September 2026 is shaping up to be one of those months where your backlog files a formal complaint. Nintendo Life's video team clearly felt it too, because they put together a video running down 13 new games landing on both the original Switch and Switch 2 this month, and it's a genuinely good watch if you're trying to figure out where your time (and money) should go. You can check out the full piece and video over at Nintendo Life.

What I appreciate about a roundup like this is the curation angle. We already know September is stacked, I wrote about the big picture release slate a few days ago, but a list of 10-plus games can turn into noise fast. Somebody sitting down and saying "these 13, here's why" is doing real work for you. It's the same instinct as a raid leader posting a priority list before a patch drops. You don't need every option, you need the right ones.

The other thing worth flagging: this covers Switch 1 AND Switch 2, and that detail matters more than it sounds. Nintendo is still shipping meaningful software to the original hardware even as the Switch 2 finds its footing, and if you ask me, that's a big deal. In my experience, plenty of people hold onto their original console well into a new generation, and it would've been easy for those players to start feeling forgotten by now. Instead they're getting a September that's worth their attention.

The timing says a lot too. GTA 6 is looming over everything this fall like a raid boss enrage timer, and the longer it hangs out there without a locked-down date, the more everything else scrambles to get out from under its shadow. September feels like the calm window before the whole calendar bends around Rockstar's next move, so this is the month to knock out a few of these picks before the noise gets loud.

The games themselves span the usual spread you'd want from a Switch lineup: indies, ports, and a few bigger names filling out the calendar. Nintendo Life's video format does the individual games more justice than a written list can, since you actually see them in motion, and half of these sales pitches live or die on vibes in the first ten seconds of footage anyway.

I've said before that the community side of gaming gets undersold in coverage like this, and it applies here too. A month like September isn't just about which games are good, it's about which games your group chat will actually be playing together. Roundups help you sync up. My Discord already has a running debate about which co-op pick wins the month, and I mean, that conversation is half the fun.

So go watch the video, pick your two or three (be realistic, you're not finishing 13), and tell your crew. Which ones made your shortlist? Drop it in your group chat and see where the guild lands. That argument is tradition at this point.