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
INMOST
Adventure gameFor all its polish, INMOST is a solid but uneven package: a three-to-five hour pixel-art story with real emotional weight, held back by stiff combat a...Good7.4Circuit Superstars
Action gameCircuit Superstars looks like a coffee-table toy and is built to drive like a proper racing sim, and that gap is the whole point — a deep handling mod...Good7.1Skullgirls 2nd Encore
Action gameFourteen hand-drawn fighters, a custom assist system nobody else has copied, and rollback netcode that arrived years before the genre caught up — Skul...Great8.3SIMULACRA
Adventure gameSIMULACRA weaponizes the most intimate object you own, turning a stranger's lock screen into an unnerving detective story — and it stumbles when it re...Good7.4Penko Park
Adventure gameGhostbutter's on-rails photo safari is a small, strange, solid little thing — a few hours spent in a haunted wildlife park where poking the scenery is...Good7.4Creature in the Well
Action gameFlight School Studio welded a pinball table to a dungeon crawler, and the weld holds. The idea is strong, the art is better, and the game runs out of ...Good7.0Induction
Indie gameInduction takes one genuinely new idea, cooperating with a recording of yourself until the recording starts depending on you, and builds fifty-odd wor...Good7.2Grand 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 ...Good7.7
Eternal 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...Mixed6.4No Umbrellas Allowed
Simulation gameA second-hand shop sim with the soul of a noir novel — its appraise-haggle-resell loop is one of the tensest economies in the genre, and it's kneecapp...Good7.1Tharsis
RPG gameTharsis has a genuinely original central idea — your crew are the dice — wrapped around a difficulty curve so pitiless it will drive off most of its...Mixed6.0Moonglow 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...Good7.6Black 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...Good7.8Forgive Me Father
Action gameA gorgeous, mean-spirited boomer shooter that weaponizes its own art style — and then runs out of ideas about two hours before the credits. Hard to re...Mixed6.6Eiyuden 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...Mixed6.3Going Under
Action gameAggro Crab's satirical roguelite lands its jokes harder than its punches — a sharp, genuinely funny skewering of startup culture whose improvised comb...Good7.3Killer 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...Mixed6.4GALAK-Z: The Dimensional
Action gameGALAK-Z's inertial flight model remains one of the best 2D space combat has seen, but Rogue Mode's permadeath and a shallow procedural generator make ...Mixed6.9
