Splatoon 3 (2022)
Nintendo EPD Production Group No. 5
Nintendo Switch · Nintendo Switch 2
4.06 from 277 ratings
668 members have it in their collection · 118 playing now · 118 backlogged · 233 wish listed
How long? Main story 80h · with extras 12h · 100% 568h (from 9 logged playthroughs)
Details
- Developers
- Nintendo EPD Production Group No. 5
- Publishers
- Nintendo
- Genres
- Platform, Shooter
- Themes
- Action, Comedy, Science fiction
- Franchises
- Splatoon
- Series
- Splatoon
- Events
- Taipei Game Show 2025, Japan Game Awards 2023, Nintendo Direct Japan 2023.06.21, Nintendo Direct 2023.06.21, Nintendo Event 2023.02.08, 2022.09.13 - Nintendo Direct, Splatoon 3 Direct 8.10.2022, Summer Game Fest 2022, The Game Awards 2021
Release dates
- Sep 09, 2022 (Full Release) (Worldwide) Nintendo Switch
- Oct 25, 2022 (Full Release) (Brazil) Nintendo Switch
- Jun 12, 2025 (Next-Gen Optimization Patch Release) (Worldwide) Nintendo Switch 2
Related
DLC
- Splatoon 3: Inkopolis (Feb 2023)
Expansions
- Splatoon 3: Side Order (Feb 2024)
Seasons
- Splatoon 3: Drizzle Season 2022 (Sep 2022)
- Splatoon 3: Chill Season 2022 (Dec 2022)
- Splatoon 3: Sizzle Season (Jun 2024)
Featured in lists
Rating distribution
5 stars
91
4 stars
129
3 stars
45
2 stars
8
1 star
4
Community All Reviews Statuses
Status kingbk83 Jul 15, 2023
Doing the Splatfest this weekend. I'm on team mint chip. I love Splatoon in general, but so much of the success in the game is random. Do you get put on a good team or not? Even if you are a great player, but are put on a bad team, you have no chance at winning. And while these Splatfests …
Read moreDoing the Splatfest this weekend. I'm on team mint chip. I love Splatoon in general, but so much of the success in the game is random. Do you get put on a good team or not? Even if you are a great player, but are put on a bad team, you have no chance at winning. And while these Splatfests are fun, it's so random and luck based on how you will do overall.
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Status TheBeautifulEric Apr 15, 2023
Easily the best single player Splatoon experience. Really liked the small exploration elements in this game and they found a good way to make use of the golden eggs. The skill tree was simple enough to understand and the progression was engaging enough to keep me interested. Small fry is the best. Spoilers for late game:
Easily the best single player Splatoon experience. Really liked the small exploration elements in this game and they found a good way to make use of the golden eggs. The skill tree was simple enough to understand and the progression was engaging enough to keep me interested. Small fry is the best. Spoilers for late game:
I can't really speak to any of the multiplayer elements as far as balance is concerned, but they made nice QoL improvements over the 2nd game and added neat cosmetic stuff to customize your profile with.
For QoL, they added the ability to kind of skip the multiplayer stage announcements and play them in the background instead of making you watch them. Another nice addition is the ability to queue in a party with friends. In Splat2, you had to join a friend's lobby that was already in session rather than queuing at the same time, which got frustrating when the maps changed and you just had to hope the lobby had enough space for you to play with your friends. Another nice change is that when you exit the spawn point, you can choose a landing zone. This change makes it a bit tougher to get spawn camped like in S2.
The added locker, icon, title, and banner customization is such a small addition, but it adds the chance to show off more of your personality. In a game that has a strong element of showing off your style, I think these are welcome additions.
Overall, S3 was such a nice surprise. The small adjustments felt like Nintendo actually listening to the fans and their complaints about S2. Can't really speak about Grizzco (Salmon Run), tabletop, or multiplayer just yet, but I'll probably give my thoughts on the multiplayer after playing it a bit more.
Status El_Diegote Nov 7, 2022
I think I'm playing this game wrong. That, or the single player campaign is not that polished. I feel like I've been playing the same stages over and over again and the stages that are actually difficult aren't difficult because they are difficult but because some weapons are incredibly poor choices for that particular challenge.
The worst part is that …
I think I'm playing this game wrong. That, or the single player campaign is not that polished. I feel like I've been playing the same stages over and over again and the stages that are actually difficult aren't difficult because they are difficult but because some weapons are incredibly poor choices for that particular challenge.
The worst part is that even after playing the same things over and over again, I don't feel like I'm getting better at the game at all.
