This week's European downloads - January 23 (198X, Walking Dead, Speedrunners and more)

Nintendo eShop (Switch)

It's Raining Fists and Metal (Corvostudio di Amadei Marco) - €6.99/£5.99
Show your opponents what real Metal is! Fight your way to the top by blasting your opponents out of your altar of glory.

Conquer the stage and win the praise of the crowd in this spectacular brawler game! Remember, rhythm is the key to the gates of Metal!

Refreshing Sideways Puzzle Ghost Hammer (Caerux) - €24.99/£20.99
"Refreshing Sideways Puzzle Ghost Hammer" is puzzle game, you join Blocks with Hammer in. Let's challenge the mission with finding out the movements of Blocks falling sideways and down!

Caveman Chuck (PrimeBit Games) - €4.00/£3.59
Caveman Chuck is a classic 2D platformer where you fight with dinosaurs in stone age. You’re taken back all the way to the Stone Age where you play the role of a crude caveman named Chuck. You’ll quickly realize he shares his cave with his wife, who is heavily invested in the relationship, and as things often have it, she yells at him rather frequently.

Ember (N-Fusion) - €17.99/£14.99 (€13.49/£11.24 until February 4)
Back in the earliest days, there was no sun and the world was dark. The heavens opened up and stars fell like beacons into the pitch black world, and they were known as “Embers”. Powerful and wise druids of a primordial race, “the Lightbringers," roamed the land searching for this luminous matter. They performed a ritual of awakening to call the “Embers” out of their deep sleep. Suddenly the world became bright, and the veil of darkness was lifted. The Embers were the embodiment of magical flame, light, and life, but as word spread about the sheer power of the Embers, they came to be hunted and captured…and so the War for Ember began…

The Walking Dead: A New Frontier (Skybound Games) - €14.99/£12.99
When family is all you have left…how far will you go to protect it?

After society was ripped apart by undead hands, pockets of civilization emerge from the chaos. But at what cost? Can the living be trusted on this new frontier?

As Javier, a young man determined to find the family taken from him, you meet a young girl who has experienced her own unimaginable loss. Her name is Clementine, and your fates are bound together in a story where every choice you make could be your last.

The Walking Dead: Season Two (Skybound Games) - €14.99/£12.99
The Walking Dead: Season Two, a five-part game series that continues the story of Clementine, a young girl orphaned by the undead apocalypse. Left to fend for herself, she has been forced to learn how to survive in a world gone mad.

Many months have passed since the events seen in Season One of The Walking Dead, and Clementine is searching for safety. But what can an ordinary child do to stay alive when the living can be just as bad – and sometimes worse – than the dead?

As Clementine, you will be tested by situations and dilemmas that will test your morals and your instinct for survival. Your decisions and actions will change the story around you, in this sequel to 2012’s Game of the Year.

Football, Tactics & Glory (Toplitz Productions) - €39.99/£35.99
Football, Tactics & Glory reinvents the basics of the football management genre, making it appealing to everyone, not just the most hardcore football management aficionados. The game skips the boring parts of football management games - all those endless tables, numbers, routine and micromanagement. But it is deep enough to keep players engrossed for hundreds of hours.

If you enjoy turn-based gameplay, strategy or tycoon games, you will love Football, Tactics & Glory.

Escape From Chernobyl (Atypical Games) - €9.99/£8.99
Dive into the darkness and the dangers of the Chernobyl power plant in this continuation of the Radiation City adventure. Unravel the mystery left unsolved: find what happened to Lauren and the story of the nightmare at its source.

Navigate the accurately recreated Chernobyl power plant complex from the destroyed Unit 4 reactor to the outskirts of the complex at their natural scale.

Explore the full area in a seamless experience from open world exploration to the maze-like corridors of each building and the nuclear unit buildings. Scavenge them for weapons and gear to give you the needed edge to overcome this tremendous challenge.

198X (8-4) - €9.99/£8.99
Welcome to Suburbia, just outside the City, sometime in 198X. This is the journey of Kid, a teenager stuck between the limitations of innocent youth and the obligations of inevitable adulthood. The story unfolds when Kid discovers the local arcade – finding new worlds, and new meaning, in video games. For every visit to the arcade – every game uncovered, every move mastered, every demon defeated – Kid grows stronger. And the lines between reality and game start to blur...

