Forget your open-world loot grinders and your battle royale sweat sessions - sometimes you just need a point-and-click adventure built entirely out of 500-year-old paintings where everything is completely unhinged. Enter The Immortal John Triptych, a collection heading to both Switch and Switch 2 later this year, according to Nintendo Life.
Developer Joe Richardson is bundling three of his greatest hits into one gloriously weird package: Four Last Things, The Procession to Calvary, and Death of the Reprobate. Think of it as a DLC bundle, except instead of extra skins and emotes, you get existential dread and Flemish oil paintings doing comedy bits.
Actual Renaissance art, but make it chaotic
The collection leans hard into its gimmick - every scene, character, and background is assembled from real Renaissance paintings. It's like someone gave Hieronymus Bosch a game engine and a very strange sense of humor, and honestly? That's a sentence we never expected to write but are absolutely thrilled about.
The Triptych also comes loaded with new quality-of-life updates and extra features, so even players who have already completed these games have a reason to boot them up again. It's basically a remaster, but instead of 4K textures, you get more jokes about mortality and sin - which, depending on your tolerance for Dark Souls lore, might be exactly the same thing.
Why this actually matters
Richardson's games have always occupied a gloriously weird niche - critically appreciated, absurdly funny, and totally unlike anything else in the indie space. Getting all three collected on Nintendo hardware is a big deal for players who missed them the first time around, and the Switch's handheld mode feels like the perfect way to experience existential Renaissance comedy on your lunch break.
No firm release date has been locked in beyond "later this year," so consider this your early warning to clear some storage space on your SD card. This is one side quest you won't want to skip.
