Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games — Page 6
Expert-reviewed Nintendo Switch games, scored out of 10.
- Reviewed
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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
Dungeons of Dreadrock
Adventure gameA one-man love letter to 1980s dungeon crawlers that stands out in a crowded genre — 100 handcrafted puzzle rooms built on a single ruthless principle...Good7.8Great God Grove
Adventure gameLimboLane's two-person adventure takes a mechanic that sounds like a one-note joke — a gun that steals speech bubbles — and builds an inventive, gorge...Great8.0Sonority
Adventure gameSonority makes music itself the level design rather than the soundtrack — a genuinely novel idea undermined by a control scheme that fights its own be...Mixed6.8Trek to Yomi
Action gameTrek to Yomi is one of the most beautiful things ever built in a game engine and one of the least interesting things to actually play. It's a five-hou...Mixed5.9Cavern of Dreams
Action gameCavern of Dreams is a $12.99 love letter to Banjo-Kazooie and Spyro that understands why those games worked, not just how they looked. A wobbly came...Good7.4Kathy Rain: Director's Cut
Adventure gameClifftop Games took an already-sharp 2016 detective yarn and fixed nearly everything worth fixing — the ending, the pacing, the interface. What's left...Good7.3Huntdown
Action gameHuntdown is a lesson in execution over invention — a cover-based arcade shooter built like a lost Contra sequel directed by John Carpenter. It's short...Great8.4Toree 3D
Action gameToree 3D is roughly 40 minutes of tight, speed-obsessed platforming for a dollar, built around game feel most full-priced releases never find. A solid...Good7.3
Barony
Action gameBarony is a gleefully hostile throwback that fuses Ultima Underworld's cryptic depth with couch co-op chaos — and a decade of free updates has made it...Good7.4Hitman: World of Assassination
Action gameNearly a decade of the finest sandbox stealth ever made, bundled into one package and playable on everything from a gaming rig to an iPhone. The alway...Outstanding9.4Sheepy: A Short Adventure
Adventure gameA music curator's debut game is remarkably polished. Sheepy delivers an atmospherically confident hour of platforming — free on Steam, with a Switch v...Great8.1Timespinner
Action gameTimespinner is a faithful Symphony of the Night homage with a genuinely affecting story and a time-stop mechanic with real teeth — but it's short, eas...Mixed6.5No Case Should Remain Unsolved
Adventure gameSomi's two-to-three-hour testimony puzzle is one of the most honest detective games in years — it hands you 54 scrambled fragments of a cold case and ...Great8.5Blue Fire
Action gameBlue Fire's movement system is genuinely special, but a punishing camera, shallow combat, and a rough opening make it hard to recommend to most people...Mixed6.4The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy
Adventure gameA monstrously large, genuinely strange visual novel with a competent tactics game bolted to its side — and a rare case where "100 endings" is a struct...Good7.8Lost in Random
Action gameLost in Random's dice-gated card combat is one of the more inventive systems of its generation, but the game runs out of enemy variety and deck depth ...Mixed6.4Trüberbrook
Adventure gameTrüberbrook is the best-looking point-and-click adventure of the last decade and one of the least satisfying — a ten-hour walk through hand-built mini...Mixed6.1Bad End Theater
Adventure gameNomnomNami turned the visual novel inside out and found a puzzle box underneath. Bad End Theater is a couple of hours of compressed, cruel, funny ...Great8.6Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom
Action gameA fan project that outgrew its own fandom, Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom understands its ancestor well enough to argue with it — a handsome, mech...Good7.8ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game
Adventure gameATOM RPG is the most faithful successor to Fallout 1 and 2 that anyone has managed in a quarter-century — a dense, funny, genuinely nonlinear Sovi...Mixed6.8Old Skies
Adventure gameWadjet Eye's most ambitious game is a well-written, strongly acted anthology of New York history that occasionally forgets its own premise — the time ...Good7.5Lunistice
Action gameFor five dollars, A Grumpy Fox delivers a 3D platformer with a momentum system most bigger-budget games in the genre don't bother with. The first run ...Good7.7Mika and the Witch's Mountain
Action gameMika and the Witch's Mountain has one of the most genuinely joyful flight systems in the cozy-game space, wrapped in a few hours of fetch quests that ...Mixed6.1Tin Hearts
Adventure gameRogue Sun has built one of the most tactile, gorgeously imagined puzzle boxes in years — a Victorian workshop where you engineer the path instead of c...Mixed6.8
