Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games — Page 9
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
Fall Guys
Action gameA gloriously dumb, endlessly watchable party royale that turns humiliation into a spectator sport — held back by a cosmetics store that treats your wa...Good7.1Kingdom Rush
Action gameA decade-plus on, Ironhide's fantasy tower defense remains one of the sharpest-designed games in its genre—tight, funny, and built with real care. We ...Great8.7Ender Magnolia: Bloom in the Mist
Action gameA sequel that learns from its predecessor, Ender Magnolia: Bloom in the Mist is a gorgeous, generous, emotionally literate Metroidvania that trades ...Great8.2GRIME
Action gameGRIME is a visually audacious Soulslike that welds grotesque anatomical horror to a parry-and-devour combat loop built on a genuinely fresh idea. Cryp...Good7.8Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight
Action gameCompact, precise, and moody, Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight is a focused action-platformer with combat worth learning and an atmosphere that ca...Good7.8Iconoclasts
Action gameJoakim Sandberg spent the better part of a decade building a Metroidvania that punches above its weight on nearly every front—combat, puzzles, art—and...Good7.4Split Fiction
Action gameHazelight has done it again — Split Fiction is a relentlessly inventive two-player adventure that refuses to reuse a good idea when it could inven...Outstanding9.3Ultimate Chicken Horse
Action gameA rare party game that turns level design into a blood sport, Ultimate Chicken Horse is a clever, well-built take on emergent chaos—great with friends...Great8.0
Hades II
Action gameSupergiant took the best roguelike of the last decade and refused to simply photocopy it. Hades II is bigger, thornier, and more ambitious than its pr...Outstanding9.4Neon Abyss
Action gameNeon Abyss buries players in an avalanche of stackable loot until the screen bleeds bullets and legibility gives up — spectacular, chaotic, and freque...Mixed6.7Tunche
Action gameTunche is a gorgeous hand-drawn brawler with a killer four-player couch mode, but its roguelite scaffolding is thin, enemy variety runs out fast, and ...Mixed5.9Deliver Us The Moon
Action gameA gorgeous sci-fi mystery with real atmosphere, but puzzles that rarely fight back and timed sequences that mistake frustration for suspense hold it b...Mixed6.6Type:Rider
Action appType:Rider is a beautiful, atmospheric history lesson—a striking platformer whose floaty physics never quite live up to the strength of its concept. W...Good7.1BOKURA
Action gameBOKURA turns miscommunication into a puzzle mechanic, building a game that structurally demands two people talking to each other. It's inventive and o...Good7.4Lucah: Born of a Dream
Action gameA brutal, striking action-RPG that fuses demanding combat depth with a hand-drawn nightmare about trauma and self-forgiveness. The difficulty and deli...Good7.6Disc Room
Action gameA sharp, clever arcade machine that weaponizes failure into progression—Disc Room turns dying into its most satisfying verb, even if the whole thi...Good7.7Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo
Action gamePocket Trap took a childhood toy, bolted it to a Zelda skeleton, and invented a subgenre worth naming. "Yoyovania" isn't a marketing gimmick — it's on...Great8.2Prodeus
Action gameProdeus is a nostalgia act that earns most of its swagger—a blistering, gore-soaked shooter that borrows Doom's DNA and Quake's tempo, then wraps them...Good7.7Bugsnax
Action gameA deceptively adorable creature-collector that smuggles a surprisingly mature story about grief, obsession, and belonging past its candy-colored exter...Good7.3Patapon
Action gameA faithful HD revival of two rhythm-strategy cult classics that finally addresses the latency problems of earlier ports — but a grind-heavy loop, a ba...Mixed6.5Alisa
Action gameAlisa is a love letter to 1998 written in the fluent, deliberately clumsy dialect of tank controls and fixed cameras—a survival horror throwback so co...Good7.1Moonlighter
Action gameDigital Sun built a game around a genuinely fresh idea—run a shop by day, raid a dungeon by night—and executed it with enough craft and charm that its...Good7.2Holedown
Action gameA ruthlessly polished brick-breaker that trades the genre's mindless tapping for genuine geometry, Holedown is a satisfying premium puzzle game—short ...Great8.1Aeterna Noctis
Action gameAeterna Noctis is a gorgeous, sprawling, and mercilessly demanding Metroidvania whose 16-region ambition often outruns its pacing. Its inventive trave...Mixed6.3
