The Cub – Back to Earth Edition

The spiritual successor to Jungle Book on the Sega Master System just landed on Switch with a collector's touch. The Cub: Back to Earth Edition packages this post-apocalyptic platformer in a slipcase with an artbook and a digital soundtrack, a clean trio of extras for a game that deserves to be discovered by more people. The Cub follows the last human child on Earth, raised by Martian colonists' radio broadcasts, as he navigates a planet reclaimed by nature and filled with hazards.

The platforming is tight, the visual storytelling is constantly surprising, and the in-game radio that accompanies your journey creates an atmosphere unlike anything else in the genre. The artbook pulls back the curtain on the environmental design and character work that make The Cub's post-human Earth feel simultaneously beautiful and unsettling. The slipcase elevates your copy beyond a standard Switch case, giving it the physical presence it earns through sheer creative ambition.

On Switch, physical indie platformers in slipcase packaging are the collector's editions that quietly vanish and then become the ones everyone searches for. A digital soundtrack rounds things out for when you want that haunting radio vibe without the controller in your hands.