Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games — Page 5
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 Wreck
Adventure gameFew narrative games make reinterpreting a memory the central verb, and The Wreck builds its whole design around that idea. It's a solid, affecting t...Good7.0Kaichu: The Kaiju Dating Sim
RPG gameSquiddershins' kaiju courtship romp is a genuinely novel twist on the dating sim — witty, gorgeous, and endearingly weird — but a shallow quiz loop an...Mixed6.7Jenny LeClue – Detectivú
Action gameMografi's meta-fictional detective adventure is a charming and structurally ambitious story game with real writing chops — even if its audio engineeri...Good7.1Sky Force Reloaded
Action gameSky Force Reloaded is a gorgeous, content-dense vertical shooter with a well-built upgrade loop, held back by a star grind that gates progression in w...Good7.8Severed
Action gameDrinkBox Studios took the most maligned control scheme in gaming—the touchscreen swipe—and built a genuinely tactile action RPG around it. The combat ...Good7.8Curious Expedition
RPG gameMaschinen-Mensch's roguelike expedition sim earns its genre mashup through brutal, meaningful resource management. It stumbles on repetition and luck,...Good7.3Let's! Revue Starlight
UnknownLet's! Revue Starlight — the console-flavored branding for the Revue Starlight game family, with the mobile service Re LIVE as its center of gravi...Good7.1Rustler
Action gameRustler is a funny medieval take on the top-down GTA formula, but clunky combat, mission-breaking bugs, and a short campaign make it hard to recomme...Mixed6.1
Star Ocean: The Second Story R
Action gameGemdrops and Square Enix deliver one of the most thoughtful JRPG remakes in recent memory — a gorgeous 2.5D reimagining of a 1998 classic whose only r...Great8.0Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure
Adventure gameTrust the player to name the wrong suspect and live with it — that single idea carries Lacuna, a taut, well-drawn sci-fi noir whose writing and conseq...Good7.3Unexplored
Action gameUnexplored takes on procedural generation's oldest problem — random levels that feel like nobody made them — and largely solves it. The combat and art...Good7.3Night Call
Simulation gameNight Call has a strong setting, a striking look and a cast of strangers worth listening to, but the investigation holding it together is thin, repeti...Mixed5.9Blek
Family gameBlek takes one idea, a line that keeps repeating its own motion, and builds a puzzle game with almost nothing wasted. It remains a solid buy more than...Good7.2Octodad: Dadliest Catch
Action gameYoung Horses gives you deliberately clumsy controls and dares you to laugh, and the joke lands often enough to matter. The campaign is short and the s...Good7.0Inkulinati
Strategy gameFor all its wit and genuinely distinctive art, Inkulinati is hard to recommend to most people: Journey mode repeats too soon, the difficulty rarely ...Mixed6.6Knights and Bikes
Action gameWarm, funny and hand-painted, Knights and Bikes tells a sincere story about grief under a kids-on-bikes treasure hunt. The combat is thin and never ge...Good7.0Teslagrad
Adventure gameRain Games built a puzzle-platformer that teaches physics through play and tells its whole story without a word, and its design still holds up more th...Good7.2Kine
Strategy gameKine is a smart, charming 3D puzzle game with a jazz soundtrack that asks more of players than its cute look suggests. Its three-robot movement system...Good7.0INMOST
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...Great8.3Astral Chain
PlatinumGames IncTwo characters on one controller shouldn't work, yet Astral Chain's dual-control combat is one of the most inventive systems PlatinumGames has built —...Great8.1Moon: Remix RPG Adventure
Adventure gameA 1997 Japanese cult object finally speaks English, and it turns out to be one of the sharpest critiques of RPG violence ever shipped — provided you c...Good7.8SIMULACRA
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...Good7.4
