Bowser's Fury is a 2021 bundled in with the release of , titled Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury. The player controls through Lake Lapcat to complete challenges and collect items to dispel a black sludge that is infecting the land and free from its control. Bowser's Fury's gameplay is based on 3D World.
Bowser's Fury is an in which the player, as , completes challenges, collecting "Cat Shines" tokens to free and Lake Lapcat from the controlling black sludge. Its core gameplay is similar to that of the 2013 platform game , while also adopting elements introduced in .
noted the influence of on Bowser's Fury, from its scrappy approach to new concepts to its use of Bowser Jr. and debt to "Shadow Mario" challenges. GameSpot described the concept of Bowser's Fury as having put elements of Super Mario 3D World into the structure of Super Mario Odyssey. The Mario jumps between platforms and obstacles in a environment. Each area of the world features a new gameplay twist. Mario collects bodysuit that grant him special abilities, such as Fire Mario, Tanooki Mario and Boomerang Mario. In each area of Bowser's Fury, Mario collects Cat Shines by completing challenges less than 10 minutes in length, such as traversing platforms or collecting shard fragments of a Shine. There are 100 Shines to collect in the game, and each self-contained area has five, displayed in a lighthouse. After collecting a Shine, the game reconfigures the area's environment to set up the next Shine's challenge. As the player progresses through the game, more areas open to the player. Mario rides the dinosaur to navigate between each island area of the archipelago and to reach Shine challenges throughout the lake's waters, outside the island areas. Unlike other Mario games, all areas of Bowser's Fury are openly accessible without use of a —traditional Mario connected without or boundaries. Also unlike Super Mario 3D World, the player has full, unfixed camera control in Bowser's Fury and is not restricted to a limited number of ""—instead, when Mario dies, the player loses 50 coins from their counter, which gets reset every 100 coins due to granting Mario a power-up.
