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
The 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...Mixed6.9LEGO Builder's Journey
Adventure gameA gorgeous, wordless meditation on play and parenthood that treats LEGO bricks with more reverence than any licensed blockbuster — but at $19.99 for r...Mixed6.5PlateUp!
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...Mixed6.7Happy Game
Adventure gameAmanita Design weaponizes its own cuteness in a brief nightmare that's more art installation than puzzle box. It's short, it's simple, and it's the ki...Good7.0Snake Pass
Adventure gameSnake Pass is a 3D platformer with a genuinely original locomotion idea, but a flawed camera, a brief campaign, and controls that filter out a large s...Mixed6.7inbento
Puzzle gameinbento is a charming, gently clever puzzle game with a genuinely affecting wordless story — but it ends too soon, and its mobile version is now locke...Good7.4Pilgrims
Adventure gamePilgrims compresses Amanita Design's years of hand-drawn whimsy into a brief, card-driven adventure that respects experimentation over correctness. It...Good7.9
Rytmos
Music gameRytmos turns maze-solving into music-making with a clarity few rhythm hybrids manage, and its world-music curriculum is enriching. A shaky iOS port an...Good7.4SUMMERHOUSE
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...Good7.3Railbound
Puzzle gameRailbound is one of the most elegantly designed puzzle games of recent years — a track-routing brainteaser that's cozy on the surface and quietly ruth...Great8.3Is This Seat Taken?
Puzzle gameA featherlight logic puzzler that hides a real emotional payload behind its minimalist charm. It's short, it's gentle, and it never raises its voice —...Good7.4Refind Self: The Personality Test Game
Adventure gameA quietly clever little RPG that reads your character by watching what you do, not what you say—and the results can land closer to home than any q...Good7.5Overcooked! 2
Action gameA ruthless, riotous co-op cooking sim that turns your living room into a shouting match — and that's high praise. Overcooked! 2 fixes nearly everythin...Great8.5Broken Age
Adventure gameDouble Fine's crowdfunded passion project is one of the most gorgeous point-and-click adventures ever animated, buoyed by a razor-sharp voice cast and...Mixed6.5Tomb of the Mask
Action gameA ruthlessly efficient arcade climber that turns a single swipe into a compulsion loop few mobile games can match. On Switch it's a tidy, ad-free pack...Good7.1Broforce
Action gameBroforce is a gleeful, self-aware ode to '80s action cinema built on a genuinely impressive destructible sandbox — a chaotic, co-op-first blast whose ...Good7.7Ball x Pit
Action gameBall x Pit fuses Breakout, Vampire Survivors and a city-builder into a roguelite with real skill expression and a deep build-crafting hook. A grindy l...Great8.2Herdling
Adventure gameOkomotive trades the sci-fi melancholy of FAR for windswept mountaintops and a herd of fuzzy companions, delivering a wordless, achingly pretty pilg...Good7.4Megaquarium
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 ...Good7.1Carto
Adventure gameCarto turns cartography into its core verb, and the result is one of the more inventive puzzle ideas in recent memory—wrapped in a cozy, handsome pack...Good7.6Bear and Breakfast
Adventure gameA disarmingly clever management sim that hides a surprisingly tangled mystery beneath its impossibly cozy fur — but a genuinely fiddly interface and a...Mixed6.7Wide Ocean Big Jacket
Simulation gameA sharp, well-observed 90-minute story about growing up that trades puzzles and combat for unusually believable dialogue. If "wandering and reading" c...Good7.4Two 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
