Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games — Page 5
Expert-reviewed Nintendo Switch games, scored out of 10.
- Reviewed
- 219
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
Beacon Pines
Adventure gameBeacon Pines turns branching narrative from a menu into a mechanic, and the trick works more often than not — but a short runtime and a critical path ...Good7.1Fall Guys
Action gameA gloriously dumb, endlessly watchable party royale that turns humiliation into a spectator sport — held back by a cosmetics store that treats your wa...Good7.1Old Man's Journey
Adventure gameA wordless, hand-painted meditation on regret and reconciliation that lands like a short story — affecting, if slight. The puzzles rarely push back, s...Good7.4Hidden Folks
Adventure gameA hand-drawn hidden-object game that ditches the exploitative freemium playbook for patience, craft, and a huge library of sound effects made with a h...Good7.8Tiny Bookshop
RPG gameTiny Bookshop takes the most low-stakes premise imaginable—selling used paperbacks from a trailer—and turns it into a quietly compelling management ...Good7.6Refunct
Adventure gameRefunct is a short, well-crafted first-person platformer built around restoring a dead world one button press at a time. It's over before it overstays...Good7.4Suika Game
Casual gameA physics puzzler with one rule that turns dropping fruit into a compulsion. It shines on Switch and PC, but the mobile port's ad-riddled monetization...Good7.2Ultimate Chicken Horse
Action gameA rare party game that turns level design into a blood sport, Ultimate Chicken Horse is a clever, well-built take on emergent chaos—great with friends...Great8.0
Tunche
Action gameTunche is a gorgeous hand-drawn brawler with a killer four-player couch mode, but its roguelite scaffolding is thin, enemy variety runs out fast, and ...Mixed5.9Type:Rider
Action appType:Rider is a beautiful, atmospheric history lesson—a striking platformer whose floaty physics never quite live up to the strength of its concept. W...Good7.1CATO: Buttered Cat
Adventure gameA daft internet meme becomes one of the smartest cooperative puzzle-platformers in recent memory. Team Woll builds an entire mechanical language aroun...Great8.1Until Then
Adventure gamePolychroma Games has built an emotionally precise narrative adventure—a game that disguises a devastating meditation on grief as a cozy after-school h...Great8.7Creaks
Adventure gameAmanita Design steps away from its point-and-click roots for a hand-painted puzzle-platformer built on one genuinely clever idea—monsters that freeze ...Good7.5Niche - a genetics survival game
Education appA clever strategy game that smuggles a college-level genetics course inside a pack of huggable creatures — strongest on PC, rougher on consoles, and u...Good7.6Prodeus
Action gameProdeus is a nostalgia act that earns most of its swagger—a blistering, gore-soaked shooter that borrows Doom's DNA and Quake's tempo, then wraps them...Good7.7Bugsnax
Action gameA deceptively adorable creature-collector that smuggles a surprisingly mature story about grief, obsession, and belonging past its candy-colored exter...Good7.37 Days to End with You
Adventure gameA puzzle game that turns translation itself into an emotional gut-punch — clever, brief, and held back by its own repetition. Worth a look for the rig...Good7.7Framed
Adventure gameLoveshack Entertainment turned the humble comic panel into a control scheme, and the result is a striking, brief puzzle game that's easy to admire and...Good7.9Train Valley 2
Adventure gameTrain Valley 2 trades its predecessor's frantic crash-avoidance for the quiet, obsessive pleasure of building a logistics machine that hums. It's a pu...Good7.8Holedown
Action gameA ruthlessly polished brick-breaker that trades the genre's mindless tapping for genuine geometry, Holedown is a satisfying premium puzzle game—short ...Great8.1Golf Peaks
Puzzle gameGolf Peaks strips golf down to a deck of cards and a grid, and the result is a calm, clever puzzler with a clear identity. It's short and occasionally...Good7.6Subsurface Circular
Adventure gameBithell Games turns the humble text adventure into a taut two-hour sci-fi noir that trusts its writing above all else — a small, sharp game that says ...Good7.3Labyrinth City: Pierre the Maze Detective
Adventure gameA gorgeous, hand-drawn love letter to the Where's Waldo era whose maze puzzles barely qualify as puzzles. Beautiful to look at and genuinely relaxin...Mixed6.6Slayaway Camp
Puzzle gameA Sokoban puzzler wearing a rubber Halloween mask, Slayaway Camp smuggles genuinely brutal spatial-reasoning challenges inside a gleefully tasteless...Good7.5
