Blue Prince, one of 2025’s best video games, is getting a surprise launch on Nintendo Switch 2 today.
Nintendo confirmed the game’s eShop shadow drop at the finale of its just-finished Indie World broadcast, capping off a spree of other announcements from smaller development teams and publishers.
Originally launched in April 2025 for PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S, Blue Prince is primarily the eight-year project of solo developer Tonda Ros. The game sees players assembling the blueprints of an ever-changing mansion each day, with progress slowly revealing hidden rooms, intricate mechanics and an intriguing fantasy story.
Revealing more about how the game unfolds would take away from the joy of discovering the layers to Blue Prince that playing the game provides. Suffice to say, though, that this indie puzzle roguelike is absolutely worth exploring if you have not already — a perspective shared by the game’s numerous glowing reviews and Game of the Year accolades.
IGN’s own appraisal dubbed the game as an “all-time puzzle great” and compared its quality to other classics of the genre such as The Witness, Portal, and Myst. “Its complex mysteries weave brilliantly into the careful decision making of how to lay out the mansion’s rooms on each randomized run, leaving me building floorplans in my sleep almost every night after I played it,” we wrote in IGN’s Blue Prince review, which awarded the game with a 9/10 score.
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Tom Phillips is IGN’s News Editor. You can reach Tom at tom_phillips@ign.com or find him on Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social
