Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games — Page 21
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
CATO: Buttered Cat
Adventure gameA daft internet meme becomes one of the smartest cooperative puzzle-platformers in recent memory. Team Woll builds an entire mechanical language aroun...Great8.1Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo
Action gamePocket Trap took a childhood toy, bolted it to a Zelda skeleton, and invented a subgenre worth naming. "Yoyovania" isn't a marketing gimmick — it's on...Great8.2Until Then
Adventure gamePolychroma Games has built an emotionally precise narrative adventure—a game that disguises a devastating meditation on grief as a cozy after-school h...Great8.7Coromon
Adventure gameCoromon isn't content to cosplay as a Game Boy Advance-era Pokémon clone—it interrogates the genre's oldest habits and fixes several of them. A stamin...Good7.4Bio Prototype
Emprom GameBio Prototype is a survivors-like that treats its player like an engineer instead of a slot machine—a grotesque node-editor disguised as a bullet-hell...Good7.2Rune Factory 4 Special
RPG gameA remaster that wears its 3DS origins on its sleeve, and underneath the dated polygons is a densely interconnected action-RPG and life-sim that reward...Good7.7Creaks
Adventure gameAmanita Design steps away from its point-and-click roots for a hand-painted puzzle-platformer built on one genuinely clever idea—monsters that freeze ...Good7.5Sally Face
Adventure gamePortable Moose's five-episode occult mystery is an emotionally punishing story told through a game whose puzzle design works against it nearly as ofte...Good7.4
Shadowrun: Dragonfall
Adventure gameDragonfall is the rare tactical RPG where the writing hits as hard as the shotguns. It remains one of the sharpest cyberpunk stories in the genre, hel...Great8.5Unavowed
Adventure gameWadjet Eye Games has delivered one of the smartest point-and-click adventures in years—a party-based, choice-driven urban fantasy that treats you like...Great8.5Valiant Hearts: The Great War
Adventure gameA gorgeous, gut-wrenching illustrated elegy for the men and women ground up by World War I. The puzzles are featherweight, but the storytelling hits l...Great8.0Murder by Numbers
Adventure gameA clever mashup of Ace Attorney courtroom theater and Picross puzzling with a sharp buddy-comedy script and a standout soundtrack—but the two halves i...Mixed6.6Silt
Adventure gameSilt is a gorgeous nightmare — a monochrome plunge into the deep that nails atmosphere and dread better than almost anything in its genre, but floaty ...Mixed6.6Niche - a genetics survival game
Education appA clever strategy game that smuggles a college-level genetics course inside a pack of huggable creatures — strongest on PC, rougher on consoles, and u...Good7.6Spirittea
Adventure gameSpirittea's spirit bathhouse fantasy and clever management loop are genuinely appealing, but thin tutorials, finicky controls, and rough UI polish hol...Mixed6.3Yuppie Psycho
Adventure gameA surreal survival-horror with a sharp satirical streak that turns corporate dread into genuine tension, held back by a save system that punishes curi...Good7.7Prodeus
Action gameProdeus is a nostalgia act that earns most of its swagger—a blistering, gore-soaked shooter that borrows Doom's DNA and Quake's tempo, then wraps them...Good7.7Bugsnax
Action gameA deceptively adorable creature-collector that smuggles a surprisingly mature story about grief, obsession, and belonging past its candy-colored exter...Good7.3Patapon
Action gameA faithful HD revival of two rhythm-strategy cult classics that finally addresses the latency problems of earlier ports — but a grind-heavy loop, a ba...Mixed6.5Aviary Attorney
Adventure gameA courtroom drama that dresses 19th-century French satire in a bird costume and mostly makes it sing. The mechanics are lighter than the Ace Attorney ...Good7.2Beholder
Adventure gameA morally corrosive spy simulator that turns snooping into gut-wrenching arithmetic — oppressive, ambitious, and at times so punishing it forgets to l...Good7.1Alisa
Action gameAlisa is a love letter to 1998 written in the fluent, deliberately clumsy dialect of tank controls and fixed cameras—a survival horror throwback so co...Good7.1Loco Motive
Robust GamesRobust Games has built something rare in modern gaming—a nostalgia act with actual jokes. Loco Motive is a sharp, well-animated point-and-click mu...Good7.67 Days to End with You
Adventure gameA puzzle game that turns translation itself into an emotional gut-punch — clever, brief, and held back by its own repetition. Worth a look for the rig...Good7.7
