Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games — Page 3
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
Potionomics
RPG gamePotionomics smuggles a genuinely sharp deck-builder inside a pastel shopkeeping fantasy, and the Masterwork Edition sands off the original's most puni...Good7.4Root
Board gameRoot is a strong digital adaptation of one of the decade's most demanding board games — patient, polished, and honest about its source material's brut...Good7.7SUMMERHOUSE
Simulation gameSUMMERHOUSE is a small, lovely building toy that asks nothing of you and gives back a fair amount for five dollars. It runs out of pieces before it ru...Good7.3Monster Train 2
Strategy gameShiny Shoe took a strong roguelike deckbuilder and made it deeper, denser, and more demanding without breaking what worked. Monster Train 2 is a s...Great8.6Star Renegades
Action gameA gorgeous, brutally tactical RPG whose enemies actually remember you — Star Renegades pairs one of the smartest combat systems in the genre with a gr...Good7.2Megaquarium
Simulation gameA brainy, unhurried aquarium builder that trades the usual tycoon frenzy for genuine systems mastery — rewarding for a good stretch, but a little too ...Good7.1Tenderfoot Tactics
Adventure gameA gorgeous, brain-bending tactics RPG where the terrain itself is your deadliest weapon and your worst enemy. Ambitious and uncompromising in equal me...Good7.2Two Point Museum
Simulation gameTwo Point Studios' most layered management sim turns curation into a genuine creative act. It borrows heavily from its own back catalog, but the exped...Good7.9
Overland
Strategy gameFinji's post-apocalyptic road roguelike builds remarkable tension and emotional attachment, but its razor-thin tactical depth and occasionally arbitra...Mixed6.3Iris and the Giant
Card gameLouis Rigaud's card-battler about fighting your own depression is emotionally honest and mechanically clever, but the iOS port is a broken promise — t...Good7.1One Step From Eden
Action gameA merciless collision of Slay the Spire and Mega Man Battle Network that asks you to build a deck and dodge a bullet hell at the same time — and mostl...Good7.6Vagrus - The Riven Realms
RPG gameA dense, well-written dark fantasy caravan sim that treats your attention as a resource it has every right to demand. It will bore anyone looking for ...Good7.3Kingdom Rush
Action gameA decade-plus on, Ironhide's fantasy tower defense remains one of the sharpest-designed games in its genre—tight, funny, and built with real care. We ...Great8.7The Wild at Heart
Adventure gameA gorgeous pop-up storybook wrapped around borrowed mechanics, The Wild at Heart nails atmosphere and heart but stumbles on pacing and busywork. It'...Mixed6.5Chroma Squad
RPG gameA wildly inventive love letter to Saturday-morning Tokusatsu that welds studio-management sim to grid tactics — brilliant in concept, but held back by...Mixed6.9Coromon
Adventure gameCoromon isn't content to cosplay as a Game Boy Advance-era Pokémon clone—it interrogates the genre's oldest habits and fixes several of them. A stamin...Good7.4Shadowrun: Dragonfall
Adventure gameDragonfall is the rare tactical RPG where the writing hits as hard as the shotguns. It remains one of the sharpest cyberpunk stories in the genre, hel...Great8.5Niche - a genetics survival game
Education appA clever strategy game that smuggles a college-level genetics course inside a pack of huggable creatures — strongest on PC, rougher on consoles, and u...Good7.6Beholder
Adventure gameA morally corrosive spy simulator that turns snooping into gut-wrenching arithmetic — oppressive, ambitious, and at times so punishing it forgets to l...Good7.1Train Valley 2
Adventure gameTrain Valley 2 trades its predecessor's frantic crash-avoidance for the quiet, obsessive pleasure of building a logistics machine that hums. It's a pu...Good7.8Do Not Feed the Monkeys
Simulation gameA sharp, uncomfortable little machine that turns players into the exact kind of person they'd cross the street to avoid. Its surveillance loop is comp...Good7.6Crystal Project
Adventure gameA one-man love letter to Final Fantasy V that swaps hand-holding for a genuine open world, Crystal Project is an ambitious JRPG with real flaws—provid...Good7.8Slayaway Camp
Puzzle gameA Sokoban puzzler wearing a rubber Halloween mask, Slayaway Camp smuggles genuinely brutal spatial-reasoning challenges inside a gleefully tasteless...Good7.5Roguebook
Adventure gameRoguebook takes the sacred cow of the deckbuilding genre—keep your deck small—and cheerfully slaughters it, delivering a gorgeous, tactically rich rog...Good7.2
