Donkey Kong Bananza

July 17, 2025PlatformerESRB E10+

Available on

Nintendo Switch 2

Genres

Platformer Adventure Action

Overview

About Donkey Kong Bananza

Donkey Kong Bananza is exclusively on Nintendo Switch 2! Explore a vast underground world—by smashing your way through it! Bash, throw, and climb through just about anything in DK’s brand-new 3D platforming action-adventure game!

Story setup

Amid a gold rush on Ingot Isle, Donkey Kong sets out in search of the prized Banandium Gems, only to find them being plundered by a mining corporation called VoidCo. Its president, Void Kong, is using the gems to power a great ship, intent on reaching the planet's core to claim the Banandium Root, a magical object said to grant the wishes of whoever wields it. Swept deep underground, Donkey Kong discovers a vast hidden world beneath the surface, home to animal societies and their ancient elders. There he rescues a curious companion who is revealed to be Pauline, a teenage girl kidnapped by Void, and receives extraordinary transformative powers from an elder. Together, Donkey Kong and Pauline journey ever deeper toward the core to stop Void's scheme.

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At a glance

Released: July 17, 2025
Platforms: Nintendo Switch 2
Genres: Platformer, Adventure, Action
Play modes: Single Player, Multiplayer, Online Multiplayer, Local Couch Co-op, LAN Multiplayer
Age rating: ESRB E10+
Time to beat: ~31 hours
Multiplayer: By platform

Media

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Playtime

How long to beat

Player-reported completion times for Donkey Kong Bananza.

Rushed: 15hoursMain story only
Typical: 31hoursStory plus some extras
Completionist: 47hoursEvery side objective too

Estimated from 10 player reports — a small sample, so treat these as approximate.

Playing together

Multiplayer by platform

How Donkey Kong Bananza supports playing with other people, broken down per platform.

Multiplayer capabilities for Donkey Kong Bananza by platform. Capabilities with no published information are marked "not documented".
Platform	Local	Online	LAN	Split-screen	Co-op campaign	Drop-in/out
Nintendo Switch 2	Yes, up to 2 players	Yes, up to 2 players	Yes	No	No	Yes

Supported (a number is the player cap)
Not supported
Not documented for this platform

Content

Age ratings

How rating boards around the world have classified Donkey Kong Bananza. Open a board for its content descriptors.

ACBPG

Mild fantasy themes, violence and online interactivity

CEROA

CLASS_INDL

ESRBE10+

Fantasy Violence

GRACALL

PEGI7

USK6

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Coverage

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Best Nintendo Switch 2 Games

I started Donkey Kong Bananza on a weeknight expecting twenty minutes and looked up an hour later, still tunnelling through the same wall for one more Banandium Gem. Nearly everything in the world breaks. DK punches through floors, tosses chunks of terrain, and digs shortcuts the level designers clearly expected you to find. It is the clearest case on this list of a game built around what the new hardware can do. It is also the lightest of the top three on content, so budget for a long weekend, not a long winter.

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