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
Underhero
Adventure gameUnderhero has one genuinely clever structural idea — turn-based combat with the turns ripped out — and some of the sharpest comic writing in the indie...Mixed6.9Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance
Adventure gameAtlus took a mechanically sharp, narratively hollow JRPG and gave it the story it always deserved, plus a proper PC port. Newcomers should buy it with...Great8.2Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair
Adventure gamePlaytonic's second outing trades the collectathon baggage of the original for sharp 2D platforming and a genuinely clever overworld. The checkpoint-fr...Good7.5Mo:Astray
Action gameArchpray's blob-slinging puzzle-platformer has one of the freshest traversal ideas the genre has seen in years, wrapped in striking pixel art. It is a...Good7.2LEGO Bricktales
Adventure gameAfter two decades of LEGO games where "building" meant holding a button while bricks assembled themselves, ClockStone made one where every brick gets ...Mixed6.9Kaze and the Wild Masks
Action gamePixelHive has built the most convincing Donkey Kong Country tribute since Rare stopped making them — beautiful, brutally precise, and almost entirely ...Good7.1Rebel Galaxy Outlaw
Action gameDouble Damage built the most convincing space-western dive bar ever put in a video game, then wrapped it in a mission generator that runs dry early. T...Mixed6.0Ace Attorney Investigations Collection
Adventure gameCapcom finally localized the sequel that fans spent a decade translating themselves, and wrapped both Edgeworth games in a careful HD remaster. The in...Good7.4
Voidwrought
Action gameVoidwrought is a well-made, gorgeous Metroidvania that never escapes the shadow of the game it so clearly adores, and its own ideas are too underdevel...Mixed6.0Cursed to Golf
Action gameChuhai Labs built a sharp 2D physics puzzler and then bolted a punishing roguelike to its ankle. The golf is excellent; the structure around it is the...Good7.1Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales
Adventure gameA political RPG built on a card game, with real writing and real consequences — but the battles go easy on Gwent veterans and the mobile release fumbl...Good7.3The Falconeer
Action gameThe Falconeer's flight model and world are the work of real authorial confidence, but the missions wrapped around them are filler, and the story burie...Mixed6.4Golf Club Wasteland
Adventure gameGolf Club Wasteland is a melancholy, well-crafted eulogy for human civilization delivered through a golf game — solid, affecting work that ends sooner...Good7.2Sonic Mania
Action gameFew revivals land this cleanly: Sonic Mania hands classic Sonic back to the people who spent two decades reverse-engineering why those games worked, a...Great8.0Journey to the Savage Planet
Action gameA gorgeous, funny, tightly-built first-person Metroidvania undermined by shallow combat, relentless joke density, and late-game padding — hard to reco...Mixed6.4Trine 2: Complete Story
Action gameTrine 2: Complete Story remains one of the better-looking 2D games of its era, and its physics sandbox still rewards improvisation in a way most puzzl...Good7.7Rayman Legends
Action gameMore than a decade after its September 2013 release, Rayman Legends remains one of the most generous and joyfully designed 2D platformers on Steam or ...Great8.8Afterlove EP
Adventure gameA tender, specific, gorgeously drawn portrait of a young man failing to move on in Jakarta — undercut by rhythm sections that feel like a rough demo b...Mixed6.3Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition
Adventure gameTwenty-five years on, BioWare's 2000 classic remains one of the deepest, cruelest, most rewarding party RPGs ever shipped — and Beamdog's remaster is ...Great8.6Broken Sword — Shadow of the Templars: Reforged
Adventure gameRevolution Software rebuilt its 1996 classic line by line, and the writing, voice work and puzzle design hold up better than almost anything else from...Good7.4Dungeon Munchies
Action gameA cooking-based progression system gives this side-scrolling action RPG a real idea to build around, even if clumsy platforming and a rushed final act...Good7.8Wolfstride
Action gameA striking monochrome mecha RPG whose art, score and writing outclass its thin exploration and grindy mid-game, and whose mobile versions are compromi...Mixed6.6Rhythm Sprout: Sick Beats & Bad Sweets
Action gameA charming three-button rhythm game with a strong original soundtrack and a joke-a-minute script that runs out of road right when it gets going. Worth...Good7.0Bilkins' Folly
Adventure gameBilkins' Folly hands you a blank map and a shovel instead of a quest marker and a sword, and that single decision makes it a quietly confident adventu...Good7.1
