Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games — Page 4
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
Hell is Us
Action gameRogue Factor built a genuinely unnerving world and then removed every crutch modern games use to guide you through it — no map, no compass, no quest m...Good7.1Grand Mountain Adventure
Adventure gameThree snowboarding brothers built a skiing game with an honest physics model and a top-down camera nobody else uses. That camera can hide the terrain ...Good7.7Eternal Threads
Adventure gameEternal Threads' ripple-effect timeline — a hundred small decisions deciding who lives — is one of the more original narrative systems in years, but i...Mixed6.4Moonglow Bay
Adventure gameMoonglow Bay has one of the most emotionally honest premises in the cozy genre — a voxel story about grief, debt, and small-town decline, scored by Le...Mixed5.9A Case of Distrust
Adventure gameA Case of Distrust is a handsome, well-written noir that ends before it earns its own ending — a Saul Bass mood piece with a Phoenix Wright deduction ...Mixed6.5Lone Survivor
Action gameA flashlight, a cassette hiss, and a bag of rotten meat do more work here than most big-budget horror manages with a photogrammetry rig. It's an unset...Good7.6System Shock 2
Action gameTwenty-five years on, the Von Braun remains one of the most intelligently designed haunted houses in games, and Nightdive's KEX rebuild finally makes ...Good7.9Beyond Good & Evil – 20th Anniversary Edition
Action gameFor $19.99, Ubisoft has given a long-overlooked action-adventure a careful visual and audio polish plus quality-of-life fixes that matter more than th...Good7.1
Black Book
Adventure gameBlack Book is a deck-building RPG whose cards are incantations drawn from 19th-century Ural folk charms, wrapped in a grief story with teeth. The co...Good7.3Brok the InvestiGator
Action gameA sharply drawn noir adventure that lets you solve every problem with your brain or your fists, built around a story about grief and fatherhood that e...Good7.8Ashen
Action gameAshen's passive drop-in co-op is the best structural idea the souls-like genre has produced in a decade, but mushy combat, a hostile camera, and a tec...Mixed6.0Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes
Action gameHard to recommend for most people: a Suikoden successor with a genuinely brilliant recruitment loop, undermined by unskippable battle animations, heav...Mixed6.3Killer Frequency
Adventure gameA horror game built around a microphone instead of a shotgun, Killer Frequency's gimmick — talking terrified strangers through a slasher's night while...Good7.2Gibbon: Beyond the Trees
Action gameBroken Rules built an entire game around one verb — swinging — and the verb works; almost everything around it is thinner. Gibbon's hour-long campaign...Mixed6.8The Mortuary Assistant
Adventure gameMake the player do a real job, then let something climb into it — that's the trick, and it works more often than not. The Mortuary Assistant is an...Good7.4BEAUTIFUL DESOLATION
Adventure gameTHE BROTHERHOOD built one of the most striking science-fiction worlds of the decade and then buried the path through it under fetch quests and pixel-h...Mixed6.4Souldiers
Action gameSouldiers is a gorgeous, overstuffed metroidvania undermined by difficulty spikes, repetitive dungeons, and a runtime that sprawls past its ideas. Agg...Mixed6.0Mio: Memories in Orbit
Action gameDouze Dixièmes has built a metroidvania map worth memorizing, then paired it with a sword that takes far too long to feel like a weapon. The explorati...Good7.2Rue Valley
Adventure gameRue Valley has the bones of a great psychological RPG — a razor-sharp 47-minute time loop, a genuinely clever character-building system, and art worth...Mixed5.9Aground
Adventure gameFor a crafting RPG that keeps quietly changing genres — survival scavenging to dragon husbandry to orbital logistics — Aground earns its payoffs throu...Good7.1Hogwarts Legacy
Action gameAvalanche Software built the most convincing videogame recreation of a fictional place in years, then padded it out with busywork and hung a forgettab...Good7.2The Witch's House MV
Adventure gameFummy's 2012 cult classic returns with sharper pixels, better sound, and — crucially — a retry button that repairs the legendarily sadistic horror gam...Good7.0Dragon Quest Builders 2
Action gameSquare Enix took the one thing Minecraft never had — a reason to build — and wrapped a lengthy, genuinely good RPG around it. The opening hours will t...Good7.6Sumire
Adventure gameSumire's watercolor art and writing on grief land hard, but imprecise quest timing, invisible walls, and loose 3D movement undercut a game whose whole...Mixed6.6
