In June, the Nintendo Switch 2 officially launched worldwide, bringing with it a new generation for consoles. It makes sense that we’d get a new episode of the Indie World Showcase before the busy fall season officially kicks off. Announced earlier this week, Nintendo promised that fans would see around 15 minutes of “new announcements and updates on indie games coming to the Nintendo Switch and Switch 2.”
Well Dweller
Coming in 2026 from the creators of Crypt Custodian and Islets, Well Dweller is a game where you must oppose the Queen. Playing as Glimmer, a tiny bird with a matchstick, you must burn the queen to save your family. This adventure takes you across a fairy tale world in a kingdom’s underbelly. You’ll battle beasts, gain abilities, solve puzzles, find secrets, and more.
Well Dweller is out on Switch and PC next year.
Neverway
Co-created with the pixel artist from Celeste with music from Disasterpiece. Neverway is a blend of horror, life-sim and action RPG
You play the game as Fiona, who, after quitting her dead-end job, tries to start over on a farm, a place where you can escape from all her problems and finally start fresh. But it gets darker, and Fiona will find herself facing an immortal herald of a dead god.
Fiona can fight and take on enemies while also balancing her life during the day. She can shop at the market, pay her mortgage using the Luna OS PC at home, and find friends, even romance, with more than ten characters. As you get closer to these characters, you unlock special cutscenes and routines, plus special combat abilities that change how you fight enemies.
Available in 2026.
Herdling
Panic and Okomotive’s Herdling has you guiding a group of beasts across various environments, encountering dangers, obstacles, and puzzles as you head to the summit with your Calicorns. Herdling is out on August 21, 2025.
Is This Seat Taken?
You drop characters into social situations and see how they react. Your goal is to organize people according to their preferences, and Is This Seat Taken is a cozy, no-pressure logic puzzle about sitting people in the right place.
There are puzzles, new scenarios like bus rides, limos, and more. It is available later today.
Little Kitty Big City
A free update launches on August 27 from Double Dagger Studio.
“Using the new customization tool, players can create their own custom kitty designed to look like their real life furry friends. Take Kitty out to explore new parts of the neighborhood, cause some mischief, and meet some new characters along the way.”
Content Warning
Content Warning is a co-op horror game where you film scary stuff with friends to make it go viral. You squad up, customize your face with an ASCII customizer, buy here and use a diving bell to go into the Old World. It is here you’ll face monsters, cursed artifacts and relics.
Ball X Pit
“In BALL x PIT, Ballbylon has fallen. After a meteoric and completely unexpected event annihilated the great city, all that remains is an ominous, yawning pit. Treasure hunters from far and wide flock to the city’s tomb to seek their fortune, plundering the depths in search of Ballbylon’s scattered riches. Few return.”
Arrives this Fall on Switch 2, and October 15 on Switch.
Ultimate Sheep Raccoon
“Ultimate Sheep Raccoon is a bike-racing party game where you and your friends build the course together. Add obstacles and dangerous traps, take the lead with power-ups, and race to the finish.”
Ultimate Sheep Raccoon is coming to Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2 in Winter 2025.
Glaciered
“Earth, 65 million years in the future. The Everwinter has transformed the planet’s surface into a gigantic sheet of ice and a new species prospers in this current age of life under glacier-covered seas.
They are the Tuai, descended from birds and successors of the dinosaurs. Play as a Tuai in this futuristic aquatic action game where you’ll explore a mysterious underwater world and fight ferocious marine creatures with real-time, dynamic combat. Unleash the power of the Tuai’s avian and dinosaur bloodlines to protect this strange, new Ice Age.”
