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Somebody finally persuaded Nintendo to take a summer vacation. After the company released two new games and two Switch 2 Editions in July, August is the rare month with no first-party releases for either the Switch or the Switch 2.<\/p>\n
It’s a fairly quiet month all round in terms of brand-new releases, with the exception of one hotly anticipated indie Game of the Year contender. But that doesn’t mean Switch 2 owners will be short of stuff to play \u2014 far from it. There’s a glut of ports and remasters of genuinely massive games in August that includes some of the greatest games ever made, offering hundreds of hours of entertainment between them.<\/p>\n
Release date: <\/strong>Aug. 4<\/p>\n From House House, the studio that made Untitled Goose Game<\/em>, comes this extremely charming-looking multiplayer exploration that some are calling (well, I’m calling) “elevated friendslop.” Apparently, I’m wrong, though: Giovanni Colantonio (who has actually played it) reckons it’s a totally new type of multiplayer game. It’s a chill, co-op, puzzle-solving adventure shot through with irreverent slapstick and it looks great.<\/p>\n Release date: <\/strong>Aug. 5<\/p>\n Lies of P<\/em> is one of the best-received Soulslikes not actually made by FromSoftware, and it makes its Nintendo debut this month on Switch 2 in a Complete Edition that includes 2025 expansion Overture<\/em>. From Korean developer Neowiz, it improbably tells the story of Pinocchio with gothic drama and razor-sharp swordfighting combat.<\/p>\n Release date: <\/strong>Aug. 11<\/p>\n Bethesda’s epoch-making 2006 fantasy RPG \u2014 the game that paved the way for Skyrim<\/em> \u2014 returned in an excellent remaster on PC, PlayStation, and Xbox in 2025. It makes its Switch 2 debut in August. The main storyline is about thwarting a cult that wants to open portals to a demon world, but as ever with The Elder Scrolls, the game is actually about its amazing side quests, and how much cheese you can collect.<\/p>\n Release date: <\/strong>Aug. 27<\/p>\n This remaster collection is actually a pretty significant moment. For the past 18 years, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots<\/em> has never been reissued, and has only ever been available to play on PS3. That ends in August. The package also includes the PSP game Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker<\/em>; both games are also available to buy separately. Like all Hideo Kojima joints, they’re bizarre, occasionally pompous or silly, and, in the end, undeniably brilliant.<\/p>\n Release date: <\/strong>Aug. 28<\/p>\n This is the big one. The 2022 open-world action-RPG by FromSoftware is the triumphant culmination of director Hidetaka Miyazaki’s work through Demon’s Souls<\/em> and Dark Souls, and is regarded as a modern classic. It has taken a while to get this Switch 2 version running as it should but recent previews have been positive. This edition also includes the 2024 expansion Shadow of the Erdtree<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Somebody finally persuaded Nintendo to take a summer vacation. After the company released two new games and two Switch 2 Editions in July, August is the rare month with no first-party releases for either the Switch or the Switch 2. It’s a fairly quiet month all round in terms of brand-new releases, with the exception<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[4458,77,3990,3989,3740,314],"class_list":{"0":"post-10757","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-releases","8":"tag-august","9":"tag-games","10":"tag-mustplay","11":"tag-officially","12":"tag-releasing","13":"tag-switch"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n 2 <\/span>
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