Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed Launches on Switch 2: Price, Free Upgrade and What's New
Purple Lamp's 2010 remake returns October 6 with a free Switch 2 upgrade, sharper visuals, Joy-Con 2 paintbrush controls and the bundled Costume Pack for every Wasteland explorer.
Mickey surveys a painted corner of Wasteland in Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed. Image: THQ Nordic.
Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed arrives on Nintendo Switch 2 today, October 6. The 2024 remake of Junction Point's 2010 Wii original gets a dedicated release on Nintendo's new hardware, and anyone who already owns the Switch version gets the upgrade at no extra cost. For a remaster that already looked sharp on last-gen Switch, the jump is less about a graphical overhaul and more about finally giving the game the horsepower and controls it was always missing.
What Launched Today
THQ Nordic and developer Purple Lamp confirmed the Switch 2 edition back in March and held the release to October 6, the same week as a wave of other big-name launches. The game is a faithful remake of 2010's Epic Mickey, built with Warren Spector, the original's creative director, consulting on the remaster. Mickey still carries his magic paintbrush through Wasteland, a junkyard realm of discarded Disney characters, and still chooses between paint to rebuild the world or thinner to strip it away. Those choices still ripple through which areas open up and how other characters react to you.
The Switch 2 version is a new, separate listing on the eShop rather than a silent patch. Nintendo's own product page lists it at $39.99, matching the price of the original Switch release, with a 14.6GB download versus 11.7GB on the first Switch version.
Free Upgrade for Existing Owners
Anyone who already bought Epic Mickey: Rebrushed on the original Switch does not need to buy it again. THQ Nordic confirmed the Switch 2 version is a free upgrade for both digital and physical Switch owners, and save data carries over, so a cleared Wasteland run or an in-progress file picks up right where it left off. That matches how Nintendo has handled most first-party Switch 2 upgrades this year, and it is a notably generous move for a third-party publisher on a licensed Disney title.
- Price for a new copy: $39.99 (digital or physical)
- Switch 1 owners: free upgrade, both digital and physical copies qualify
- Save data: transfers automatically between versions
- Download size: 14.6GB on Switch 2, versus 11.7GB on Switch
What's Actually New on Switch 2
The headline changes are under the hood rather than new content. Nintendo's listing describes "higher resolution visuals, improved framerate and mouse-style controls using the Joy-Con 2 controller." In practice that means Wasteland's painted backdrops render at a cleaner resolution in docked play, the framerate holds up better during the busier platforming sections and boss fights, and the Joy-Con 2's mouse mode gives you a cursor-driven way to aim paint and thinner instead of relying purely on the right stick. The Switch 2 release also folds in the Costume Pack DLC by default, so every new or upgraded copy ships with the extra outfits that were a separate purchase in 2024.
Why It's Launching Now
THQ Nordic grouped the announcement with two other back-catalogue ports, Destroy All Humans! and Destroy All Humans! 2 – Reprobed, as part of a broader push to bring its existing library to Switch 2 rather than commit resources to brand-new Switch 2 exclusives this early in the console's life. For Epic Mickey: Rebrushed specifically, the timing also lines up with the game's own history: the original Epic Mickey was a Wii exclusive built around motion controls, and the Joy-Con 2's mouse mode is the first time since then that a Disney-published version of the game has shipped with a pointer-style control scheme built in from day one.
Where to Get It
The Switch 2 version is available now through the Nintendo eShop and at retail wherever Switch 2 game-key cards are sold. The original PC, PlayStation and Xbox versions remain unaffected and continue to sell through their own storefronts, including the game's Steam page. The ESRB rates the game E10+ for Fantasy Violence, per its official rating summary, and the game's full development history, including the differences between the 2010 original and this remake, is covered on Wikipedia's Epic Mickey page.