Star Fox Leads a Stacked June for Switch 2

Most new consoles limp through their first few months with a thin trickle of ports and one or two first-party games spaced weeks apart. The Switch 2 isn't doing that. According to a roundup from Nintendo Life, June 2026 has at least 11 notable releases across Switch and Switch 2, and the headliner is a game I didn't expect to see this early: Star Fox.

Nintendo's modernised take on the N64 classic puts Fox McCloud and crew back in the Arwing to reclaim the Lylat System from Andross. No firm date within June has been confirmed yet, but it's landing in the same month as Final Fantasy VII Rebirth on Switch 2 (June 3) makes this a month that would look strong on any platform, let alone one that's still in its launch window. I've been waiting years for Nintendo to do something meaningful with Star Fox beyond cameos and spin-offs, and dropping it alongside a lineup this deep suggests they're confident it can hold its own.

The Rest of the Month

FF7 Rebirth and Star Fox would be enough on their own, but the supporting cast is surprisingly varied. Annapurna Interactive has two games arriving on June 11 and 23 respectively: to a T, the studio's latest, and Wanderstop, which also hits the original Switch. Devolver Digital brings Starseeker: Astroneer Expeditions on June 11. Solarpunk lands June 8, Unrailed 2: Back on Track on June 11, and THQ Nordic's Destroy All Humans! arrives June 23. Square Enix is pulling double duty with both FF7 Rebirth and The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales on June 18.

Even the original Switch isn't being left behind entirely. Tetris: The Grand Master 4 - Absolute Eye drops June 4, and both Unrailed 2 and Wanderstop are cross-generation releases. Nintendo could easily have abandoned the old hardware by now, so seeing a handful of titles still supporting it is a small but welcome gesture.

What strikes me about this lineup is the balance. You've got a AAA JRPG, a first-party revival, two Annapurna joints, a Devolver title, and a mix of indie and mid-tier releases filling the gaps between them. There's almost no week in June without something new. Compare that to the Switch's own early months back in 2017, where you were essentially playing Zelda and waiting for Mario Kart, and the difference is stark.

The real test for Star Fox is whether Nintendo has given it the full first-party treatment or if it's a smaller-scale revival along the lines of Star Fox Zero on Wii U, a game that divided fans with its control scheme and left the franchise in limbo for a decade. Everything shown so far points to the former, but Nintendo has been characteristically tight-lipped on details. Either way, June is shaping up as the month where Switch 2 stops being "the console you bought for the launch titles" and starts building a real library. Denshattack!, a train-based action game from Fireshine Games, rounds out the month on June 17, because apparently even the deep cuts are interesting this time around.