Orbitals, The Anime-Inspired Co-Op Puzzle Game, Launches Exclusively On Switch 2 This Summer

Developer Shapefarm and publisher Kepler Interactive have released a new trailer for Orbitals, the classic anime-inspired co-op puzzle game, and it reveals the game will launch exclusively on Nintendo Switch 2 sometime this summer. As for an exact release date, we’ll have to wait a bit longer to find out. 

The new Orbitals trailer, which aired during today’s Nintendo Direct: Partner Showcase, should tide you over, though, as it highlights the game’s amazing art alongside new features like playing drums and piano with a friend, arcade cabinet minigames, and more. Inspired by classic 1990s anime like Neon Genesis Evangelion and Cowboy Bebop, this new trailer offers more details about the dual protagonists, Maki and Omura, who must brave the perils of space to save the crumbling space station they call home from a destructive, supernatural cosmic storm. 

Check out the new Orbitals trailer for yourself below: 

Orbitals is being developed in Unreal Engine 5 and, thanks to its Switch 2 exclusivity, will allow players to team up with two pairs of Joy-Con 2 controllers on a single Switch 2 console via local split-screen co-op. And, with Nintendo’s GameShare feature, players can share Orbitals with a local player on another Switch 2 or Switch console, or matchmake online for remote co-op. 

Orbitals will launch exclusively on Switch 2 sometime this summer. 

Are you picking up Orbitals this summer? Let us know in the comments below!