Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games — Page 6
Expert-reviewed Nintendo Switch games, scored out of 10.
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- 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
Penko Park
Adventure gameGhostbutter's on-rails photo safari is a small, strange, solid little thing — a few hours spent in a haunted wildlife park where poking the scenery is...Good7.4Hell is Us
Action gameRogue Factor built a genuinely unnerving world and then removed every crutch modern games use to guide you through it — no map, no compass, no quest m...Good7.1Creature in the Well
Action gameFlight School Studio welded a pinball table to a dungeon crawler, and the weld holds. The idea is strong, the art is better, and the game runs out of ...Good7.0Induction
Indie gameInduction takes one genuinely new idea, cooperating with a recording of yourself until the recording starts depending on you, and builds fifty-odd wor...Good7.2Grand Mountain Adventure
Adventure gameThree snowboarding brothers built a skiing game with an honest physics model and a top-down camera nobody else uses. That camera can hide the terrain ...Good7.7Radiant Historia: Perfect Chronology
ATLUSAtlus built a JRPG where failure is a research method, not a punishment — then remade it with voice acting, new episodes and a mercy difficulty on har...Good7.6Eternal Threads
Adventure gameEternal Threads' ripple-effect timeline — a hundred small decisions deciding who lives — is one of the more original narrative systems in years, but i...Mixed6.4No Umbrellas Allowed
Simulation gameA second-hand shop sim with the soul of a noir novel — its appraise-haggle-resell loop is one of the tensest economies in the genre, and it's kneecapp...Good7.1
Guilty Gear -Strive-
Action gameArc System Works stripped a famously impenetrable fighter down to its load-bearing walls and rebuilt it around online play that reshaped what the genr...Great8.2Tharsis
RPG gameTharsis has a genuinely original central idea — your crew are the dice — wrapped around a difficulty curve so pitiless it will drive off most of its...Mixed6.0Moonglow Bay
Adventure gameMoonglow Bay has one of the most emotionally honest premises in the cozy genre — a voxel story about grief, debt, and small-town decline, scored by Le...Mixed5.9A Case of Distrust
Adventure gameA Case of Distrust is a handsome, well-written noir that ends before it earns its own ending — a Saul Bass mood piece with a Phoenix Wright deduction ...Mixed6.5Lone Survivor
Action gameA flashlight, a cassette hiss, and a bag of rotten meat do more work here than most big-budget horror manages with a photogrammetry rig. It's an unset...Good7.6System Shock 2
Action gameTwenty-five years on, the Von Braun remains one of the most intelligently designed haunted houses in games, and Nightdive's KEX rebuild finally makes ...Good7.9Beyond Good & Evil – 20th Anniversary Edition
Action gameFor $19.99, Ubisoft has given a long-overlooked action-adventure a careful visual and audio polish plus quality-of-life fixes that matter more than th...Good7.1Black Book
Adventure gameBlack Book is a deck-building RPG whose cards are incantations drawn from 19th-century Ural folk charms, wrapped in a grief story with teeth. The co...Good7.3Brok the InvestiGator
Action gameA sharply drawn noir adventure that lets you solve every problem with your brain or your fists, built around a story about grief and fatherhood that e...Good7.8Forgive Me Father
Action gameA gorgeous, mean-spirited boomer shooter that weaponizes its own art style — and then runs out of ideas about two hours before the credits. Hard to re...Mixed6.6Ashen
Action gameAshen's passive drop-in co-op is the best structural idea the souls-like genre has produced in a decade, but mushy combat, a hostile camera, and a tec...Mixed6.0Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes
Action gameHard to recommend for most people: a Suikoden successor with a genuinely brilliant recruitment loop, undermined by unskippable battle animations, heav...Mixed6.3Hidden Through Time 2: Myths & Magic
Family gameA hand-drawn hidden object game priced like it respects its audience, with a short campaign and a level editor that carries the real weight. Solid for...Good7.3Going Under
Action gameAggro Crab's satirical roguelite lands its jokes harder than its punches — a sharp, genuinely funny skewering of startup culture whose improvised comb...Good7.3Killer Frequency
Adventure gameA horror game built around a microphone instead of a shotgun, Killer Frequency's gimmick — talking terrified strangers through a slasher's night while...Good7.2Gibbon: Beyond the Trees
Action gameBroken Rules built an entire game around one verb — swinging — and the verb works; almost everything around it is thinner. Gibbon's hour-long campaign...Mixed6.8
