Nintendo has announced that a new Star Fox game is coming this year, and it’s a remake of Star Fox 64.

Revealed as part of a surprise Nintendo Direct, the game, simply called Star Fox, will release on June 25th, exclusively for Nintendo Switch 2.

Players will once again return to the Lylat System to embark on dangerous missions, with the Direct revealing that the game’s mission layout will remain the same as the original, with a “complete visual overhaul”.

“Star Fox is a cinematic take on the Star Fox 64 game, featuring newly overhauled character designs, freshly revamped looks for each stage, plus detailed cutscenes, fully voiced dialogue and a sweeping orchestral soundtrack,” Nintendo’s announcement reads.

As for new content, Star Fox will include new cinematic cutscenes and a challenge mode, allowing you to replay missions from the game with new objectives. The game also makes use of Switch 2’s GameChat feature, allowing players to replace their camera feed with an AR filter featuring one of several Star Fox avatars.

Here’s Nintendo’s official breakdown of all the game’s modes:

• Campaign Mode: Travel to a wide variety of planets, navigate through asteroid fields and engage in free-flying dogfights. Choose between Easy or Normal difficulty at the start and hone your skills to earn all the medals needed to unlock the Expert setting. The objectives you complete, foes you defeat and other actions you take can alter your route and what you do in each stage. Taking different routes can also affect the stages you encounter on your path through the system, so there’s always a reason to revisit each mission.
• Challenge Mode: Replay stages you’ve cleared and take on a variety of new objectives and challenges, some of which you won’t find in Campaign Mode. Challenges are available in either Normal or Expert difficulty settings.
• Battle Mode: Gather up your crew to compete in all-new 4-vs-4 dogfights, with up to eight players divided between Team Star Fox and Team Star Wolf. This mode features three stages with different objectives: secure control of a designated zone on Corneria, collect energy crystals on Fichina, or retrieve cargo from space pirates in Sector Y. Join team battles online via private matches, or match with players from near and far. With GameShare, up to four players can take to the skies locally or online through GameChat. While GameShare online is only available for Nintendo Switch 2 systems, local GameShare allows sharing of compatible games with both Nintendo Switch 2 and Nintendo Switch systems.

Switch 2’s mouse controls are supported, allowing for more precise aiming, as well as support for the Nintendo Switch N64 controller. 2-player co-op is also available, with one player piloting the Arwing and the other serving as the gunner.

For many, it felt as though a new Star Fox game was inevitable following Fox McCloud’s appearance in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie. Voiced by Top Gun star Glen Powell, Fox plays an important part in the story, featuring heavily in the film’s second and third acts. Shortly before the film’s release, reliable Nintendo insider ‘Nate the Hate’ revealed that a new Star Fox game was on the way, with a plan to release sometime this summer.

Nate also claimed that a remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is in the works. The remake would coincide with the series’s 40th anniversary and is expected to be released in the second half of 2026, according to Nate.