Starting today, Nintendo Switch 2 users can play one of the best-selling games of 2025 for free, albeit for a limited time. If you subscribe to Nintendo Switch Online, you'll have just under a week to play Madden NFL 26 at no additional cost.
Nintendo announced that Madden NFL 26 will be free on Switch 2 for NSO subscribers starting January 15 at 1:00pm ET / 10:00am PT (thanks, GameSpot). While this special offer is considered among Nintendo's Game Trials, you will be able to download and play the full Madden NFL 26 game – there is no gated content. Furthermore, the Switch 2 version of Madden 26 will remain on sale, at 60% off, through January 25.
Madden is a perennial hit, and in 2025 it raced to the top of the charts in the United States, becoming the sixth best-selling game of the year (Battlefield miraculously took the crown from Call of Duty). Just five months after it launched, however, Nintendo Switch Online members with a Switch 2 can play the gridiron sim for free. The download is available now, and entitles you to play the game through January 21.
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