Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games — Page 7
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
The Mortuary Assistant
Adventure gameMake the player do a real job, then let something climb into it — that's the trick, and it works more often than not. The Mortuary Assistant is an...Good7.4BEAUTIFUL DESOLATION
Adventure gameTHE BROTHERHOOD built one of the most striking science-fiction worlds of the decade and then buried the path through it under fetch quests and pixel-h...Mixed6.4GALAK-Z: The Dimensional
Action gameGALAK-Z's inertial flight model remains one of the best 2D space combat has seen, but Rogue Mode's permadeath and a shallow procedural generator make ...Mixed6.9Vampire Therapist
Simulation gameLittle Bat Games built a comedy about immortal trauma on top of a genuinely functional CBT curriculum, and neither half embarrasses the other. It's sh...Good7.5Mad Rat Dead
Nippon Ichi Software, Inc.Mad Rat Dead has one of the sharpest ideas in modern rhythm design — a platformer where the beat is your health bar — and then runs out of things to...Mixed6.6Golf With Your Friends
Sports gameBy throwing out mini golf's most sacred rule — take turns — Blacklight Interactive built one of the funniest party-game concepts on Steam, then left i...Mixed6.7Souldiers
Action gameSouldiers is a gorgeous, overstuffed metroidvania undermined by difficulty spikes, repetitive dungeons, and a runtime that sprawls past its ideas. Agg...Mixed6.0Mio: Memories in Orbit
Action gameDouze Dixièmes has built a metroidvania map worth memorizing, then paired it with a sword that takes far too long to feel like a weapon. The explorati...Good7.2
Rue Valley
Adventure gameRue Valley has the bones of a great psychological RPG — a razor-sharp 47-minute time loop, a genuinely clever character-building system, and art worth...Mixed5.9Aground
Adventure gameFor a crafting RPG that keeps quietly changing genres — survival scavenging to dragon husbandry to orbital logistics — Aground earns its payoffs throu...Good7.1Them's Fightin' Herds
Action gameA serious 2D fighter with a thorough teaching suite and dependable rollback netcode, wrapped in a cartoon barnyard that hides its depth. The small ros...Good7.1Etrian Odyssey Origins Collection
ATLUSATLUS has preserved three of the most uncompromising dungeon crawlers ever made, and the underlying design still puts hand-holding modern RPGs to sham...Good7.1Hogwarts Legacy
Action gameAvalanche Software built the most convincing videogame recreation of a fictional place in years, then padded it out with busywork and hung a forgettab...Good7.2Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3?!
Action gameCook, Serve, Delicious! 3?! is a demanding, content-heavy action game priced like an indie title — a hundred-hour typing test disguised as a restauran...Good7.7Dicefolk
Action gameDicefolk's central trick — handing you the enemy's dice as well as your own — converts a genre built on gambling into a series of tight, solvable comb...Good7.1The Witch's House MV
Adventure gameFummy's 2012 cult classic returns with sharper pixels, better sound, and — crucially — a retry button that repairs the legendarily sadistic horror gam...Good7.0Dragon Quest Builders 2
Action gameSquare Enix took the one thing Minecraft never had — a reason to build — and wrapped a lengthy, genuinely good RPG around it. The opening hours will t...Good7.6Sumire
Adventure gameSumire's watercolor art and writing on grief land hard, but imprecise quest timing, invisible walls, and loose 3D movement undercut a game whose whole...Mixed6.6Hand of Fate 2
Action gameHand of Fate 2 pairs a genuinely clever card-table structure and a superbly written Dealer with real-time combat that never earns the screen time it d...Good7.3Underhero
Adventure gameUnderhero has one genuinely clever structural idea — turn-based combat with the turns ripped out — and some of the sharpest comic writing in the indie...Mixed6.9Cadence of Hyrule
Brace Yourself GamesA small Vancouver studio was handed the keys to Hyrule and built something Nintendo never would have — a rhythm roguelite where every sword swing ...Great8.2Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance
Adventure gameAtlus took a mechanically sharp, narratively hollow JRPG and gave it the story it always deserved, plus a proper PC port. Newcomers should buy it with...Great8.2Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth – Complete Edition
RPG gameA mechanically serious creature-raiser with a darker, smarter story than the license suggests, held back by a bare port and a second campaign that rec...Good7.2Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair
Adventure gamePlaytonic's second outing trades the collectathon baggage of the original for sharp 2D platforming and a genuinely clever overworld. The checkpoint-fr...Good7.5
