Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle

Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle is an upcoming role-playing crossover title between the Mario franchise and Ubisoft's Raving Rabbids titles to be released for the Nintendo Switch as well as being the first Turn-based strategy game in the Mario franchise. It was officially announced at E3 2017 during Ubisoft's press conference, and is set to be released in North America, Europe, and Oceania on August 29, 2017, and in Japan in 2018. The game is set to be compatible with amiibo, which are to unlock more in-game features.

Plot
The Rabbids end up with their Time Washing Machine in the laboratory of a Mario fan who is perfecting, along with her robot assistant Beep-O, a visor able to fuse two objects into one. One Rabbid finds said visor and uses it to create Rabbid Peach, Rabbid Mario and other Rabbids fused with objects. It also causes the Time Washing Machine to malfunction, sending Beep-O and the Rabbids to the Mushroom Kingdom.

Meanwhile, Mario, Luigi, Yoshi, Toadette, Toad and Peach are inaugurating a new Peach statue. Suddenly, a vortex is formed and sucks Mario and the others in.

In the place reached through the vortex, Mario travels to Princess Peach's Castle to find a giant vortex floating above it. Soon after this discovery, Rabbids and other objects begin flying out of it. Mario himself meets two of them, namely Rabbid Peach and Rabbid Luigi, and with the help of Beep-O and of weapons produced by some Rabbids, they start investigating what happened while fighting some Rabbids who attack them.

In the Ancient Gardens they meet at a certain point Luigi and a Rabbid with peculiar goggles who are both scared by a Piranha Plant with which a white Rabbid is playing. Due to the fear, the goggled Rabbid ends up fusing the white Rabbid with the Piranha Plant, creating the Pirabbid Plant. Mario's team successfully defeats the Plant and restore both the Piranha Plant and the white Rabbid to their original selves. Seeing this, Luigi joins their team. Meanwhile, Beep-O notices that the vortex that took the Rabbids to the Mushroom Kingdom has grown in size.

Bowser Jr. has observed what happened with the Pirabbid Plant and, when Mario's team meet the goggled Rabbid and scares him, takes the chance to befriend him, naming him Spawny. With the intent of using Spawny's powers to take over the Mushroom Kingdom while his father is on vacation, Junior flies away with him on his Junior Clown Car, while Mario's team must face Rabbid Kong.

The team is eventually also joined by Rabbid Mario, Princess Peach, Rabbid Yoshi, then Yoshi in that order.

Gameplay
The game is estimated to be composed of 35% exploration elements and 65% turn-based combat. A multiplayer, local co-op mode has also been confirmed. The combat is weapon-based, with the weapons resembling guns.

The exploration aspect of the gameplay is controlled by Beep-O, a new character to be introduced. There will be seven enemy archetypes, and one mid-boss and boss per world; there are a total of four world environments.

Enemies

 * Rabbid Kong
 * Pirabbid Plant
 * Phantom of the Bwahpera
 * Hoppers
 * A Rabbid wearing green accessories
 * A Rabbid wearing purple accessories
 * A Rabbid wearing brown accessories
 * A Rabbid with torn clothes and eyes that light up
 * An enemy, possibly a Rabbid, with dark-colored clothes and a pumpkin head
 * A Rabbid with glowing eyes that wears armor
 * A giant Rabbid wearing wrestler clothing that attacks by slamming a purple block
 * Chain Chomp
 * Bowser Jr.
 * Spawny

Other characters

 * Beep-O
 * Toad
 * Toadette
 * Boos

Characters with unspecified roles

 * Goomba

Items and objects

 * Blue Coins
 * Brick Blocks
 * Coins
 * Giant Brick Blocks
 * Red Coins
 * Red Rings
 * Warp Pipes with Rabbid ears and teeth which function similarly to Clear Pipes.

Weapons
There are various weapons in the game, organized in nine categories: Blaster, Melee, Precision, Sentry, Rumblebang, Rocket, Boomshot, Grenaduck and Bworb. Each character can equip both a primary and secondary weapon, both of which pertain to specific classes.

Worlds

 * Ancient Gardens
 * Spooky Trails
 * Sherbet Desert
 * Lava Pits

Add-on content
A season pass of paid add-on content has been announced for Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle. The content is set to be released in three packs, which contain the following:


 * Pack 1 (available at launch): A set of eight "steampunk"-themed weapons with unique statistics.
 * Pack 2 (released between 22 September and 21 December 2017): Additional solo and co-op challenge levels.
 * Pack 3 (released in 2018): A story expansion.