{"id":50555,"date":"2025-08-07T15:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T15:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/50555\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T15:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T15:04:07","slug":"ufo-50-gets-a-surprise-shadow-drop-on-switch-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/50555\/","title":{"rendered":"UFO 50 Gets A Surprise Shadow Drop On Switch Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment, Mossmouth’s critically-acclaimed retro compilation, UFO 50, is out on Switch… today! The game costs $24.99 \/ \u00a320.99 on the Switch eShop.<\/p>\n

Announced during today’s Indie World showcase, the game was developers by the creators of Spelunky<\/a>, Downwell<\/a>, and Catacomb Kids. We’ve been itching to try this one out for a while, and now we don’t have to wait any longer. Fangamer will also be handling a physical version<\/a> of the game, and pre-orders are live now for $35.99 for the standard version, or $49.99 for the Deluxe (thanks Wario64<\/a>!)<\/p>\n

This isn’t a WarioWare-type situation with tons of minigames \u2014 this is a full-on collection of 50 different games, all ready to play from the beginning. Essentially, the entire game is about a fictional video game company from the 80s called UFO Soft, and you can chart the development history of that company in-game.<\/p>\n

There are sequels, stand-alone titles, multiple different genres, and a handful of multiplayer and co-op games too.<\/p>\n

Images: Mossmouth<\/p>\n

We got to try the game very briefly at Summer Game Fest in 2024<\/a> and, while we only spent around 10 minutes and got to try a handful of in-game titles, we were absolutely charmed.<\/p>\n

We know what we’re playing tonight!<\/p>\n

Let us know if you’re picking up UFO 50 in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watch on YouTube Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube830k In a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment, Mossmouth’s critically-acclaimed retro compilation, UFO…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,25886,1106,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-50555","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-indie-world","10":"tag-switch-eshop","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}