Biomutant finally has a Nintendo Switch release date

29.02.2024 - 17:13 / videogameschronicle.com / Nintendo Direct / Tom Ivan / Rare / Nintendo

Biomutant will be released for Nintendo Switch on May 14, 2024, THQ Nordic has announced.

Retail listings for a Switch version of the game were spotted as far back as September 2022, but it wasn’t officially announced for Nintendo’s console until last May.

At the time, its publisher said the game was planned for release in 2023, so it’s since been delayed.

When it does arrive this spring, it will include all previously released DLC, according to a new trailer released today.

Developed by THQ Nordic studio Experiment 101, Biomutant was originally released in May 2021 for PC, PlayStation and Xbox consoles.

The game is billed as “an open-world, post-apocalyptic Kung-Fu fable RPG, with a unique martial art styled combat system allowing you to mix melee, shooting, and mutant ability action”.

Several months after its release, THQ Nordic parent company Embracer Group claimed that Biomutant recouped all its costs in its first week of availability and had gone on to sell over one million copies.

That’s despite the game receiving a lukewarm response from critics.

“Biomutant’s feature list seems to include everything a successful open-world action RPG needs,” according to VGC’s Biomutant review. “But journey through its towns, fields and bunkers, and there’s no intrigue in its exploration or weight in its relationship building. Not even a worthy combat challenge to hold everything together. With so many ideas left under-developed, it wastes a setting that had far more potential.”

A host of new Switch releases were announced last week as part of the latest Nintendo Direct partner showcase, including Pocket Card Jockey: Ride On!, Endless Ocean Luminous, Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble, and Xbox’s Pentiment and Grounded.

Several classic Nintendo games by Rare were also released for Switch Online following the showcase,