BODY: If your Switch backlog has room for another dozen games, Nintendo just made the temptation considerably cheaper. The Japanese eShop opened a fresh sale on October 8 spanning roughly 560 titles across both Switch 2 and the original Switch — a sprawling lineup that leans heavily on indies, with a few Square Enix catalog staples thrown in.
The headline bargain is Among Us, cut 40% to ¥312. For a game that defined pandemic-era group chats and still fills lobbies five years on, that is pocket-change territory. Also notable: the detective Snoopy adventure Snoopy and the Wacky Secret Club is down 30% to ¥3,360, which AUTOMATON flags as a new all-time low for the title.
Horror fans get the strangest pick of the bunch. Loan Shark, a fishing horror game in which the fish talk back, is half off at ¥475. Rounding out the scarier end, GYLT — the Tequila Works horror adventure that started life as a Google Stadia exclusive — is 67% off at ¥1,452.
Elsewhere, the discounts run deep on some genuinely well-regarded games. Trek to Yomi, the black-and-white samurai homage to Kurosawa, is 80% off at ¥462. Stealth-tactics expansion Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun – Aiko's Choice is 40% off at ¥1,848, while Townscaper — the meditative town-building toy — drops to ¥248. Square Enix contributes Chocobo's Mystery Dungeon Everybody! at 60% off (¥2,112) and Star Ocean -First Departure R- at 70% off (¥1,056). End dates vary per title, so each store page is worth checking individually.
The insider take
Sales like this are a quiet reminder of how different the Japanese eShop economy feels from Western storefronts. Yen pricing on indies has stayed strikingly low even as publishers hiked dollar prices, so a ¥248 Townscaper or ¥312 Among Us genuinely costs less than a convenience-store onigiri and a coffee. October is also when Japanese publishers begin clearing the deck ahead of the year-end shopping rush and the Switch 2's first full holiday season — expect the discounts to get louder, not quieter, between now and the New Year.
Originally reported by AUTOMATON (Japanese).