Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games — Page 5
Expert-reviewed Nintendo Switch games, scored out of 10.
- Reviewed
- 277
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 Road to Canada
Action gameA savage, hilarious, endlessly replayable roguelike that turns permadeath into a punchline and a punishment in equal measure. Rough edges and brutal R...Good7.7Star Renegades
Action gameA gorgeous, brutally tactical RPG whose enemies actually remember you — Star Renegades pairs one of the smartest combat systems in the genre with a gr...Good7.2Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector
Adventure gameA sharper, riskier, more ambitious sequel that trades the cozy fatalism of the original for white-knuckle survival — and mostly earns the trade. If yo...Great8.5Carto
Adventure gameCarto turns cartography into its core verb, and the result is one of the more inventive puzzle ideas in recent memory—wrapped in a cozy, handsome pack...Good7.6Tenderfoot Tactics
Adventure gameA gorgeous, brain-bending tactics RPG where the terrain itself is your deadliest weapon and your worst enemy. Ambitious and uncompromising in equal me...Good7.2Ghost Song
Action gameGhost Song is a gorgeous, melancholy Metroidvania that nails atmosphere and combat design but rarely surprises with an idea you haven't seen before — ...Mixed6.5Afterimage
Action gameAfterimage is a strikingly beautiful Metroidvania with design that doesn't always keep pace with its art. Aurogon Shanghai built a sprawling, mechanic...Good7.1Moonstone Island
Adventure gameA clever mash-up of Stardew Valley comfort and Slay the Spire tactics that mostly makes the fusion work—provided you play it with a controller, ac...Good7.1
Bear and Breakfast
Adventure gameA disarmingly clever management sim that hides a surprisingly tangled mystery beneath its impossibly cozy fur — but a genuinely fiddly interface and a...Mixed6.7Sephonie
Action gameSephonie is an emotionally ambitious platformer with genuinely excellent writing, but slippery movement, a repetitive puzzle loop, and an unreliable c...Mixed6.4Athenian Rhapsody
Adventure gameA solo-developed comedy RPG that treats every battle as a chance to reinvent itself — sometimes you fight, sometimes you draw the boss yourself. Uneve...Good7.5Rift of the NecroDancer
Action gameRift of the NecroDancer trades the roguelike dungeon for three vertical lanes, and the pivot mostly works: a rhythm game built on reading enemy patter...Good7.6Haven
Adventure gameHaven is a rare thing—a game that treats an already-in-love couple as the story, not the reward. It's gorgeous, tender, and beautifully scored, but sh...Mixed6.6Eastward
Action gamePixpil's debut is a gorgeous, big-hearted love letter to 16-bit adventure games that occasionally forgets when to end a sentence — a solid, flawed adv...Good7.2Iris and the Giant
Card gameLouis Rigaud's card-battler about fighting your own depression is emotionally honest and mechanically clever, but the iOS port is a broken promise — t...Good7.1Nobody Saves the World
Action gameDrinkbox Studios took the one mechanic every action RPG treats as a gimmick — shapeshifting — and made it the entire load-bearing wall. The result is ...Good7.3Ikenfell
RPG gameHappy Ray Games built a tactical RPG where every attack demands your thumbs, not your MP bar, wrapped in a warm, sharply written cast. The boss diffic...Good7.0Supraland
Action gameOne German developer built a first-person Metroidvania that respects your intelligence more than most studio productions respect your time. The combat...Great8.2Vagrus - The Riven Realms
RPG gameA dense, well-written dark fantasy caravan sim that treats your attention as a resource it has every right to demand. It will bore anyone looking for ...Good7.3Ender Magnolia: Bloom in the Mist
Action gameA sequel that learns from its predecessor, Ender Magnolia: Bloom in the Mist is a gorgeous, generous, emotionally literate Metroidvania that trades ...Great8.2GRIME
Action gameGRIME is a visually audacious Soulslike that welds grotesque anatomical horror to a parry-and-devour combat loop built on a genuinely fresh idea. Cryp...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 ...Good7.6Hades II
Action gameSupergiant took the best roguelike of the last decade and refused to simply photocopy it. Hades II is bigger, thornier, and more ambitious than its pr...Outstanding9.4Neon Abyss
Action gameNeon Abyss buries players in an avalanche of stackable loot until the screen bleeds bullets and legibility gives up — spectacular, chaotic, and freque...Mixed6.7
