Star Fox spiritual successor announced from original programmer

Announced Wednesday during the Humble Games Showcase, developer Chuhai Labs — the studio founded by original Star Fox programmer Giles Goddard — is working on a Star Fox spiritual successor called Wild Blue. 

Shown in a brief teaser trailer and detailed via a press release and Steam page, the game will be a rail-shooter complete with animal pilots, dogfights, boss battles, and blue skies. “Soar over oceans, desert ridges, and perilous caves, battling waves of enemies and pushing back the Baron’s forces,” says the official description. “With the help of allies, you’ll fight to restore peace while experiencing the thrill of classic arcade flight-combat!”

Wild Blue is the company’s “biggest title to date,” according to company hype man Mark Lentz. Which you’d expect him to say, but given that Nintendo hasn’t released a new official Star Fox game in almost a decade — the last being 2016’s Star Fox Zero, one of Nintendo’s rare Wii U games that never made it to Switch — this looks like a great replacement.

Chuhai Labs previously released Carve Snowboarding, a spiritual successor to another game Goddard worked on at Nintendo (1080° Snowboarding), as well as Playdate launch game Whitewater Wipeout, golf-based adventure game Cursed to Golf, and others.