Coral Island heads to Switch 2 this winter with Kids Grow Up update

Coral Island is getting a Nintendo Switch 2 version this winter, and it will not arrive alone. The Stairway Team said in an official Steam News post that the Switch 2 release lands together with Update 1.4, nicknamed “Kids Grow Up”. No exact date has been set yet; the studio plans to share it closer to launch.

What was announced

On Switch 2, the farming and life game keeps its multiplayer mode for up to four players, and cross-play lets those sessions include friends on other supported platforms.

The headline feature of Update 1.4 is that children in your household no longer stay small. They now move through four stages:

• baby
• toddler
• school-age
• teenager

By the school-age stage they reach roughly the age of the island’s existing NPC children, Zoe among them. As they get older they pick up interests of their own, such as music, sports, baking or gaming, and those choices feed into who they become as teenagers. The update also adds fresh dialogue and family scenes for your spouse as a parent, and the town’s other kids, Archie included, will age into teenagers as well. One new cutscene draws on Tedak Siten, a Javanese ceremony marking a child’s first steps on the ground, which the team says many of its developers grew up with.

Controller vibration is part of the same update, with support listed for these platforms:

• Nintendo Switch 2 (HD Rumble)
• PlayStation 5 (DualSense haptic feedback)
• Xbox Series X|S (Xbox Wireless Controller vibration)
• Xbox PC (Xbox Wireless Controller vibration)
• Steam Deck (haptic feedback)
• Steam PC (Xbox Wireless Controller vibration and DualSense haptic feedback)

Other additions include a reworked cooking menu that can sort recipes by buff or by which villagers like a dish as a gift, and fishing bobbers that are unlocked through Fishing Mastery and then bought in different designs at the Beach Shack. Lighting upgrades and assorted quality-of-life tweaks round out the list.

What we don’t know yet

The exact release date for the Switch 2 version and Update 1.4 is still to come. The team says a full rundown of the update, including the smaller changes, will be posted on launch day.