Yoshi and the Mysterious Book
Join Yoshi for a new adventure in Yoshi and the Mysterious Book, launching on Nintendo Switch 2 in spring 2026. One day, on the island where Yoshi and his friends live, a peculiar talking book named Mr. E…
Yoshi and the Mysterious Book is an adventure developed by Good-Feel, released 21 May 2026 on Nintendo Switch 2.
What Yoshi and the Mysterious Book is
Yoshi and the Mysterious Book is an adventure game developed by Good-Feel and released in 2026. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo Switch 2 only. It runs on Unreal Engine 5.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Yoshi and the Mysterious Book is a 2026 platform game developed by Good-Feel and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch 2. The game follows Yoshi as he enters a living encyclopedia, where he seeks and interacts with peculiar creatures in the book's pages in order to solve puzzles, complete objectives, and traverse through levels. Released on May 21, 2026, the game succeeded Yoshi's Crafted World (2019) as the ninth main installment in the Yoshi series and the fifth released for a home console. It received generally positive reviews.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Yoshi series
Yoshi and the Mysterious Book is the 61st of 61 entries we hold in the Yoshi series. It arrived 6 months after Hello, Yoshi!. It is the most recent released entry in the series. Its critic score of 82 is 3 points above the series average of 79. The highest-rated entry is Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island at 100.
How it was received
Yoshi and the Mysterious Book holds a critic score of 82 out of 100. That places it above 76% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2026 averaged 78, so it scored 4 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Yoshi and the Mysterious Book launched on 21 May 2026, within three weeks of 007 First Light, Forza Horizon 6, LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight and Directive 8020. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 9 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: 007 First Light, Forza Horizon 6, LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight, Directive 8020.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Yoshi and the Mysterious Book yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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