Nintendo Switch is giving away nine games for a limited time: how to download them step-by-step

The holiday season will bring Nintendo Switch one of the most generous promotions of the year. No Gravity Games has announced its Switchmas Giveaway 2025 initiative, an event that will give away nine free games for the hybrid console and its successor. All of them can be kept forever, although the mechanics are again demanding: it will only be possible to get one title per day and, to unlock the next one, it will be essential to have added the previous one to the library.

The company explains that it will be giving away 9 Nintendo Switch games that you can keep for free forever, within a delivery system divided into consecutive days. The titles will start releasing on December 12 at 09:00 (CET) and each will be available for 24 hours only, until 08:59 the following day.

The initiative is not completely unprecedented, but it does represent the largest edition so far, adding the chain structure and an extended final promotion on December 18, when three sets will be delivered simultaneously.

How Switchmas Giveaway 2025 works and the cumulative access system

The mechanics of participation is strict and is based on three pillars. The first is the need to have an American account on Nintendo eShop, since Switch has no regional lock and allows you to change the location of your profile without restrictions. The second requirement requires having any of the studio’s games in the library, something that No Gravity Games will facilitate by offering a free title to those who sign up for its newsletter, a procedure that, according to the studio, will be activated in the coming days. The third element is consistency: the campaign requires adding each game to the account within the daily period provided.

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As summarized by the studio, starting on December 12, every day a new free game will be released at 09:00 CET and you will have 24 hours to download it. The structure is chained: you will only be able to get the next free game for your Switch if you have the previous one.

Players who do not add a title within the deadline will lose the option to receive the following titles for free, although the system allows players to rejoin if they purchase the missing title: if you forget to download one title one day and you miss the deadline, you will find it at a reduced price and can continue downloading the others. The campaign ends on December 18, when three games will be given away at the same time to complete the chain.

The international expansion of the event and the importance of the U.S. account

In addition to the initial Switchmas Giveaway 2025 information, No Gravity Games has detailed its “Advent promotion”, which confirms that the event will run from December 12-18, with free daily games available exclusively from the American eShop. The studio notes that it is necessary to change the region of your Nintendo account to America and adds that if you forget to claim your free game, you will not be able to enjoy the games offered in the following days.

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The measure affects both Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2, since the participation is done from the console and does not depend on a specific model. The process requires accessing the catalog each day, locating the released title and adding it to the digital profile within the allotted 24 hours. The studio stresses that each day a new title will be revealed on the sweepstakes page and social networks at 09:00h CET, underlining the dynamic nature of the campaign.

A digital loyalty strategy in the midst of the festive promotions boom

The Switchmas Giveaway 2025 campaign has established itself as one of the most recognizable promotional actions for Nintendo Switch during the Christmas period. As in previous years, No Gravity Games combines the acquisition of new users with the dissemination of its catalog, relying on a tiered access model that reinforces daily interaction. Its operation, based on continuity and accumulation, replicates structures of other digital advent promotions, but differs by allowing to keep the games permanently.

With the requirements already defined and the schedule set, the December 12-18 event is shaping up to be one of the most prominent campaigns on the US eShop in late 2025, integrating nine free titles and offering Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 a continuous streak of downloads unheard of within the platform’s digital ecosystem.