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Bloober Team's Switch 2 Exclusive, Onyx: The Dark Grip, Is The Most Nintendo-Sounding Game Ever

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Bloober Team's Switch 2 Exclusive, Onyx: The Dark Grip, Is The Most Nintendo-Sounding Game Ever

Bloober Team has been on a hot streak lately, bringing Silent Hill back into the positive-convo zeitgeist with its Silent Hill 2 remake in 2024, followed by another survival-horror hit last year, Cronos: The New Dawn (which is getting an action-focused DLC called Lazarus this year, too). All of this is on the heels of other Bloober games like The Medium and the team's original Layers of Fear series. Regardless of how you feel about the Poland-based studio's horror output, you can't deny it stays busy, so it came as no surprise to see yet another new Bloober game revealed during a Nintendo Direct earlier this month. 

Dubbed Onyx: The Dark Grip, this 2.5D "dark adventure" game is launching exclusively on Nintendo Switch 2 sometime next year. After speaking with Bloober's senior brand manager Dawid Podgorski, I'm convinced this is one of the most Nintendo-sounding games hitting the console in 2027, and that's courtesy of a suite of console-specific gestures and mechanics that remind me of the Wii and DS era.  

Bloober Team CEO Piotr Babieno started selling Nintendo games at a local game shop 15 to 20 years ago, becoming one of the first to do so in Poland, where Nintendo hardware and software had barely entered the market. Babieno even organized the first Nintendo fan convention in Poland during the GameCube era, "so we've always had an idea to make something specifically for Nintendo," Podgorski tells me, explaining Bloober's Nintendo history. 

" Broken Mirror Games consists of Bloober specialists and external devs – it's also behind the upcoming 3v1 asymmetrical horror game Saw: Genesis .


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