{"id":1237,"date":"2026-03-04T04:36:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T20:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/drinkbox-studios-blighted-will-be-out-for-switch-2-and-pc-this-fall\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T04:36:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T20:36:38","slug":"drinkbox-studios-blighted-will-be-out-for-switch-2-and-pc-this-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/drinkbox-studios-blighted-will-be-out-for-switch-2-and-pc-this-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Drinkbox Studios&#8217; Blighted will be out for Switch 2 and PC this fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During today&#8217;s <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/gaming\/nintendo\/nintendo-just-announced-an-indie-world-showcase-for-tomorrow-at-9am-et-164706666.html\" data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\">Nintendo Indie World presentation<\/a>, we got a narrower time frame for when and where we&#8217;ll be able to play the next project from Drinkbox Studios. The team announced that <em>Blighted<\/em> will be coming out in this fall for both the Nintendo Switch 2 and for PC.\u00a0It\u2019ll arrive on the same date for both platforms, but we don\u2019t have any more specific timeline than the season.<\/p>\n<p>We <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/gaming\/blighted-is-a-trippy-metroidvania-from-the-team-behind-guacamelee-000030687.html\" data-i13n=\"cpos:2;pos:1\">first heard about<\/a> <em>Blighted<\/em> during last year&#8217;s Summer Games Fest. With past credits such as <em>Guacamelee!<\/em>, <em>Guacamelee! 2<\/em> and <em>Severed<\/em>, the studio is now turning its eye toward a 3D Metroidvania-RPG. It may be a new direction in genre, but Drinkbox&#8217;s signature moody, eerie vibes do seem to be returning in heaps for <em>Blighted<\/em>. The core premise of the game revolves around the player regaining lost communal memories and also eating brains, so it\u2019s definitely heavy on the surreal and slightly macabre. <em>Blighted<\/em> will also have options for both solo and co-op play of its story. <\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/gaming\/drinkbox-studios-blighted-will-be-out-for-switch-2-and-pc-this-fall-203638261.html?src=rss<\/p><p>Please credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/obagg.com\">OBA Blog<\/a> &raquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/drinkbox-studios-blighted-will-be-out-for-switch-2-and-pc-this-fall\/\">Drinkbox Studios&#8217; Blighted will be out for Switch 2 and PC this fall<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During today&#8217;s Nintendo Indie World presentation, we got a narrower time frame for when and where we&#8217;ll be able to play the next project from Drinkbox Studios. The team announced that Blighted will be coming out in this fall for both the Nintendo Switch 2 and for PC.\u00a0It\u2019ll arrive on the same date for both platforms, but we don\u2019t have any more specific timeline than the season. We first heard about Blighted during last year&#8217;s Summer Games Fest. With past credits such as Guacamelee!, Guacamelee! 2 and Severed, the studio is now turning its eye toward a 3D Metroidvania-RPG. It may be a new direction in genre, but Drinkbox&#8217;s signature moody, eerie vibes do seem to be returning in heaps for Blighted. The core premise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-share"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}