Game: Adorable Adventures
Genre: Adventure
System: Nintendo Switch 2 (Also on Windows (Steam & Epic Games Store), Xbox X/S and PS5)
Developer | Publisher: Wild Sheep Studio | PQube Ltd
Age Rating: US Everyone | EU 3
Price: US $19.99 | UK £TBC | EU € TBC
Release Date: November 12th, 2026
Review code used, with many thanks to PQube.
SooziQ gave us her thoughts on the Adorable Adventures Steam demo 12 months ago. Earlier this year, the game launched across multiple platforms, and now it’s time for the Nintendo Switch 2 release.
Finding Mother
Inspired by the Cévennes National Park in Southern France, Adorable Adventures follows the story of Boris, a young wild boar, who is separated from his family in the aftermath of a forest fire. Max, the forest ranger, narrates the story, offering guidance and insight throughout the adventure via audio narration and subtitles (which can be turned off if preferred).
As tempting as it is to leave the adorable boar sleeping, Boris will not find his family if he doesn’t wake up. Adorable Adventures captures the creature’s movements beautifully as he stirs from his slumber. As you explore the hollow where Boris sought safety in, you are given visual prompts for moving and jumping. Then, as you guide Boris out of the narrow entrance, you learn how to use your snout to track smells and how to charge (for running and crashing through barriers), both crucial skills for exploring the park and locating the rest of Boris’s family.
The first aroma Boris detects is that of his mother. The scent appears as coloured dots scattered in a vague direction. You don’t need to follow the exact path, as it sometimes winds up and around, occasionally via unreachable places. However, heading in the general direction, the smell will become more focused as you get closer to the source. Boris discovers his mother is stuck in a shed, sealed shut with a door too strong for him to break open by himself. He will need his siblings’ assistance to bash through it.
To help focus on the scent of his siblings, rather than his mother, Boris learns that stronger smells can be ignored once he is familiar enough with them. With this knowledge, Boris heads into the park to find his brothers and sisters so that, together, they can rescue their mother.
Awash with Aromas
To find his first sibling, you need to set the Scent-o-Meter to ignore the scent of Mother Boar. Picking up the scent of his brother, Gary, you lead Boris towards him, but before long, a stronger odour takes over and he discovers wild chives instead. Boris will need to find four groups of wild chives before he can ignore that smell and focus back on his brother. Finding all the items associated with a particular scent will unlock a customisation option for the boars.
When Boris eventually finds his brother, Gary is too tired to help and needs arum root to restore his strength. Unfortunately, there are stronger smells than arum root, so Boris needs to learn to ignore those before finding the cure. Once Gary is revived, the brothers head off to look for their next sibling.
Exploring the Park
Adorable Adventures continues in a similar vein: before you find a sibling, other smells take over, and when you do find them, they require some sort of help. Although this is a generally satisfying loop, I did find some frustrations. The map is not very detailed, so when a sibling needed mushrooms from a previous area, I struggled to lead Boris in the right direction. However, a great addition from the Family Fun update (included in the Nintendo Switch 2 release) is that you can give items to your siblings to hold. Very useful when needing to collect several items or when you discover something which seems as though it will have a future purpose.
Part of the charm of being a young, curious boar is that they can be easily distracted. So many times Boris will be tracking a smell, only to have a different one distract him. While this is part of the fun, it was annoying when that smell was emanating from behind a gate too strong for my group of siblings to crash through. Quite often, I had to leave that area, just to clear the aroma and start tracking anew.
However, the largest frustration was discovering that the last sibling wanted three beechnuts to be watered. I’d discovered those earlier, so I couldn’t track them again. Whether this is a pre-release porting issue, a result of exploration in the wrong order, or a game design feature, wandering aimlessly back and forth on the ash-covered forest floor was no joy. In the end, I started a new game just to track down the beechnuts, and took screenshots so I knew where to look for them in my main game.
As you and Boris explore the national park, you’ll discover many side quests. Maybe you’ll look for missing baby rabbits, douse the forest fire embers, or set new records in the time trials. There really is a lot to do, although trying to recreate the old nature photos in the picture quests is challenging! The side missions add variety and, in most cases, an extra layer of enjoyment to Adorable Adventures. Once Mother Boar has been rescued, you’ll be able to continue completing them, as well as being able to play hide and seek with the siblings, which is a lovely extra feature.
At every turn in Adorable Adventures, the scenery is magnificent. If you take the time to climb to the highest point in the areas, you’ll be treated to a spectacular view.
Controls and Options in Adorable Adventures
The controls are explained (and detailed in the options menu), with on-screen interaction buttons appearing when close enough to the trigger point. However, it did take me quite a while to feel comfortable with the controls. There is no touchscreen functionality, but the text is large enough to read in handheld mode. There are various options for camera sensitivity and movement, including being able to invert both the X-axis and Y-axis.
Generally, Adorable Adventures runs well on the Switch 2, although I did notice a couple of frame-rate issues when I first entered the Plains Area at the start of the game.
Adorable Adventures does autosave regularly, with an additional manual save. However, there is only one save slot. There is no day or night cycle, but the forest fire area is very gloomy to explore, and the caves are very dark; luckily, there is an option to increase brightness. Overall, I spent six hours rescuing Mother Boar and completed just over half of the side missions in that time; however, that does include a wasted hour searching for those beechnuts.
Conclusion
There is no denying that Adorable Adventures is absolutely adorable. If I could rate it on its cuteness factor and scenery, it would score top marks. However, my enjoyment was truly dampened by having to hunt for items I could no longer track. An interactive map (or even one with extra details), as well as the ability to reset tracked items, would have made the experience much more satisfying.
Final Verdict: I Like it 
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