on this by introducing new sports to the mix, as well as mixed up versions of those sports, such as playing tennis with golf clubs with the intent to hit the ball into a soccer net. This game is a Switch exclusive that aims to launch in mid-2020.

Originally announced back in August, Streets of Rage 4 reappeared with the announcement of a Switch port. The game is a continuation of Sega’s Streets of Rage, a beat em’ up series whose last entry was in 1997. The game is being developed by Lizardcube, Guard Crush Games and Dotemu in association with Sega. It’s very similar to how Nintendo lent its IP to an indie company for Cadence of Hyrule, with new blood coming in with their own takes on the series. This game aims to be out in the first half of 2020.

In Gleamlight, developed by DICO and published by D3, you are a sword that’s wielded by children in a world whose art style is inspired by stained glass art. The game promotes itself with a lack of UI and words, promising a clean screen with gameplay and direction that’s easy to pick up on.

Bake ‘n Switch by Streamline Games is a party brawler game focused on baking. Well, you’re baking living dough creatures, which is kinda morbid, but it’s for the sake of paying tribute to a god so who’s to say what’s bad or not? There’s a cooperative mode where everyone navigates a level’s gimmicks to bake as much as they can within the time limit and a competitive mode where it’s everyone for themselves. Personally, it’s a bit reminiscent of Overcooked 2. Anyway, that’s coming out in Summer 2020.

Supermash, by Digital Continue, has an ambitious mission statement: it is a game that creates games through mashing different game genres together. In the game’s canon, a brother and sister running a game shop finds a mysterious console that allows them to combine cartridges to create new games. Players can create style messes through genre combinations and dev cards, which leads to stuff like a shmup airplane doing platforming or a platformer character in a JRPG game damaging enemies with jumps, with said JRPG party looking wildly out of place with each other. These different mashes can be saved and shared with other players, with the speaker sharing a mash code for when the game comes out in May 2020.

Croteam’s puzzle game, The Talos Principle: Deluxe Edition, was also announced to finally be coming to Switch. By finally, I mean “yesterday,” because they released it shortly after the showcase. Similarly, Dauntless, a game by Phoenix Labs, also had its port released yesterday. It’s a cross-platform, cross-region action-RPG that’s already released on other systems, so there’s already an audience to jump in with.

Sail Forth, by David Evans and published by the Quantum Astrophysicists Guild, is a sailing game where you go on a maiden voyage across a procedurally generated world map. You sail across the world in your customized boat, doing quests like saving sailors and fighting pirates while amassing an armada of boats to command. It’s coming out in an undetermined time in 2020.

Murder by Numbers is a game by Mediatonic, where a Hollywood actress finds herself involved in a murder mystery in a cross between visual novels and picross gameplay. The game also has star power behind it, as it has music composed by Masakazu Sugimori, who was a composer for the Ace Attorney series and Viewtiful Joe as well as character designs by Hato Moa, the developer of Hatoful Boyfriend. It’s coming out in early 2020 as a timed exclusive.

A port of Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath, by Oddworld Inhabitants, is coming to the Switch in January. It’s a comparatively gritty game where you play as the Stranger, a bounty hunter that hunts down outlaws in spite of having a bounty on himself. He fights with an odd crossbow that fires ammo from rodents and bugs, which also now has an option for gyroscopic aiming.

SkateBIRD, by Glass Bottom Games, is exactly what the name suggests. You’re a small bird that rides around on a skateboard in a large world that’s formatted to be an extended skate park. Think of it as a SKATE game or a Tony Hawk game, but you’re a bird that listens to “bird hop” and wears funny hats. Anyway, that’s coming out in late 2020.

Liberated is a gritty platformer shooter by Atomic Wolf that invokes black-and-white graphic novels for its art style and presentation. An insurgent group called Liberated is standing up to an intrusive government in a cyberpunk dystopia, with you navigating page to page through action segments and dialogue choices. It aims to come out sometime in 2020 as a timed exclusive.

Now this is what I’ve been excited about. Kitfox Games is the developer behind Boyfriend Dungeon, which is a mashup of dating simulator and dungeon crawler. You wield weapons that can turn into people, which is kinda like that Soul Eater anime, but you can also date your weapons. The name is also a bit of a misnomer because there are girl weapons and nonbinary weapons to date, but who cares? This game was Kickstarted a long time ago and is coming out on other systems, but hey, Switch players can get this in 2020 with an exclusive HD rumble function.

Dreamscaper by Afterburner Studios is a game where you explore and fight in a woman’s dreams. Going to sleep leads her into a randomly generated dream dungeon full of fights and puzzles. There’s also a degree of relationship building in her waking life which will have some effect in her dreams. It’s a timed exclusive coming out in early 2020.

Team17 is coming out with a spin-off to the Escapists called the Survivalists. This time instead of a jail, you’re trapped on an island. It’s a co-op survival sandbox where you gather resources and craft things to survive. If you’re solo, you can make up for the loneliness by training monkeys to help gather and build things. Like everything else, the Survivalists is a 2020 game. Anyway, that’s all for the presentation…

…Except for one more surprise! Like the last Indie World, one last game was shown off as a surprise gift. This time, Tom Happ, the creator of Axiom Verge, personally announced that he had been quietly working on a sequel for years. Axiom Verge 2 takes you back to the Breach, continuing the Metroidvania shenanigans that defined the first game. Surprisingly, it’s coming out in Fall 2020.

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