Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games — Page 6
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
Paradise Marsh
Action gameA solo-developed mood piece with real writing and a gorgeous score, undermined by a thin loop and procedural terrain that flattens its own atmosphere ...Mixed6.3Lethal League Blaze
Action gameTeam Reptile built a fighting game where nobody punches anybody, and its design produces more genuine panic per minute than almost anything else on th...Good7.8Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus
Action gameBulwark Studios built a turn-based tactics game that punishes caution instead of rewarding it, and dressed it in some of the most atmospheric licensed...Good7.3Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun
Action gameBoltgun's gunplay is the best-feeling of any Warhammer 40,000 shooter in a decade — a pixelated abattoir with real mechanical craft — but sprawling, s...Mixed6.5Vernal Edge
Action gameHello Penguin Team built a genuinely thrilling air-juggle fighting game and then buried it inside a Metroidvania that keeps losing players on the map....Mixed6.4TEVI
Action gameTEVI is one of the more mechanically ambitious metroidvanias in recent memory and one of the more exhausting — a sharp fusion of melee combo fighting ...Good7.7Hob
Action gameHob's world-transformation mechanic — solving puzzles that physically rebuild the terrain underfoot — remains one of the most inventive ideas in level...Good7.3Risk of Rain Returns
Action gameHopoo Games went back to its 2013 debut and rebuilt it with the confidence of a studio that spent a decade learning what it got wrong — then had the d...Good7.7
Shinobi: Art of Vengeance
Action gameLizardcube has taken a stiff, punishing arcade relic and rebuilt it as a fluid, gorgeous 2D action game with a genuinely smart combat economy — one th...Good7.9Street Fighter 6
Action gameStreet Fighter 6 is a well-built, genuinely welcoming fighting game that fixes most of what sank Street Fighter V — but its aggressive monetization ...Good7.7Infernax
Action gameBerzerk Studio built a loving forgery of a 1988 NES cartridge, then quietly fixed everything that made those cartridges miserable. Infernax is mea...Good7.7Death's Gambit: Afterlife
Action gameWhite Rabbit's 2D Souls-like is a generous redemption arc — a free expansion that transformed a middling 2018 release into a sprawling, boss-heavy pac...Mixed6.9Bleak Sword DX
Action gameBleak Sword DX is a dark fantasy brawler built from pixel-art dioramas and timing windows, and at $9.99 its craft is real — but late chapters that lea...Mixed6.8Ittle Dew 2
Action gameLudosity built a Zelda-like that treats sequence-breaking as a feature instead of a bug, and the dungeon design is sharp enough to mostly earn the arr...Good7.6Nightmare Reaper
Action gameNightmare Reaper takes the most cynical mechanic in modern gaming — randomized loot drops — and welds it onto a 1994-era shotgun rampage, then hides t...Good7.8Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
Action gameMachineGames took the most famous silhouette in adventure cinema and hid it behind your own eyes — and made the character more present, not less. Th...Good7.9ScourgeBringer
Action gameScourgeBringer strips the action-roguelite down to one idea — attack or die — and executes it with a discipline most of its peers never reach. It's sh...Good7.5Heavenly Bodies
Action game2pt Interactive built an entire game around the radical idea that arms are hard to use, and made it one of the most tactile, funny, and quietly beauti...Good7.5The Swindle
Action gameThe Swindle has one of the sharpest risk/reward loops in the roguelike canon, bolted onto platforming controls that can't carry the weight. When the d...Mixed5.9Jotun: Valhalla Edition
Action gameThunder Lotus's hand-drawn Norse epic is one of the most beautiful indie games ever animated, and one of the thinnest to actually play. At $14.99, it'...Mixed6.1Mina the Hollower
Action gameYacht Club Games spent seven years proving it could do something other than Shovel Knight, and the answer is a gorgeous, mean, mechanically inventive ...Great8.5TowerFall Ascension
Action gameTowerFall Ascension is one of the sharpest local multiplayer designs of the indie era — lean, readable, and built so that every loss makes sense. Its ...Great8.3Duck Game
Action gameA decade on, Duck Game is still the couch multiplayer game to beat — a physics-drunk, one-hit-kill arena brawler whose 50+ weapons turn every 15-secon...Great8.6Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
Action gameAsteroid Base built a co-op machine that turns communication breakdown into comedy and teamwork into genuine delight. A decade on, it remains a stando...Good7.4
