Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games — Page 5
Expert-reviewed Nintendo Switch games, scored out of 10.
- Reviewed
- 415
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
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Action gameWalaber Entertainment's $9.99 drift machine pairs sharp, readable arcade handling with a 1998 Saturn aesthetic that's a genuine design choice rather t...Good7.9Blazing Chrome
Action gameJoyMasher didn't just imitate Contra III — it reverse-engineered why that game felt so good and rebuilt the machine with modern precision. The short r...Good7.6Cyber Shadow
Action gameCyber Shadow is a carefully built NES-style ninja platformer from a solo developer, with superb sprite work and a sharp difficulty curve — and a check...Good7.2Blue Fire
Action gameBlue Fire's movement system is genuinely special, but a punishing camera, shallow combat, and a rough opening make it hard to recommend to most people...Mixed6.4Lost in Random
Action gameLost in Random's dice-gated card combat is one of the more inventive systems of its generation, but the game runs out of enemy variety and deck depth ...Mixed6.4Kill It With Fire
Action gameCasey Donnellan's spider-hunting sandbox is a one-joke game that tells its one joke well — a tight, physics-drunk few hours whose design is genuinely ...Good7.1Nidhogg 2
Action gameMesshof built a sharper, deeper duel than the 2014 original — then dressed it in a fleshy hand-drawn grotesquerie that half its audience actively rese...Mixed6.5Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom
Action gameA fan project that outgrew its own fandom, Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom understands its ancestor well enough to argue with it — a handsome, mech...Good7.8
Pupperazzi
Action gameSundae Month built one of the most disarming worlds in indie games and then bolted a job to it. When Pupperazzi lets you wander and shoot, it's magic;...Mixed6.0Blade Chimera
Action gameA demon-sword that rebuilds what time destroyed gives this Metroidvania one of the genre's sharper ideas, wrapped in pixel art worth the asking price....Good7.4Lunistice
Action gameFor five dollars, A Grumpy Fox delivers a 3D platformer with a momentum system most bigger-budget games in the genre don't bother with. The first run ...Good7.7Mika and the Witch's Mountain
Action gameMika and the Witch's Mountain has one of the most genuinely joyful flight systems in the cozy-game space, wrapped in a few hours of fetch quests that ...Mixed6.1Monster Hunter Rise
Action gameRise is the most fluid, least hostile Monster Hunter yet — a real mechanical reinvention wrapped around a base game that runs out of teeth early. Buy ...Great8.0The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter
Action gameFalcom took the most intimidating on-ramp in modern JRPGs and rebuilt it into a genuinely welcoming entry point — a two-decade-old script preserved al...Great8.5Cronos: The New Dawn
Action gameBloober Team's first original game in years is a claustrophobic, brutalist survival horror built around a genuinely fresh combat idea. It's solid rath...Good7.3Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound
Action gameThe Game Kitchen has done something most retro revivals only pretend to do — it rebuilt an NES classic's feel instead of its frustrations. Ragebound...Great8.2Iron Meat
Action gameIron Meat is a well-built run-and-gun that understands the difference between honoring a genre and photocopying it, and its difficulty system is a gen...Good7.8Olija
Action gameSkeleton Crew Studio's grimy, striking action-platformer builds one of the best traversal mechanics in recent memory and has the discipline to quit be...Good7.2BioShock Remastered
Action gameNineteen years on, Rapture remains one of the most memorable settings a video game has offered, and this remaster is a solid way to visit it — provide...Good7.8Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana
Action gameYs VIII takes a 30-year-old series about a red-haired adventurer washing up on beaches and finally builds a whole game around the premise — and castaw...Great8.3Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap
Action gameLizardcube's hand-drawn resurrection of a 1989 cult classic is a model of how to remake a game — gorgeous, reverent, and honest enough to leave the or...Good7.6Moonscars
Action gameMoonscars has some of the best-looking swordplay in the 2D souls-like field and a death system that actually means something — but a hard-to-parse map...Mixed6.4Salt and Sanctuary
Action gameA two-person studio rebuilt Dark Souls on a 2D plane and, improbably, kept almost everything that mattered — the weight, the dread, the map that folds...Great8.2Touhou Luna Nights
Action gameTeam Ladybug built a Metroidvania around a time-stop button and then had the discipline to design every room, hazard, and boss pattern to justify it. ...Great8.0
