Locked 2026 Dates: April–June
Seven Switch 2 games land in April alone, and that’s just the start. Nintendo and third-party partners have laid out a clear path through the first half of 2026, mixing free-to-play experiments, big licensed hitters, and prestige ports.
Pokémon Champions kicks things off on April 8 as a free-to-play battler centered on Mega Evolutions. It introduces a personal Roster Ranch to care for your team and leans into befriending trainers as support. It’s also the new standard for official Pokémon Video Game Championship events, though it won’t include the full roster of Pokémon at launch.
April 16 doubles up with the return of Nintendo’s oddball life sim and a stylish shooter. Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream revives the Mii-driven island experiment with broader inclusivity after the 3DS original drew criticism, and it even got its own dedicated Nintendo Direct showing customization and daily-life antics. On the same day, Mouse: PI for Hire brings a first-person shooter with an old-school, hand-drawn animation look inspired by early cartoon art and a punchy jazz soundtrack—a preview favorite around IGN.
April keeps rolling: on April 23, Outbound hands you an empty camper van and an open world to scavenge and build in, playable solo or in four-player co-op. Capcom’s long-delayed Pragmata finally arrives April 24 with cross-platform support; astronaut Hugh Williams and android Diana are labeled intruders on a lunar-controlled space station and must blend hacking and gunplay to uncover the truth. Family-friendly puzzling follows on April 27 with Moomintroll: Winter’s Warmth, a winter trek inspired by Tove Jansson’s stories. Rounding out the month, MotoGP 26 (April 29) brings full cross-play and a new “Rider Based Handling” physics model for more grounded racing.
May shifts to blockbuster licenses and mascots. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle (May 12) slots between Raiders and The Last Crusade and sends Indy from the Great Pyramids to sunken temples. We called it “far and away the best Indy story this century” in our 9/10 review when it hit other platforms, and Switch 2 owners finally get their crack at it. Yoshi and the Mysterious Book (May 21) marks the first Yoshi game since 2019’s Crafted World and is a Switch 2 exclusive, teasing familiar platforming ideas; meanwhile, you’ll hear Donald Glover voice Yoshi in the Super Mario Galaxy movie before the game drops.