Super Meat Boy 3D is coming to Xbox Series X, PS5, and PC in early 2026, giving one of the best 2D platformers ever made a glow-up and a third dimension.
Announced at today's Xbox Games Showcase 2025 live, Super Meat Boy 3D brings back the series's brutal-cute cast and tone, but lathers it in a lush 3D aesthetic.
Levels look to be a mix of true 3D and flatter 2.5D segments, with some paths overlapping and sprawling, and others presenting more linear left-to-right segments typical of Meat Boy. There's a lot of verticality on display, too, with Meat Boy now navigating spiraling towers of horrible buzz saws instead of, you know, straight towers. That's the power of 3D, baby.
Some 15 years since Super Meat Boy, which is still widely regarded as the peak of the IP, fans have reacted to Super Meat Boy 3D with a mix of excitement and relief. It's an exciting and ambitious version of Meat Boy, and very importantly, it's also not an auto-runner like the lukewarmly received Super Meat Boy Forever.
Super Meat Boy 3D will be available via Xbox Game Pass at launch, and will support Xbox Play Anywhere cloud streaming.
It's been a good show for unexpected follow-ups so far: Obsidian is making Grounded 2, and it's launching into Steam Early Access and Xbox Game Preview next month.
