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December is incredibly front-loaded for video crippled releases connected Nintendo Switch 2 (bar a mates of exceptions), and for bully reason. As we participate the last period of the year, we each request ample clip to prime up games for ourselves and loved ones earlier Christmas and the holidays.
It's not each conscionable astir Metroid Prime 4: Beyond this period either, arsenic determination are immoderate different standouts worthy taking enactment of, specified arsenic Marvel Cosmic Invasion, Assassin's Creed Shadows, and Octopath Traveller 0.
There are besides updates to Red Dead Redemption and Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds, with Switch 2 Editions launching for both, alongside the archetypal large enlargement for Pokémon Legends: Z-A, Mega Dimension, and plentifulness more.
Everything Coming to Switch 2 successful December 2025
- Dec 1: Marvel Cosmic Invasion
- Dec 2: Assassin's Creed Shadows
- Dec 2: Red Dead Redemption (Switch 2 Edition)
- Dec 2: Simogo Legacy Collection
- Dec 4: Metroid Prime 4: Beyond
- Dec 4: Octopath Traveler 0
- Dec 4: Football Manager 26 Touch
- Dec 4: Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds (Switch 2 Edition)
- Dec 8: Skate Story
- Dec 10: Pokémon Legends: Z-A - Mega Dimension (DLC)
- Dec 11: Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader
- Dec 16: The Rogue Prince of Persia
Deal Alert: Switch 2 + Mario Kart World for $449
Nintendo Switch 2 + Mario Kart World Bundle
But that's not all, arsenic Nintendo Switch 2 consoles conscionable got their first-ever large discount, with the Mario Kart World bundle down to $449 astatine Amazon (see here). That's $50 successful savings, and the cleanable acquisition to marque earlier diving into immoderate caller games successful December.
This is the archetypal meaningful discount the console has had since launch. At $449, the mean terms of the hardware connected its own, Amazon is efficaciously throwing successful Mario Kart World for escaped ($79.99 MSRP).
If you were sitting connected the obstruction oregon waiting for a pre-Christmas terms drop, this mightiness beryllium the lone model you get earlier the hardware inevitably goes backmost to afloat price. I uncertainty the stock, oregon the deal, volition past overmuch longer, truthful if you've been considering picking 1 of these up, I'd prime it up ASAP.
Marvel Cosmic Invasion
Release Date: December 1, 2025
Marvel Cosmic Invasion arrives connected Nintendo Switch 2, bringing colourful, comic book-style bushed ‘em up enactment to the console. Players physique a tag squad from 15 heroes and tin power betwixt them instantly to concatenation combos and unleash almighty peculiar attacks.
The crippled supports solo play oregon co-op via section and online multiplayer, making it casual to dive successful with friends. It launches digitally connected Switch 2 connected December 1, 2025, with the carnal variation arriving aboriginal connected March 13, 2026.
Marvel Cosmic Invasion
IGN’s Will Borger gave it 7/10 successful his review, noting that portion "the stages themselves aren’t going to stroke you away" and the roster could beryllium much varied, "Marvel Cosmic Invasion’s tag squad enactment has the juice," and it is simply a joyousness to research each character’s abilities, peculiarly successful co-op.
He added that portion it whitethorn not redefine the bushed ‘em up genre, it is "a precise bully one" that encourages repeated play and highlights immoderate of Marvel’s much obscure but entertaining characters. For Switch 2 owners looking for accessible, amusive brawling with friends oregon solo, Cosmic Invasion delivers colourful, fast-paced enactment that is casual to prime up and hard to enactment down.
Assassin's Creed Shadows
Release Date: December 2, 2025
Assassin’s Creed Shadows launches connected Nintendo Switch 2, letting players power betwixt 2 chiseled characters successful feudal Japan. As the nimble shinobi Naoe, stealth and agility are key, portion the samurai Yasuke relies connected spot and precision to tackle challenges. The unfastened satellite encourages exploration without overwhelming players with icons and checklists, and the game’s combat demands much deliberate timing and strategy than past entries.
Assassin's Creed Shadows - Nintendo Switch 2
In his reappraisal for IGN, Jarrett Green gave it an 8/10, noting that it "takes a flashing leaf to the series’ established norms, trimming them to a much precise signifier successful lieu of chopping them down outright." The reappraisal besides highlights the characters, calling Naoe and Yasuke "well-realized and memorable protagonists," adjacent if the communicative paths they travel are reasonably predictable.
For long-time Assassin’s Creed players, Shadows provides a "refreshing realignment of the series" with refined combat, smarter exploration, and a Sengoku-period Japan that rewards attraction and experimentation, making it 1 of the much polished entries to look connected Switch 2 this December.
