Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games — Page 10
Expert-reviewed Nintendo Switch games, scored out of 10.
- Reviewed
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Top rated on Nintendo Switch
- 01IkarugaIkaruga builds enormous complexity out of one binary mechanic and demands absolute cognitive presence, proving that mec…9.7Outstanding
- 02Persona 5 RoyalPersona 5 Royal refines an already exceptional JRPG to an unassailable standard, blending deep social simulation with s…9.7Outstanding
- 03UndertaleUndertale is a foundational critique of the RPG genre itself, one that weaponizes player choice to deliver an unforgett…9.7Outstanding
Pilgrims
Adventure gamePilgrims compresses Amanita Design's years of hand-drawn whimsy into a brief, card-driven adventure that respects experimentation over correctness. It...Good7.9Expelled!
Adventure gameinkle 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 ...Great8.2Lost Ember
Action gameLost Ember is a handsome, gentle five-hour meditation on loss and loyalty whose body-hopping mechanic is more sightseeing gimmick than systemic depth....Mixed6.3Ghost of a Tale
Action gameA near-solo passion project from SeithCG, Ghost of a Tale wraps genuinely tense stealth in a lovingly detailed world of anthropomorphic medieval intri...Good7.2Leap Year
Action gameLeap 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...Great8.4Storyteller
Adventure gameA clever narrative puzzle box that turns story logic into a drag-and-drop toy — worth $14.99 for puzzle players who want a mechanic they haven't seen ...Good7.6Haste: Broken Worlds
Action gameLandfall's Haste: Broken Worlds is a disciplined, well-built downhill sprint through the apocalypse where flow state is the whole point. It's short ...Good7.9Varney Lake
Adventure gameVarney Lake is a lean, carefully composed slice of vampire pulp that shows interactive fiction can still feel cinematic. It's short, it's more novella...Good7.1
Mothmen 1966
Adventure gameA gorgeous, sharply written pulp-horror visual novel that turns 1980s computer graphics into pure atmosphere — but its thin mechanics, padded minigame...Mixed6.8Mixtape
Adventure gameBeethoven & Dinosaur's follow-up to The Artful Escape is a gorgeous, needle-drop-driven ode to the end of adolescence—but it asks players to feel mo...Good7.4Absolum
Action gameAbsolum takes the pixel-perfect brawling of Streets of Rage 4 and welds it to Dead Cells-style roguelite structure — the result is a mechanically ...Great8.0Refind Self: The Personality Test Game
Adventure gameA quietly clever little RPG that reads your character by watching what you do, not what you say—and the results can land closer to home than any q...Good7.5Squirrel with a Gun
Action gameA physics-comedy sandbox built on one absurd joke — a pistol-packing squirrel — that doesn't quite have the polish to match the premise. The recoil mo...Mixed6.4Freedom Planet 2
Action gameGalaxyTrail took a fan-game's DNA and forged one of the most satisfying momentum-platformers in recent memory — a generous, gorgeous, occasionally ove...Great8.5Where Cards Fall
Adventure gameA gorgeous, wordless meditation on growing up that turns card-stacking into genuine emotion—but its puzzles are so forgiving they rarely earn the "puz...Mixed6.6Grimvalor
Action gameGrimvalor is a sharp, demanding action platformer that treats phones like real gaming hardware—no ads, no microtransactions, no compromises on difficu...Good7.9Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy
Action gameEidos-Montréal's single-player Guardians of the Galaxy adventure is a solid, often funny, occasionally heartfelt take on the licensed game—one built w...Good7.4Batman: Arkham City
Action gameMore than a decade on, Rocksteady's open-world Gotham remains the measure for what a licensed game can be — a brawler with real teeth, a stealth sandb...Outstanding9.4A Plague Tale: Requiem
Action gameAsobo Studio's follow-up to Innocence is a striking, emotionally ambitious piece of interactive theater that doesn't always live up to its own ideas...Good7.5Death Road to Canada
Action gameA savage, hilarious, endlessly replayable roguelike that turns permadeath into a punchline and a punishment in equal measure. Rough edges and brutal R...Good7.7Broken Age
Adventure gameDouble Fine's crowdfunded passion project is one of the most gorgeous point-and-click adventures ever animated, buoyed by a razor-sharp voice cast and...Mixed6.5Broforce
Action gameBroforce is a gleeful, self-aware ode to '80s action cinema built on a genuinely impressive destructible sandbox — a chaotic, co-op-first blast whose ...Good7.7Ball x Pit
Action gameBall x Pit fuses Breakout, Vampire Survivors and a city-builder into a roguelite with real skill expression and a deep build-crafting hook. A grindy l...Great8.2Herdling
Adventure gameOkomotive trades the sci-fi melancholy of FAR for windswept mountaintops and a herd of fuzzy companions, delivering a wordless, achingly pretty pilg...Good7.4
