Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games — Page 7
Expert-reviewed Nintendo Switch games, scored out of 10.
- Reviewed
- 415
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
Grounded
Action gameA shrunken-backyard survival game with real mechanical depth and an actual ending, Grounded earns a clear recommendation — with the mid-game grind and...Great8.2Road 96
Action gameRoad 96's shuffled-scene structure is a genuinely novel idea, and its cast is unforgettable — but featherweight mechanics, repetitive runs, and a toot...Mixed6.9Record of Lodoss War: Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth
Action gameA gorgeous, precision-built Metroidvania that trades sprawl for craft — a short run of near-flawless sprite work and a genuinely smart elemental comba...Good7.4Absolute Drift
Action gameAbsolute Drift is a study in focused design — one mechanic, sharpened hard, wrapped in stark white minimalism and drum & bass. Its punishing onboardin...Good7.8Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion
Action gameSnoozy Kazoo's shredder-happy vegetable crime spree is very funny and tightly built, but thin where it counts and over almost as soon as it finds its ...Good7.1ASTLIBRA Revision
Action gameASTLIBRA Revision looks like a shovelware asset flip and plays like the work of a developer who spent well over a decade refusing to let go. Push past...Good7.9Kero Blaster
Action gameSeven years after Cave Story, Daisuke "Pixel" Amaya shipped something almost aggressively small — a two-hour run-and-gun about a frog exterminating ...Good7.7Chicken Police – Paint it RED!
Action gameA Hungarian studio nobody had heard of photographed a bunch of taxidermy-grade animal heads, dropped them into a rain-slicked noir city, and wrote dia...Good7.5
Sorry We're Closed
Action gameà la mode games built a survival horror hybrid that snaps between fixed-camera dread and first-person arcade shooting without either half feeling like...Great8.0Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader
Action gameOwlcat's Rogue Trader is an ambitious licensed CRPG — a long interrogation of the Imperium's rot that respects your intelligence and punishes your pat...Good7.8Skate Story
Action gameSkate Story takes a genre defined by physics and repetition and turns it into something devotional. It's not the deepest skater on the market, but it'...Great8.3Toodee and Topdee
Action gameA solo-developed puzzle-platformer built on one genuinely original idea — toggling between a 2D platformer and a top-down puzzler in the same level — ...Good7.6Heroes of Hammerwatch
Action gameHeroes of Hammerwatch takes the arcade bones of Gauntlet and grafts on a rogue-lite meta-progression system designed to respect your time, producing a...Good7.4Wizard of Legend
Action gameWizard of Legend strips the roguelike down to pure kinetic combat — dash, cast, chain, repeat — and the result is a genuinely well-built action loop, ...Good7.3PlateUp!
Action gamePlateUp! takes the Overcooked formula, bolts on a roguelite spine and a genuinely deep automation sandbox, and ends up as one of the smartest co-op co...Great8.3Desta: The Memories Between
Action gameustwo's tactics-roguelite about grief is one of the most emotionally honest games in the genre, wrapped around a physics-based dodgeball system that's...Mixed6.7Battle Chef Brigade
Action gameBattle Chef Brigade fuses brawler combat and match-three puzzling into a cooking-tournament loop that, against the odds, holds together. A short campa...Good7.5Lost Ember
Action gameLost Ember is a handsome, gentle five-hour meditation on loss and loyalty whose body-hopping mechanic is more sightseeing gimmick than systemic depth....Mixed6.3Ghost of a Tale
Action gameA near-solo passion project from SeithCG, Ghost of a Tale wraps genuinely tense stealth in a lovingly detailed world of anthropomorphic medieval intri...Good7.2Leap Year
Action gameLeap Year weaponizes fragility — a fall of more than a few pixels kills you — and turns that single rule into one of the smartest knowledge-based metr...Great8.4Haste: Broken Worlds
Action gameLandfall's Haste: Broken Worlds is a disciplined, well-built downhill sprint through the apocalypse where flow state is the whole point. It's short ...Good7.9Absolum
Action gameAbsolum takes the pixel-perfect brawling of Streets of Rage 4 and welds it to Dead Cells-style roguelite structure — the result is a mechanically ...Great8.0Mr. Sun's Hatbox
Action gameA roguelite that treats slapstick disaster as a design principle, Mr. Sun's Hatbox is an inventive physics sandbox on Steam and Switch—if you can su...Good7.1Squirrel with a Gun
Action gameA physics-comedy sandbox built on one absurd joke — a pistol-packing squirrel — that doesn't quite have the polish to match the premise. The recoil mo...Mixed6.4
