Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games — Page 2
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
Woodo
Casual gameWoodo is a gentle, well-crafted diorama puzzle game whose tactile placement loop and voiced narration carry it further than its low difficulty does. S...Good7.6Helix: Descent N Ascent
Adventure gameBadass Mongoose's wordless, ink-drawn puzzle-adventure pairs a clever five-ability combination system with a doppelgänger mystery its mechanics actual...Good7.3Sektori
Action gameSektori earns its place among the very best twin-stick shooters ever made — a hypnotic, techno-fueled collision of skill and sound that proves arcade ...Outstanding9.4and Roger
Adventure gameand Roger is one of the most quietly ambitious small games of the year — a one-hour interactive fiction that weaponizes bad UX on purpose, and in do...Great8.7Escape From Ever After
Adventure gameEscape From Ever After takes the Paper Mario blueprint and staples it to a sharp corporate satire, and the writing mostly earns the pairing. Fussy par...Good7.4Orbitals
ShapefarmShapefarm's Orbitals is a lean, disciplined co-op puzzle game built entirely around two people talking to each other. Its story never earns the emot...Good7.3Denshattack!
Action gameUndercoders took the Tony Hawk combo loop, bolted it to a passenger train, and made the absurd feel plausible. The story is paper-thin and the opening...Good7.9Exographer
Action gameExographer is an educational game that never feels like homework. It's a handsome, thoughtful Metroidvania where the physics puzzles hold up the who...Good7.3
Schrödinger's Call
Adventure gameFew games ask so little of the hands and so much of the attention. Schrödinger's Call turns active listening into its core mechanic and earns nearly...Great8.4Wax Heads
Adventure gameWax Heads turns the record store recommendation into a smart deduction puzzle and wraps it in sharp writing and a deep fictional catalog. Its weakness...Good7.8Love Eternal
Adventure gamebrlka's debut is a ruthless, striking gravity-flip platformer wrapped in a story that reaches further than it can always grasp, and at $7.99 that over...Good7.1Riverbond
Action gameHard to recommend for most people: Riverbond's combat repeats long before its short campaign ends, it's too easy to challenge anyone experienced, and ...Mixed5.9Sail Forth
Action gameSail Forth's wind-driven sailing model is the real thing — tuned, readable and rewarding — but the combat, bosses and errand-style quests built around...Mixed6.5Kami 2
Board gameKAMI 2 turns a worn-out color-flood premise into a quiet argument with yourself, and mostly wins it. The core design is solid and the mobile version i...Good7.5Cookie Clicker
Simulation gameFew games can claim to have founded a genre and still hold their place in it, but Cookie Clicker comes close. It's a lean, funny, surprisingly deep ec...Great8.3Long Live the Queen
RPG gameA small, cruel, clever sim that treats failure as the lesson plan. For players willing to die repeatedly to learn what the court wants, it's a rewardi...Good7.5Haven Park
Adventure gameHaven Park is charming and well-made but very short and shallow, and it leans heavily on A Short Hike without matching it. At $3.59 it's a pleasant ...Mixed6.6Lone Ruin
Action gameLone Ruin has a fast, tight spellcasting loop and pixel art that makes a strong first impression, but thin content, uneven build balance and almost no...Mixed5.8Fire Emblem Engage
Intelligent SystemsFire Emblem Engage has some of the sharpest, most mechanically inventive combat Intelligent Systems has ever built, and a story that rarely deserves i...Good7.5Shape of the World
Casual gameHard to recommend for most people: Shape of the World is a gorgeous, pressure-free walk through a world that grows around you, but there is very littl...Mixed5.9Heave Ho
Adventure gameHeave Ho turns two floppy arms and a bottomless pit into a genuinely funny, chaotic couch co-op design. It's short, punishing late on, and thin alone,...Good7.2RUINER
Action gameRUINER's top-down combat is aggressive, fast and well-tuned, wrapped in a striking blood-red cyberpunk look. The fights carry the game; the story, the...Good7.2Strange Antiquities
Adventure gameBad Viking's occult shopkeeping sequel turns the act of looking closely into the entire game, and it is richer and more demanding than Strange Horticu...Good7.4Devil May Cry 5
Action gameCapcom's 2019 comeback remains a high-water mark for character-action combat: three distinct fighting systems, each deep enough to carry its own game....Great8.6
