Update #2 [Thu 26th Mar 2026, 6:30pm]: It’s official — Super Meat Boy 3D is coming to Switch 2 in just five days.
During today’s Xbox Partner Showcase, Sluggerfly and Headup confirmed that the brutal platformer will be releasing on 31st March 2026. And we got a brand new gameplay trailer to boot, which you can watch up top.
Here’s what to expect from the game, along with some screens:
Key Features of Super Meat Boy 3D include:
– Tough-as-nails precision platforming action
– Brutal, but fair levels designed to break you.
– Boss. Fights.
– Dark World levels so tough, you’ll scream in the rain at a bus stop.
– A soundtrack that was once described by a Guitar Center employee as “Hey, either buy the guitars or get out. We’re seriously going to call the cops.”
– …3D!
Images: Headup
Update #1 [Sun 15th Mar 2026, 11pm]: Following the Super Meat Boy 3D announcement for Switch 2 earlier this month, the eShop page reportedly went live ahead of schedule for a short amount of time.
According to multiple reports, the game is estimated to launch for Nintendo’s hybrid platform on 31st March 2026, and the price is expected to be around $25 USD.
In the lead up to this release, Epic Games has also sat down with some of the Meat Boy team, who said making a 3D Meat Boy game was a “no-brainer for fans” as the “philosophy behind every Meat Boy game is still there: Perfect the controls, then build levels around those controls”.
The team at Sluggerfly had also previously worked on a 3D collectathon known as Hell Pie and other 3D platformers, so it apparently “just made sense”. You can read the full chat with the developers on Epic’s official website.
Original Story: If you’ve played any of the Super Meat Boy games previously, you might be interested to hear a brand-new 3D game is arriving in 2026.
In an update this week, developer Sluggerfly and the game’s publisher Headup have now confirmed a Switch 2 version. While Super Meat Boy 3D does approach the brutal platforming action from a different perspective, the core gameplay remains intact.
This includes “brutal, but fair levels”, boss fights, Dark World levels, and a soundtrack with involvement from Steve Marcois of the deathcore band Despised Icon. Here’s a bit more about this meaty new experience, and you can see some extended gameplay footage on Switch 2 in the video below.
“Super Meat Boy 3D is a brutal platformer that sees you guide a cube of meat on a mission to rescue his bandage-made girlfriend from an evil fetus in a tuxedo jar – IN 3D! You’ll wall-jump past buzz saws, crumbling caves, and flaming forests, dying a million times along the way – IN (you guessed it) 3D. With old-school difficulty, twitchy reflexes, epic bosses, and loads of secrets, it’s Meat Boy like never before – IN (say it with me!) 3D!”
Would you be interested in this new Super Meat Boy game? Have you played the 2D Meat Boy releases? Let us know in the comments.
Related Games
See Also
Liam is a news writer and reviewer on Nintendo Life. He’s been writing about games for more than 15 years and is a lifelong fan of many iconic video game characters.