Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games — Page 13
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
Vernal Edge
Action gameHello Penguin Team built a genuinely thrilling air-juggle fighting game and then buried it inside a Metroidvania that keeps losing players on the map....Mixed6.4American Arcadia
Adventure gameOut of the Blue's two-hander is a narrative puzzle game where the structure is the argument — a 1970s dystopia told in TV cuts between the man being...Good7.4TEVI
Action gameTEVI is one of the more mechanically ambitious metroidvanias in recent memory and one of the more exhausting — a sharp fusion of melee combo fighting ...Good7.7Hob
Action gameHob's world-transformation mechanic — solving puzzles that physically rebuild the terrain underfoot — remains one of the most inventive ideas in level...Good7.3Risk of Rain Returns
Action gameHopoo Games went back to its 2013 debut and rebuilt it with the confidence of a studio that spent a decade learning what it got wrong — then had the d...Good7.7Squeakross: Home Squeak Home
Casual gameAlblune took the most mechanically pure puzzle genre in games and bolted a dollhouse to it — and the dollhouse is what makes the puzzles matter. It's ...Good7.8Shinobi: Art of Vengeance
Action gameLizardcube has taken a stiff, punishing arcade relic and rebuilt it as a fluid, gorgeous 2D action game with a genuinely smart combat economy — one th...Good7.9Everdeep Aurora
Adventure gameNautilus Games has built a descent platformer that strips out combat, quest logs, and objective markers, then dares players to enjoy the disorientatio...Good7.2
Tempopo
Casual gameWitch Beam has built a programming puzzler that runs on rhythm instead of logic gates — tactile, generous, and well-crafted, but a system with a ceili...Good7.5Donkey Kong Bananza
NintendoNintendo EPD spent a decade teaching players to read level geometry, then built a game where you can delete it. Donkey Kong Bananza is a genuinely...Great8.7Street Fighter 6
Action gameStreet Fighter 6 is a well-built, genuinely welcoming fighting game that fixes most of what sank Street Fighter V — but its aggressive monetization ...Good7.7Alina of the Arena
Strategy gameBy dragging Slay the Spire's card math onto a hex grid, PINIX built a deckbuilder where standing in the wrong tile kills you faster than a bad draw ...Good7.8Demonschool
RPG gameDemonschool builds a genuinely new tactical combat system and wraps it in striking 2D art direction — then attaches it to a social-sim calendar that n...Good7.3Infernax
Action gameBerzerk Studio built a loving forgery of a 1988 NES cartridge, then quietly fixed everything that made those cartridges miserable. Infernax is mea...Good7.7Death's Gambit: Afterlife
Action gameWhite Rabbit's 2D Souls-like is a generous redemption arc — a free expansion that transformed a middling 2018 release into a sprawling, boss-heavy pac...Mixed6.9Lake
Adventure gameGamious built a genuinely adult narrative game about a woman deciding what her life is for, then wrapped it in a mail-delivery loop that runs far long...Mixed6.0Tiny Terry's Turbo Trip
Adventure gamesnekflat has built a confidently designed small open world — a dense, funny, endlessly climbable seaside town that rewards stray impulses. It ends soo...Good7.3Mask of the Rose
RPG gameFailbetter Games built the most genuinely novel relationship system in years and wrapped it around a deduction puzzle that never explains its own rule...Mixed6.1Bleak Sword DX
Action gameBleak Sword DX is a dark fantasy brawler built from pixel-art dioramas and timing windows, and at $9.99 its craft is real — but late chapters that lea...Mixed6.8Tetrobot & Co.
Casual gameSwing Swing Submarine built an entire puzzle game on a single mechanic — swallow a block, spit it out — and wrung a remarkable amount of invention out...Good7.5Arcaea
Music gamelowiro built one of the most mechanically inventive rhythm games on mobile by dragging the genre off its flat plane and into the air, then wrapped it ...Good7.7Bahnsen Knights
Adventure gameLCB Game Studio's third Pixel Pulp is a strikingly written and beautifully illustrated cult thriller — a two-hour paperback pastiche with real confide...Good7.3Ittle Dew 2
Action gameLudosity built a Zelda-like that treats sequence-breaking as a feature instead of a bug, and the dungeon design is sharp enough to mostly earn the arr...Good7.6Nightmare Reaper
Action gameNightmare Reaper takes the most cynical mechanic in modern gaming — randomized loot drops — and welds it onto a 1994-era shotgun rampage, then hides t...Good7.8
