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
Suikoden I & II HD Remaster
RPG gameTwo of the PlayStation era's most respected JRPGs arrive intact, with the rough edges sanded and little else changed. Suikoden II still tells one ...Good7.6Card-en-Ciel
RPG gameInti Creates took Mega Man Battle Network's grid, welded it to a Slay the Spire-shaped run structure, and then buried the whole thing under 300 voiced...Good7.8The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
RPG gameFifteen years and countless re-releases later, Skyrim remains the most confident open-world RPG ever shipped — a game whose freedom still embarrasses ...Outstanding9.4Cosmic Star Heroine
RPG gameCosmic Star Heroine is what happens when veteran genre nerds strip the 16-bit RPG down to its best ideas and throw out much of the rest. The combat sy...Good7.2Final 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...Great8.4Barony
Action gameBarony is a gleefully hostile throwback that fuses Ultima Underworld's cryptic depth with couch co-op chaos — and a decade of free updates has made it...Good7.4Timespinner
Action gameTimespinner is a faithful Symphony of the Night homage with a genuinely affecting story and a time-stop mechanic with real teeth — but it's short, eas...Mixed6.5Fantasian Neo Dimension
RPG gameHironobu Sakaguchi built a world of hand-crafted dioramas and then buried it inside Apple Arcade for three years. Neo Dimension is the rescue miss...Good7.3
ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game
Adventure gameATOM RPG is the most faithful successor to Fallout 1 and 2 that anyone has managed in a quarter-century — a dense, funny, genuinely nonlinear Sovi...Mixed6.8The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter
Action gameFalcom took the most intimidating on-ramp in modern JRPGs and rebuilt it into a genuinely welcoming entry point — a two-decade-old script preserved al...Great8.5Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time
RPG gameLEVEL-5 spent the better part of a decade building a game about doing chores, and the result is a solid, unusually moreish RPG on Switch and Steam. Th...Good7.5Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley
Adventure gameA gorgeous, quietly pointed little adventure about vandalizing municipal infrastructure with a folk instrument — and one of the few "cozy" games with ...Good7.3BioShock Remastered
Action gameNineteen years on, Rapture remains one of the most memorable settings a video game has offered, and this remaster is a solid way to visit it — provide...Good7.8Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island
Adventure gameSerpentcoil Island is a faithful, uncompromising take on the classic roguelike loop — brutal, fair, and endlessly replayable, now portable across ever...Good7.7Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana
Action gameYs VIII takes a 30-year-old series about a red-haired adventurer washing up on beaches and finally builds a whole game around the premise — and castaw...Great8.3Persona 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...Mixed6.6Primordia
Adventure gamePrimordia is a melancholy, sharply written meditation on faith and memory wearing the clothes of a puzzle game — solid but unremarkable in its structu...Good7.8Garden Story
Adventure gamePicogram's grape-shaped action-RPG is warm, beautifully drawn, and structurally at war with itself — a stamina meter and a day timer that punish the e...Mixed6.2Salt and Sanctuary
Action gameA two-person studio rebuilt Dark Souls on a 2D plane and, improbably, kept almost everything that mattered — the weight, the dread, the map that folds...Great8.2Tactics 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...Good7.4Final Fantasy XIV Online
MMO gameSquare Enix rebuilt a catastrophe into one of the most generous and narratively ambitious MMORPGs on the market — then buried the entrance under a ver...Good7.7Demonschool
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...Good7.3Infernax
Action gameBerzerk Studio built a loving forgery of a 1988 NES cartridge, then quietly fixed everything that made those cartridges miserable. Infernax is mea...Good7.7
