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
Bury Me, My Love
Adventure gameA wrenching, formally ambitious text-message drama about the Syrian refugee crisis that turns the phone's most familiar interface against complacency....Good7.4Happy Game
Adventure gameAmanita Design weaponizes its own cuteness in a brief nightmare that's more art installation than puzzle box. It's short, it's simple, and it's the ki...Good7.0Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass
RPG gameA solo-developed, Earthbound-descended RPG that hides one of the genre's most devastating emotional payloads behind goofy jokes and an inventive trans...Great8.2Snake Pass
Adventure gameSnake Pass is a 3D platformer with a genuinely original locomotion idea, but a flawed camera, a brief campaign, and controls that filter out a large s...Mixed6.7Battle Chef Brigade
Action gameBattle Chef Brigade fuses brawler combat and match-three puzzling into a cooking-tournament loop that, against the odds, holds together. A short campa...Good7.5inbento
Puzzle gameinbento is a charming, gently clever puzzle game with a genuinely affecting wordless story — but it ends too soon, and its mobile version is now locke...Good7.4Pilgrims
Adventure gamePilgrims compresses Amanita Design's years of hand-drawn whimsy into a brief, card-driven adventure that respects experimentation over correctness. It...Good7.9Potionomics
RPG gamePotionomics smuggles a genuinely sharp deck-builder inside a pastel shopkeeping fantasy, and the Masterwork Edition sands off the original's most puni...Good7.4
Expelled!
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...Good7.2Root
Board gameRoot is a strong digital adaptation of one of the decade's most demanding board games — patient, polished, and honest about its source material's brut...Good7.7SUMMERHOUSE
Simulation gameSUMMERHOUSE is a small, lovely building toy that asks nothing of you and gives back a fair amount for five dollars. It runs out of pieces before it ru...Good7.3Leap 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...Great8.4Railbound
Puzzle gameRailbound is one of the most elegantly designed puzzle games of recent years — a track-routing brainteaser that's cozy on the surface and quietly ruth...Great8.3Haste: 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...Good7.1Mothmen 1966
Adventure gameA gorgeous, sharply written pulp-horror visual novel that turns 1980s computer graphics into pure atmosphere — but its thin mechanics, padded minigame...Mixed6.8Monster Train 2
Strategy gameShiny Shoe took a strong roguelike deckbuilder and made it deeper, denser, and more demanding without breaking what worked. Monster Train 2 is a s...Great8.6Is This Seat Taken?
Puzzle gameA featherlight logic puzzler that hides a real emotional payload behind its minimalist charm. It's short, it's gentle, and it never raises its voice —...Good7.4Mixtape
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 ...Great8.0Mr. Sun's Hatbox
Action gameA roguelite that treats slapstick disaster as a design principle, Mr. Sun's Hatbox is an inventive physics sandbox on Steam and Switch—if you can su...Good7.1Refind 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...Good7.5
