{"id":406407,"date":"2026-03-27T08:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T08:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/406407\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T08:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T08:07:10","slug":"3-stand-out-indie-nintendo-switch-2-games-coming-soon-from-blighted-to-mina-the-hollower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/406407\/","title":{"rendered":"3 stand-out indie Nintendo Switch 2 games coming soon, from Blighted to Mina the Hollower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Nintendo Switch 2 just got its indie power-up \u2013 and it is wild: a Zelda-like game with a roguelike bite, a psychedelic Souls-like co-op, and Super Meat Boy going full 3D chaos.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">At every Game Developers Conference, Nintendo highlights projects from independent studios through its Nintendo Partner Preview. The coming projects on their systems are not all exclusives, but they are proof that indie studios care about being on the company\u2019s platforms.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The surprising part of the preview was that all the titles ran on the Nintendo Switch 2, marking a shift away from the original Switch. The new console will be home to several indie games, and these three stood out during a hands-on session.<\/p>\n<p>Mina the Hollower<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A screen grab from Mina the Hollower. Photo: Yacht Club Games\/dpa\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ca7be378-a55d-4799-843f-01536b010e3b_a18f5966.jpg\" title=\"A screen grab from Mina the Hollower. Photo: Yacht Club Games\/dpa\"\/>A screen grab from Mina the Hollower. Photo: Yacht Club Games\/dpa<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Yacht Club Games is best known for its modern retro Shovel Knight franchise. It was a 2014 game released with NES-style graphics. The studio\u2019s second original title maintains the ethos of games inspired by past systems.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In the case of Mina the Hollower, the team took inspiration from the Game Boy Color handheld console for the visuals and The Legend of Zelda for the gameplay. Players take on the role of the title character and explore a large world full of enemies, traps and dungeons.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Mina the Hollower gives players the freedom to tackle the dungeons in any order they wish, though a golden path is detailed through character conversations and newspapers. If players just want to explore, they can do that, too, and they can amass trinkets and other items.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The game also features elements from Hades and Hollow Knight. Players can choose from five different weapons and add several trinkets that give Mina abilities. The Nightstar is a medium weapon with range, while the Blaststrike hammer is a heavier, more powerful but slower weapon. The daggers Whisper and Vesper do less damage but are very fast.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Mina has the ability to dig for a short time. It is how she reaches distant areas blocked by fences. She digs underneath them. The leap out of the earth is also more powerful, so she can leap wider gaps. It is another layer of gameplay for a promising game. It is being released in spring 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nintendo Switch 2 just got its indie power-up \u2013 and it is wild: a Zelda-like game with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[183764,18,19,17,159460,38669,183765,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-406407","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-blighted","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-mina-the-hollower","13":"tag-nintendo-switch-2","14":"tag-super-meat-boy-3d","15":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116300116521255268","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}