Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games — Page 8
Expert-reviewed Nintendo Switch games, scored out of 10.
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- 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
Mo:Astray
Action gameArchpray's blob-slinging puzzle-platformer has one of the freshest traversal ideas the genre has seen in years, wrapped in striking pixel art. It is a...Good7.2Mortal Shell
Action gameA short, sharp Soulslike built around one mechanic worth the price of entry, wrapped in a world that runs out of ideas well before the credits. Harden...Mixed6.5LEGO Bricktales
Adventure gameAfter two decades of LEGO games where "building" meant holding a button while bricks assembled themselves, ClockStone made one where every brick gets ...Mixed6.9Mandragora: Whispers of the Witch Tree
Action gameA gorgeous 2.5D soulslike padded well past what its content can carry. The art, score and writing are genuinely excellent, but recycled enemies, a blo...Mixed6.4Kaze and the Wild Masks
Action gamePixelHive has built the most convincing Donkey Kong Country tribute since Rare stopped making them — beautiful, brutally precise, and almost entirely ...Good7.1Rebel Galaxy Outlaw
Action gameDouble Damage built the most convincing space-western dive bar ever put in a video game, then wrapped it in a mission generator that runs dry early. T...Mixed6.0Ace Attorney Investigations Collection
Adventure gameCapcom finally localized the sequel that fans spent a decade translating themselves, and wrapped both Edgeworth games in a careful HD remaster. The in...Good7.4Voidwrought
Action gameVoidwrought is a well-made, gorgeous Metroidvania that never escapes the shadow of the game it so clearly adores, and its own ideas are too underdevel...Mixed6.0
Sokobond Express
Puzzle gameA wordless, immaculately taught puzzle game that fuses two Draknek classics into a smart, well-crafted whole — solid, but brief and uneven enough that...Good7.1The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
NintendoPutting Zelda in charge and building the game around summoned echoes gives the 2D formula a new idea worth playing with. It's also gentler, shorter an...Good7.4Cursed to Golf
Action gameChuhai Labs built a sharp 2D physics puzzler and then bolted a punishing roguelike to its ankle. The golf is excellent; the structure around it is the...Good7.1Boomerang X
Action gameDANG!'s arena shooter fuses gun and grappling hook into a single spinning blade, and the result is one of the more original movement systems in first-...Good7.2Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales
Adventure gameA political RPG built on a card game, with real writing and real consequences — but the battles go easy on Gwent veterans and the mobile release fumbl...Good7.3The Falconeer
Action gameThe Falconeer's flight model and world are the work of real authorial confidence, but the missions wrapped around them are filler, and the story burie...Mixed6.4Vectronom
Action gameVectronom is a rhythm game that doesn't ask you to press buttons in time with music — it rebuilds the entire world around the metronome and dares you ...Good7.4Golf Club Wasteland
Adventure gameGolf Club Wasteland is a melancholy, well-crafted eulogy for human civilization delivered through a golf game — solid, affecting work that ends sooner...Good7.2Sonic Mania
Action gameFew revivals land this cleanly: Sonic Mania hands classic Sonic back to the people who spent two decades reverse-engineering why those games worked, a...Great8.0Unrailed!
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...Mixed6.5Journey to the Savage Planet
Action gameA gorgeous, funny, tightly-built first-person Metroidvania undermined by shallow combat, relentless joke density, and late-game padding — hard to reco...Mixed6.4GoNNER
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...Good7.0Rayman Legends
Action gameMore than a decade after its September 2013 release, Rayman Legends remains one of the most generous and joyfully designed 2D platformers on Steam or ...Great8.8
