Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games — Page 2
Expert-reviewed Nintendo Switch games, scored out of 10.
- Reviewed
- 277
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
System Shock 2
Action gameTwenty-five years on, the Von Braun remains one of the most intelligently designed haunted houses in games, and Nightdive's KEX rebuild finally makes ...Good7.9Black Book
Adventure gameBlack Book is a deck-building RPG whose cards are incantations drawn from 19th-century Ural folk charms, wrapped in a grief story with teeth. The co...Good7.3Brok the InvestiGator
Action gameA sharply drawn noir adventure that lets you solve every problem with your brain or your fists, built around a story about grief and fatherhood that e...Good7.8Ashen
Action gameAshen's passive drop-in co-op is the best structural idea the souls-like genre has produced in a decade, but mushy combat, a hostile camera, and a tec...Mixed6.0Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes
Action gameHard to recommend for most people: a Suikoden successor with a genuinely brilliant recruitment loop, undermined by unskippable battle animations, heav...Mixed6.3Aground
Adventure gameFor a crafting RPG that keeps quietly changing genres — survival scavenging to dragon husbandry to orbital logistics — Aground earns its payoffs throu...Good7.1Hogwarts Legacy
Action gameAvalanche Software built the most convincing videogame recreation of a fictional place in years, then padded it out with busywork and hung a forgettab...Good7.2The Witch's House MV
Adventure gameFummy's 2012 cult classic returns with sharper pixels, better sound, and — crucially — a retry button that repairs the legendarily sadistic horror gam...Good7.0
Dragon Quest Builders 2
Action gameSquare Enix took the one thing Minecraft never had — a reason to build — and wrapped a lengthy, genuinely good RPG around it. The opening hours will t...Good7.6Hand of Fate 2
Action gameHand of Fate 2 pairs a genuinely clever card-table structure and a superbly written Dealer with real-time combat that never earns the screen time it d...Good7.3Underhero
Adventure gameUnderhero has one genuinely clever structural idea — turn-based combat with the turns ripped out — and some of the sharpest comic writing in the indie...Mixed6.9Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance
Adventure gameAtlus took a mechanically sharp, narratively hollow JRPG and gave it the story it always deserved, plus a proper PC port. Newcomers should buy it with...Great8.2Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth – Complete Edition
RPG gameA mechanically serious creature-raiser with a darker, smarter story than the license suggests, held back by a bare port and a second campaign that rec...Good7.2Mortal Shell
Action gameA short, sharp Soulslike built around one mechanic worth the price of entry, wrapped in a world that runs out of ideas well before the credits. Harden...Mixed6.5Mandragora: Whispers of the Witch Tree
Action gameA gorgeous 2.5D soulslike padded well past what its content can carry. The art, score and writing are genuinely excellent, but recycled enemies, a blo...Mixed6.4Rebel Galaxy Outlaw
Action gameDouble Damage built the most convincing space-western dive bar ever put in a video game, then wrapped it in a mission generator that runs dry early. T...Mixed6.0Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales
Adventure gameA political RPG built on a card game, with real writing and real consequences — but the battles go easy on Gwent veterans and the mobile release fumbl...Good7.3The Falconeer
Action gameThe Falconeer's flight model and world are the work of real authorial confidence, but the missions wrapped around them are filler, and the story burie...Mixed6.4Legend of Keepers: Career of a Dungeon Manager
RPG gameA clever inversion of the dungeon crawl that turns evil into a middle-management job — sharp, funny, and mechanically tight early on, until its shallo...Good7.0Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition
Adventure gameTwenty-five years on, BioWare's 2000 classic remains one of the deepest, cruelest, most rewarding party RPGs ever shipped — and Beamdog's remaster is ...Great8.6Nowhere Prophet
Card gameNowhere Prophet's punishing attrition and thin early-run power curve will strand plenty of players in the first biome, and that undercuts one of the m...Mixed6.4Dungeon Munchies
Action gameA cooking-based progression system gives this side-scrolling action RPG a real idea to build around, even if clumsy platforming and a rushed final act...Good7.8Wolfstride
Action gameA striking monochrome mecha RPG whose art, score and writing outclass its thin exploration and grindy mid-game, and whose mobile versions are compromi...Mixed6.6Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven
RPG gameA 31-year-old cult oddity rebuilt in 3D without being sanded down, this is a remake that modernizes the interface instead of the ideas — and one of th...Good7.5
