Metroid Prime 4: Beyond
Retro Studios' long-awaited return to Samus Aran's first-person adventures.
4 Dec 2025 · Paid
About Metroid Prime 4: Beyond
Metroid Prime 4: Beyond is Retro Studios' long-awaited return to the first-person Metroid saga. Samus explores the planet Viewros with the psychic Vi-O-La abilities, scanning, morph-ball traversal and a mysterious gate structure, bridging classic Prime exploration with Switch 2's mouse-mode aiming.
- • First-person exploration adventure
- • Psychic power abilities
- • Morph Ball and scan visor returns
- • Viewros alien jungle world
- • Switch 2 mouse mode support
Storyline
Metroid Prime 4: Beyond takes place between the events of Metroid: Other M and Metroid Fusion. The Space Pirates, using Metroids capable of possessing a host, attack a Federation facility on Tanamaar which recently unearthed an artifact. Samus is dispatched by the Galactic Federation to prevent the Pirates from stealing it. The Pirates are being led by Sylux, a rogue hunter whom Samus had previously encountered. In the confrontation with him, Sylux accidentally damages the artifact, causing it to activate and teleport everything in its surroundings to the unknown planet of Viewros. On Viewros, Samus explores the Chrono Tower. She acquires a crystal with psychic capabilities and uncovers a holographic recording from Chatoyant Vooloon, the last priest of the extinct Lamorn race. Facing extinction, the Lamorn prophesized the arrival of a "Chosen One" and made plans for their legacy to be preserved and taken to a new world via their Master Teleporter. It can only be activated by five keys scattered across Viewros, with Samus starting in the jungles of Fury Green. There she rescues the timid Federation technician Myles MacKenzie while they are hunted by feral creatures called grievers. Myles sets up a base camp in Fury Green to help Samus. Samus learns that the Lamorn were cultivating their psychic tree to grow a memory fruit for the Chosen One to plant on a new world as their legacy. The cultivation can only be completed by feeding the fruit with green energy—a life energy uncovered by the Lamorn contained in crystals across Viewros. Sylux takes control of the Chrono Tower, erects a barrier around it, and infuses Metroids into the master teleporter key's guardians before Samus can reach them. Acquiring a Vi-O-La motorcycle, Samus encounters the Federation soldiers Reger Tokabi, Ezra Duke, Nora Armstrong, and the combat robot VUE-995 on her journey. Recordings reveal that while the Lamorn race had hoped to use green energy to nurture the planet, it made the wildlife aggressive and transformed the Lamorn into grievers. The surviving Lamorn sealed themselves into the Chrono Tower, with hope someone would end their suffering. Samus secures the keys for the teleporter,…
Gameplay
Metroid Prime 4: Beyond is an action-adventure game played from a first-person perspective. Players control Samus Aran using the Joy-Con controllers to move, jump, aim at enemies and objects, and fire weapons. Beyond takes place across a vast world of different regions, in which gameplay focuses on solving various puzzles, exploring rooms, and defeating enemies with a variety of weapons and the aid of a "lock-on" function that allows Samus to move in a circle while staying aimed on an enemy. The lock-on function can also help with interacting with objects, such as connecting a Grapple Beam to swing between platforms. The game uses a first-person view, except in Morph Ball mode, in which Samus' suit transforms into an armored ball and the game uses a third-person camera. A heads-up display, which simulates the inside of Samus' helmet during first-person view, provides a radar and mini-map functions, as well as displays on health and ammo amounts; when fighting bosses, the display also keeps track of their health. The player can scan objects and lifeforms to gather information. New to Beyond are psychic powers, which allow Samus to operate specialized mechanisms, see hidden platforms, and perform guided shots against enemies. Beyond also adds a hub world, Sol Valley, which Samus crosses with a motorcycle, the Vi-O-La. The motorcycle can perform manoeuvres that provide a speed boost and allow Samus to defend against enemies. At times, Samus is assisted by Galactic Federation soldiers who assist with puzzles and combat. The Nintendo Switch 2 version allows players to use the Joy-Con 2 controller as a mouse, similarly to a PC first-person shooter.
- Developer
- Retro Studios
- Publisher
- Nintendo
- Release
- 4 Dec 2025
- Price
- Paid
- Modes
- single-player
