Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games — Page 26
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
DUSK
Action gameDUSK is a visceral first-person shooter that stands among the strongest of the retro-inspired 'boomer shooter' revival, with fluid combat and oppressi...Great8.7A Space for the Unbound
Adventure game"A Space for the Unbound" pairs charming pixel art with a poignant exploration of youth, loss, and mental anguish, making it a narrative adventure wel...Great8.8Nine Sols
Action gameRed Candle Games delivers a visually striking, mechanically demanding 2D action-platformer with a distinct "Taopunk" identity, but its ambitions are t...Good7.2Another Crab's Treasure
Action gameAggro Crab's Another Crab's Treasure navigates the treacherous waters of the soulslike genre with real skill, offering a legitimately challenging ex...Great8.7La-Mulana 2
Action gameLa-Mulana 2 is a carefully built digital artifact, a brutalist monument to old-school exploration and unforgiving logic, demanding intellectual fortit...Great8.6Slime Rancher
Action gameMonomi Park's Slime Rancher offers a compelling, almost meditative loop of exploration and resource management, proving that engaging gameplay doesn...Great8.6Terratech
Action gameFew vehicle-building sandboxes make construction this approachable. TerraTech's salvage-driven economy gives every bolted-on part a job, and that desi...Good7.4Trombone Champ
Casual gameHoly Wow's Trombone Champ is a hilarious deconstruction of musical performance that demands both technical ineptitude and genuine skill, wrapped i...Great8.6
Lil Guardsman
Adventure gameLil Guardsman blends sharp wit with weighty decisions, delivering a narrative deduction puzzle that is genuinely funny and surprisingly profound. ...Great8.3Pizza Tower
Action gamePizza Tower is a high-octane platformer built around a charge-and-dash moveset that turns each level into a speed line, delivering a frenetic, deepl...Outstanding9.0West of Loathing
Adventure game"West of Loathing" is a comedic RPG that marries stick-figure aesthetics with a rich vein of clever writing and genuine player agency. It earns a stro...Great8.7Rain World
Action gameRain World is an uncompromising, emergent ecological simulation that demands patience, adaptation, and a high tolerance for systemic cruelty — a clear...Great8.7The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
Adventure gameA haunting, patient mystery that earns its atmosphere through observation and reconstruction, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is easy to recommend to ...Great8.3Besiege
Simulation gameBesiege offers a rich sandbox for destructive engineering, a physics-driven playground that frustrates and rewards in equal measure with its creativ...Great8.6Cult of The Lamb
Action gameMassive Monster's "Cult of the Lamb" offers a wickedly compelling fusion of roguelike dungeon-crawling and cult-management simulation — a distinctive,...Great8.4Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles
Card gameAstrea: Six-Sided Oracles rethinks the roguelike deck-builder by swapping cards for a volatile, deeply strategic dice-based combat system. It's a ge...Great8.5The Red Strings Club
Adventure gameThe Red Strings Club is a standout in narrative design, using clever gameplay mechanics as a vessel for a powerful, intimate story about what it means...Great8.9Thomas Was Alone
Indie gameThomas Was Alone is a quietly brilliant piece of design, turning a simple puzzle-platformer into a genuinely moving story about friendship and purpose...Great8.9Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You
Adventure gameOrwell turns the player into a cog in the surveillance state, delivering a chilling interactive narrative that interrogates the nature of truth in the...Great8.5Spiritfarer
Adventure gameSpiritfarer wraps a competent resource-management game around a profound, unflinching narrative about death. It's a beautiful, poignant journey with r...Great8.7FRACTER
Adventure gameA striking monochrome puzzler whose light-and-shadow mechanics are sharper than the story wrapped around them. At $6.99 it's a handsome curiosity, but...Mixed6.1OneShot
Adventure gameOneShot reaches out of its game window and makes the person at the keyboard a character in the story. Some of its puzzles are clumsy and the pace drag...Great8.5The Longing
Adventure gameThe Longing is a fascinating, maddening experiment that weaponizes boredom to ask real questions about time, purpose, and loneliness. It's less a game...Good7.3Sunless Sea
Adventure gameSunless Sea is a superb work of interactive fiction and atmospheric horror, yoked to a serviceable but underwhelming combat system. It's a richly rewa...Great8.1
