Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games — Page 14
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
Sunderfolk
RPG gameSunderfolk turns four phones into four character sheets and, in doing so, builds a genuinely convincing digital board game night. It's strong with fri...Good7.8Ozymandias: Bronze Age Empire Sim
Board gameOzymandias strips the 4X genre down to its load-bearing walls and delivers a complete rise-and-fall arc in under an hour — a smart piece of design tha...Good7.4Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
Action gameMachineGames took the most famous silhouette in adventure cinema and hid it behind your own eyes — and made the character more present, not less. Th...Good7.9Sid Meier's Civilization VII
Simulation gameFiraxis built the boldest structural rethink in the series' 35-year history, then shipped it wrapped in an interface that actively fights you and an e...Mixed6.0Yes, Your Grace
Adventure gameA brutally honest little kingdom sim that understands something most strategy games refuse to admit — governing is mostly deciding which of your peopl...Good7.8ScourgeBringer
Action gameScourgeBringer strips the action-roguelite down to one idea — attack or die — and executes it with a discipline most of its peers never reach. It's sh...Good7.5Heavenly Bodies
Action game2pt Interactive built an entire game around the radical idea that arms are hard to use, and made it one of the most tactile, funny, and quietly beauti...Good7.5Timelie
Adventure gameUrnique Studio built a stealth game where you don't react — you author. Timelie's scrubbable timeline is a genuinely new mechanic, understood by its...Good7.8
The Swindle
Action gameThe Swindle has one of the sharpest risk/reward loops in the roguelike canon, bolted onto platforming controls that can't carry the weight. When the d...Mixed5.9Jotun: Valhalla Edition
Action gameThunder Lotus's hand-drawn Norse epic is one of the most beautiful indie games ever animated, and one of the thinnest to actually play. At $14.99, it'...Mixed6.1Fire Emblem: Three Houses
NintendoThree Houses welds a genuinely excellent tactical RPG to a school-management sim that has no business working as well as it does — and then asks you t...Great8.5Urban Myth Dissolution Center
Adventure gameUrban Myth Dissolution Center is a strikingly original occult adventure with real writing chops, held back by deduction puzzles that never bite. Solid...Good7.3Promise Mascot Agency
Adventure gameKaizen Game Works has built a strange, affecting crime drama about the emotional labor of running a small business, wrapped in a floaty open world tha...Good7.4Mina the Hollower
Action gameYacht Club Games spent seven years proving it could do something other than Shovel Knight, and the answer is a gorgeous, mean, mechanically inventive ...Great8.5TowerFall Ascension
Action gameTowerFall Ascension is one of the sharpest local multiplayer designs of the indie era — lean, readable, and built so that every loss makes sense. Its ...Great8.3SnowRunner
Adventure gameSnowRunner turns getting stuck in the mud into one of gaming's most absorbing loops — a physics showcase with genuine patience-testing depth. We recom...Good7.7Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age
Adventure gameDragon Quest XI S is a "definitive edition" that largely earns the label — a sprawling, warm-hearted, 100-plus-hour JRPG that trades innovation for cr...Great8.5Detention
Adventure gameRed Candle Games turns Taiwan's White Terror into a quietly devastating horror game built on meaning rather than monsters. It's short, mechanically si...Great8.2Thimbleweed Park
Adventure gameRon Gilbert and Gary Winnick built a time machine, and it works. Thimbleweed Park is a sharp, well-produced classic point-and-click adventure — provid...Good7.9Duck Game
Action gameA decade on, Duck Game is still the couch multiplayer game to beat — a physics-drunk, one-hit-kill arena brawler whose 50+ weapons turn every 15-secon...Great8.6Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
Action gameAsteroid Base built a co-op machine that turns communication breakdown into comedy and teamwork into genuine delight. A decade on, it remains a stando...Good7.4Grounded
Action gameA shrunken-backyard survival game with real mechanical depth and an actual ending, Grounded earns a clear recommendation — with the mid-game grind and...Great8.2Headliner: NoviNews
Adventure gameHeadliner: NoviNews is a two-hour morality machine about who controls the news, and its brevity is both its sharpest design decision and its most legi...Good7.1Road 96
Action gameRoad 96's shuffled-scene structure is a genuinely novel idea, and its cast is unforgettable — but featherweight mechanics, repetitive runs, and a toot...Mixed6.9
