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 Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter
Action gameFalcom took the most intimidating on-ramp in modern JRPGs and rebuilt it into a genuinely welcoming entry point — a two-decade-old script preserved al...Great8.5Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound
Action gameThe Game Kitchen has done something most retro revivals only pretend to do — it rebuilt an NES classic's feel instead of its frustrations. Ragebound...Great8.2Time Flies
Adventure gameA hand-drawn housefly sim that turns a system setting into an existential gut-punch — Time Flies is a sharp two hours of indie design, and its bre...Good7.2Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley
Adventure gameA gorgeous, quietly pointed little adventure about vandalizing municipal infrastructure with a folk instrument — and one of the few "cozy" games with ...Good7.3Blue Wednesday
Adventure gameBuff Studio has written one of the most honest games about creative burnout around, wrapped it in a genuinely excellent original jazz score, and then ...Mixed6.8Mediterranea Inferno
Adventure gameMediterranea Inferno is a stylistically confident visual novel from the Italian indie scene — a gorgeous, mean, three-hour bender about friendship cur...Great8.0Mind Over Magnet
Adventure gameMark Brown spent a decade telling developers how to design games; Mind Over Magnet is his proof he was listening to himself. A short, well-taught ...Good7.0Olija
Action gameSkeleton Crew Studio's grimy, striking action-platformer builds one of the best traversal mechanics in recent memory and has the discipline to quit be...Good7.2
Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island
Adventure gameSerpentcoil Island is a faithful, uncompromising take on the classic roguelike loop — brutal, fair, and endlessly replayable, now portable across ever...Good7.7Persona 3 Reload
Adventure gameAtlus has rebuilt its most melancholy, most thematically daring RPG with the production values it always deserved — and only a repetitive back half of...Great8.4Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap
Action gameLizardcube's hand-drawn resurrection of a 1989 cult classic is a model of how to remake a game — gorgeous, reverent, and honest enough to leave the or...Good7.6Primordia
Adventure gamePrimordia is a melancholy, sharply written meditation on faith and memory wearing the clothes of a puzzle game — solid but unremarkable in its structu...Good7.8Arcade Paradise
Adventure gameNosebleed Interactive built 35 real arcade games and then had the nerve to make you earn them one bin bag at a time — a genuinely clever idea that wor...Good7.3Garden Story
Adventure gamePicogram's grape-shaped action-RPG is warm, beautifully drawn, and structurally at war with itself — a stamina meter and a day timer that punish the e...Mixed6.2Touhou Luna Nights
Action gameTeam Ladybug built a Metroidvania around a time-stop button and then had the discipline to design every room, hazard, and boss pattern to justify it. ...Great8.0Paradise 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 ...Mixed6.3Chinatown Detective Agency
Adventure gameGeneral Interactive Co. resurrected the one mechanic the adventure genre abandoned thirty years ago — making the player actually learn something — t...Mixed5.9Vernal 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....Mixed6.4American Arcadia
Adventure gameOut of the Blue's two-hander is a narrative puzzle game where the structure is the argument — a 1970s dystopia told in TV cuts between the man being...Good7.4TEVI
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...Good7.3Everdeep Aurora
Adventure gameNautilus Games has built a descent platformer that strips out combat, quest logs, and objective markers, then dares players to enjoy the disorientatio...Good7.2Street 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...Good7.7
