Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games — Page 22
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
Moonlighter
Action gameDigital Sun built a game around a genuinely fresh idea—run a shop by day, raid a dungeon by night—and executed it with enough craft and charm that its...Good7.2Framed
Adventure gameLoveshack Entertainment turned the humble comic panel into a control scheme, and the result is a striking, brief puzzle game that's easy to admire and...Good7.9Steve Jackson's Sorcery!
Adventure gameinkle didn't just port a stack of dusty 1980s paperbacks to your phone—it rebuilt them into one of the smartest, most quietly ambitious pieces of inte...Great8.5Train Valley 2
Adventure gameTrain Valley 2 trades its predecessor's frantic crash-avoidance for the quiet, obsessive pleasure of building a logistics machine that hums. It's a pu...Good7.8Holedown
Action gameA ruthlessly polished brick-breaker that trades the genre's mindless tapping for genuine geometry, Holedown is a satisfying premium puzzle game—short ...Great8.1Golf Peaks
Puzzle gameGolf Peaks strips golf down to a deck of cards and a grid, and the result is a calm, clever puzzler with a clear identity. It's short and occasionally...Good7.6Subsurface Circular
Adventure gameBithell Games turns the humble text adventure into a taut two-hour sci-fi noir that trusts its writing above all else — a small, sharp game that says ...Good7.3Labyrinth City: Pierre the Maze Detective
Adventure gameA gorgeous, hand-drawn love letter to the Where's Waldo era whose maze puzzles barely qualify as puzzles. Beautiful to look at and genuinely relaxin...Mixed6.6
Fran Bow
Adventure gameFran Bow is a hand-painted descent into grief and mental illness that earns its horror through emotional honesty rather than cheap scares — a solid,...Good7.9Wylde Flowers
Adventure gameWylde Flowers is a cozy sim that treats its story as the main crop, not the fertilizer. The farming is thinner than genre royalty, but a fully voice-a...Good7.4Do Not Feed the Monkeys
Simulation gameA sharp, uncomfortable little machine that turns players into the exact kind of person they'd cross the street to avoid. Its surveillance loop is comp...Good7.6Aeterna Noctis
Action gameAeterna Noctis is a gorgeous, sprawling, and mercilessly demanding Metroidvania whose 16-region ambition often outruns its pacing. Its inventive trave...Mixed6.3Crystal Project
Adventure gameA one-man love letter to Final Fantasy V that swaps hand-holding for a genuine open world, Crystal Project is an ambitious JRPG with real flaws—provid...Good7.8Slayaway Camp
Puzzle gameA Sokoban puzzler wearing a rubber Halloween mask, Slayaway Camp smuggles genuinely brutal spatial-reasoning challenges inside a gleefully tasteless...Good7.5Ib
Adventure gameKouri's remake of Ib takes a beloved 2012 RPG Maker cult classic and rebuilds it into something sharper, prettier, and quietly devastating—proof tha...Great8.5Islets
Action gameIslets takes the most tired chore in the Metroidvania playbook—backtracking—and turns it into a literal act of world-building. It's cozy without bei...Good7.9Lone Fungus
Action gameLone Fungus is an ambitious solo-developed Metroidvania with a genuinely deep movement kit and inventive combat, held back by baggy pacing and an unev...Good7.4The Sexy Brutale
Adventure gameA murder mystery you solve by watching, not fighting, with striking art direction and a standout jazz soundtrack. It's short, occasionally cryptic, an...Good7.5Roguebook
Adventure gameRoguebook takes the sacred cow of the deckbuilding genre—keep your deck small—and cheerfully slaughters it, delivering a gorgeous, tactically rich rog...Good7.2Curse of the Dead Gods
Action gameCurse of the Dead Gods delivers some of the most tactile, punishing combat in the roguelite genre — but its refusal to let you break the rules caps it...Mixed6.7Lair of the Clockwork God
Action gameSize Five Games' hybrid is both a very funny comedy and a sharp structural critique of modern game design. By forcing point-and-click adventure and ki...Great8.3Shadows Over Loathing
Adventure gameA witty, mechanically inventive RPG that proves stick figures and deadpan humor can carry a sprawling, highly replayable cosmic horror mystery — recom...Great8.3Gordian Quest
Adventure gameGordian Quest is a genuinely ambitious hybrid of deckbuilding and tactical grid combat that occasionally buckles under the weight of its own mechanica...Good7.3Autonauts
Simulation gameAutonauts turns complex systems engineering into a charming, stress-free sandbox built around visual programming. It's a solid, clever design, though ...Good7.3
