
Happy Game
Amanita Design
Amanita Design weaponizes its own cuteness in a two-hour nightmare that's more art installation than puzzle box. It's short, it's simple, and it will ...

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
Nintendo
Nine years after its Wii U debut, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe remains the most polished, complete, and mechanically honest kart racer ever shipped. It's not j...

Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass
Kasey Ozymy
A solo-developed, Earthbound-descended RPG that hides one of the genre's most devastating emotional payloads behind goofy jokes and a brilliant transf...

Rakuen
Laura Shigihara
Rakuen is a masterclass in narrative design disguised as a humble RPG Maker adventure — a hospital story that trades combat for compassion and lands h...

RiME
Tequila Works, QLOC
RiME is a gorgeous, gentle puzzle adventure whose final hour recontextualizes everything before it — a trick few games attempt and fewer land. The puz...

Snake Pass
Sumo Digital
Snake Pass is the rare 3D platformer with a genuinely original locomotion idea, executed with charm and conviction. Its physics-first controls will de...

Outlanders
Pomelo Games
Pomelo Games has quietly built one of the most approachable strategy games of the decade — a mission-based town builder where letting go of control is...

Battle Chef Brigade
Trinket Studios
Battle Chef Brigade fuses brawler combat and match-three puzzling into a cooking-tournament loop that has no business working this well. A short campa...

inbento
Afterburn
inbento is a near-perfect bite of a puzzle game — gorgeous, gentle, and quietly clever — that ends too soon and now hides its mobile version behind a ...

Pilgrims
Amanita Design
Pilgrims compresses Amanita Design's twenty years of hand-drawn whimsy into a two-hour, card-driven adventure that respects experimentation over corre...

Potionomics
Voracious Games
Potionomics smuggles a genuinely sharp deck-builder inside a pastel shopkeeping fantasy, and the Masterwork Edition sands off the original's most puni...

Expelled!
inkle Ltd
inkle has bottled the chaos of a living, gossiping social simulation into taut 40-minute runs — and the result is one of the smartest detective games ...

Lost Ember
Mooneye Studios
Lost Ember is a gorgeous, gentle five-hour meditation on loss and loyalty whose body-hopping mechanic is more sightseeing gimmick than systemic depth ...

Golf Story
Sidebar Games
Golf Story takes a premise that shouldn't work — a golf RPG made by two people — and turns it into one of the Switch's most charming early exclusives....

Ghost of a Tale
SeithCG
A near-solo passion project that out-crafts studios fifty times its size, Ghost of a Tale wraps genuinely tense stealth in one of the most lovingly de...

Rytmos
Floppy Club
Rytmos turns maze-solving into music-making with a confidence few rhythm hybrids ever manage, and its world-music curriculum is genuinely enriching. A...

Root
Dire Wolf
Root is a superb digital adaptation of one of the decade's most demanding board games — patient, polished, and honest about its source material's brut...

SUMMERHOUSE
Friedemann
SUMMERHOUSE is a tiny, gorgeous building toy that asks nothing of you and gives back more than games fifty times its price. It runs out of pieces befo...

Leap Year
Daniel Linssen
Leap Year weaponizes fragility — a fall of more than a few pixels kills you — and turns that single rule into one of the smartest knowledge-based metr...

Railbound
Afterburn
Railbound is one of the most elegantly designed puzzle games of the past few years — a track-routing brainteaser that's cozy on the surface and quietl...