Trials Rising stands apart in quiet Nintendo eShop update

I’ll cut to the chase: Nintendo eShop is looking barren this week. There are a few indies that may sound familiar — Yume Nikki, anyone? — but otherwise, Nintendo’s only big sells are Ubisoft’s Trials Rising and a Pokémon: Let’s Go! demo.

Rising is the first Trials game to make it to a Nintendo console, an impressive feat for Ubisoft’s nearly 20-year-old multiplayer racing series. This is also the first new Trials game since 2014’s Trials Fusion, a game Polygon found to be a disappointing step backward. Hopefully, Trials Rising is a more successful return to form for hardcore fans of its physics-based biking.

Otherwise? Pokémon: Let’s Go! has an eShop demo now, three months after launch, should you be a very curious, very patient Pokémon newbie. (There’s also a demo for Kirby’s Extra Epic Yarn out on 3DS eShop.) And that’s ... sort of it.

I’ll let you peruse for yourself below; perhaps you’ll find a hidden gem. Do share if so.

• Alchemic Dungeons DX
• Almost There: The Platformer
• Aragami: Shadow Edition
• Arcade Archives FRONT LINE
• Awesome Pea (demo)
• Car Mechanic Simulator
• Caterpillar Royale
• Daggerhood — available Feb. 22
• Devil Engine
• Dungeon Stars
• GIGANTIC ARMY
• Hell Warders
• I wanna fly
• Kirby’s Extra Epic Yarn (demo, 3DS)
• Mindball Play
• My Arctic Farm 2018
• Pizza Parking
• Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! / Pokémon: Let’s Go, Eevee! (demo)
• Q.U.B.E. 2
• Quest for the Golden Duck — available Feb. 22
• Rad Rodgers Radical Edition — available Feb. 26
• Raining Coins
• RemiLore — available Feb. 26
• Rotating Brave
• SKYHILL — available Feb. 26
• Surfingers
• The Golf
• The LEGO Movie 2 Videogame — available Feb. 26
• The Journey Down Trilogy
• The Lost Light of Sisu — available Feb. 27
• Trials Rising Standard Edition — available Feb. 26
• Tyr: Chains of Valhalla — available Feb. 22
• Warplanes: WW2 Dogfight
• X-Morph: Defense
• YUMENIKKI -DREAM DIARY-