Mario & Luigi: Brothership
The brothers return for a brand new adventure on the high seas! Set sail with Mario and Luigi on Shipshape Island (part ship, part island) and journey through the vast world of Concordia. Launch out of…
Mario & Luigi: Brothership is an adventure developed by ACQUIRE Corp., released 7 November 2024 on Nintendo Switch.
What Mario & Luigi: Brothership is
Mario & Luigi: Brothership is an adventure game developed by ACQUIRE Corp. and released in 2024. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo Switch only. It runs on Unreal Engine 5.
The premise, in the publisher's words
When a mysterious portal opens in the Mushroom Kingdom, Mario, Luigi, and many of its residents are swept away to Concordia, a world once bound together by a great Uni-Tree until a dark force shattered it into islands adrift across a vast sea. Aboard the mobile Shipshape Island, the brothers befriend Connie and the pig-like Snoutlet and set out to reunite the scattered lands, seeking each island's lighthouse to reconnect it to their new home. As they journey, they uncover the sinister power spreading isolation across Concordia and must draw on their bond to bring the fractured world back together.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, comedy and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Mario series
Mario & Luigi: Brothership is the 659th of 668 entries we hold in the Mario series. The next entry was Mario Kart World in 2025. Its critic score of 75 is almost exactly the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is Super Mario World at 100.
How it was received
Mario & Luigi: Brothership holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 49% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2024 averaged 76, so it scored about average for its year.
What it launched against
Mario & Luigi: Brothership launched on 7 November 2024, within three weeks of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl, Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and Life is Strange: Double Exposure. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 7 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl, Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, Life is Strange: Double Exposure.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Mario & Luigi: Brothership yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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