Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games — Page 3
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
Wavetale
Adventure gameWavetale's water traversal is genuinely special, but the combat, puzzles and checklist busywork around that movement are shallow, and the campaign is ...Mixed6.1Ibb & Obb
Action gameIbb & Obb is a co-op puzzle platformer built so completely around two people that playing it alone barely counts as playing it. It is short and punish...Good7.5Leo's Fortune
Action gameLeo's Fortune is a beautifully made physics platformer that holds up better than most of its 2014 mobile peers: tightly tuned, complete, and free of m...Good7.7Fallout Shelter
RPG gameFallout Shelter's early hours are a sharp, funny management sim, but the vault eventually runs itself and the game turns into timer-watching and chore...Mixed6.8Kraken Academy!!
Adventure gameHappy Broccoli Games built a sharp, funny time-loop mystery on top of a cast odd enough to carry it. It is short and its objectives are sometimes mudd...Good7.1Wheels of Aurelia
Adventure gameWheels of Aurelia is a stylish, politically ambitious piece of interactive fiction set on a 1978 coastal road, but the car barely matters and the piec...Mixed5.8Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty!
Action gameJust Add Water's remake of Abe's Oddysee keeps the satire of industrial greed landing as hard as it did in 1997, and quicksave finally makes the game ...Good7.3SteamWorld Build
Simulation gameSteamWorld Build is too gentle for its own good. The link between its frontier town and the mine beneath it is a real design idea, but the game hands ...Mixed6.5
Tormented Souls
Action gameTormented Souls brings back fixed-camera survival horror with care and very little irony. Its puzzles are smart and its dread is earned, but the clunk...Good7.0Fading Afternoon
Action gameSolo developer yeo has made a 2D Yakuza about running out of time, and it earns its mood. Its combat and its terminal-illness clock work together we...Good7.1Here Comes Niko!
Action gameHere Comes Niko! is a short, generous 3D collect-a-thon about being kind to strangers, and it doesn't punish you for being bad at jumping. We recommen...Good7.3Hoa
Action gameHoa is gorgeous and nearly frictionless, but its puzzles never develop past their first idea and its floaty movement keeps the core verb from ever fee...Mixed6.3The Stillness of the Wind
Memory of God, Lambic StudiosThe Stillness of the Wind is hard to recommend for most people: it is slow on purpose, thin as a farming game, and over in a few hours. For players wh...Mixed6.1Mineko's Night Market
Meowza GamesMineko's Night Market buries a charming, culturally rich cozy sim under tedious pre-market grinding and minigames that wear out fast, and technical ...Mixed6.0Pirates Outlaws
Card gamePirates Outlaws leans so heavily on Slay the Spire's skeleton that its own identity rests almost entirely on one idea, and harsh difficulty spikes can...Mixed6.8Sagebrush
Adventure gameA short, carefully researched walk through the ruins of a doomsday cult that earns its discomfort honestly. Expect about two hours of reading and list...Good7.0Lost Words: Beyond the Page
Sketchbook Developments, Fourth State, Sketchbook GamesRhianna Pratchett's script and David Housden's score make Lost Words an emotionally honest short game about loss. The word-based puzzles are clever ...Good7.1Mars Horizon
Auroch DigitalMars Horizon gets the bureaucratic thrill of the space race right, but its turn-based mission minigame wears thin and the long road to Mars turns into...Mixed6.2Please, Don't Touch Anything
Puzzle gameA clever one-room puzzle game that turns a single forbidden button into about 25 endings, most of them darkly funny. It rewards patience and a notepad...Good7.0Etherborn
Altered MatterEtherborn is hard to recommend to most people: its puzzles lose their bite once the central mechanic clicks, and the philosophical narration is vague ...Mixed6.0Strange Telephone
Adventure gameStrange Telephone takes one excellent idea, a six-digit number that always produces the same world, and builds a short, unsettling pixel-art mystery a...Mixed6.4Heretic's Fork
9FingerGamesHeretic's Fork turns Hell's HR department into a genuinely clever hybrid of deckbuilding, horde survival and tower defence. Card combos that grow unti...Good7.3Bread & Fred
SandCastles StudioBread & Fred ties two players together in a rage-climber, and the rope is a genuinely clever idea — but brutal fall penalties, a weak solo mode and la...Mixed6.4ÖOO
NamaTakahashi, tiny cactus studio, TsuyomiÖoo removes the jump button, the genre's most basic verb, and replaces it with a body made of explosives. It is one of the smartest puzzle platformers...Outstanding9.4
