Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games — Page 12
Expert-reviewed Nintendo Switch games, scored out of 10.
- Reviewed
- 610
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
Old Man's Journey
Adventure gameA wordless, hand-painted meditation on regret and reconciliation that lands like a short story — affecting, if slight. The puzzles rarely push back, s...Good7.4Hidden Folks
Adventure gameA hand-drawn hidden-object game that ditches the exploitative freemium playbook for patience, craft, and a huge library of sound effects made with a h...Good7.8Reventure
Adventure gameReventure weaponizes failure. It takes the most punishing word in gaming — "you died" — and turns it into a punchline, a progress bar, and a reason to...Good7.6Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight
Action gameCompact, precise, and moody, Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight is a focused action-platformer with combat worth learning and an atmosphere that ca...Good7.8Iconoclasts
Action gameJoakim Sandberg spent the better part of a decade building a Metroidvania that punches above its weight on nearly every front—combat, puzzles, art—and...Good7.4Split Fiction
Action gameHazelight has done it again — Split Fiction is a relentlessly inventive two-player adventure that refuses to reuse a good idea when it could inven...Outstanding9.3Refunct
Adventure gameRefunct is a short, well-crafted first-person platformer built around restoring a dead world one button press at a time. It's over before it overstays...Good7.4Neon Abyss
Action gameNeon Abyss buries players in an avalanche of stackable loot until the screen bleeds bullets and legibility gives up — spectacular, chaotic, and freque...Mixed6.7
Tunche
Action gameTunche is a gorgeous hand-drawn brawler with a killer four-player couch mode, but its roguelite scaffolding is thin, enemy variety runs out fast, and ...Mixed5.9The Wild at Heart
Adventure gameA gorgeous pop-up storybook wrapped around borrowed mechanics, The Wild at Heart nails atmosphere and heart but stumbles on pacing and busywork. It'...Mixed6.5Deliver Us The Moon
Action gameA gorgeous sci-fi mystery with real atmosphere, but puzzles that rarely fight back and timed sequences that mistake frustration for suspense hold it b...Mixed6.6Little Nightmares
Adventure gameLittle Nightmares turns childhood dread into a short, atmospheric puzzle-platformer with real craft and real flaws. Solid, unsettling, and worth it fo...Good7.8Type:Rider
Action appType:Rider is a beautiful, atmospheric history lesson—a striking platformer whose floaty physics never quite live up to the strength of its concept. W...Good7.1Neo Cab
Adventure gameA sharp, empathetic narrative adventure that turns the emotional labor of gig work into its core mechanic. The mystery underwhelms and the ride ends t...Good7.0Where the Water Tastes Like Wine
Adventure gameA landmark of narrative ambition wrapped around a traversal system that actively fights the player — the writing and voice work are among the best the...Mixed6.1BOKURA
Action gameBOKURA turns miscommunication into a puzzle mechanic, building a game that structurally demands two people talking to each other. It's inventive and o...Good7.4Disc Room
Action gameA sharp, clever arcade machine that weaponizes failure into progression—Disc Room turns dying into its most satisfying verb, even if the whole thi...Good7.7Stories Untold
Adventure gameA sharp, atmospheric horror anthology that turns dead technology into a haunted house, Stories Untold is inventive and quietly devastating—held ba...Good7.6CATO: Buttered Cat
Adventure gameA daft internet meme becomes one of the smartest cooperative puzzle-platformers in recent memory. Team Woll builds an entire mechanical language aroun...Great8.1Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo
Action gamePocket Trap took a childhood toy, bolted it to a Zelda skeleton, and invented a subgenre worth naming. "Yoyovania" isn't a marketing gimmick — it's on...Great8.2Until Then
Adventure gamePolychroma Games has built an emotionally precise narrative adventure—a game that disguises a devastating meditation on grief as a cozy after-school h...Great8.7Coromon
Adventure gameCoromon isn't content to cosplay as a Game Boy Advance-era Pokémon clone—it interrogates the genre's oldest habits and fixes several of them. A stamin...Good7.4Creaks
Adventure gameAmanita Design steps away from its point-and-click roots for a hand-painted puzzle-platformer built on one genuinely clever idea—monsters that freeze ...Good7.5Sally Face
Adventure gamePortable Moose's five-episode occult mystery is an emotionally punishing story told through a game whose puzzle design works against it nearly as ofte...Good7.4