Speedrunners (tinyBuild Games) - €14.99/£12.99
Speedrunners: Deluxe Edition (tinyBuild Games) - €26.99/£24.29
In a city filled with superheroes, getting to crimes becomes a competition on its own. Fortunately there are enough rockets, bombs, grappling hooks, spikes, and other goodies lying around -- to make the competition fun and fast. Welcome to SpeedRunners.

SpeedRunners is a 4 player competitive platformer with grappling hooks, power-ups, and interactive environments. Run, jump, swing around, fire rockets, grapple onto people to knock them off screen.

OmoTomO (Forever Entertainment) - €9.99/£8.99
This game not only provides a relaxing experience with a zen garden environment, but also challenges players with a variety of puzzles, whilst experiencing the growth of the OmoTomO creature. OmoTomO is suited for new and experienced puzzle players, with its steadily rising difficulty.

Sit down, take a deep breath, and give yourself a relaxing while with OmoTomO!

Dual Brain Vol.2: Reflex (D-O) - €13.99/£11.99
Solve the problem within the time limit and aim for a high score. The high score in the game is registered in the online ranking. Compete for scores with players around the world.

Just Glide (Cool Small Games) - €1.19/£1.09
Remember the good ol'days of throwing your own paper plane into the air? Just Glide is just about that. Sit down, relax and enjoy your paper plane's flight.

In Just Glide you control a small, brave paper airplane, making its way forward. Fly through air hoops, avoid incoming projectiles, push through rainy clouds and pierce through obstacles.

The further you make it, the more challenging it gets!

Sinless (Forever Entertainment) - €9.99/£8.99
Sinless is a unique combination of a classic point and click and a visual novel with many references and inspirations from classics of the genre, such as Snatcher, or Rise of the Dragon. Add to that custom, in-house designed lighting and parallax effects, along with a dedicated awesome Soundtrack and original storyline, we hope you will enjoy your stay!

Welcome to the Omni-Care sanctioned city. The world as we know it has come to an end and a New Order has taken over. Life is seemingly perfect, in an almost utopian society humans have to officially schedule their whole days in advance via "ports" - mandatory cybernetic implants. Large commercial entities who also happen to be port manufacturers have replaced governments and crime is practically non existent. You are the hero of this exciting cyberpunk tale, about to start a regular day, only for it to unfold in the most unexpected manner revealing the true nature of the multi-layered city.

Sleep Attack (Bad Seed) - €6.99/£6.29
Enjoy an amazing TWIST in Tower Defense! You control the layout of the battlefield, and you decide the paths your enemies follow!

SEGA AGES Shinobi (SEGA) - €6.99/£5.99
Ninjutsu master Joe Musashi returns in this classic side-scrolling platformer. Utilize shurikens, throwing knives, and more to defeat the enemy and free the hostages. Need more time? Use the rewind feature to move back in time to make sure you’re using your best moves.

Challenge the SEGA AGES version of Shinobi by using the newly added melee button for a special bonus score. Or if you prefer something more achievable, try out the AGES mode and Joe Musashi will have upgraded weapons and increased durability.

SEGA AGES Fantasy Zone (SEGA) - €6.99/£5.99
An interplanetary monetary system collapses as its funds are mysteriously funneled towards the construction of a fortress in the Fantasy Zone. It's up to Opa-Opa to rescue the Fantasy Zone and find the culprit responsible!

Eliminate all the bases to reach the end boss and advance to the next level. Use lasers and bombs to destroy all enemies and take advantage of weapon and engine upgrades! Want a change in palette? Play as Opa-Opa’s brother, Upa-Upa!

JEWEL WARS (TOMCREATE) - €8.99/£8.09
The year is 2039...

All money is now collected and managed through an online network known as Gold Asset. This includes money generated through illegal and exploitative avenues. And so a plan was concocted to return that money to the world... Jewel Rush is a fighting action game that can be played by up to 4 players.

The rules are simple, so anyone can play casually, or more seriously. Collect the Jewels, which are pieces of financial data, and cash them in! The aim of the game is to collect more money than anyone else.

PuPaiPo Space Deluxe (BolHut) - €4.99/£3.99
PuPaiPo Space is a colorful space shoot-em-up in which you travel from Stage to Stage in search of the legendary space pizza. Piloting your trusty spaceship, you will have to battle waves of opponents, dodge hundreds of bullets, pick sweet power ups and face powerful bosses!

