{"id":548409,"date":"2026-03-27T12:17:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T12:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/548409\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T12:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T12:17:11","slug":"super-meat-boy-brings-brutal-3d-platforming-to-switch-2-this-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/548409\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Meat Boy Brings Brutal 3D Platforming To Switch 2 This Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Update #2 [Thu 26th Mar 2026, 6:30pm]: It’s official \u2014 Super Meat Boy 3D<\/a> is coming to Switch 2 in just five days.<\/p>\n

During today’s Xbox Partner Showcase<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n

Here’s what to expect from the game, along with some screens:<\/p>\n

Key Features of Super Meat Boy 3D include:<\/p>\n

– 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 \u201cHey, either buy the guitars or get out. We\u2019re seriously going to call the cops.\u201d
– …3D!<\/p>\n

Images: Headup<\/p>\n

Update #1 [Sun 15th Mar 2026, 11pm]: Following the Super Meat Boy 3D<\/a> announcement for Switch 2 earlier this month, the eShop page reportedly went live ahead of schedule for a short amount of time.<\/p>\n

According to multiple reports<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n

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”.<\/p>\n

The team at Sluggerfly had also previously worked on a 3D collectathon known as Hell Pie<\/a> and other 3D platformers, so it apparently “just made sense”. You can read the full chat with the developers on Epic’s official website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Original Story: If you’ve played any of the Super Meat Boy<\/a> games previously, you might be interested to hear a brand-new 3D game is arriving in 2026.<\/p>\n

In an update this week<\/a>, developer Sluggerfly and the game’s publisher Headup have now confirmed a Switch 2 version. While Super Meat Boy 3D<\/a> does approach the brutal platforming action from a different perspective, the core gameplay remains intact.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

“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\u2019s Meat Boy like never before – IN (say it with me!) 3D!”<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\tRelated Games<\/p>\n

\tSee Also<\/p>\n

\"Liam<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Update #2 [Thu 26th Mar 2026, 6:30pm]: It’s official \u2014 Super Meat Boy 3D is coming to Switch…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[75,23229,74,7142],"class_list":["post-548409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-nintendo-switch-2","tag-switch-eshop","tag-technology","tag-upcoming-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}