{"id":317367,"date":"2025-10-17T08:53:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T08:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/article.php?article_id=2162854"},"modified":"2025-10-17T08:53:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T08:53:21","slug":"looks-like-spelunky-1-and-2-launch-on-nintendo-switch-this-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/looks-like-spelunky-1-and-2-launch-on-nintendo-switch-this-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Looks like Spelunky 1 and 2 launch on Nintendo Switch this month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/looks-like-spelunky-1-and-2-launch-on-nintendo-switch-this-month.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nIt looks like the brilliant Spelunky and its sequel will both come to Nintendo Switch on 26th August. <\/p>\n<p>Aussie site <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vooks.net\/spelunky-1-and-2-out-august-26th-on-switch-eshop\/\">Vooks.net<\/a> first spotted the new release date on the Nintendo Switch eShop. We&#8217;ve checked and same date also shows on the UK eShop here.<\/p>\n<p>The original Spelunky is priced at \u00a38.99. Spelunky 2 will cost \u00a317.99. We knew <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2020-12-15-spelunky-1-and-2-are-heading-to-switch-next-summer\">both were set for Switch this summer<\/a>, but not when.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-08-12-looks-like-spelunky-1-and-2-launch-on-nintendo-switch-this-month\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-08-12-looks-like-spelunky-1-and-2-launch-on-nintendo-switch-this-month\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like the brilliant Spelunky and its sequel will both come to Nintendo Switch on 26th August. Aussie site Vooks.net first spotted the new release date on the Nintendo Switch eShop. We&#8217;ve checked and same date also shows on the UK eShop here. The original Spelunky is priced at \u00a38.99. Spelunky 2 will cost \u00a317.99. We knew both were set for Switch this summer, but not when. Read more Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":317368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurogamer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Looks like Spelunky 1 and 2 launch on Nintendo Switch this month | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It looks like the brilliant Spelunky and its sequel will both come to Nintendo Switch on 26th August. 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