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This week's European downloads - May 21 (What The Golf, Golf With Your Friends and more)

by nintendaan
21 May 2020
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Nintendo eShop (Switch)

The House of Da Vinci 2 (Blue Brain Games) - €9.99/£8.99
The long awaited sequel to The House of Da Vinci is finally here. Join more than 1,000,000 players from around the world and dive into the 3D puzzle adventure with an outstanding rating.

Become Giacomo, the apprentice to the Renaissance genius, Leonardo da Vinci. Explore the world full of puzzles, mechanical gadgets and mind-twisting inventions. Travel through time and witness a series of mysterious events that led to the greatest discovery in human history. Your most powerful weapon is your mind, wit and skill.

Knight Swap 2 (QUByte Interactive) - €0.99/£0.89
Knight Swap is a minimalist puzzle game based on the old chess problem of swapping knights on a board. The goal in each level is to move the opposing knights to where the others are placed (and vice versa) using the features of the board.

Golf With Your Friends (Team17) - €19.99/£14.99
Nothing is out of bounds as you take on 9 courses filled with fast paced, exciting, simultaneous mini golf for up to 12 players!

Cannibal Cuisine (Rocket Vulture) - €12.99/£11.69 (€9.74/£8.76 until May 31)
Ready, steady, cook your way through 20+ levels in a full campaign across the island. Visit the jungle, temples, beaches and a lavalicious volcano. To appease Hoochooboo, you need to do more than cook. Outrun the Spiky Log of Doom, defeat waves of tourists and the tour boss in the jungle arena, and beat other challenge levels to prove yourself.

Mystical voodoo powers are the perfect ingredients for success, allowing you to dash, place healing totems or even breathe fire. In multiplayer each chef can choose a different ability to fit their personal cooking style. Cook your way through hell’s kitchen solo or with up to 4 chefs. Challenge each other to foodfights in PvP! With so many chefs in the kitchen, chaos is sure to follow.

Chess (Sabec) - €8.99/£8.09
Chess is the most famous strategic board game of all time. Easy to learn but difficult to master, play against the smart AI (artificial intelligence) player and with four levels of difficulty to choose from, anyone from a novice to a master can play. Chess is also playable against another player, either way winning won't come easy.

Luxar (KOALABS) - €7.90/£7.50
In LUXAR, you control an alien luminescent organic entity that has just been born and must pass its first survival trials to show its adult peers that it deserves to grow among them. It will have to cross 16 dark and hostile sectors with labyrinth-shaped alien architectures populated by toxic substances, obstacles, patrol drones and mechanisms of all kinds. You are its only chance to make it happen...

Skelly Selest & Straimium Immortaly Double Pack (Digerati) - €19.99/£17.99
This bundle contains two wonderfully outlandish indie treasures from retro-inspired UK developer, Caiysware.

Myths of Orion: Light from the North (Ocean Media) - €9.99/£8.99
Long time ago, in a Realm of Orion, a powerful, but greedy wizard collected knowledge from all around the world. And thus came to write the three Books: books of knowledge, Law and Magic.The books gave him ultimate powers. But, he used them not to prosper, but for chaos! One day the mighty enchantress Salina gathered all of her strength and courage and stole the Books from the Wizard. Under the cover of a night, she took the Books and her child, baby Meredith, and ran far, far away to the North, to her sister Ariel’s house - at the very edge of the world. She could only hope the Wizard wouldn’t find them there. And so, the years and decades passed by... until one day...

Arrest of a stone Buddha (CIRCLE Ent.) - €14.99/£13.49
As a professional killer you'll live through November 1976; when taking on enemies you're fast and lucky enough so you don't need to plan your actions too far. You kill with one shot and you never miss. When you run out of ammo you just throw a gun away. You can disarm any enemy and use any weapon; when it's time to get out you just use a vehicle nearby.

You have an apartment in the historical center of the city. When you want to eat you go to a cafe, and you can visit a museum or a cinema when you're looking for entertainment. And you have a lover when that need arises. Around the intense action there is the mundane, as you seek to pass your days.

Steel Rain (PolarityFlow.) - €13.99/£12.50
Steel Rain is a truly novel mix of strategy, RPG, and frantic action, with a modern, high velocity shmup core at its center. You get to control 2 wings you can tactically arrange in different formations and firemodes, as you fight your way through an impressive variety of overwhelmingly huge enemy fleets.

