Earth Must Die is bringing its animated alien chaos to Switch and PS5
Size Five Games and No More Robots have announced console versions of their compact, foul-mouthed point-and-click adventure.
Earth Must Die is bringing its animated, foul-mouthed point-and-click adventure to Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 5 — because apparently Earth has not suffered enough. Size Five Games and No More Robots announced the console versions on Sept. 3, promising a compact sci-fi comedy with a frankly alarming amount of alien nonsense and a voice cast packed with British comedy talent.1
The game follows VValak Lizardtongue, Grand Shepherd of the Tyrythian Empire, and Milky, his childhood nursing bot. Together they try to stop the Terranoids from taking over the Tyrythian kingdom, while also putting an end to Earth. The announcement says the adventure runs for eight to 10 hours, a welcome refusal to pad a joke until it becomes a second job.1
The cast includes Alex Horne, Joel Fry, Martha Howe-Douglas, Ben Starr and Tamsin Greig, alongside “loads more”, according to the publisher’s announcement.1 Size Five Games is the BAFTA-winning developer behind Lair of the Clockwork God, The Swindle and other distinctly British-flavoured adventures.3
There is a small wrinkle in the wording: the press release promotes the Switch and PS5 versions as coming soon, but Earth Must Die is already available on PC. Steam lists a Jan. 27, 2026 release date, a current price of €13.29 and a “Very Positive” rating from 238 user reviews, with 85% marked positive at the time of checking.2 Prices and review totals can change, naturally — Steam is a slippery little goblin.
Mechanically, this is a single-player point-and-click adventure rather than a sprawling space opera. Steam describes a cartoon story built around puzzles, exploration and dark comedy, and the mature-content notice specifically mentions an alien adult bookshop and an alien orgy depicted as a “gyrating lump on the floor”. No, we did not make that up; the store page did, with admirable commitment.2
## Our opinion
A short, properly scripted adventure sounds like exactly the right home for Earth Must Die. The premise is silly, the cast is strong and the eight-to-10-hour runtime suggests Size Five knows when to leave the party before somebody starts explaining the joke. Console players should keep an eye on it, while PC players can already give Earth the boot — provided they are comfortable with rude aliens, adult-bookshop puzzles and a protagonist who appears to have been raised by a particularly unhinged cartoon.
Sources: No More Robots press release; Steam store listing; Size Five Games official website.