August is nearly over, so it's time to look back over the last few weeks and crown three of the Switch eShop games we've reviewed this month.
We've got eight games that met our 7/10 criteria for our monthly showdown: Switch eShop games that don't have physical releases (including Game-Key Cards) at the time of release. And this month saw a couple of unreleased Virtual Boy gems debut on Nintendo Switch Online - unconventional entries, but we reviewed them both, so they meet our criteria!
We asked our writers and contributors to vote for their top three eShop games of August 2026 and tallied the votes, so let's crack on and see which came out on top.
Before we get to the podium, some honourable menches:
Taking third place this month (narrowly beating out Duskfade and Future Knight), Kynseed launched in early August.
Made by Pixelcount, a team of former Fable devs who have been working on this for years on PC, this console release for the indie life-sim had some issues, but it did enough for the team to come away feeling plenty positive.
"It may not be the fairest of them all, but it’s a merry time nonetheless," said Michelle in her review. Absolutely worth investigating.
Taking second place is a new-old Nintendo game: Dragon Hopper for *checks notes... the Virtual Boy?
سەرچاوەی فەرمی بە زمانی ئینگلیزی: https://www.nintendolife.com/features/nintendo-life-eshop-selects-august-2026
