Sifu, the rogue-like kung fu third-person action game, which received a lot of praise for its complex combat mechanics, will be dropping onNintendo Switchthis August 04, 2025.
Sifu is currently aPlayStationconsole exclusive (available on PC through the Epic Games Store), so it’s quite surprising to see it jump ship to a different console so quickly. Though exclusivity deals are sometimes for a limited time only, they’re usually a year at least. Sifu was originally released in February 2022, meaning PlayStation only received a 9-month exclusivity window for this title.
It’s no surprise that Sifu got the attention it did. On top of its fast-paced martial arts combat style, it also had a pretty novel flair to its rogue-like component. The game has you go through several levels of increasing difficulty, and every time you die, your character ages. You continue the fight exactly where you left off, but a bit older.
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If you die over and over, you have an age counter that goes up, meaning that every time you die, the years you age will increase. If you reach the age of 70 and die, you lose. There, your choices are to start anew at the beginning of the game or start at the highest level you reached, but you’ll have the age and death counter you had when you started it.
Furthermore, every ten years you age, you deal more damage, but your health bar gets shorter, raising the stakes even further. It’s a fun concept, especially because of the visual changes your character goes through as he ages, but this is far from the only reason Sifu was so beloved. Its combat was deemed by many to contain a stellar combination of depth, speed, and difficulty. The difficulty in particular aptly matched the game’s theme, given that as the main character gets older, the player also gets better and more experienced, even if it takes many deaths to do so. Sifu was also commercially successful, selling over 1 million units a month after release.
It’s worth confirming that this title will not be a cloud version, unlike theResident Evilgames that were also revealed in today’sNintendoDirect. It is instead a native Switch port. This has its positives, especially for those with underwhelming internet speeds, as streamed games can suffer from lag and latency issues. The negatives are clear in the trailer. The models simply don’t look as smooth and polished as the PlayStation version; a necessary sacrifice for running the game natively on a handheld hybrid.
