Good Smile Company Announces Hatsune Miku: Starry Party, a 6-Player Party Game for Switch 2 and Steam

Good Smile Company revealed Hatsune Miku: Starry Party at Anime Expo 2026, a party action game coming to Nintendo Switch 2 and Steam in 2027. The teaser trailer posted to the Good Smile Channel on YouTube dropped on July 4 and sent the Miku fandom into a frenzy within hours. The game features Nendoroid-style characters - the same chibi aesthetic that defined Project Mirai on Nintendo 3DS - and supports up to 6 players in what the developer describes as a party action game centered on running, jumping, and collecting stars. More characters beyond Miku, Kagamine Rin, and Len were teased at the Anime Expo panel, pointing at a roster that will expand either at launch or through DLC.

What Is Actually Known About Starry Party

Good Smile Company is handling development internally. The studio is most recognized in gaming circles for the Project Mirai series on 3DS - rhythm games built around Nendoroid-style Miku and friends that never made it to a Nintendo home console. Starry Party drops the rhythm-game focus in favor of a party structure: players race, leap, and gather stars across what the teaser suggests are colorful stage environments. The teaser trailer used StargazeR by KOts and Beirne featuring Hatsune Miku as its soundtrack, a Vocaloid original that sent longtime fans of the music scene into a separate spiral of nostalgia. Confirmed characters so far include Hatsune Miku, Kagamine Rin, and Kagamine Len. The Anime Expo panel teased additional characters without naming them.

The official @HatsuneMiku account confirmed the platforms directly: Switch 2 and Steam. A 2027 launch window was included in the Wario64 announcement that went viral, though Good Smile has not specified a more precise release period. No pricing has been announced. The Steam page had not gone live as of publication.

Project Mirai Is the Reference Every Fan Made Immediately

Project Mirai DX on 3DS was released in the West in 2015 and never got a sequel on any platform. It built a devoted audience that has spent a decade asking for more Nendoroid Miku games. Starry Party is not a rhythm game, and Good Smile has not called it a Mirai successor, but the aesthetic overlap is obvious enough that community reaction defaulted to that framing within minutes of the teaser going live. Comments on the YouTube video read like a reunion: people tagging friends, referencing specific 3DS memories, and interpreting the Nendoroid style as a signal that a rhythm follow-up might come later if this game performs. That is speculation, not announcement, but Good Smile clearly understands what the visual choice communicates.

Community Reaction: Positive and Hungry for More

The Wario64 tweet announcing the game racked up millions of interactions in hours, which is on the high end for a party game teaser without gameplay footage. The fanbase response has three distinct tones. Longtime Miku game fans are treating this as a long-overdue return to Nendoroid gaming and celebrating broadly. A subset is more cautious, noting that 'party game' carries baggage after years of releases that felt thin at launch and relied on DLC to fill out content. A third group is purely focused on the character roster, debating which Vocaloids and Piapro characters need to be in the lineup and whether Good Smile will go wide with guest picks or keep the roster Crypton-exclusive.

Kagamine Rin and Len appearing in the teaser was read as confirmation that the game goes beyond Miku herself, which matters because the Project Mirai series also featured the wider Crypton lineup. Meiko, Kaito, Luka, and the two IA characters are the obvious candidates for inclusion. Good Smile teasing 'more characters' at the panel without names is the oldest trick in announcement season, but it worked - fan wish-listing immediately dominated the conversation.

The Switch 2 Timing Works in Its Favor

Switch 2 is already the second fastest-selling console in US history and building a library that skews toward exclusive and exclusive-adjacent titles. A Nendoroid Miku party game is a natural fit for that platform's audience demographic, and Good Smile placing it on Switch 2 rather than the original Switch suggests the developer is building for the current installed base rather than chasing legacy compatibility. The Steam listing means PC players are not locked out, which is the right call for a franchise with a large presence in the PC Vocaloid community. Whether the game will support cross-platform multiplayer has not been addressed.

The Honest Take

Good Smile Company announcing a Miku party game during Anime Expo week is a smart move in a strong venue for the franchise, and the Nendoroid art direction will carry a lot of goodwill through whatever wait comes before launch. The open question is content. Party games live or collapse on the strength of their mode variety, character roster, and stage design - elements that a teaser trailer communicates nothing about. If Starry Party ships in 2027 with a full roster, proper local and online multiplayer, and enough minigame depth to hold a group for more than an hour, it will sell well and probably get a sequel. If it shows up thin and monetizes the character roster as paid DLC, the community that spent a decade asking for a new Nendoroid Miku game will not be forgiving. Good Smile knows which outcome it wants. Now it has to build it.