#All Swap 2 Recreation-Key Card titles, listed – Destructoid

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With Nintendo Swap 2, builders have entry to a brand new sort of cartridge that permits them to place their video games on a bodily cart however forces gamers to obtain a big chunk of the sport on-line, successfully not making them bodily video games in any respect.
These cartridges are often known as Nintendo Swap 2 Recreation-Key playing cards and are Nintendo’s approach of getting bigger video games which may not match onto a small cartridge onto the Nintendo Swap 2 system, and to have extra video games seem on retailer cabinets. They could be recognized by a label on the underside of the field that specifies it’s a Recreation-Key card.
Whereas the upside to those video games exterior of a code is that you could commerce the sport in or promote it as a substitute of it being locked to your account, and you may give the sport card to buddies to check out, its nonetheless left a bitter style within the mouth of lots of gamers who count on bodily media to be there bodily, and require no on-line obtain to play.
Each Nintendo Swap 2 Recreation-Key card sport

- Bravely Default: Flying Fairy HD Remaster
- Daemon X Machina: Titanic Scion
- EA SPORTS Madden NFL 26
- Hitman World of Assassination – Signature Version
- No Sleep For Kaname Date – From AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES
- Puyo Puyo Tetris 2S
- RAIDOU Remastered: The Thriller of the Soulless Military
- Sonic X Shadow Generations
- Star Wars Outlaws
- Avenue Fighter 6: Years 1-2 Fighters Version
- Yakuza 0: Director’s Minimize
Whereas the checklist above displays the western sport market, different titles have been confirmed to be Recreation-Key playing cards in different areas that we count on to comply with go well with within the US and EU market, however simply haven’t been confirmed but. These video games embrace:
- Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess
- Nobunaga’s Ambition: Awakening – Full Version
- Suikoden I&II HD Remaster
- Wild Hearts S
There are additionally unconfirmed rumors that Elden Ring: Tarnished Version and The Duskbloods will solely be obtainable as Recreation-Key card titles, with extra anticipated to be revealed over time forward of the console’s launch and past.
A fast Swap 2 Recreation-Key card PSA
A fast reminder that to play these video games, despite the fact that they’re on bodily cartridges, you want an Web Connection to obtain them. As soon as downloaded, you received’t want a connection once more to play them in your system except you wish to play any on-line multiplayer, however you want an preliminary web connection to obtain the total sport.
When downloaded, the sport cartridge nonetheless must be within the console to play and doesn’t act like a digital launch. As talked about earlier than, you can too commerce and promote these cartridges, however as soon as the Nintendo Swap 2 on-line service ends within the distant future, these playing cards might be fairly ineffective.
As these are the one strategy to play sure video games on the system, you’re successfully not proudly owning the entire sport, and as some video games may solely be obtainable as digital variations of those Recreation-Key playing cards, these video games will at some point be misplaced to time and not obtainable to play in any respect.