{"id":89241,"date":"2026-09-11T12:37:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T16:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=89241"},"modified":"2026-09-11T13:44:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T17:44:19","slug":"upcoming-nintendo-switch-2-games-release-dates-for-2026-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=89241","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>RuneScape: Dragonwilds (September 15, 2026) <\/strong><\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"ignvideo\" data-slug=\"runescape-dragonwilds-official-world-teaser-trailer\" data-loop=\"\">\n<p>RuneScape got a bit of a makeover with this new open world crafting and survival game that was initially released last year, and is finally coming to Switch 2 this fall. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Fire Emblem: Fortune\u2019s Weave (September 17, 2026)*<\/strong><\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"ignvideo\" data-slug=\"fire-emblem-fortunes-weave-official-release-date-trailer-nintendo-direct-june-2026\" data-loop=\"\">\n<p>We finally have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/nintendo-confirms-fire-emblem-fortunes-weave-switch-2-release-date\">release date<\/a> for the next game in the Fire Emblem series, which already happens to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/fire-emblem-fortunes-weave-where-to-buy\">available to preorder<\/a>. Here\u2019s a snippet of what to expect from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendo.com\/us\/store\/products\/fire-emblem-fortunes-weave-switch-2\/\">official<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/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":89243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89241","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\/89241"}],"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=89241"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89245,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89241\/revisions\/89245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/89243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}