Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games

A decade on, Duck Game remains the gold standard for couch multiplayer — a physics-drunk, one-hit-kill arena brawler whose 50+ weapons turn every 15-s...

Asteroid Base built a co-op machine that turns communication breakdown into comedy and teamwork into genuine delight. A decade on, it remains one of t...

Obsidian took a one-joke premise — *Honey, I Shrunk the Kids* as a survival game — and built one of the most inventive, mechanically confident entries...

Unbound Creations built a two-hour morality machine about who controls the news, and it lands harder than games ten times its length. Buy it, play it ...

Road 96 gambles that a procedurally shuffled road trip can carry real political weight — and mostly wins. Its cast is unforgettable and its structure ...

APICO takes the Forestry-mod DNA of genetics-driven bee breeding, strips out the punishment, and wraps it in a pixel-art conservation story that respe...

Tangledeep is one of the most generous, mechanically dense roguelikes of its generation — a 16-bit dungeon crawler that respects both the genre purist...

6 Eyes Studio built the tactical RPG that Square Enix stopped making twenty years ago, and the class system is genuinely superb — but the story it's b...

A gorgeous, precision-built Metroidvania that trades sprawl for craft — six hours of near-flawless sprite work and a genuinely smart elemental combat ...

SIGONO has built one of the most emotionally precise science-fiction stories the medium has produced this decade, then wrapped it in mechanics that ra...

Paratopic is the most confidently edited horror game of its generation — a 50-minute low-poly fever dream that trusts its audience more than most AAA ...

Nintendo has built the most complete, most generous, most mechanically confident Splatoon ever made — and then wrapped it in netcode and menu friction...

Absolute Drift is a masterclass in focused design — one mechanic, sharpened to a razor's edge, wrapped in stark white minimalism and drum & bass. It w...

Snoozy Kazoo's shredder-happy vegetable crime spree is one of the funniest, tightest small games of its generation — and it ends roughly forty minutes...

ASTLIBRA Revision looks like a shovelware asset flip and plays like the work of a man who spent a decade and a half refusing to let go. Push past the ...

Daisuke "Pixel" Amaya spent seven years after *Cave Story* building something almost aggressively small — a two-hour run-and-gun about a frog extermin...

HAL Laboratory's first fully 3D mainline Kirby is a small miracle of design confidence — inventive, gorgeous, and relentlessly generous — but its main...

Airborne Kingdom builds one of the freshest hooks the city-builder genre has produced in a decade — a metropolis that must physically stay aloft — the...

A Hungarian studio nobody had heard of photographed a bunch of taxidermy-grade animal heads, dropped them into a rain-slicked noir city, and wrote dia...

Silver Lining Studio's painted vignette is one of the most emotionally efficient games of its generation — it earns its ending honestly, and the endin...

Stephen Gillmurphy's nine-episode horror-comedy is the funniest, strangest, most confidently written adventure game in years — and it barely bothers t...

Papetura is the rare game where the medium *is* the argument — every set was physically cut, folded and glued by one person before a camera ever touch...

à la mode games built a survival horror hybrid that snaps between fixed-camera dread and first-person arcade shooting without either half feeling like...

Owlcat has built the most ambitious licensed CRPG in years — a 130-hour interrogation of the Imperium's rot that respects your intelligence and punish...