Nintendo Life eShop Readers’ Choice & Choice (December 2024)

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Nintendo Life eShop Readers' Choice & Choice (December 2024)

eShop chooses the year 2024 — *Image: Nintendo Life*

As we head into 2025, we’re taking a final look back at 2024 — and our eShop Picks for December!

Crammed full of games? Need some more eShop fun? Well, we can keep you up to date with the best games we’ve reviewed that released on the eShop in December. As always, the rankings below are voted on by our staff and contributors. Nintendo Life’s picks for the top three games from the eShop games are listed below, and you’ll see the results below.

But before that, everyone — Readers’ Choice November 2024. The rise of the golden idolsequel of The golden idol casebe your winner! This weird and wonderful point-and-click adventure is a victim of a busy release schedule for us, but we’ve seen it on many Game of the Year lists. Clearly you guys have some taste.

As a reminder, we’ll be shutting down Readers’ Choices after this month, so you’ll have one final game to choose from in December 2024.

Okay, let’s do this one last time in 2024.

honorable mention

December is always much quieter than the rest of the year. Which we are very excited about! Our backlog is ballooning. Still, it was a healthy month with some highly anticipated games and remasters coming out. Everything listed here gets at least a 7/10 from us:

However, here are our top 3…

Announced and released within weeks, Classic Roller Coaster Tycoon maybe just female The best roller coaster sim on the market. Combining the first two games in the legendary series, the game ported to Switch relatively well. There will definitely be a learning curve, but once it pays off, you will become the king of park management.

We’re big RCT fans here at Nintendo Life, and even when it comes to performance issues, we Still giving it 8/10. Simply perfect gaming during the holiday season, if you ask us.

One of the biggest surprises of Summer Game Fest 2024 was Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Rita’s Rewinda brand new Power Rangers has their take on the classic pranks at Digital Eclipse.

It’s a far cry from a full-featured powerhouse like Shredder’s Revenge, but Rita’s Rewind is still a brilliant and fun retro flick that took us back to the ’90s. This game was a cornerstone of the year. another great one by Digital Eclipse and we nailed it deserves 8/10.

The second Wario-esque platformer explodes on our Switch, Antonblast It’s been a long time coming. The chaotic and frenetic platforming is realized in bold and dynamic pixel art, and we can’t stop coming back for more challenges.

Antonblast rates a great year for indie titles in 2024 and is the winner of our eShop Selects for December 2024. We reviewed it and gave it 8/10and even better, there’s now a performance patch!

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Readers’ Choice eShop (December 2024)

As we mentioned above, this is the last time we will do Readers’ Choice voting during the eShop Selection process. But you’ll still have plenty of opportunities to tell us about the games we missed in our aptly titled series, The game we missed.

So hit us up – what games did we miss in December 2024? You can let us know in the poll below and by sending us a comment. Also, let us know which game you like best among our picks!

How We Decide Our eShop Top Three Placements: As we reach the end of each month, Nintendo Life staff will vote on their favorites from a list of games selected by the editorial team. To qualify for this list, these games must have been released as digital-only Nintendo Switch eShop titles during that specific month and must have been rated on Nintendo Life; We select eligible games based on their review scores.

Staff were then asked to vote on three games they thought deserved to be at the top of that list; The first choice gets three points, the second choice gets two points and the third choice gets one point. These votes are then compiled to create a top three list, with the overall winner taking that month’s top prize.