Game: TMNT Arcade: Wrath of the Mutants – Ninja Edition
Developers: Cradle Games & Raw Thrills
Publisher: TRAILMARK Games
Genre: Arcade Beat ‘Em Up
Out Now: North America, digital
EU/AUS Digital: October 9
Physical: October 9, global
Platform: Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive
Price: $29.99
Players: 1–4 local couch co-op
🐢 TMNT Arcade: Wrath of the Mutants – Ninja Edition is out now on Nintendo Switch 2 in North America for $29.99. The Switch 2 exclusive adds Master Splinter and Casey Jones as playable fighters for the first time, alongside improved graphics and enhanced performance. EU and Australian digital releases land October 9 with the global physical edition.
⚖️ What “Ninja Edition” Actually Adds
This is the third version of this game, so it’s worth being precise about what’s new.
2017 — Raw Thrills released the original as an arcade cabinet. 2024 — Cradle Games brought it to home consoles as Wrath of the Mutants, adding three stages and six boss battles over the arcade version, for a total of six stages and 13 bosses. Now — Ninja Edition adds two new playable characters, improved graphics and enhanced performance, exclusively on Switch 2.
So the headline addition here is the roster, not the content. The stages and bosses are the same six and thirteen the 2024 release shipped with.
Turtle power, plus a rat and a hockey mask
Casey Jones has been standing on the sidelines of TMNT beat ’em ups for forty years. Someone finally handed him a controller.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Arcade: Wrath of the Mutants – Ninja Edition is available now on Nintendo Switch 2, published by TRAILMARK Games and developed by Cradle Games and Raw Thrills.
You fight across Coney Island, Dimension X and more against the Foot Clan, with four-player local couch co-op and special super attacks unique to each character. It’s built on the 2012 Nickelodeon series, and the whole thing is $29.99 on the eShop.
Splinter and Casey Are the Real Draw
🐀 Two Characters Fans Have Been Asking About for DecadesMaster Splinter and Casey Jones are playable here for the first time in this game, and they’re exclusive to the Switch 2 version.
For a franchise with as many beat ’em ups as this one, both are conspicuously overdue. Casey in particular is a natural fit — a guy whose entire characterisation is hitting people with sports equipment has always belonged in a side-scrolling brawler more than most of the actual cast.
Splinter is the more interesting design problem. He’s the mentor who almost never fights alongside the turtles, so how he plays is genuinely an open question rather than a reskin.
If you already own the 2024 version on another platform, these two are the entire reason to consider double-dipping.
🎮 6 Playable
Leo, Raph, Donnie and Mikey, plus Splinter and Casey Jones on Switch 2.
🗺️ 6 Stages
Coney Island, Dimension X and more. Three of them added for the 2024 console release.
👹 13 Bosses
Six of which weren’t in the original 2017 arcade cabinet.
🤝 4-Player Local
Couch co-op. Online play isn’t mentioned in the announcement.
What This Doesn’t Change
⏱️ If Length Was Your Objection in 2024, It Still Applies
Worth being straight about, because $29.99 is a real amount of money and this is the third release of the same game.
The 2024 console version reviewed poorly — around 53 on Metacritic — and the criticism was remarkably consistent. Not that it was broken, but that it was over in roughly an hour or two, that it felt shallow and repetitive next to TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge, and that the price didn’t match the runtime.
Ninja Edition doesn’t add stages or bosses. It adds two characters, better visuals and better performance. All welcome — but if your objection last time was “there isn’t enough of it,” that objection survives intact.
Equally, if you enjoyed it and simply wanted more reasons to replay those six stages, two new movesets and a cleaner presentation is exactly the update you were after. Both readings are fair; just know which one you are before you spend.
The Voice Cast Is Genuinely a Draw
🎙️ The Actual 2012 Series Cast
This isn’t soundalikes. The turtles are voiced by the performers from the 2012 Nickelodeon show:
• Seth Green as Leonardo
• Sean Astin as Raphael
• Rob Paulsen as Donatello
• Greg Cipes as Michelangelo
Paulsen is the one to point at. He voiced Raphael in the 1987 cartoon and Donatello in the 2012 series — a man who has been a different Ninja Turtle across two generations of this franchise, which is a genuinely absurd and lovely piece of casting history.
For anyone who grew up with the 2012 show specifically, hearing the right voices is a substantial part of the appeal, and licensed arcade ports very often can’t manage it.
Where and When You Can Get It
🌍 A Staggered Regional ReleaseNorth America: available digitally on the Nintendo eShop right now for $29.99.
Europe and Australia: the digital release lands October 9, alongside the global physical release on the same date.
So if you’re outside North America, you’re waiting about a month either way — but you’ll have the choice of a physical copy when it arrives, which NA buyers get too on the 9th.
This is a Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive. The earlier version remains available on other platforms, but without Splinter, Casey, or the visual and performance improvements.
👊 Beat ‘Em Up
🕹️ Arcade
🛋️ Couch Co-Op
🐢 TMNT
📺 2012 Series
👨👩👧 Family Friendly
Who’s Making It
🕹️ Raw Thrills
The arcade specialists who built the original 2017 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cabinet this is all based on. Still one of the few studios making genuine coin-op arcade games in the West.
🛠️ Cradle Games
Handled the 2024 home console conversion, adding the three extra stages and six extra bosses that took the game to its current size, and return here for Ninja Edition.
🏢 TRAILMARK Games
A small team of industry veterans focused on premium titles built around globally recognised IP, partnering with independent developers. They’re also publishing Warrior Cats: Clans of the Forest, due October 23 — a busy autumn for a young publisher.
TMNT Arcade: Wrath of the Mutants – Ninja Edition is available now on the North American eShop, with EU, Australian and physical releases following on October 9.
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