Travel through 7 different stages. Jumping from one stage to another requires your space jumping engine to recharge for roughly 90 seconds. During that time you will have to defend yourself from all the opponents in the area and defeat its boss.

Classic Snake Adventures (Crazysoft) - €8.95/£7.99
A reboot of the classic retro game snake introduced in 1997. Remade with gorgeous hand-drawn 2d art and a 3d snake. The snake's mechanics are completely new. This 3d snake can bend, and change size and speed during game-play, something you won’t see in any other snake games. A state of the art game with the retro beloved gameplay of snake 97.

Nibble your way through 100 amazing rounds in 5 worlds with 20 different bosses! The quest is easy: avoid all obstacles and eat the remaining fruit. The reptile will increase in size and speed after eating, especially if you eat the meat. Soda can make you smaller again. If you touch a turbo booster, your speed will increase rapidly for a few seconds, so try not to crash!

Mosaic (Raw Fury) - €17.99/£15.99
You live a monotonous and repetitive lonely life in a cold overpopulated ever-expanding city. The phone is distracting you with meaningless notifications as you move through anonymous crowds on your way to work at a megacorporation where yet another long day with overtime awaits. You have no real sense of meaning - until one crucial day, when strange things start to happen on your commute to work and everything changes.

Mosaic is a dark surrealistic and atmospheric adventure game about urban isolation and the dread of being a piece in a giant machinery you can’t understand.

From the creators of Among the Sleep, Krillbite Studio is going from horrors of childhood to the dreadful lonely adult life.

Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath (Oddworld Inhabitants) - €29.99/£26.99
Along comes Stranger, a tall, dark and enigmatic bounty hunter with a mission to capture troublemakers and scoundrels and return them to civilized townships for incarceration.

But Stranger is keeping a secret and needs expensive surgery to survive. In his quest to earn enough Moolah, Stranger reluctantly accepts the ultimate bounty from the owner of the Mongo River and suddenly his adventure takes a very different turn.

WARHAMMER 40,000: SPACE WOLF (HeroCraft) - €17.99/£16.19
Warhammer 40,000: Space Wolf is a turn-based tactical strategy in which you have to take command of the Space Wolves and join the battle against the wicked servants of Chaos and the sinister Necrons.

Arcade Archives XX Mission (HAMSTER) - €6.99/£6.29
"XX MISSION" is a shooting game released by UPL in 1986.

While switching between air and ground attacks, take out the approaching large and small craft and large fleets. Powering up allows you to use different powerful air attacks and wider ranged ground attacks depending on the ship's form.

Orn: The Tiny Forest Spirit (FIVE12 GAMES, available January 24) - €9.99/£8.99
Beautiful levels and a loveable hero take the spotlight in Orn: The Tiny Forest Spirit, a puzzling platform adventure game. You play as Orn, a tiny forest sprite created by the ancients, the last hope to combat the darkness. Will the powers you gained along your journey help you defeat the darkness?

Worlds of Magic: Planar Conquest (Ultimate Games, available January 24) - €16.99/£15.29
Planar Conquest is a 4X strategy game inspired by Master of Magic. Created to ensure this amazing playability of games from the past, but wrapped in a modern package.

"Explore, Develop, Use, Exterminate" - these four words provide the game with fun and challenge.

FoxyLand 2 (Ratalaika Games, available January 24) - €5.99/£5.99
After a peaceful day looking for cherries, Foxy’s children were kidnapped by the mean Wolfie brothers. Now it’s up to Foxy and Jennie to rescue their children!

Jump, leap,and wallkick to bypass enemies in order to reach the end of the stage to rescue Foxy’s puppers across the island. Play as both Foxy and Jennie in cooperative multiplayer.

Hidden across each level are 3 FoxyCoins, can you find them all? Also, keep an eye out for secret flags to explore more of the island!

Psikyo Shooting Stars Alpha (NIS America, available January 24) - €39.99/£35.99
STRIKERS 1945, STRIKERS 1945 II, STRIKERS 1945 III, SOL DIVIDE, Dragon Blaze, and ZERO GUNNER 2 combine forces in one arcade collection! Bring the arcade home by blasting through these shooters vertically in the popular ‘TATE’ mode for the ultimate shoot-'em-up experience!

