Earth Must Die
These moronic Terranoids think they can just roll in here and take over my beautiful Tyrythian kingdom? The kingdom that I built from the ground up with my bare hands, and only sort of inherited from my dear…
Earth Must Die is an adventure developed by Size Five Games, released 27 January 2026 on PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Earth Must Die is
Earth Must Die is an adventure game developed by Size Five Games and released in 2026. It was published by No More Robots. It is available on PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Mother is a video game series that consists of three role-playing video games: Mother (1989), known as EarthBound Beginnings outside Japan, for the Family Computer; Mother 2 (1994), known as EarthBound outside Japan, for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System; and Mother 3 (2006) for the Game Boy Advance.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 15 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Earth Must Die holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2026 averaged 78, so it scored 8 points below the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel i5, 1 GB RAM and NVidia 1050. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.
What it launched against
Earth Must Die launched on 27 January 2026, within three weeks of Reanimal, Hytale, Cairn and Mewgenics. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 6 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Reanimal, Hytale, Cairn, Mewgenics.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Earth Must Die yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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