Donkey Kong Country Returns HD

Donkey Kong Country Returns HD is a platform game developed by Forever Entertainment S.A. and released in 2025. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo Switch 2 and Nintendo Switch.

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Donkey Kong Country Returns HD is the 187th of 190 entries we hold in the Donkey Kong series. The next entry was Donkey Kong Bananza in 2025. Its critic score of 78 is 3 points above the series average of 75. The highest-rated entry is Super Smash Bros. Melee at 100.

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Donkey Kong Country Returns HD holds a critic score of 78 out of 100. That places it above 59% of the 2,372 rated platform games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2025 averaged 78, so it scored about average for its year.

Donkey Kong Country Returns HD launched on 16 January 2025, within three weeks of Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, Ender Magnolia: Bloom in the Mist, Eternal Strands and Rift of the NecroDancer. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 8 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, Ender Magnolia: Bloom in the Mist, Eternal Strands, Rift of the NecroDancer.

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