Blue Prince Review: Towards Room 46 on Nintendo Switch 2

And so, somewhat surprisingly, what has been watched by gamers and critics alike and has proven to be one of the surprises of 2025, is preparing to envelop Nintendo players in an adventure full of mystery and mind-bending puzzles (and in this guide you'll find some tips on puzzles, riddles, and codes). To tell the truth, we had already played Blue Prince about a year ago, finding it a true gem: a brilliant example of game design that shines with character and inventiveness.

And now, imagine this whole package in a port on Nintendo Switch 2, a hybrid that makes portability its winning weapon: and this is no small feat considering that many gamers can only dedicate themselves to this passion in their spare time. So, driven by curiosity, we plunged back into this first-person roguelite with many nice puzzles to solve, while also checking if Blue Prince is truly enjoyable with the console in hand (but also in TV mode, of course).

The answer is yes, albeit with some minor graphical compromises. After all, can you imagine the "joy" of finding room 46 without having the slightest idea how to get there? Don't worry, that's the most enticing aspect of Blue Prince.

Blue Prince: Return to Mt. Holly Manor

Simon Jones is a 14-year-old boy, very lucky (or so some would say), who inherited the Mount Holly estate from his great-uncle Herbert S. Sinclair. However, his uncle set a condition for this will: the great-nephew would inherit the entire property only if he discovered the location of the 46th room of the manor, which only had 45 rooms.

It seems like a joke, yet in this place, every dawn reveals a new mystery, where corridors and rooms continue to change. And every day we will find ourselves in this loop, where everything will be reset, and we will have to solve the secrets of this villa that seem to never let us get to the bottom of it.

Blue Prince, after all, is a puzzle adventure where we will be called to think, to rack our brains to overcome the various enigmas and find every single note that will contain suggestions or give us clues on how to approach future rooms. Therefore, not only is a lot of dedication to the cause required, but also a good knowledge of English: in fact, the experience is not localized in Italian and therefore is not perfectly enjoyable for those who do not speak the Anglo-Saxon language.

If you overcome the linguistic "obstacles," Blue Prince will delight like few others thanks to its creativity and decidedly unconventional gameplay. The conditions are very simple: Sinclair will have to explore the various rooms within a predetermined number of steps and try to position them to reach this fateful chamber, an almost unattainable goal that could make the player lose hope.

But just when all seems lost, and especially after having assimilated the basic mechanics (and intelligently positioned the rooms in the style of a board game), that magical moment will arrive, where you will witness... well, we won't tell you, you'll have to play Blue Prince from beginning to end.

Once our available steps are exhausted, we will rightly have to rest and start over in this villa that seems to constantly hold down the reset button. A new day, in which to explore rooms that may contain key objects, important documents, and corridors that will allow us to go to adjacent places with a greater number of doors to open. However, one must pay attention to the red rooms, which often lead to dead ends and will have a negative effect on exploration.

In any case, the aspect that fascinates about Blue Prince is precisely that roguelite formula where you have to try and try again and take notes so as not to ruin all the efforts of the previous day. Some days you will only see empty rooms, others the available steps will run out quickly, but then there will also be energetic moments where studying the game world will allow you to open a previously inaccessible door or obtain the key to the secret garden.

Blue Prince, despite its ingenious graphics characterized by shaders to achieve a graphic novel look, inexorably aims to "make the player replay," encouraging them in failures and also giving them that hint of frustration that allows them to start over without giving up. And this is truly noble for a video game!

How does it perform on Nintendo Switch 2?

After refreshing our memory and renewing our determination to solve every puzzle (or at least we tried), we also focused on analyzing the performance of the Nintendo flagship version. Let's start by saying that the experience is set to maintain a stable framerate at 30 FPS, which might seem low these days but, we guarantee you, does not make the experience less appealing than its counterpart on other platforms.

The situation improves significantly if you play (almost) exclusively in portable mode, a usage we preferred for quick sessions or to fill those dead moments of the day. What we can tell you is that there are no obvious problems, no stuttering or slowdowns. However, loading times are not as immediate, but nothing to worry about particularly (it's better to install it in the console's memory, though). The controls via the Joy-Con 2's mouse functionality are interesting and, all in all, well-implemented and respond perfectly to inputs.

So, is it advisable to get Blue Prince on Switch 2? Well, if we may say so, and if you love playing portably, then you will be satisfied. In docked mode, there are some minor issues, but nothing to tear your hair out over, after all.