During the Nintendo Direct: Partner Showcase on February 5, 2026, Bethesda announced that The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered, Fallout 4 Anniversary Edition, and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle would all be making their way to the Nintendo Switch 2 in 2026.
As it turns out, they would later reveal in a blog post that Fallout 4 and Oblivion would be released on game key cards. Additionally, the forthcoming Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim Anniversary Edition will have a physical code-in-box launch in April.
This means Indiana Jones is the only game available in full on a physical cartridge.
The first footage looks compelling.
The longer we live with Switch 2, the more we discover about how developers intend to port across their PlayStation 5/Xbox Series X titles over to the new Nintendo hybrid - and the reveal of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle tells us much about how a cutting-edge engine scales back to accommodate the more power-limited T239 processor. Some of the cuts are obvious, others less so, but the good news is that Switch 2 appears much better equipped to carry off these ports than its predecessor did at the same point in its lifecycle.
Looking at Indiana Jones specifically, the first point to focus on is how much of the original presentation holds up, based on the footage seen in the recent Nintendo Direct. The game's materials, lighting and environmental detail don't seem obviously degraded compared to, say, the last-gen Switch's idTech ports. That we're seeing this mere months into the release of the Nintendo machine is promising. This is just the beginning.
Realistically though, there are cuts, of course. Compared to PS5 and Series X, screen-space reflections on water are gone for example - and it makes sense. SSR is expensive, but its absence is far less impactful than slashing shadow quality too aggressively or removing volumetric effects. Its omission is even less painful bearing in mind that the effect on Xbox and PlayStation consoles wasn't the best implementation we've seen anyway.
VGChartz's Lee Mehr: "Without an uber-popular choice casting its long shadow, our community faced a tougher challenge when evaluating an expansion's quality. Which had the most interesting design? Which one served as the best compliment to the main game? Whether by innovation or iteration, these finalists breathed new life into several cherished games of the past few years."
The Order of the Giants is the first DLC for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. Is it worth dusting off the fedora to play? JDR whips its way through today's review to find out.
Wow! Nice move Bethesda, I am gonna support you because of that.
According to their blog post Skyrim, Fallout 4 and Oblivion are all code in boxes, not key cards.
That's the absolute worst, Key Cards at least have some use since they can be traded or resold. I thought we left behind codes in boxes with the Switch 1.
And that's why it's the 1 out of the 4 I'm supporting on Switch 2