Liberate planets, build colonies, research new technologies, and learn new active and passive skills. Construct buildings, and research new combat technologies and skills. Wisely craft items, and play through missions to gather the experience points and cash needed for even more exotic and powerful upgrades.

Fluxteria (Playstige Interactive) - €6.99/£6.29
Welcome to Fluxteria, non-stop arcade-space-shooting action in full 3D. Four modes of play: Story Mode, Survival Mode, Timed-Attack Mode and Obstacle Race Mode. 14 different types of Enemies. 20 different levels in beautifully stylized science-fiction setting. Crystal-Clear shooting and blasting sound effects. Hearth-thumbing music.

Lost Artifacts: Time Machine (8Floor Games) - €8.79/£7.89
A mysterious villain is using a time machine to destroy everything in his path. He wants to return the Priest, the King of Atlantis and the Ancient Emperor so he can use them to create a new world order! Claire and her friends must find out who the villain is and stop him and all his minions.

Go on a journey across a world full of extinct creatures and fantastic technologies in the exciting casual strategy Lost Artifacts.

The Persistence (Firespite) - €29.99/£24.99
The Persistence challenges you to survive aboard a doomed deep space colony starship in the year 2521. Stranded, malfunctioning and caught in the inexorable pull of a black hole, “The Persistence” is overrun with a crew mutated into horrific & murderous aberrations. It’s down to you, a clone of security officer Zimri Eder, to make your way deeper in the decks of The Persistence to repair the systems and prevent the ship from being torn apart. Gather resources, upgrade abilities and fabricate an arsenal of weapons in this brutal sci-fi horror roguelike.

Pushy and Pully in Blockland (Resistance Studio) - €9.99/£9.99
Pushy and Pully in Blockland Push is a cooperative arcade game with a retro feeling. Help Pushy and Pully get back their spaceship on their trip across Blockland. Push blocks to defeat the monsters, join blocks of the same colour to get power ups and defeat the bosses to recover the parts of your broken spaceship.

Monster Prom: XXL (Those Awesome Guys) - €15.99/£13.99
There’s only 3 weeks left until prom and you haven’t got a date yet..and you’re a monster. But that’s okay ‘cause at your high-school everyone else is too! These are the stepping stones into the world of Monster Prom: XXL - the bundled up, content filled edition of Monster Prom, a one-to-four player competitive dating sim that will have you thinking: I never knew I was into that!

Zenge (HamsterOnCokeGames) - €1.99/£1.79
Zenge is a peculiar puzzle game, telling the story of Eon - a lonely journeyman who's stuck between the worlds and time.

Game is intended to be a relaxing experience, thus there are no points, stars, tutorials, move counters, in game shops or any other distractors. Just pure, immersive journey with Eon, told through gorgeous art and music.

WHAT THE GOLF? (TribandProductions) - €19.99/£17.99 (€14.99/£13.49 until May 28)
An award-winning silly physics-based golf parody where every golf course is a new surprising type of golf, some brilliant or hilarious, others so absurd they will make you go: WHAT THE GOLF?

Bring your car to the Driving Range, golf a bird to get a Birdy, or a house and get a Home In One. Challenge a friend to the least realistic golf game ever made in the new local party mode for two. Only available on Nintendo Switch.

Arcade Archives RAIDERS5 (HAMSTER) - €6.99/£6.29
"RAIDERS5" a shooting puzzle game released by UPL in 1985. Players aim to escape by destroying all of the targets on the stage. Find the exit!

Crypto by POWGI (Lightwood Games) - €7.99/£6.99
In a cryptogram puzzle, every letter of the alphabet has been switched for a different letter to present a scrambled message. Using logic and reasoning, players can decipher the encoded text to reveal a funny or inspirational quote.

A good starting point is to look for apostrophes in the text, as they are frequently followed by a letter ’S’. Single-letter words are ‘A’ or ‘I’, and double letters in words often provide useful information.

Journey to the Savage Planet (505 Games) - €29.99/£24.99
Journey to the Savage Planet in an upbeat first-person adventure game set in a bright and colorful alien world filled with weird and wonderful creatures. As an employee of Kindred Aerospace, which proudly touts its rating as the 4th Best interstellar exploration company, you are dropped onto an uncharted planet deep in a fictitious, far away corner of the universe. Launched with high hopes but little equipment and no real plan, your job is to explore, catalog alien flora and fauna and determine if this planet is fit for human habitation. Onward to adventure! Good luck – and mind the goo!

