Montreal, QC – July 22, 2025 – Outerminds Inc. invite you to jump on your sick BMX, turn your Turbo Glove™ on and try Turbo Kid ahead of the August 5th release for the Nintendo Switch. Launching August 5th on Nintendo Switch - and with a major update for PC players the same day - Turbo Kid throws you into a hilariously violent wasteland crawling with scoundrels, weirdos, and enemies begging to be exploded.
You play as the Kid, a lone warrior armed with a machete, a mayhem-packed Turbo Glove™, and the ultimate human-powered weapon: a BMX bike. Fight through the wasteland with a gloriously absurd arsenal — Turbo Blasts, circular saws, rockets, lightning, ooze, and more — and make every encounter a hysterical splash of pixel gore. Explore zones and bosses in any order, meet a cast of oddballs offering quests, laughs, and questionable advice, and shape your story with choices that change your path. Or skip all the talking and speedrun your way straight through.
You can now request your Nintendo Switch Code here!
(These codes also work on Switch 2)
Alongside the Switch launch, PC players are also getting a major update, including:
- New supported languages: Japanese & Simplified Chinese
- Secondary weapons now cost about half as much because more weapons = more fun
- Improved Ooze Gun, leaving puddles that last longer on the ground
- Improved Rocket accuracy so they actually hit things
- Improved Lightning Gun, now reliably zaps enemies on the first try
- Big performance optimization for lower-spec machines
- Assorted bug fixes & polish
About Turbo Kid
Turbo Kid is a singleplayer metroidvania adventure with insane weapons, skills, and pixel gore where you ride your BMX and blast your enemies as you discover the secrets of the Wasteland. Created as a continuation of the 2015 Sci-fi/Action cult-classic of the same name, fans of the movie were aching for a Turbo Kid video game adaptation. Heeding the call, Outerminds launched a Kickstarter campaign in 2021 and successfully funded their campaign within less than 24 hours. Turbo Kid launched on PC in April of 2024.
Key Features
Pedal. Slash. Explode. Repeat. - Rediscover the Metroidvania you should have grown up with. Blaze your trail through a mutant-infested wasteland, upgrade your arsenal of absurdly deadly weapons, and leave a trail of pixelated guts in your wake—all from the seat of your trusty BMX.
BMX Combat - Who needs a horse when you have a bike with attitude? Call your BMX anytime to boost through maps, unlock shortcuts, smash enemies, or just pull sick tricks. It’s the first true Metroidvania where two wheels matter (no need to fact-check that).
Slash, Shoot, Splat - Machetes? Of course. Turbo Glove™? Absolutely. From electric blasts to saw blades, your toolkit is overflowing with over-the-top destruction. Rip through enemies with style and turn every screen into a spray of beautifully deranged pixel gore.
Freedom to Explore, Freedom to Wreck - Set just after the events of the film, forge your path through a twisted world filled with bizarre characters and unexpected choices. Who you help—or hurt—will shape your journey across multiple playthroughs.
All Killer, No Filler - Love lore? It’s here. Hate it? Skip it. We built Turbo Kid with pure gameplay in mind: no unskippable cutscenes, no walls of text—just fast, fluid action and flexible storytelling that works whether you’re exploring or speedrunning.
About Outerminds Inc.
Outerminds is an indie video game developing studio located in Montreal Canada founded in 2014 by Sylvain Savard, Nicolas Brunet-Messier, Alexandre Caron and Guiz de Pessemier. After creating our first game Tadpole Tap, we entered a game jam organized by YouTube Celebrity PewDiePie and decided to create a game starring the YouTuber himself. He quickly reached out and asked that we expand on it. The result – PewDiePie: Legend of the Brofist - would be the start of a long collaboration with PewDiePie. Since then, Outerminds has made 3 more games including 2 with PewDiePie.