System 3 has announced Putty World, a reimagining of its classic Putty series coming to Switch 2 in Q2 2027. A demo will be playable at Tokyo Game Show 2026, which will run from September 17 to 21 at Makuhari Messe in Chiba, Japan.
“With Putty World, we are not simply asking how we can reproduce a game from the past, we are asking what we might have created in the mid-1990s if we had access to the technology available today,” said System 3 founder and CEO Mark Cale in a press release. “The original Putty games were shaped by the imagination of their creators and the capabilities of the hardware at the time. Our ‘What If?’ concept allows us to revisit that same creative vision without those technical limitations, combining the character, humor, and personality of the originals with the fluidity, responsiveness, and visual detail now possible on Nintendo Switch 2.”
According to System 3, the version being shown at Tokyo Game Show 2026 is a “very early playable technology and graphics demonstration,” created to showcase the game’s “evolving controls, recreated visuals, richer animation, improved playability, and greater fluidity.”
Here is an overview of the game, via System 3:
About
Putty World is an ambitious reimagining of System 3’s classic Putty series. It is built around a simple question: What if Nintendo Switch 2 hardware had existed in the mid-1990s?
What would the Putty series have looked and played like if its original creators had access to modern processing power, higher frame rates, greater memory, improved resolution, and today’s dual-stick, multi-button controllers?
This concept forms the foundation of System 3’s new “What If?” series, which will explore how classic games could have looked, felt, and played if today’s technology had been available when they were originally created.
Three Putty Worlds Connected in One Game
Putty World brings together the worlds of Putty, Super Putty, and Putty Squad in one connected experience. As players progress, they will unlock recreated and updated levels inspired by other games from across the series.
The game is planned to include 75 new or extensively updated levels, with more than 45 new enemies already added. Players will encounter new opponents, expanded enemy behaviors, and new ways in which enemies react, attack, and fight. Additional surprises are being introduced throughout development, including end-of-level bosses and dedicated boss battles.
Putty himself has also been given considerably more personality and expression. The updated character features more than 50 facial-expression combinations, helping him react dynamically to the world and events around him.
From Nintendo Switch to Nintendo Switch 2
At Gamescom 2026, System 3 demonstrated the scale of the transformation by comparing the Nintendo Switch version of Putty Squad directly with Putty World running on Nintendo Switch 2.
The comparison highlighted the completely recreated graphics, more detailed character renders, richer animation, modernized controls, improved playability, and substantially greater fluidity made possible by the new hardware.
System 3’s goal is for Putty World to capture the imagination and distinctive character of a special platform game from the mid-1990s, reimagined without the technical restrictions of the era and made possible by Nintendo Switch 2.
The game is being developed with a stable 60 frames-per-second target and is designed to support 1080p resolution in handheld mode and up to 4K when played on a TV.
View the first screenshots at the gallery.