Status Esquared77 Oct 22, 2022
Having fun so far, want to dive more into single player but matches are a blast and really like tower control, just need to get good
Status Reina Oct 4, 2022
Things I want in future Splatoon 3 patches:
King Salmonid Chohozuna needs to be easier to beat. I've yet to come close to beating it a single time and I'm not bad at Salmon Run. When we don't all die, we're usually unable to get in enough hits to kill it before the time runs out. Buff the eggs plz! …
Things I want in future Splatoon 3 patches:
King Salmonid Chohozuna needs to be easier to beat. I've yet to come close to beating it a single time and I'm not bad at Salmon Run. When we don't all die, we're usually unable to get in enough hits to kill it before the time runs out. Buff the eggs plz!
Let me choose colours. I keep getting confused by the constantly changing colours. At the very least, colour lock should completely lock my colour, not just lock it to one set of colours.
Make it easier to earn money. Like, holy shit, I run out constantly ... There's sooo much more stuff to buy in this game and the stuff costs a lot, so I keep being unable to afford stuff and having to do lots of matches to get a single item ...
Give us ways to get stuff from older catalogs down the line plz. I want the emote you get at catalog lvl 76 and the glasses you get at lvl 79 but I'm currently at lvl 21 and there's just no way I'll manage to reach those levels in time before there's a new catalog ... There is no good reason to make those times exclusive items, so plz, give us a way to aquire those later.
When the 2-year support ends for the game, please make it possible to play stuff like tricolor battle and big run. Don't just make those modes time-exclusive that'll never come back if you didn't play the game at the right time.
Status Chawls Oct 2, 2022
Splatoon 3 feels more like the definitive Splatoon experience than it does advancing the series, more refinement and polish and less pushing new ground. While it offers a lot of fun modes and content, the horrendous online connection issues and some wonky menu system design to hamper the overall experience.
Status Chawls Sep 20, 2022
I'm guessing the constant connection issues is somewhat due to the large current player base and record initial sales? It is pretty awful and embarrassing for the 3rd installment, on the same platform as the previous to installment, to have such critical issues right out of the gate though.
It also may just be me, but trying to manage everything …
I'm guessing the constant connection issues is somewhat due to the large current player base and record initial sales? It is pretty awful and embarrassing for the 3rd installment, on the same platform as the previous to installment, to have such critical issues right out of the gate though.
It also may just be me, but trying to manage everything goin on and learn to aim with the gyro controls is really overwhelming and frustrating.
Status SIGINT Sep 18, 2022
Lots of online connectivity issues in this game. How they don’t have this stuff right at this point, I don’t know. I had too many matches end early today due to connection issues or not make it past the loading screen. Still works most of the time though, and it’s a fun game just like the prior ones.
Status Gangreen Sep 16, 2022
Pretty much an expansion on the Splatoon 2 formula but I like that there is more variety to the single player levels. I really like the concept around the multiplayer turf wars but man the competition is fierce and I don’t know that I have the stamina to get gud. Still I am enjoying myself so far.
Status Jusfei Sep 14, 2022
Finished all levels of Hero Mode, including secret level
- Reached Credits
- Maxed Skill tree
- Gathered all Collectables / Scrolls
I'll see what the competition is like as for how far I plan to go for ranked modes. I went for S rank in all modes asides from Clam Blitz in Splatoon 2, but right now competition is still …
Finished all levels of Hero Mode, including secret level
- Reached Credits
- Maxed Skill tree
- Gathered all Collectables / Scrolls
I'll see what the competition is like as for how far I plan to go for ranked modes. I went for S rank in all modes asides from Clam Blitz in Splatoon 2, but right now competition is still tough at B- as that's where all of Splatoon 2's veterans start at. Also this game is tough on my fingers / fore arms to be playing long term too.
Status Kilpi Sep 12, 2022
Played this game for a few hours now. I can't understand how this can be Nintendo game, because everything just goes so smoothly. QoL-improvements has been amazing and everything just works so well. Gameplay-wise there hasn't been major changes, but the core mechanics worked so well already in previous installments, there really aint any reasons to change anything.
Its just …
Played this game for a few hours now. I can't understand how this can be Nintendo game, because everything just goes so smoothly. QoL-improvements has been amazing and everything just works so well. Gameplay-wise there hasn't been major changes, but the core mechanics worked so well already in previous installments, there really aint any reasons to change anything.
Its just pure fun playing this game! Cant wait to see how ranked battles and coop game mode spice things up, when I have a chance to try these!