{"id":137340,"date":"2026-05-27T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-201689"},"modified":"2026-05-27T13:45:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T13:45:00","slug":"dragon-quest-monsters-the-withered-world-announced-for-switch-1-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2026\/05\/27\/dragon-quest-monsters-the-withered-world-announced-for-switch-1-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragon Quest Monsters: The Withered World Announced For Switch 1 &amp; 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/427ea491fa2b2\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/427ea491fa2b2\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<figure class=\"youtube\" data-videoid=\"Z1bxybh9DyE\" data-start=\"0\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z1bxybh9DyE?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1\">\n<p>[embedded content]<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Rounding out Dragon Quest&#8217;s 40th anniversary showcase, we got our very first peek at the next entry in the Dragon Quest monsters spin-off series: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/dragon-quest-monsters-the-withered-world\">The Withered World<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The teaser was admittedly pretty light on details. We saw a bunch of monsters, two young protagonists and&#8230; that&#8217;s about it. It was all accompanied by a vague &#8220;Coming Soon&#8221; message, though Yuji Horii noted, &#8220;we hope to release before [Dragon Quest] XII&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Just in case that sounds like it might be coming soon, the announcement also contained the news that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2026\/05\/dragon-quest-xii-gets-a-new-title-following-complete-development-reset\">development has restarted<\/a> on the next mainline entry in the series, so don&#8217;t get those hopes up just yet.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"gallery\">\n<div class=\"cols cols-2\">\n<div class=\"col col-1 col-width-50\"><a title=\"Dragon Quest Monsters: The Withered World\" class=\"scanlines\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/7ba9aa5b973cf\/dragon-quest-monsters-the-withered-world.large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/7ba9aa5b973cf\/dragon-quest-monsters-the-withered-world.445x248.jpg\" width=\"445\" height=\"248\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Dragon Quest Monsters: The Withered World\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"col col-1 col-width-50\"><a title=\"Dragon Quest Monsters: The Withered World\" class=\"scanlines scanlines\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/0f3ba7f4bffcb\/dragon-quest-monsters-the-withered-world.large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/0f3ba7f4bffcb\/dragon-quest-monsters-the-withered-world.445x248.jpg\" width=\"445\" height=\"248\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Dragon Quest Monsters: The Withered World\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\"><span class><\/span> Images: Square Enix<\/em><\/figcaption><\/aside>\n<p>So, there you have it! Another &#8216;Monsters&#8217; game is in the works. We would have liked to see <em>some<\/em> gameplay, admittedly, or get even the vaguest idea of what this entry will bring to the table, but our fingers are crossed that it won&#8217;t take <em>too<\/em> long before we get to hear more about it.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, at least we&#8217;ve got <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/dragon-quest-xi-s-echoes-of-an-elusive-age-definitive-edition\">Dragon Quest XI<\/a> to dive back into (again) on Switch 2 this year.<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/nintendo-switch\/related-articles:201682,201685 @ 1779903986 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n<p><em>Will you be checking out the next Monsters game on Switch (2)? Let us know in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content] Rounding out Dragon Quest&#8217;s 40th anniversary showcase, we got our very first peek at the next entry in the Dragon Quest monsters spin-off series: The Withered World. The teaser was admittedly pretty light on details. We saw a bunch of monsters, two young protagonists and&#8230; that&#8217;s about it. It was all accompanied by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}