Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games — Page 8
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
Time 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 ...Mixed6.8Mind 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...Good7.2Wonder 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...Good7.8Othercide
Strategy gameOthercide fuses a genuinely inventive initiative system with monochrome art direction so confident it borders on arrogant — then buries both under a r...Good7.1
Moonscars
Action gameMoonscars has some of the best-looking swordplay in the 2D souls-like field and a death system that actually means something — but a hard-to-parse map...Mixed6.4Arcade 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...Good7.3Shady Part of Me
Indie gameA clever light-and-shadow puzzle game with striking watercolor art and a mechanic worth learning. The puzzles thin out before the credits and the ther...Good7.1Garden 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...Mixed6.2Salt and Sanctuary
Action gameA two-person studio rebuilt Dark Souls on a 2D plane and, improbably, kept almost everything that mattered — the weight, the dread, the map that folds...Great8.2Touhou 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 ...Mixed6.3Lethal League Blaze
Action gameTeam Reptile built a fighting game where nobody punches anybody, and its design produces more genuine panic per minute than almost anything else on th...Good7.8Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun
Action gameBoltgun's gunplay is the best-feeling of any Warhammer 40,000 shooter in a decade — a pixelated abattoir with real mechanical craft — but sprawling, s...Mixed6.5American 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...Good7.3Squeakross: Home Squeak Home
Casual gameAlblune took the most mechanically pure puzzle genre in games and bolted a dollhouse to it — and the dollhouse is what makes the puzzles matter. It's ...Good7.8Everdeep 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...Good7.2Tempopo
Casual gameWitch Beam has built a programming puzzler that runs on rhythm instead of logic gates — tactile, generous, and well-crafted, but a system with a ceili...Good7.5Alina of the Arena
Strategy gameBy dragging Slay the Spire's card math onto a hex grid, PINIX built a deckbuilder where standing in the wrong tile kills you faster than a bad draw ...Good7.8
