The Nintendo Switch 2 has already had an incredibly busy 2026, but October is by far one of the more interesting months the console has seen so far, simply because the lineup is so diverse. There are several RPGs coming to the Switch 2 throughout the month, including a brand-new Final Fantasy and an expanded version of Dragon's Dogma 2, but horror fans are also getting quite a bit to choose from with Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival and Hell Is Us. Then, right in the middle of all of that, Call of Duty is finally returning to Nintendo hardware after being gone for well over a decade.
There are also a few games here that probably won't have the same name recognition as something like Kingdom Hearts or Call of Duty, but that doesn't necessarily make them any less interesting. Echo Weaver is taking a very different approach to Metroidvania progression, while ANOMALITH looks like it could be one of the more distinctive Switch 2 games releasing in October. Add Nintendo's own Nintendo Switch Sports Resort to the mix, and October 2026 really does seem to have a little bit of everything. So, without further ado, here are 10 of the most anticipated Switch 2 games releasing throughout October.
This list focuses specifically on games releasing with dedicated Nintendo Switch 2 versions. Nintendo Switch games that are also playable on Switch 2 through backward compatibility aren't included.
It almost feels a little too appropriate that Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival is arriving at the beginning of October, because there probably aren't many franchises better suited for the weeks leading up to Halloween. The first-person survival horror game follows Aidan Lynch as he searches for his girlfriend, Sunny, after she is taken into the Labyrinth, which naturally puts him in the path of Pinhead and the Cenobites. Clive Barker himself has also been involved with the project, so this isn't simply a game borrowing the Hellraiser name and hoping the license does most of the work for it.
What makes Hellraiser: Revival a little more interesting is that its monsters don't seem to be enemies that players can simply unload a magazine into and call it good. Ammunition and other resources are limited, and while Aidan does have access to firearms, melee weapons, and supernatural abilities tied to the Genesis Configuration, survival still seems to be the main point here. There are plenty of horror games that eventually become action games once players have enough weapons, so it will be interesting to see whether Hellraiser: Revival can keep the Cenobites feeling threatening all the way through.
At first glance, Echo Weaver might look like yet another Metroidvania arriving on a Nintendo platform that already has a vast sea filled with them, but its approach to progression is a little different from what the genre normally does. The game is built around a time loop, and instead of every obstacle being solved by finding some new ability that suddenly lets the player double-jump or break a specific wall, much of the progression comes from simply learning more about how the world works. A path that seems completely inaccessible during one loop might not actually require a new power at all once the player knows what to do.
Time itself also plays into that idea, because it isn't just something that resets whenever a loop ends. Players can actually spend it to heal or open certain paths, which means every decision has the potential to affect how much time is left before everything starts over again. Echo Weaver certainly isn't the first game to build itself around repeating the same stretch of time, but combining that idea with a Metroidvania could make exploration feel quite a bit different than simply walking back to every locked door once a new ability has been unlocked.
The Kingdom Hearts Collection [I-III] is obviously made up of games that have already been around for years, but its Switch 2 release is still a pretty big deal considering how Kingdom Hearts was handled on the original Switch. Most of the series arrived there through cloud versions, meaning Nintendo players technically had access to games like Kingdom Hearts 3, but only as long as their internet connection was willing to cooperate. For a series people can easily spend dozens upon dozens of hours working through, that was never exactly an ideal solution.
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