Simogo Legacy Collection
Release Date: December 2, 2025
Simogo Legacy Collection comes to Nintendo Switch 2 connected December 4, bringing unneurotic 7 of the studio’s mobile hits successful 1 package. The postulation includes Kosmo Spin, Bumpy Road, DEVICE 6, Beat Sneak Bandit, Year Walk (with Year Walk Companion), The Sailor’s Dream, and SPL-T, with restored versions that fto you play utilizing touch, buttons, motion, oregon dual rodent controls.
From arcade-style novelties to experimental text-based adventures and 4th wall-breaking narratives, the postulation offers a varied look astatine Simogo’s aboriginal work. It is simply a convenient mode to research the studio’s originative past connected the caller console.
Red Dead Redemption - Switch 2 Edition
Release Date: December 2, 2025
Rockstar's cowboy classical Red Dead Redemption is present cleared for motorboat connected Nintendo Switch 2. The quality was announced earlier successful November, with Rockstar officially confirming, stating:
"Red Dead Redemption and Undead Nightmare are coming to Netflix, iOS, Android, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch 2 connected Dec 2. Experience these epic Western adventures with escaped upgrades, the quality to transportation implicit crippled progress, and more."
Red Dead Redemption
You tin prime up the Red Dead Redemption connected Nintendo Switch for $35 astatine Amazon close now, oregon there's a pre-owned mentation disposable astatine GameStop for $27.99 arsenic well.
If you already ain the game, you volition beryllium capable to upgrade digitally to the caller Switch 2 enhanced mentation for free, with Switch users capable to proceed their existing prevention information connected the newer console. The caller Switch 2 Edition besides has enactment for DLSS, HDR, rodent controls, and 60fps.
Metroid Prime 4: Beyond
Release Date: December 4, 2025
One of the astir anticipated releases of the twelvemonth has yet arrived successful Metroid Prime 4 Beyond. It's disposable from December 4, and costs $69.99 for the Switch 2 Edition, oregon $59.99 connected the modular Switch (with a $10 upgrade way available. The Switch 2 mentation includes the crippled for the archetypal Switch, positive the upgrade pack, each connected the cartridge. None of that game-key paper nonsense here.
Metroid Prime 4: Beyond
- Metroid Prime 4: Beyond - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition - $69.99
- Metroid Prime 4: Beyond - $59.99
In his reappraisal for IGN, Logan Plant awarded Metroid Prime 4 an 8, stating: "It nails the indispensable elements of a Prime crippled that stay peculiar decades later: tense exploration done haunting locations highlighted by astonishing worldbuilding, breathtaking creation direction, caller twists connected classical abilities, and flawless method performance. Even though a fewer underdeveloped elements support it from feeling arsenic cohesive arsenic its predecessors, Prime 4 reaches heights worthy of the Metroid name."
Launching alongside the crippled are a trio of ridiculously awesome looking Metroid Prime 4: Beyond amiibo. There’s Samus solo, aiming her blaster arm, alongside Samus connected the highly chill Vi-O-La motorcycle you get to thrust successful the game, and yet the the villainous Sylux.
Octopath Traveler 0
Release Date: December 4, 2025
Octopath Traveler 0 is acceptable to merchandise connected December 4. Like the erstwhile entries successful this turn-based RPG series, it’s made successful the visually striking “HD-2D” creation benignant that uses pixelated 2D characters and gorgeous HD environments, with ocular effects lone imaginable connected modern platforms.
In Michael Higham's Octopath Traveler 0 - Review successful Progress for IGN, helium said: "Octopath Traveler 0 has truthful overmuch firing disconnected successful parallel with its abstracted communicative branches, overarching themes, and complex-but-satisfying RPG combat system, and I'm excited to spot however it each concludes arsenic I inch person to the end."
Octopath Traveler 0 (Switch 2)
"Great RPGs unrecorded oregon dice by however their last acts play retired – with the anticipation of chaotic brag battles, communicative revelations, and solution to an 80-hour-plus journey, a batch is riding connected it. And I'm conscionable arsenic anxious to finalize my thoughts and feelings connected Octopath Traveler 0 soon after."
Football Manager 26 Touch
Release Date: December 4, 2025
Football Manager 26 Touch lands connected Switch 2 connected December 4, giving the console a debased attraction shot sim for anyone who does not fancy the afloat abdominous PC grind.
It runs connected a refreshed motor that improves subordinate question and lucifer presentation, truthful it is not conscionable the aforesaid aged handheld port, but expectations should enactment realistic, this is inactive a streamlined mentation built for speedy sessions.
Women’s shot and the Premier League are included from launch, which helps it consciousness current, and the Touch format remains a decent acceptable for playing successful abbreviated bursts connected a handheld. It is not the header merchandise of December, but if you privation thing to poke astatine betwixt bigger games, it fills that relation well.
Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds - Switch 2 Edition
Release Date: December 4, 2025
Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds is coming to Nintendo Switch 2, and volition beryllium disposable digitally for players priced $69.99. The Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Upgrade Pack volition besides beryllium disposable for $10 to owners of Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds, allowing some contented and advancement to transportation over.
A carnal mentation is coming, which Sega says volition "feature the afloat basal crippled connected the cartridge", but that's not expected to merchandise until "early 2026."
For the savvy shoppers, the archetypal Switch mentation of Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds is disposable for $44.99 close present from Amazon, with the Switch 2 upgrade past bringing that up to a full outgo of $54.99. But, that's inactive $15 cheaper wide erstwhile compared to paying $70 for the integer version.
Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds - Nintendo Switch
Jada Griffen's 9/10 IGN review: "Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds fires connected each cylinders with a fantastic roster of 24 of my favourite hedgehogs, foxes, echidnas, and more. The lineup of 24 main tracks and 15 Crossworld tracks is the champion designed enactment we've ever gotten successful immoderate Sonic racing game, and determination is simply a generationally large soundtrack to travel them. The racing itself feels fast, fantastic, and intuitive, with tons of options to tweak your stats to your preferred playstyle."
"There are plentifulness of modes that entertained my friends and maine for hours, and CrossWorlds volition astir apt beryllium a regular staple of hangouts arsenic much courses and characters are added implicit the coming months – though I bash privation it had the enactment for splitscreen erstwhile playing online. The titular Crossworld mechanic is an awesome thought that keeps each contention fresh, and a large mode to perchance crook the tables connected opponents acknowledgment to a lengthy database of customization options. While I'm inactive speeding my mode to implicit each the challenges, Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds is 1 that I cognize I'll bask playing plentifulness much of successful the months to come, crossing the decorativeness enactment arsenic my caller favourite kart racing crippled of each time."
Skate Story
Release Date: December 8, 2025
Skate Story arrives connected Switch 2 connected December 8, offering a quirky, narrative-driven skateboarding adventure. Players commencement arsenic a beginner and gradually unlock tricks and skills portion exploring the Underworld, taking connected the Devil’s bizarre situation to skate to the moon.
Along the way, the crippled blends platforming, combat, and communicative elements, making for a compact but memorable acquisition connected Nintendo’s caller handheld.
Pokémon Legends: Z-A - Mega Dimension (DLC)
Release Date: December 10, 2025
Mega Dimension, the upcoming paid DLC for Pokémon Legends: Z-A ($29.99 USD) owed for motorboat connected December 10. The enlargement is headlined by 2 caller Mega Raichu designs, and besides includes Mega Zeraora, though unlocking it volition beryllium a "little difficult", apparently. A caller trailer for Pokémon Legends: Z-A besides precocious revealed a astonishment caller Mega Evolution for the fan-favorite Lucario.
Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader
Release Date: December 11, 2025
Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader arrives connected Nintendo Switch 2 connected December 11, bringing the grimdark 40K beingness to the hybrid handheld. Players prosecute successful tactical combat, research affluent communicative paths, and interact with immoderate of the franchise’s astir iconic and unsafe elements.
IGN’s Leana Hafer gave it 8/10 successful her reappraisal erstwhile it archetypal launched a mates of years ago, praising the "excellent writing, large combat, and the accidental to get up adjacent and idiosyncratic with immoderate of the astir absorbing and breathtaking elements of the 40K universe," portion noting that "its systems are a analyzable beast to maestro and the bugs are galore and significant."
Despite these challenges, she concluded that Rogue Trader "stands retired arsenic 1 I wouldn't privation to person missed" and represents a beardown measurement guardant for Owlcat arsenic an RPG developer.
The Rogue Prince of Persia
Release Date: December 16, 2025
The Rogue Prince of Persia arrives connected Nintendo Switch 2 connected December 16, offering fast-paced parkour and combat crossed a roguelite world. IGN’s Imran Khan gave it 7/10 successful his aboriginal entree review, noting that "with a slick presumption and an incredibly amusive combat system, each the close pieces are present for The Rogue Prince of Persia’s success," but informing that "the repetition you’ll look and the faint susurration of a story…wear bladed acold excessively quickly" astatine launch.
He added that bug fixes and expanded contented volition beryllium cardinal to improving the experience, and portion Early Access is unsmooth astir the edges, it shows committedness arsenic a aboriginal roguelite contender.
Robert Anderson is Senior Commerce Editor and IGN's nonmigratory deals adept connected games, collectibles, trading paper games, and more. You tin travel him @robertliam21 connected Twitter/X oregon Bluesky.
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