Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games — Page 17
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
Golf Story
Sidebar GamesGolf Story takes a premise that shouldn't work — a golf RPG made by two people — and makes it charming enough to recommend to the right audience. Its ...Good7.1Ghost of a Tale
Action gameA near-solo passion project from SeithCG, Ghost of a Tale wraps genuinely tense stealth in a lovingly detailed world of anthropomorphic medieval intri...Good7.2Rytmos
Music gameRytmos turns maze-solving into music-making with a clarity few rhythm hybrids manage, and its world-music curriculum is enriching. A shaky iOS port an...Good7.4Root
Board gameRoot is a strong digital adaptation of one of the decade's most demanding board games — patient, polished, and honest about its source material's brut...Good7.7SUMMERHOUSE
Simulation gameSUMMERHOUSE is a small, lovely building toy that asks nothing of you and gives back a fair amount for five dollars. It runs out of pieces before it ru...Good7.3Leap Year
Action gameLeap Year weaponizes fragility — a fall of more than a few pixels kills you — and turns that single rule into one of the smartest knowledge-based metr...Great8.4Railbound
Puzzle gameRailbound is one of the most elegantly designed puzzle games of recent years — a track-routing brainteaser that's cozy on the surface and quietly ruth...Great8.3Storyteller
Adventure gameA clever narrative puzzle box that turns story logic into a drag-and-drop toy — worth $14.99 for puzzle players who want a mechanic they haven't seen ...Good7.6
Haste: Broken Worlds
Action gameLandfall's Haste: Broken Worlds is a disciplined, well-built downhill sprint through the apocalypse where flow state is the whole point. It's short ...Good7.9Varney Lake
Adventure gameVarney Lake is a lean, carefully composed slice of vampire pulp that shows interactive fiction can still feel cinematic. It's short, it's more novella...Good7.1Mothmen 1966
Adventure gameA gorgeous, sharply written pulp-horror visual novel that turns 1980s computer graphics into pure atmosphere — but its thin mechanics, padded minigame...Mixed6.8Monster Train 2
Strategy gameShiny Shoe took a strong roguelike deckbuilder and made it deeper, denser, and more demanding without breaking what worked. Monster Train 2 is a s...Great8.6Is This Seat Taken?
Puzzle gameA featherlight logic puzzler that hides a real emotional payload behind its minimalist charm. It's short, it's gentle, and it never raises its voice —...Good7.4Mixtape
Adventure gameBeethoven & Dinosaur's follow-up to The Artful Escape is a gorgeous, needle-drop-driven ode to the end of adolescence—but it asks players to feel mo...Good7.4Absolum
Action gameAbsolum takes the pixel-perfect brawling of Streets of Rage 4 and welds it to Dead Cells-style roguelite structure — the result is a mechanically ...Great8.0Mr. Sun's Hatbox
Action gameA roguelite that treats slapstick disaster as a design principle, Mr. Sun's Hatbox is an inventive physics sandbox on Steam and Switch—if you can su...Good7.1Refind Self: The Personality Test Game
Adventure gameA quietly clever little RPG that reads your character by watching what you do, not what you say—and the results can land closer to home than any q...Good7.5Squirrel with a Gun
Action gameA physics-comedy sandbox built on one absurd joke — a pistol-packing squirrel — that doesn't quite have the polish to match the premise. The recoil mo...Mixed6.4Freedom Planet 2
Action gameGalaxyTrail took a fan-game's DNA and forged one of the most satisfying momentum-platformers in recent memory — a generous, gorgeous, occasionally ove...Great8.5Where Cards Fall
Adventure gameA gorgeous, wordless meditation on growing up that turns card-stacking into genuine emotion—but its puzzles are so forgiving they rarely earn the "puz...Mixed6.6Grimvalor
Action gameGrimvalor is a sharp, demanding action platformer that treats phones like real gaming hardware—no ads, no microtransactions, no compromises on difficu...Good7.9Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy
Action gameEidos-Montréal's single-player Guardians of the Galaxy adventure is a solid, often funny, occasionally heartfelt take on the licensed game—one built w...Good7.4Overcooked! 2
Action gameA ruthless, riotous co-op cooking sim that turns your living room into a shouting match — and that's high praise. Overcooked! 2 fixes nearly everythin...Great8.5Persona 4 Golden
RPG gameMore than a decade after its Vita debut, Persona 4 Golden still makes an enormous runtime feel like time well spent — a genre-bending JRPG where the f...Outstanding9.3
