Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games — Page 4
Expert-reviewed Nintendo Switch games, scored out of 10.
- Reviewed
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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
Death's Gambit: Afterlife
Action gameWhite Rabbit's 2D Souls-like is a generous redemption arc — a free expansion that transformed a middling 2018 release into a sprawling, boss-heavy pac...Mixed6.9Tiny Terry's Turbo Trip
Adventure gamesnekflat has built a confidently designed small open world — a dense, funny, endlessly climbable seaside town that rewards stray impulses. It ends soo...Good7.3Mask of the Rose
RPG gameFailbetter Games built the most genuinely novel relationship system in years and wrapped it around a deduction puzzle that never explains its own rule...Mixed6.1Ittle Dew 2
Action gameLudosity built a Zelda-like that treats sequence-breaking as a feature instead of a bug, and the dungeon design is sharp enough to mostly earn the arr...Good7.6Sunderfolk
RPG gameSunderfolk turns four phones into four character sheets and, in doing so, builds a genuinely convincing digital board game night. It's strong with fri...Good7.8Yes, Your Grace
Adventure gameA brutally honest little kingdom sim that understands something most strategy games refuse to admit — governing is mostly deciding which of your peopl...Good7.8The Swindle
Action gameThe Swindle has one of the sharpest risk/reward loops in the roguelike canon, bolted onto platforming controls that can't carry the weight. When the d...Mixed5.9Promise Mascot Agency
Adventure gameKaizen Game Works has built a strange, affecting crime drama about the emotional labor of running a small business, wrapped in a floaty open world tha...Good7.4
Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age
Adventure gameDragon Quest XI S is a "definitive edition" that largely earns the label — a sprawling, warm-hearted, 100-plus-hour JRPG that trades innovation for cr...Great8.5Tangledeep
RPG gameTangledeep is a mechanically dense, unusually welcoming roguelike that lowers the genre's barriers without gutting its depth. Its flaws — weak onboard...Good7.2Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark
RPG game6 Eyes Studio built the tactical RPG that Square Enix stopped making twenty years ago, and the class system is genuinely strong — but the story it's b...Good7.2OPUS: Echo of Starsong
Adventure gameSIGONO has built one of the more emotionally precise science-fiction stories the medium has produced this decade, then wrapped it in mechanics that ra...Good7.7ASTLIBRA Revision
Action gameASTLIBRA Revision looks like a shovelware asset flip and plays like the work of a developer who spent well over a decade refusing to let go. Push past...Good7.9Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader
Action gameOwlcat's Rogue Trader is an ambitious licensed CRPG — a long interrogation of the Imperium's rot that respects your intelligence and punishes your pat...Good7.8Skate Story
Action gameSkate Story takes a genre defined by physics and repetition and turns it into something devotional. It's not the deepest skater on the market, but it'...Great8.3Heroes of Hammerwatch
Action gameHeroes of Hammerwatch takes the arcade bones of Gauntlet and grafts on a rogue-lite meta-progression system designed to respect your time, producing a...Good7.4SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech
Adventure gameImage & Form's card-battling RPG is a genre hybrid where both halves pull their weight — a genuinely deep combat system wrapped in a handsome, funny s...Good7.4Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass
RPG gameA solo-developed, Earthbound-descended RPG that hides one of the genre's most devastating emotional payloads behind goofy jokes and an inventive trans...Great8.2Battle Chef Brigade
Action gameBattle Chef Brigade fuses brawler combat and match-three puzzling into a cooking-tournament loop that, against the odds, holds together. A short campa...Good7.5Potionomics
RPG gamePotionomics smuggles a genuinely sharp deck-builder inside a pastel shopkeeping fantasy, and the Masterwork Edition sands off the original's most puni...Good7.4Expelled!
Adventure gameinkle has bottled the chaos of a living, gossiping social simulation into taut 40-minute runs — and the result is one of the smartest detective games ...Great8.2Ghost of a Tale
Action gameA near-solo passion project from SeithCG, Ghost of a Tale wraps genuinely tense stealth in a lovingly detailed world of anthropomorphic medieval intri...Good7.2Absolum
Action gameAbsolum takes the pixel-perfect brawling of Streets of Rage 4 and welds it to Dead Cells-style roguelite structure — the result is a mechanically ...Great8.0Persona 4 Golden
RPG gameMore than a decade after its Vita debut, Persona 4 Golden still makes an enormous runtime feel like time well spent — a genre-bending JRPG where the f...Outstanding9.3
