Kirby has been a steadfast Nintendo mascot for 34 years, ever since the quality debuted successful 1992’s Kirby’s Dream Land for Game Boy. In summation to being a Smash Bros. staple, Kirby and his ever-evolving powers of inhalation person starred successful implicit 2 twelve games, culminating successful the series’ best-selling crippled to date, Kirby and the Forgotten Land.
With Kirby Air Riders kicking disconnected a caller question of Switch 2 exclusives, we’ve compiled a database of each Kirby crippled connected the Switch arsenic good arsenic caller Kirby games coming to the Switch 2.
How Many Kirby Games Are connected Switch?
Seven Kirby games person been released connected Nintendo Switch, portion 11 much retro Kirby games are playable with Nintendo Switch Online. The franchise debuted connected Switch successful 2018 with Kirby Star Allies; its latest release, Kirby Air Riders, arrived successful 2025.
Every Kirby Game connected Switch (in Release Order)
Kirby Star Allies (2018)
Kirby’s Switch debut came successful 2018 with Kirby Star Allies. The action-platformer is played with a enactment of 4 (multiplayer oregon section AI) and sees Kirby harvester abilities with allies to lick puzzles and heighten combat.
Super Kirby Clash (2019)
Series developer HAL Laboratories and Nintendo brought the pinkish puff backmost the pursuing twelvemonth for the free-to-play Super Kirby Clash. Like Star Allies, Clash is played with a squad of 4 that tin beryllium controlled by different quality players oregon AI. Unlike Star Allies, this is not a platformer but alternatively a standalone brag unreserved mode; it features a hub satellite for changing instrumentality and selecting quests, though the bosom of the crippled is the bid of brag fights that service arsenic those quests.
Kirby Fighters 2 (2020)
A sequel to the 3DS crippled Kirby Fighters Deluxe (an expanded mentation of the subgame Kirby Fighters recovered successful Kirby: Triple Deluxe), Kirby Fighters 2 is precisely what it sounds like: a warring crippled starring Kirby. It supports up to 4 players and features Kirby, Meta Knight, King Dedede, Bandana Waddle Dee, Gooey, and Magolor arsenic playable characters.
Kirby and the Forgotten Land (2022)
The series’ standout crippled connected Switch, Kirby and the Forgotten Land is simply a post-apocalyptic escapade successful which Kirby gets sucked into a wormhole that appears supra Dream Land. The Forgotten Land is the series’ archetypal afloat 3D platformer, implicit with puzzles and Kirby’s signature ability-based combat. It’s the series’ best-selling crippled to date, selling much than 7.5 cardinal copies by the extremity of March 2024. A Switch 2 mentation of the crippled released successful precocious 2025 , introducing the Star Crossed World expansion.
Kirby's Dream Buffet (2022)
Kirby’s Dream Buffet is simply a dessert-themed multiplayer crippled released successful 2022. It features 3 four-player crippled modes: race, minigame, and conflict royale. The modes tin beryllium played separately oregon unneurotic arsenic portion of Dream Buffet’s Gourmet Grand Prix.
Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe (2023)
The series’ latest game, Kirby’s Return to Dream Land Deluxe is simply a remake of the 2011 Wii crippled Kirby’s Return to Dream Land. The action-platformer came to Switch with improved visuals, a caller casual mode (Helper Magolor), 3 caller abilities (Sand, Mecha, and Festival), and an all-new two-hour escapade called Magolor Epilogue: The Interdimensional Traveler.
Return to Dream Land Deluxe supports section co-op for up to 4 players, with each subordinate taking power of either Kirby, Meta Knight, King Dedede, oregon Bandana Waddle Dee.
Kirby Air Riders (2025) *Switch 2 Exclusive
Kirby Air Riders was officially announced during the April 2025 Nintendo Direct arsenic a follow-up to the 2003 Kirby Air Ride racing crippled connected GameCube. Masahiro Sakurai, creator of some the Kirby bid and Super Smash Bros., returns arsenic manager of the caller game, and has described it arsenic having a akin consciousness to Mario Kart. IGN's ain reappraisal argues that erstwhile you larn immoderate funky controls, "you’re successful for a chaotic enactment racing crippled that’s a large clip with friends and offers a ton to bash connected your own."

Kirby Air Riders
Kirby Games Available with Nintendo Switch Online
There are 11 Kirby games disposable with a Nintendo Switch Online subscription. Those with a regular subscription tin play 9 Kirby games from NES, SNES, and Game Boy, portion those with the much costly Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack subscription get entree to 2 further games: Kirby & The Amazing Mirror (GBA) and Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards (N64).
Here’s the database of Kirby games playable with Nintendo Switch Online, ordered by archetypal merchandise date:
- Kirby’s Dream Land (GB)
- Kirby’s Adventure (NES)
- Kirby’s Dream Course (SNES)
- Kirby’s Avalanche (SNES)
- Kirby’s Dream Land 2 (GB)
- Kirby Super Star (SNES)
- Kirby’s Star Stacker (SNES)
- Kirby’s Dream Land 3 (SNES)
- Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble (GB)
- Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards (N64)
- Kirby & The Amazing Mirror (GBA)
A caller GameCube room volition besides beryllium disposable successful the NSO + Expansion Pack rank connected Switch 2, which whitethorn see Kirby Air Ride.
What's Next for Kirby connected the Switch 2?
Last twelvemonth was a coagulated 1 for Kirby fans, with the merchandise of some Kirby Air Riders and the Switch 2 variation of Kirby and the Forgotten Land with a caller expansion. We don't person immoderate quality astir what's adjacent for the pinkish puffball, but we'll beryllium definite to fto you cognize arsenic soon arsenic that changes.
Jordan covers games, shows, and movies arsenic a freelance writer for IGN.

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