Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games — Page 15
Expert-reviewed Nintendo Switch games, scored out of 10.
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- 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
APICO
Simulation gameAPICO takes the Forestry-mod DNA of genetics-driven bee breeding, strips out the punishment, and wraps it in a pixel-art conservation story that respe...Good7.2Tangledeep
RPG gameTangledeep is a mechanically dense, unusually welcoming roguelike that lowers the genre's barriers without gutting its depth. Its flaws — weak onboard...Good7.2Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark
RPG game6 Eyes Studio built the tactical RPG that Square Enix stopped making twenty years ago, and the class system is genuinely strong — but the story it's b...Good7.2Record of Lodoss War: Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth
Action gameA gorgeous, precision-built Metroidvania that trades sprawl for craft — a short run of near-flawless sprite work and a genuinely smart elemental comba...Good7.4OPUS: Echo of Starsong
Adventure gameSIGONO has built one of the more emotionally precise science-fiction stories the medium has produced this decade, then wrapped it in mechanics that ra...Good7.7Paratopic
Adventure gameParatopic is a confidently edited horror anthology — a roughly 50-minute low-poly fever dream that trusts its audience more than most big-budget thril...Good7.0Splatoon 3
NintendoSplatoon 3 is Nintendo's most complete and mechanically confident Splatoon, wrapped in netcode and menu friction that undercuts it. It's a very good g...Good7.5Absolute Drift
Action gameAbsolute Drift is a study in focused design — one mechanic, sharpened hard, wrapped in stark white minimalism and drum & bass. Its punishing onboardin...Good7.8
Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion
Action gameSnoozy Kazoo's shredder-happy vegetable crime spree is very funny and tightly built, but thin where it counts and over almost as soon as it finds its ...Good7.1ASTLIBRA Revision
Action gameASTLIBRA Revision looks like a shovelware asset flip and plays like the work of a developer who spent well over a decade refusing to let go. Push past...Good7.9Kero Blaster
Action gameSeven years after Cave Story, Daisuke "Pixel" Amaya shipped something almost aggressively small — a two-hour run-and-gun about a frog exterminating ...Good7.7Kirby and the Forgotten Land
HAL LaboratoryHAL Laboratory's first fully 3D mainline Kirby is a confident, inventive and generous design — but its main campaign is so gentle it treats challenge ...Great8.0Airborne Kingdom
Adventure gameAirborne Kingdom builds one of the freshest hooks the city-builder genre has produced in a decade — a metropolis that must physically stay aloft — the...Mixed6.1Chicken Police – Paint it RED!
Action gameA Hungarian studio nobody had heard of photographed a bunch of taxidermy-grade animal heads, dropped them into a rain-slicked noir city, and wrote dia...Good7.5Behind the Frame: The Finest Scenery
Adventure gameSilver Lining Studio's painted vignette is an emotionally efficient game — it earns its ending honestly, and the ending lands. Go in knowing you're bu...Good7.1Anthology of the Killer
Adventure gameStephen Gillmurphy's nine-episode horror-comedy is among the funniest, strangest, most confidently written adventure games in recent memory — and it b...Great8.1Papetura
Adventure gamePapetura is a game where the medium is the argument — every set was physically cut, folded and glued by one person before a camera ever touched it, ...Good7.7Sorry We're Closed
Action gameà la mode games built a survival horror hybrid that snaps between fixed-camera dread and first-person arcade shooting without either half feeling like...Great8.0Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader
Action gameOwlcat's Rogue Trader is an ambitious licensed CRPG — a long interrogation of the Imperium's rot that respects your intelligence and punishes your pat...Good7.8UNBEATABLE
Adventure gameUNBEATABLE takes the most restrictive input scheme in the rhythm genre and builds one of its most expressive games on top of it. The story mode is bri...Great8.1Skate Story
Action gameSkate Story takes a genre defined by physics and repetition and turns it into something devotional. It's not the deepest skater on the market, but it'...Great8.3Metroid Dread
NintendoMetroid Dread is a lean, mean, occasionally merciless 2D action game that justifies the 19-year wait for a proper Fusion sequel. It's short and it's f...Great8.5Toki Tori 2+
Adventure gameToki Tori 2+ strips the puzzle-platformer down to two verbs — whistle and stomp — and builds one of the genre's most quietly radical designs on top of...Good7.3Toodee and Topdee
Action gameA solo-developed puzzle-platformer built on one genuinely original idea — toggling between a 2D platformer and a top-down puzzler in the same level — ...Good7.6
