Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games — Page 11
Expert-reviewed Nintendo Switch games, scored out of 10.
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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
Trüberbrook
Adventure gameTrüberbrook is the best-looking point-and-click adventure of the last decade and one of the least satisfying — a ten-hour walk through hand-built mini...Mixed6.1Kill It With Fire
Action gameCasey Donnellan's spider-hunting sandbox is a one-joke game that tells its one joke well — a tight, physics-drunk few hours whose design is genuinely ...Good7.1Please, Fix The Road
Simulation gameA solo-developed puzzler with a genuinely distinct idea — rebuilding the world itself rather than just placing tiles — undermined by an uneven difficu...Mixed6.2Bad End Theater
Adventure gameNomnomNami turned the visual novel inside out and found a puzzle box underneath. Bad End Theater is a couple of hours of compressed, cruel, funny ...Great8.6Sunshine Shuffle
Casual gameStrange Scaffold's houseboat card night wraps a small, sharp, genuinely moving script around a poker engine that never rises above functional. The wri...Mixed6.0Nidhogg 2
Action gameMesshof built a sharper, deeper duel than the 2014 original — then dressed it in a fleshy hand-drawn grotesquerie that half its audience actively rese...Mixed6.5Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom
Action gameA fan project that outgrew its own fandom, Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom understands its ancestor well enough to argue with it — a handsome, mech...Good7.8ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game
Adventure gameATOM RPG is the most faithful successor to Fallout 1 and 2 that anyone has managed in a quarter-century — a dense, funny, genuinely nonlinear Sovi...Mixed6.8
Pupperazzi
Action gameSundae Month built one of the most disarming worlds in indie games and then bolted a job to it. When Pupperazzi lets you wander and shoot, it's magic;...Mixed6.0Old Skies
Adventure gameWadjet Eye's most ambitious game is a well-written, strongly acted anthology of New York history that occasionally forgets its own premise — the time ...Good7.5Blade Chimera
Action gameA demon-sword that rebuilds what time destroyed gives this Metroidvania one of the genre's sharper ideas, wrapped in pixel art worth the asking price....Good7.4Lunistice
Action gameFor five dollars, A Grumpy Fox delivers a 3D platformer with a momentum system most bigger-budget games in the genre don't bother with. The first run ...Good7.7Mika and the Witch's Mountain
Action gameMika and the Witch's Mountain has one of the most genuinely joyful flight systems in the cozy-game space, wrapped in a few hours of fetch quests that ...Mixed6.1Monster Hunter Rise
Action gameRise is the most fluid, least hostile Monster Hunter yet — a real mechanical reinvention wrapped around a base game that runs out of teeth early. Buy ...Great8.0Tin Hearts
Adventure gameRogue Sun has built one of the most tactile, gorgeously imagined puzzle boxes in years — a Victorian workshop where you engineer the path instead of c...Mixed6.8The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter
Action gameFalcom took the most intimidating on-ramp in modern JRPGs and rebuilt it into a genuinely welcoming entry point — a two-decade-old script preserved al...Great8.5Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time
RPG gameLEVEL-5 spent the better part of a decade building a game about doing chores, and the result is a solid, unusually moreish RPG on Switch and Steam. Th...Good7.5Cronos: The New Dawn
Action gameBloober Team's first original game in years is a claustrophobic, brutalist survival horror built around a genuinely fresh combat idea. It's solid rath...Good7.3Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound
Action gameThe Game Kitchen has done something most retro revivals only pretend to do — it rebuilt an NES classic's feel instead of its frustrations. Ragebound...Great8.2Time Flies
Adventure gameA hand-drawn housefly sim that turns a system setting into an existential gut-punch — Time Flies is a sharp two hours of indie design, and its bre...Good7.2Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley
Adventure gameA gorgeous, quietly pointed little adventure about vandalizing municipal infrastructure with a folk instrument — and one of the few "cozy" games with ...Good7.3Blue Wednesday
Adventure gameBuff Studio has written one of the most honest games about creative burnout around, wrapped it in a genuinely excellent original jazz score, and then ...Mixed6.8Mediterranea Inferno
Adventure gameMediterranea Inferno is a stylistically confident visual novel from the Italian indie scene — a gorgeous, mean, three-hour bender about friendship cur...Great8.0Iron Meat
Action gameIron Meat is a well-built run-and-gun that understands the difference between honoring a genre and photocopying it, and its difficulty system is a gen...Good7.8
