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Nintendo Life's picks for the champion Switch eShop games successful November!

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It's technically the past eShop Selects of the year. Yep, the adjacent clip we bash this, it'll beryllium 2023, adjacent if we'll beryllium looking backmost astatine December's games.

But let's not get excessively acold up of ourselves yet! We've got November to look backmost connected — a period dominated by Pokémon, but an aboriginal Indie World presumption meant we got a fewer astonishment releases connected the eShop. Have immoderate of them made a dent? Let's find retired successful Nintendo Life's picks for the champion games connected the Switch eShop games of past month!

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3. Finding Paradise (Switch eShop)

Finding Paradise (Switch eShop)

Finding Paradise (Switch eShop)

Publisher: X.D. Network / Developer: Freebird Games

Release Date: 18th Nov 2022 (USA) / 18th Nov 2022 (UK/EU)

Kao Gan is simply a developer we know volition marque america cry. He's done it with To The Moon, he's besides done it with A Bird Story, and he's done it again with Finding Paradise. This sequel has finally travel retired connected the Switch, and adjacent if determination are a fewer niggles with this port, it doesn't overshadow the beauteous storytelling and fantastic characters.

Originally released successful 2017, determination are inactive fewer games that lucifer the emotion, thoughtfulness, and simplicity of this 'series'. We gave Finding Paradise a well-deserved 8/10 — present each we request to bash is hold for Imposter Factory to travel to the Switch...

2. Lunistice (Switch eShop)

Lunistice (Switch eShop)

Lunistice (Switch eShop)

Publisher: Deck 13 / Developer: A Grumpy Fox

Release Date: 10th Nov 2022 (USA) / 10th Nov 2022 (UK/EU)

An outstanding homage to 3D platformers of the N64 and PSOne era, Lunistice was a immense astonishment this month. The adventures of Hana the tanuki are addicting successful the aforesaid mode our favourite collectathons are, with agleam colours and low-poly visuals hitting america consecutive successful our nostalgic hearts. But it takes power from platformers and games each passim the ages, from Super Mario Odyssey to Super Mario 64.

The champion part? This won't adjacent outgo you $5.00. We gave the crippled a 9/10 successful our review — however often tin you drawback a 9/10 for little than a fiver?

1. Rogue Legacy 2 (Switch eShop)

Rogue Legacy 2 (Switch eShop)

Rogue Legacy 2 (Switch eShop)

Publisher: Cellar Door Games / Developer: Cellar Door Games

Release Date: 9th Nov 2022 (USA) / 9th Nov 2022 (UK/EU)

We've been waiting months for Rogue Legacy 2 to marque its mode onto Switch — and the hold was perfectly worthy it. Given however outstanding the archetypal Rogue Legacy was, we shouldn't beryllium amazed that this came retired connected apical arsenic our favourite eShop game, but what was astonishing was that it was shadowdropped connected the time of the Indie World presentation.

But we can't kick — this sequel does exactly what a large sequel should do. Building connected the already addictive foundations of the original, Rogue Legacy 2 throws much of everything astatine you. The bequest strategy is backmost and amended than ever. The penning is inactive side-splittingly funny. And determination are caller jobs and gameplay styles that volition person you coming backmost for much implicit and implicit again.

The archetypal crippled was 1 of the breakout indie roguelikes, and this sequel is backmost to beryllium it's inactive 1 of the precise best. With a 9/10 reappraisal from us, we wholeheartedly agree.


< Nintendo Life eShop Selects - October 2022

How we determine our eShop Selects apical three: As we scope the extremity of each month, the Nintendo Life unit ballot connected their favourite titles from a database of games selected by the editorial team. To suffice for this list, these games indispensable person been released arsenic a digital-only Nintendo Switch eShop rubric successful that peculiar month, and indispensable person been reviewed connected Nintendo Life; we prime the qualifying games based connected their reappraisal scores.

Staff are past asked to ballot for 3 games that they deliberation merit to beryllium close astatine the precise apical of that list; archetypal prime gets 3 points, 2nd prime gets 2 points, and 3rd prime gets 1 point. These votes are past tallied to make a top-three list, with the wide victor taking that month's apical prize.

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