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
Unrailed!
Action gameUnrailed! takes the one-tool-per-job cruelty of Overcooked and welds it to a train that never stops. With three friends on a couch it's a sharp coop...Good7.3Moving Out
Action gameMoving Out has a great slapstick premise and the best Assist Mode in its genre, but a short campaign, a hollow solo mode, and no online play cap who...Mixed6.5GoNNER
Indie gameGoNNER is a harsh, focused roguelike platformer that turns your gun's kickback into your movement system and refuses to explain a single thing about i...Good7.1Trine 2: Complete Story
Action gameTrine 2: Complete Story remains one of the better-looking 2D games of its era, and its physics sandbox still rewards improvisation in a way most puzzl...Good7.7Legend of Keepers: Career of a Dungeon Manager
RPG gameA clever inversion of the dungeon crawl that turns evil into a middle-management job — sharp, funny, and mechanically tight early on, until its shallo...Good7.0Afterlove EP
Adventure gameA tender, specific, gorgeously drawn portrait of a young man failing to move on in Jakarta — undercut by rhythm sections that feel like a rough demo b...Mixed6.3Game Dev Story
Simulation gameGame Dev Story remains a tightly built business sim with a genuinely funny premise, and the core loop still holds up. But it has barely changed since ...Good7.4Broken Sword — Shadow of the Templars: Reforged
Adventure gameRevolution Software rebuilt its 1996 classic line by line, and the writing, voice work and puzzle design hold up better than almost anything else from...Good7.4
Nowhere Prophet
Card gameNowhere Prophet's punishing attrition and thin early-run power curve will strand plenty of players in the first biome, and that undercuts one of the m...Mixed6.4Bloodroots
Action gamePaper Cult built a combat system where a carrot, a ladder, and a plasma rifle are all equally valid murder implements, and the design mostly works — r...Good7.3Kaiju Wars
Strategy gameKaiju Wars has one of the sharpest ideas in recent turn-based strategy — you never kill the monster, only delay it — but long missions, a punishing di...Mixed6.9Dungeon Munchies
Action gameA cooking-based progression system gives this side-scrolling action RPG a real idea to build around, even if clumsy platforming and a rushed final act...Good7.8Wolfstride
Action gameA striking monochrome mecha RPG whose art, score and writing outclass its thin exploration and grindy mid-game, and whose mobile versions are compromi...Mixed6.6Valfaris
Action gameA savagely confident run-and-gun with striking pixel art and a checkpoint system designed to make you sweat. Valfaris is short, mean, and often excell...Good7.5Windjammers 2
Sports gameWindjammers 2 is a mechanically sharp two-player duel with the readable depth of a fighting game and little of the execution tax — but thin solo conte...Good7.4Just Shapes & Beats
Action gameBerzerk Studio stripped a bullet hell down to a single verb — dodge — and discovered that removing the gun made the music louder. It's a short, punish...Great8.5Drainus
Action gameTeam Ladybug took the most punishing genre in gaming and rebuilt its incentive structure around greed instead of fear — and the result is one of the m...Good7.7Rhythm Sprout: Sick Beats & Bad Sweets
Action gameA charming three-button rhythm game with a strong original soundtrack and a joke-a-minute script that runs out of road right when it gets going. Worth...Good7.0Dungeons 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...Mixed6.8Cavern 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...Good7.4Cosmic Star Heroine
RPG gameCosmic Star Heroine is what happens when veteran genre nerds strip the 16-bit RPG down to its best ideas and throw out much of the rest. The combat sy...Good7.2Kathy 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...Good7.3
