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
Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion
Action gameSnoozy Kazoo's shredder-happy vegetable crime spree is very funny and tightly built, but thin where it counts and over almost as soon as it finds its ...Good7.1ASTLIBRA Revision
Action gameASTLIBRA Revision looks like a shovelware asset flip and plays like the work of a developer who spent well over a decade refusing to let go. Push past...Good7.9Kero Blaster
Action gameSeven years after Cave Story, Daisuke "Pixel" Amaya shipped something almost aggressively small — a two-hour run-and-gun about a frog exterminating ...Good7.7Airborne Kingdom
Adventure gameAirborne Kingdom builds one of the freshest hooks the city-builder genre has produced in a decade — a metropolis that must physically stay aloft — the...Mixed6.1Chicken Police – Paint it RED!
Action gameA Hungarian studio nobody had heard of photographed a bunch of taxidermy-grade animal heads, dropped them into a rain-slicked noir city, and wrote dia...Good7.5Behind the Frame: The Finest Scenery
Adventure gameSilver Lining Studio's painted vignette is an emotionally efficient game — it earns its ending honestly, and the ending lands. Go in knowing you're bu...Good7.1Anthology of the Killer
Adventure gameStephen Gillmurphy's nine-episode horror-comedy is among the funniest, strangest, most confidently written adventure games in recent memory — and it b...Great8.1Papetura
Adventure gamePapetura is a game where the medium is the argument — every set was physically cut, folded and glued by one person before a camera ever touched it, ...Good7.7
Sorry We're Closed
Action gameà la mode games built a survival horror hybrid that snaps between fixed-camera dread and first-person arcade shooting without either half feeling like...Great8.0Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader
Action gameOwlcat's Rogue Trader is an ambitious licensed CRPG — a long interrogation of the Imperium's rot that respects your intelligence and punishes your pat...Good7.8UNBEATABLE
Adventure gameUNBEATABLE takes the most restrictive input scheme in the rhythm genre and builds one of its most expressive games on top of it. The story mode is bri...Great8.1Skate Story
Action gameSkate Story takes a genre defined by physics and repetition and turns it into something devotional. It's not the deepest skater on the market, but it'...Great8.3Toki Tori 2+
Adventure gameToki Tori 2+ strips the puzzle-platformer down to two verbs — whistle and stomp — and builds one of the genre's most quietly radical designs on top of...Good7.3Toodee and Topdee
Action gameA solo-developed puzzle-platformer built on one genuinely original idea — toggling between a 2D platformer and a top-down puzzler in the same level — ...Good7.6Wizard of Legend
Action gameWizard of Legend strips the roguelike down to pure kinetic combat — dash, cast, chain, repeat — and the result is a genuinely well-built action loop, ...Good7.3LEGO Builder's Journey
Adventure gameA gorgeous, wordless meditation on play and parenthood that treats LEGO bricks with more reverence than any licensed blockbuster — but at $19.99 for r...Mixed6.5I Am Dead
Adventure gameA gentle, gorgeously illustrated meditation on death and memory whose inventive slicing mechanic is undercut by shallow puzzles and fiddly collectible...Mixed6.8SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech
Adventure gameImage & Form's card-battling RPG is a genre hybrid where both halves pull their weight — a genuinely deep combat system wrapped in a handsome, funny s...Good7.4Escape Academy
Adventure gameEscape Academy is a video game adaptation of a physical hobby that understands why people love the original. Its rooms are clever and its co-op is a...Good7.2Bury Me, My Love
Adventure gameA wrenching, formally ambitious text-message drama about the Syrian refugee crisis that turns the phone's most familiar interface against complacency....Good7.4Happy Game
Adventure gameAmanita Design weaponizes its own cuteness in a brief nightmare that's more art installation than puzzle box. It's short, it's simple, and it's the ki...Good7.0RiME
Adventure gameRiME is a gorgeous, gentle puzzle adventure whose final hour recontextualizes everything before it — a trick few games attempt and fewer land. The puz...Good7.1Snake Pass
Adventure gameSnake Pass is a 3D platformer with a genuinely original locomotion idea, but a flawed camera, a brief campaign, and controls that filter out a large s...Mixed6.7Battle Chef Brigade
Action gameBattle Chef Brigade fuses brawler combat and match-three puzzling into a cooking-tournament loop that, against the odds, holds together. A short campa...Good7.5
