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Welcome to another week of Gamer By Mistake eShop Selects!
This is the final week of August 2025, and although I’m down with a cold, I still managed to go through all the shovelware and deliver a list of quality games directly to you.
Roadwarden
“Roadwarden is an illustrated text-based RPG in which the player explores and changes a hostile, grim realm. It combines complex dialogues and simplified graphics of Visual Novels with mechanics and an open-world story structure of an RPG. The game is meant to provide 10+ hours of a dark and humble adventure.”
Editor’s Note:
This one is difficult to explain why it’s good until you play it. I recommend heading over to Steam and trying the demo before purchasing it on Switch!
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Tactical Takedown
“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown is the first-ever turn-based TMNT video game. Inspired by the classic cartoon, you’ll experience a bold new approach to the world of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! Splinter and Shredder are dead, and as the Turtles approach adulthood, they’re not just growing up… they’re growing apart.”
Varlet
“This isn’t a story about finding someone else—it’s about finding yourself.
VARLET is a school-life RPG about self-discovery, experienced through meeting others who struggle with the question of who they truly are, and grow through that very struggle.”
Editor’s Note: Ok guys, this is literally the “But we have Persona at home” game. It’s not as good as any modern Persona game, from what I’ve seen, but I think it still deserves a mention. The only reason I didn’t buy it yet is that I’m waiting for a potential physical release in Europe!
Story of Seasons Grand Bazar
“Inspired by the classic handheld title, the new STORY OF SEASONS: Grand Bazaar builds up and improves on the original in every conceivable way. The world is bigger and more alive than ever thanks to incredible new visuals, new characters, expanded story, and full character voice work in story events—a series first.
Take advantage of Zephyr Town’s unique weather, using the wind to make travel and farm tasks a breeze! The winds of change are coming to deliver your new life in STORY OF SEASONS: Grand Bazaar.”
Editor’s Note:
Cozy gamers rejoice! Finally, a farm/life sim game that’s actually good and not borderline shovelware or Tales of the Shire.
Kirby and the Forgotten Land + Star-Crossed DLC
“One day, a strange vortex appears in the sky over Planet Popstar, sucking in everything around it…including Kirby! Waking up in an abandoned world where civilization and nature have become one, Kirby finds the Waddle Dees have been captured by a gang known as the Beast Pack.”
Nintendo Switch 2 Edition features
Includes:
- A new story: Star-Crossed World
- Improved graphics and frame rate
- Nintendo Switch game: Kirby and the Forgotten Land.
Editor’s Note:
This was the game I decided to purchase this week. Even with all these great releases, I still had to pick the first-party game. And let me say, I’m glad I’m experiencing it now with the Switch 2 Edition. This game is so beautiful and runs with no hiccups, and it’s a lot of fun. The price tag needs to go down though…
Shinobi: Art of Vengeance
“The iconic SHINOBI returns in an all-new 2D action platformer with a unique hand-drawn look created by the team behind the hit brawler Streets of Rage 4.
Play as the legendary Shinobi Joe Musashi, master of the ninja arts. After finding your village burned to the ground and your clan turned into stone, you must set off on a quest for vengeance, ready to face an unparalleled evil and avenge your clan.”
Super Robot Wars Y
“Super Robot Wars is a grid-based tactical combat RPG that brings units and pilots from a variety of anime together to battle their mutual foes.
Place your units strategically and command them to defeat their enemies!”
Editor’s Note:
I’ve been a massive fan of this series ever since I played the GBA games, and I can’t wait to get my hands on this one day as well!
Highlight of the week:
Space Adventure Cobra: The Awakening
/Highlight of the week:
“Play as Cobra, the space corsair, in an action platformer adapted from the famous anime. Accompanied by Armanoid, your faithful partner, and equipped with your iconic Delta Ray, you must uncover a threat to the entire universe.
Travel from planet to planet to save three enigmatic sisters whose fate is linked to a fabulous treasure coveted by the Space Pirates. Use Cobra’s cunning weapons and gadgets to defeat your enemies, and avoid the many obstacles and traps that will give our space troublemaker a hard time.”
Editor’s Note:
There’s a demo for Space Adventure Cobra available on the eShop, and I decided to play it with low expectations. But the second I heard the intro play, I knew this game was made for me, and the more I played it, the more I was sure of it.
It plays a lot like a Metroid or Megaman game but is more linear since you are following closely the story of the anime. And the game does a great job incorporating the episodes in between the levels.
Having played the full demo, I’m now debating whether I should watch the full anime or wait for a price drop and experience the rest of the game…
See you next week’s list of games!
Thanks for jumping in for this week’s list of the best Nintendo eShop games I could find.
As usual, if you see any game during the coming week deserving of a spot on this list, please let me know through Substack, email, or any of my available social media!