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BOTW-Inspired ‘Star Overdrive’ Reveals Switch Launch Trailer [EXCLUSIVE]

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On April 9, 2025

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Open-world hoverboard game Star Overdrive premiered its launch trailer ahead of its forthcoming release.
Star Overdrive is scheduled to debut on the Nintendo Switch on April 10, with a PC port also being on the way.
Star Overdrive features Breath of the Wild-inspired emergent gameplay combining open-world exploration, platforming, combat, puzzle-solving, and some light RPG elements.

Game Rant can exclusively share the Star Overdrive launch trailer commemorating its imminent release. The open-world action adventure will be a timed Nintendo Switch exclusive.

Star Overdrive was initially announced during the Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase in August 2024. Developed by Italian studio Caracal Games, the game is described as a fast-paced action adventure combining open-world exploration with combat, platforming, and puzzle-solving. Its central traversal mechanic is tied to a customizable hoverboard, allowing players to quickly overcome great distances.

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Ahead of Star Overdrive‘s April 10 release, French publisher Dear Villagers shared its launch trailer, which Game Rant can exclusively reveal. The minute-long video teases the game’s plot, on top of offering a few glimpses of some of its many enemies and environments. Hoverboard travel is featured prominently throughout the trailer, which also showcases the game’s secondary traversal tool: a jetpack.

Star Overdrive Launch Trailer

Star Overdrive Takes Inspiration from Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Star Overdrive‘s hoverboard is highly customizable, allowing players to change its design and color scheme. It also supports installing a variety of modules that can be used to boost its specs across several performance categories, including speed and steering. In a recent interview with Game Rant, Caracal Games founder Tommaso Bonanni said that the Star Overdrive developers are massive Breath of the Wild fans, adding that the upcoming game aims to capture what they loved the most from the 2017 Zelda entry while simultaneously being its own thing.

Star Overdrive‘s open world offers approximately 105 square miles of an alien planet to explore. While players will spend a lot of time speeding across landscapes, combat will also be part of the package—and even incorporate the game’s hoverboard mechanics. Much like Breath of the Wild, Star Overdrive aims to facilitate emergent, physics-based gameplay, encouraging players to experiment with the game’s systems in order to overcome combat challenges, solve puzzles, and get around.

Star Overdrive has been available for pre-order since late March 2025. It’s now slated to arrive this Thursday, April 10. The base game will retail for $34.99 / €34.99, with its Deluxe Edition being priced at $5 more. The higher-tier edition comes with one unique hoverboard design, three hoverboard styles, and 50 dyes. This $39.99 package also includes the game’s soundtrack and a digital version of an original companion manga.

Star Overdrive is slated to hit the market as a Switch exclusive. That notwithstanding, the game’s Steam page has been live since its summer 2024 announcement, so it’s seemingly only a matter of time before Star Overdrive makes the jump to PC.