Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games — Page 9
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
Afterlove EP
Adventure gameA tender, specific, gorgeously drawn portrait of a young man failing to move on in Jakarta — undercut by rhythm sections that feel like a rough demo b...Mixed6.3Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition
Adventure gameTwenty-five years on, BioWare's 2000 classic remains one of the deepest, cruelest, most rewarding party RPGs ever shipped — and Beamdog's remaster is ...Great8.6Game Dev Story
Simulation gameGame Dev Story remains a tightly built business sim with a genuinely funny premise, and the core loop still holds up. But it has barely changed since ...Good7.4Broken Sword — Shadow of the Templars: Reforged
Adventure gameRevolution Software rebuilt its 1996 classic line by line, and the writing, voice work and puzzle design hold up better than almost anything else from...Good7.4Nowhere Prophet
Card gameNowhere Prophet's punishing attrition and thin early-run power curve will strand plenty of players in the first biome, and that undercuts one of the m...Mixed6.4Bloodroots
Action gamePaper Cult built a combat system where a carrot, a ladder, and a plasma rifle are all equally valid murder implements, and the design mostly works — r...Good7.3Kaiju Wars
Strategy gameKaiju Wars has one of the sharpest ideas in recent turn-based strategy — you never kill the monster, only delay it — but long missions, a punishing di...Mixed6.9Dungeon Munchies
Action gameA cooking-based progression system gives this side-scrolling action RPG a real idea to build around, even if clumsy platforming and a rushed final act...Good7.8
Wolfstride
Action gameA striking monochrome mecha RPG whose art, score and writing outclass its thin exploration and grindy mid-game, and whose mobile versions are compromi...Mixed6.6Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven
RPG gameA 31-year-old cult oddity rebuilt in 3D without being sanded down, this is a remake that modernizes the interface instead of the ideas — and one of th...Good7.5Valfaris
Action gameA savagely confident run-and-gun with striking pixel art and a checkpoint system designed to make you sweat. Valfaris is short, mean, and often excell...Good7.5Pocket Card Jockey: Ride On!
Card gameA solitaire game welded to a horse racing sim by the studio that makes Pokémon, and the weld mostly holds. It's a strange, well-built career loop on A...Good7.6Windjammers 2
Sports gameWindjammers 2 is a mechanically sharp two-player duel with the readable depth of a fighting game and little of the execution tax — but thin solo conte...Good7.4Just Shapes & Beats
Action gameBerzerk Studio stripped a bullet hell down to a single verb — dodge — and discovered that removing the gun made the music louder. It's a short, punish...Great8.5Drainus
Action gameTeam Ladybug took the most punishing genre in gaming and rebuilt its incentive structure around greed instead of fear — and the result is one of the m...Good7.7Rhythm Sprout: Sick Beats & Bad Sweets
Action gameA charming three-button rhythm game with a strong original soundtrack and a joke-a-minute script that runs out of road right when it gets going. Worth...Good7.0Bilkins' Folly
Adventure gameBilkins' Folly hands you a blank map and a shovel instead of a quest marker and a sword, and that single decision makes it a quietly confident adventu...Good7.1Dungeons of Dreadrock
Adventure gameA one-man love letter to 1980s dungeon crawlers that stands out in a crowded genre — 100 handcrafted puzzle rooms built on a single ruthless principle...Good7.8Suikoden I & II HD Remaster
RPG gameTwo of the PlayStation era's most respected JRPGs arrive intact, with the rough edges sanded and little else changed. Suikoden II still tells one ...Good7.6Great God Grove
Adventure gameLimboLane's two-person adventure takes a mechanic that sounds like a one-note joke — a gun that steals speech bubbles — and builds an inventive, gorge...Great8.0Card-en-Ciel
RPG gameInti Creates took Mega Man Battle Network's grid, welded it to a Slay the Spire-shaped run structure, and then buried the whole thing under 300 voiced...Good7.8Sonority
Adventure gameSonority makes music itself the level design rather than the soundtrack — a genuinely novel idea undermined by a control scheme that fights its own be...Mixed6.8Descenders
Action gameRageSquid built a physics model strong enough to carry an entire genre experiment, and the result is a genuinely demanding skill curve in action sport...Good7.5The Outer Worlds
UnknownThe Outer Worlds is a sharp, reactive RPG whose compact scale and shallow combat hold it back, and the Switch port compounds both with visible techn...Mixed6.3
