{"id":88933,"date":"2026-09-04T15:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T19:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=88933"},"modified":"2026-09-04T17:41:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T21:41:37","slug":"upcoming-nintendo-switch-2-games-release-dates-for-2026-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=88933","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming Nintendo Switch 2 Games: Release Dates for 2026 and Beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>We now have our hands on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/nintendo-switch-2-review\">Nintendo Switch 2<\/a>, a new console from one of the biggest names in gaming. Alas, a new console is only as valuable as the library of games you can build on it.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, Nintendo hasn&#8217;t been shy about planned releases over the next year. In the second half of 2026, we&#8217;ll be getting our hands on a mix of Switch 2 exclusives, third-party releases, and the benefit of backward compatibility with any games still launching on the original Switch. Without further ado, here are all of the new Switch 2 games we can look forward to in 2026 and beyond. <\/p>\n<p>All Upcoming Switch 2 Games With Release Dates<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>* indicates a Switch 2 exclusive<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mewgenics (September 8, 2026) <\/strong><\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"ignvideo\" data-slug=\"mewgenics-official-launch-trailer\" data-loop=\"\">\n<p>From the same creator as The Binding of Isaac, which is also making its way to Switch 2 later in the year, Mewgenics is a turn-based strategy game that\u2019s all about breeding cats and battling nasty things. We gave it a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/mewgenics-review\">very solid 9\/10<\/a> when it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/mewgenics-sells-over-150k-copies-in-first-6-hours-this-is-beating-expectations-by-quite-a-lot\">first launched<\/a> on PC earlier this year, saying it&#8217;s &#8220;good for more than a hundred hours of roguelike runs.&#8221; It also has some very catchy music. <\/p>\n<p>The Switch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We now have our hands on the Nintendo Switch 2, a new console from one of the biggest names in gaming. Alas, a new console is only as valuable as the library of games you can build on it. Thankfully, Nintendo hasn&#8217;t been shy about planned releases over the next year. In the second half&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":88935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88933"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88933"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88937,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88933\/revisions\/88937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/88935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}