Chibi-Robo! Is The Next Classic Game Coming to Nintendo Switch Online's GameCube Library

Chibi-Robo! is the adjacent GameCube classical coming to Nintendo Switch 2's Nintendo Switch Online library, and it arrives arsenic soon arsenic adjacent week.

We already knew the cute platformer was coming astatine immoderate constituent acknowledgment to Nintendo's useful summary connected the Nintendo eShop, but present Nintendo has revealed when: August 21, 2025. It'll beryllium the 2nd crippled added to the room since Switch 2 launched In June, the different being Super Mario Strikers (or Mario Smash Football, arsenic it was known successful Europe).

Nintendo Switch Online is simply a subscription-based online gaming work for the Nintendo Switch gaming platform. Memberships see online functionality, allowing you to vie oregon cooperate with friends, arsenic good arsenic a postulation of classical Nintendo games spanning 4 decades, including titles from the NES, SNES, Game Boy, Nintendo 64, and, astir recently, the caller GameCube library. A escaped seven-day proceedings is besides available.

The GameCube room presently includes games similar The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, F-Zero GX, Soulcalibur 2, and Super Mario Strikers. Further titles thought to beryllium joining the work see Super Mario Sunshine, Luigi's Mansion, Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness, and more, and don't forget, an highly chill replica GameCube controller is besides disposable for maximum nostalgia.

We thought Chibi-Robo! was large erstwhile it released mode backmost successful 2006, awarding it an IGN's Editor's Choice grant and scoring it a steadfast 8.2/10, imploring you to: "Give [it] a chance."

"I expect that excessively galore radical volition glimpse astatine this crippled and reason that it's not for them, simply due to the fact that it's either excessively weird oregon excessively cute," we wrote successful IGN's Chibi-Robo! review. "Truthfully, it's both, but it's besides a precise enjoyable, fun, and rewarding puzzle-platformer."

As for the Nintendo Switch 2 itself? It's disconnected to a beardown start, with 3.5 cardinal consoles sold, but an investigation connected the console's motorboat week income paints a mixed representation of however good games not made by Nintendo are selling.

Vikki Blake is simply a newsman for IGN, arsenic good arsenic a critic, columnist, and advisor with 15+ years acquisition moving with immoderate of the world's biggest gaming sites and publications. She's besides a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her astatine BlueSky.