Lumini (2Awesome Studio, available January 24) - €9.99/£8.99 (€8.99/£8.09 until January 31)
Having vanished without trace for thousands of years, an innocent race of creatures known as the Lumini have returned to their home world. Sadly, time has not been kind and the balance of the planet has shifted, turning the once gentle environment into a hostile landscape. Only the Lumini themselves can restore balance and help revive their long-dormant race, before adapting to preserve the future for generations to come.

Explore the Lumini home world in this relaxing flow-style adventure, overcoming obstacles and keeping your swarm safe while collecting the planet’s energy to bring back your fallen comrades. Split and reform your swarm, evolve and discover new abilities to bring the Lumini back to their former glory...

CRAYON SHINCHAN The Storm Called FLAMING KASUKABE RUNNER! (Bushiroad, available January 24)
Everyone's favorite five-year-old, Shinnosuke,makes a Fierce Dash to collect sweets and Golden Balls. Get lots of different costumes using Golden Balls, obtained by proceeding from one stage to another and  completing special missions! Enjoy Shinchan and his friends wearing a variety of cosplay clothes, well-known to people familiar with anime and movies!


Downloadable Content

Asterix & Obelix XXL 3: Viking Outfit (Microids) - €1.99/£1.79
Asterix & Obelix XXL 3: Legionary Outfit (Microids) - €1.99/£1.79

West of Loathing: Reckonin' at Gun Manor (Asymmetric) - €4.99/£4.49

GROOVE COASTER WAI WAI PARTY: Touhou Project Arrangements Pack 2 (TAITO) - €14.99/£12.99

Speedrunners: Civil Dispute! Character Pack (tinyBuild Games) - €2.99/£2.69
Speedrunners: Trails Pack (tinyBuild Games) - €2.99/£2.69
Speedrunners: Mr. Quick's Speedy Bunch (tinyBuild Games) - €2.99/£2.69
Speedrunners: Salem's Sprint Squad (tinyBuild Games) - €2.99/£2.69
Speedrunners: FortKnight's Fast Faction (tinyBuild Games) - €2.99/£2.69

Block-a-Pix Deluxe: Extra Puzzles Pack 11 (Lightwood Games) - €2.99/£2.99


Demos

Strike! Ten Pin Bowling Demo (Touch Mechanics)
Join Aiden, Mr. Jenkins and a host of other cute, fun-filled characters in Crazy Strike Bowling EX, a wacky bowling game fit for the whole family! Get a strike in new and distant bowling lands from the exotic forests of the Amazon to the pyramids of Egypt!, battle your friends in exhibition or battle mode, or dodge obstacles in challenge mode! Go crazy and use your character's special move to knock those bowling pins into oblivion while unlocking secret worlds and costumes! With level-ups, Crazy Strike Bowling EX is a strike for all ages!

Oh!Edo Towns Demo (Kairosoft)
Your ideal samurai town awaits you!

Erect houses, castles, and all manner of medieval marvels with a touch of the finger--rewriting the pages of history as you see fit!

Strategically place compatible buildings to make "combos," boosting your Yield to become the best castle town in all the land!

Pocket Clothier Demo (Kairosoft)
Ever wanted to run your own clothing store? Now you can!

Let your inner fashionista flower as you cultivate a quaint corner shop into a world-class super brand!

Position mannequins, run promotions, even set up an in-store crepe stand. Dream up other ways to stand out so that shoppers can't stay away!

Patrons will also rely on your fashion sense to coordinate ensembles for big occasions. Elevating their style level will unlock new career paths for them--meaning more revenue for you!

Are you ready to try your hand at the trade of trend?

The Pyraplex Demo (Kairosoft)
Transcend the boundaries of space and time to construct a colossal new wonder of the world in this pyramid-building adventure!

Make history with the Pyraplex, a desert oasis of commerce and culture far ahead of its time. You may attract visitors ranging from Aztec chiefs to Roman centurions to wayfarers even further from home. Cultivate trade with these civilizations and more to enrich your culture as well as your coffers.

Keep your bazaar buzzing by adding amenities and making handicrafts. While quarrying building stones, you'll also unearth hidden treasures with a variety of uses.

Of course, building a new wonder of the world is no easy task, so expect an annual evaluation by the Pyramid Association to keep you on track! You'll have to design with both form and function in mind if you want to tower above the rest!