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Backyard Pirates

A split screen simplified real time strategy game about kids on homemade pirate ships, made for short rounds.

19 September 2025

Backyard Pirates is an arcade, released 19 September 2025 on Nintendo Switch.

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What Backyard Pirates is

Backyard Pirates was released in 2025. It is available on Nintendo Switch only.

How it plays

Its themes are party. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

What it launched against

Backyard Pirates launched on 19 September 2025, within three weeks of Battlefield 6, Ghost of Yotei, Hollow Knight: Silksong and Silent Hill f. It arrived 8 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Battlefield 6, Ghost of Yotei, Hollow Knight: Silksong, Silent Hill f.

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When did Backyard Pirates come out?
Backyard Pirates was released on 19 September 2025 for Nintendo Switch.

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