Jigsaw Masterpieces (BottleCube) - €0.99/£0.89
"Jigsaw Masterpieces" is an easy-to-play traditional jigsaw puzzle. Many convenient functions for completing the puzzle, such as the function to separate edge and inner pieces and the auto save function for playing lighthearted at any time. A lot of DLC is releasing, such as beautiful landscape of the world, masterpieces of painting, popular cartoon characters, dogs and cats.

Concept Destruction (Ratalaika Games, available May 22) - €4.99/£4.99
Concept Destruction is all about driving miniature cars made of cardboard, and crashing them into each other to earn points by destroying them!

Pick from several different modes that suits your playstyle. Pick championship mode if you want to fight your way through mass production or choose survival mode to see how long you can survive a wave of deadly cardboard automobiles!

Unlock new cars with points earned by playing. Each car has a unique driving style that could turn the tide of battle!

Animal Up! (Nestor Yavorskyy, available May 22) - €2.99/£2.49 (€1.49/£1.24 until May 22)
Animal Up! is a tiny, retro styled and fast paced arcade game. Take the role of a rescue team on a mission to Save All the Cute Animals from the Flood!

Monstrum (Soedesco, available May 22) - €29.99/£24.99
Stranded on a derelict cargo ship, you find yourself hunted by one of Monstrum’s terrifying predators as you search for a way out. Death is death. Get killed in Monstrum and you'll be starting all over again. As each of them has their own strategy, abilities and weaknesses, you have to use your wits to outsmart your pursuer in the ship’s procedurally generated environment. Can you survive Monstrum?

The Wonderful 101: Remastered (PlatinumGames, available May 22) - €44.99/£39.99
A team of heroes from around the world must UNITE to protect the earth from vicious alien invaders! This band of 100 Wonderful Ones works together using their fantastic abilities to create a variety of forms. Whether it be a giant fist or a sharp blade, they’ll use their wits and power to overcome the enemy’s pitfalls and perils! And the final member of this team of courageous heroes—is you.

The Wonderful 101: Remastered offers the unprecedented ability to control 100 heroes at once, with the flowing controls and dynamic action that are the PlatinumGames hallmark. It’s all brought together by a pulse pounding tale of heroic bravery and friendship standing tall against evil, and is PlatinumGames’ most ambitious offering to date.


Downloadable Content

Golf With Your Friends - Caddy Pack (Team17) - €1.99/£1.79
Turn the fairway into a runway and customise your balls in Golf With Your Friends! Putt your own stylish spin on the game as you tee off with one of 3 new hats or floaties with the Caddy Pack!

Sid Meier's Civilization VI - New Frontier Pass (2K) - €39.99/£32.99
Continue your quest to build your greatest empire with the Civilization VI - New Frontier Pass, featuring eight new civilizations and nine new leaders, and a variety of new gameplay content, including six new game modes. The New Frontier Pass includes six DLC packs that will be delivered on a bimonthly basis from May 2020 to March 2021.

Civilization VI - Maya & Gran Colombia Pack (2K) - €8.99/£7.39
This new content pack introduces Lady Six Sky as the leader of the Maya and Simón Bolívar as the leader of Gran Colombia. The Maya can build prosperous city centers early in the game, supported by surrounding Farms and Plantations and protected by their unique Hul’che. Gran Colombia focuses on fast armies boosted by Simón Bolívar’s powerful Comandante Generals.

Link-a-Pix Deluxe: Large Puzzles (Lightwood Games) - €3.99/£2.99
Link-a-Pix Deluxe: Small Puzzles (Lightwood Games) - €3.99/£2.99

Jigsaw Masterpieces: Kawaii Cute Goddesses (BottleCube) - €3.39/£3.09
Jigsaw Masterpieces: Cute Lovely Dogs (BottleCube) - €2.49/£2.29
Jigsaw Masterpieces: Cute Lovely Cats (BottleCube) - €2.49/£2.29
Jigsaw Masterpieces: Masterpieces of World - Baroque - (BottleCube) - €2.49/£2.29
Jigsaw Masterpieces: Masterpieces of World - Renaissance - (BottleCube) - €2.49/£2.29

DRAGON BALL FIGHTERZ - GOKU (Ultra Instinct) (Bandai Namco Entertainment, available May 22) - €4.99/£3.99
Includes:
- Goku (Ultra Instinct) as a new playable character
- 5 alternative colors for his outfit
- Goku (Ultra Instinct) Lobby Avatar
- Goku (Ultra Instinct) Z Stamp

[Nintendo/Nintendo eShop]