Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games — Page 12
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
Mind Over Magnet
Adventure gameMark Brown spent a decade telling developers how to design games; Mind Over Magnet is his proof he was listening to himself. A short, well-taught ...Good7.0Olija
Action gameSkeleton Crew Studio's grimy, striking action-platformer builds one of the best traversal mechanics in recent memory and has the discipline to quit be...Good7.2BioShock Remastered
Action gameNineteen years on, Rapture remains one of the most memorable settings a video game has offered, and this remaster is a solid way to visit it — provide...Good7.8Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island
Adventure gameSerpentcoil Island is a faithful, uncompromising take on the classic roguelike loop — brutal, fair, and endlessly replayable, now portable across ever...Good7.7Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana
Action gameYs VIII takes a 30-year-old series about a red-haired adventurer washing up on beaches and finally builds a whole game around the premise — and castaw...Great8.3Persona 3 Reload
Adventure gameAtlus has rebuilt its most melancholy, most thematically daring RPG with the production values it always deserved — and only a repetitive back half of...Great8.4Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden
RPG gameMutant Year Zero fuses real-time stealth with turn-based tactics in a way no other game quite manages — but a short campaign, a thin endgame, and rigi...Mixed6.6Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap
Action gameLizardcube's hand-drawn resurrection of a 1989 cult classic is a model of how to remake a game — gorgeous, reverent, and honest enough to leave the or...Good7.6
Primordia
Adventure gamePrimordia is a melancholy, sharply written meditation on faith and memory wearing the clothes of a puzzle game — solid but unremarkable in its structu...Good7.8Othercide
Strategy gameOthercide fuses a genuinely inventive initiative system with monochrome art direction so confident it borders on arrogant — then buries both under a r...Good7.1Moonscars
Action gameMoonscars has some of the best-looking swordplay in the 2D souls-like field and a death system that actually means something — but a hard-to-parse map...Mixed6.4Arcade Paradise
Adventure gameNosebleed Interactive built 35 real arcade games and then had the nerve to make you earn them one bin bag at a time — a genuinely clever idea that wor...Good7.3Shady Part of Me
Indie gameA clever light-and-shadow puzzle game with striking watercolor art and a mechanic worth learning. The puzzles thin out before the credits and the ther...Good7.1Garden Story
Adventure gamePicogram's grape-shaped action-RPG is warm, beautifully drawn, and structurally at war with itself — a stamina meter and a day timer that punish the e...Mixed6.2Salt and Sanctuary
Action gameA two-person studio rebuilt Dark Souls on a 2D plane and, improbably, kept almost everything that mattered — the weight, the dread, the map that folds...Great8.2Xenoblade Chronicles 3
MONOLITHSOFTMonolith Soft built a hundred-hour war epic around a genuinely nasty premise — soldiers who die at ten years old — and then had the nerve to make the ...Great8.6Tactics Ogre: Reborn
RPG gameSquare Enix has rebuilt a 1995 landmark into its most complete form — with a re-recorded orchestral score and a script that still has few peers in the...Good7.4Touhou Luna Nights
Action gameTeam Ladybug built a Metroidvania around a time-stop button and then had the discipline to design every room, hazard, and boss pattern to justify it. ...Great8.0Final Fantasy XIV Online
MMO gameSquare Enix rebuilt a catastrophe into one of the most generous and narratively ambitious MMORPGs on the market — then buried the entrance under a ver...Good7.7Paradise Marsh
Action gameA solo-developed mood piece with real writing and a gorgeous score, undermined by a thin loop and procedural terrain that flattens its own atmosphere ...Mixed6.3Lethal League Blaze
Action gameTeam Reptile built a fighting game where nobody punches anybody, and its design produces more genuine panic per minute than almost anything else on th...Good7.8Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus
Action gameBulwark Studios built a turn-based tactics game that punishes caution instead of rewarding it, and dressed it in some of the most atmospheric licensed...Good7.3Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun
Action gameBoltgun's gunplay is the best-feeling of any Warhammer 40,000 shooter in a decade — a pixelated abattoir with real mechanical craft — but sprawling, s...Mixed6.5Chinatown Detective Agency
Adventure gameGeneral Interactive Co. resurrected the one mechanic the adventure genre abandoned thirty years ago — making the player actually learn something — t...Mixed5.9
