Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games — Page 2
Expert-reviewed Nintendo Switch games, scored out of 10.
- Reviewed
- 169
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
Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3?!
Action gameCook, Serve, Delicious! 3?! is a demanding, content-heavy action game priced like an indie title — a hundred-hour typing test disguised as a restauran...Good7.7LEGO Bricktales
Adventure gameAfter two decades of LEGO games where "building" meant holding a button while bricks assembled themselves, ClockStone made one where every brick gets ...Mixed6.9Rebel 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...Mixed6.0The 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...Mixed6.4Moving Out
Action gameMoving Out has a great slapstick premise and the best Assist Mode in its genre, but a short campaign, a hollow solo mode, and no online play cap who...Mixed6.5Game Dev Story
Simulation gameGame Dev Story remains a tightly built business sim with a genuinely funny premise, and the core loop still holds up. But it has barely changed since ...Good7.4Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown
Action gameAce Combat 7: Skies Unknown is a solid, often inspired arcade flight combat game built around clouds that actually matter. A muddled story and thin mu...Good7.3Tropico 6
Simulation gameTropico 6 is a mechanically generous city builder — an archipelago-spanning dictator sim with real political teeth and a wicked sense of humor. It's h...Good7.1
Hitman: World of Assassination
Action gameNearly a decade of the finest sandbox stealth ever made, bundled into one package and playable on everything from a gaming rig to an iPhone. The alway...Outstanding9.4Freshly Frosted
Puzzle gameFreshly Frosted takes the automation genre's spreadsheet-brain appeal, strips out every ounce of stress, and frosts what's left in pastel. It's short ...Good7.3The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy
Adventure gameA monstrously large, genuinely strange visual novel with a competent tactics game bolted to its side — and a rare case where "100 endings" is a struct...Good7.8Kill It With Fire
Action gameCasey Donnellan's spider-hunting sandbox is a one-joke game that tells its one joke well — a tight, physics-drunk few hours whose design is genuinely ...Good7.1Please, Fix The Road
Simulation gameA solo-developed puzzler with a genuinely distinct idea — rebuilding the world itself rather than just placing tiles — undermined by an uneven difficu...Mixed6.2Bad End Theater
Adventure gameNomnomNami turned the visual novel inside out and found a puzzle box underneath. Bad End Theater is a couple of hours of compressed, cruel, funny ...Great8.6Blue Wednesday
Adventure gameBuff Studio has written one of the most honest games about creative burnout around, wrapped it in a genuinely excellent original jazz score, and then ...Mixed6.8Arcade Paradise
Adventure gameNosebleed Interactive built 35 real arcade games and then had the nerve to make you earn them one bin bag at a time — a genuinely clever idea that wor...Good7.3Tactics Ogre: Reborn
RPG gameSquare Enix has rebuilt a 1995 landmark into its most complete form — with a re-recorded orchestral score and a script that still has few peers in the...Good7.4Ozymandias: Bronze Age Empire Sim
Board gameOzymandias strips the 4X genre down to its load-bearing walls and delivers a complete rise-and-fall arc in under an hour — a smart piece of design tha...Good7.4Sid Meier's Civilization VII
Simulation gameFiraxis built the boldest structural rethink in the series' 35-year history, then shipped it wrapped in an interface that actively fights you and an e...Mixed6.0Yes, Your Grace
Adventure gameA brutally honest little kingdom sim that understands something most strategy games refuse to admit — governing is mostly deciding which of your peopl...Good7.8Heavenly Bodies
Action game2pt Interactive built an entire game around the radical idea that arms are hard to use, and made it one of the most tactile, funny, and quietly beauti...Good7.5Promise Mascot Agency
Adventure gameKaizen Game Works has built a strange, affecting crime drama about the emotional labor of running a small business, wrapped in a floaty open world tha...Good7.4SnowRunner
Adventure gameSnowRunner turns getting stuck in the mud into one of gaming's most absorbing loops — a physics showcase with genuine patience-testing depth. We recom...Good7.7Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
Action gameAsteroid Base built a co-op machine that turns communication breakdown into comedy and teamwork into genuine delight. A decade on, it remains a stando...Good7.4
