Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games — Page 2
Expert-reviewed Nintendo Switch games, scored out of 10.
- Reviewed
- 158
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
Kaiju Wars
Strategy gameKaiju Wars has one of the sharpest ideas in recent turn-based strategy — you never kill the monster, only delay it — but long missions, a punishing di...Mixed6.9Wolfstride
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...Mixed6.6Windjammers 2
Sports gameWindjammers 2 is a mechanically sharp two-player duel with the readable depth of a fighting game and little of the execution tax — but thin solo conte...Good7.4Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles
RPG gameSquare Enix has given one of the most literate, mechanically dense tactical RPGs ever made a remaster it deserved — voiced, redrawn, and respectful of...Great8.4Tropico 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...Good7.1Freshly 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 ...Good7.3Persona 3 Reload
Adventure gameAtlus has rebuilt its most melancholy, most thematically daring RPG with the production values it always deserved — and only a repetitive back half of...Great8.4Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden
RPG gameMutant Year Zero fuses real-time stealth with turn-based tactics in a way no other game quite manages — but a short campaign, a thin endgame, and rigi...Mixed6.6
Othercide
Strategy gameOthercide fuses a genuinely inventive initiative system with monochrome art direction so confident it borders on arrogant — then buries both under a r...Good7.1Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus
Action gameBulwark Studios built a turn-based tactics game that punishes caution instead of rewarding it, and dressed it in some of the most atmospheric licensed...Good7.3Alina of the Arena
Strategy gameBy dragging Slay the Spire's card math onto a hex grid, PINIX built a deckbuilder where standing in the wrong tile kills you faster than a bad draw ...Good7.8Demonschool
RPG gameDemonschool builds a genuinely new tactical combat system and wraps it in striking 2D art direction — then attaches it to a social-sim calendar that n...Good7.3Sunderfolk
RPG gameSunderfolk turns four phones into four character sheets and, in doing so, builds a genuinely convincing digital board game night. It's strong with fri...Good7.8Ozymandias: 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...Good7.8Timelie
Adventure gameUrnique Studio built a stealth game where you don't react — you author. Timelie's scrubbable timeline is a genuinely new mechanic, understood by its...Good7.8Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark
RPG game6 Eyes Studio built the tactical RPG that Square Enix stopped making twenty years ago, and the class system is genuinely strong — but the story it's b...Good7.2Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader
Action gameOwlcat's Rogue Trader is an ambitious licensed CRPG — a long interrogation of the Imperium's rot that respects your intelligence and punishes your pat...Good7.8The Jackbox Party Pack
Family gameThe original Jackbox Party Pack solved a problem the industry had ignored for decades — getting non-gamers to play — with one brilliant stroke: a brow...Mixed6.9PlateUp!
Action gamePlateUp! takes the Overcooked formula, bolts on a roguelite spine and a genuinely deep automation sandbox, and ends up as one of the smartest co-op co...Great8.3Desta: The Memories Between
Action gameustwo's tactics-roguelite about grief is one of the most emotionally honest games in the genre, wrapped around a physics-based dodgeball system that's...Mixed6.7Ring of Pain
Strategy gameRing of Pain takes one structural idea — the dungeon as a rotating ring of cards — and builds a tense, mechanically rigorous roguelike around it. RNG ...Good7.6Outlanders
Simulation gamePomelo Games has built one of the more approachable strategy games around — a mission-based town builder where letting go of control is the whole poin...Good7.2
