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
Infernax
Action gameBerzerk Studio built a loving forgery of a 1988 NES cartridge, then quietly fixed everything that made those cartridges miserable. Infernax is mea...Good7.7Death's Gambit: Afterlife
Action gameWhite Rabbit's 2D Souls-like is a generous redemption arc — a free expansion that transformed a middling 2018 release into a sprawling, boss-heavy pac...Mixed6.9Lake
Adventure gameGamious built a genuinely adult narrative game about a woman deciding what her life is for, then wrapped it in a mail-delivery loop that runs far long...Mixed6.0Tiny Terry's Turbo Trip
Adventure gamesnekflat has built a confidently designed small open world — a dense, funny, endlessly climbable seaside town that rewards stray impulses. It ends soo...Good7.3Bleak Sword DX
Action gameBleak Sword DX is a dark fantasy brawler built from pixel-art dioramas and timing windows, and at $9.99 its craft is real — but late chapters that lea...Mixed6.8Tetrobot & Co.
Casual gameSwing Swing Submarine built an entire puzzle game on a single mechanic — swallow a block, spit it out — and wrung a remarkable amount of invention out...Good7.5Bahnsen Knights
Adventure gameLCB Game Studio's third Pixel Pulp is a strikingly written and beautifully illustrated cult thriller — a two-hour paperback pastiche with real confide...Good7.3Ittle Dew 2
Action gameLudosity built a Zelda-like that treats sequence-breaking as a feature instead of a bug, and the dungeon design is sharp enough to mostly earn the arr...Good7.6
Nightmare Reaper
Action gameNightmare Reaper takes the most cynical mechanic in modern gaming — randomized loot drops — and welds it onto a 1994-era shotgun rampage, then hides t...Good7.8Yes, Your Grace
Adventure gameA brutally honest little kingdom sim that understands something most strategy games refuse to admit — governing is mostly deciding which of your peopl...Good7.8ScourgeBringer
Action gameScourgeBringer strips the action-roguelite down to one idea — attack or die — and executes it with a discipline most of its peers never reach. It's sh...Good7.5Heavenly Bodies
Action game2pt Interactive built an entire game around the radical idea that arms are hard to use, and made it one of the most tactile, funny, and quietly beauti...Good7.5Timelie
Adventure gameUrnique Studio built a stealth game where you don't react — you author. Timelie's scrubbable timeline is a genuinely new mechanic, understood by its...Good7.8The Swindle
Action gameThe Swindle has one of the sharpest risk/reward loops in the roguelike canon, bolted onto platforming controls that can't carry the weight. When the d...Mixed5.9Jotun: Valhalla Edition
Action gameThunder Lotus's hand-drawn Norse epic is one of the most beautiful indie games ever animated, and one of the thinnest to actually play. At $14.99, it'...Mixed6.1Promise Mascot Agency
Adventure gameKaizen Game Works has built a strange, affecting crime drama about the emotional labor of running a small business, wrapped in a floaty open world tha...Good7.4TowerFall Ascension
Action gameTowerFall Ascension is one of the sharpest local multiplayer designs of the indie era — lean, readable, and built so that every loss makes sense. Its ...Great8.3Detention
Adventure gameRed Candle Games turns Taiwan's White Terror into a quietly devastating horror game built on meaning rather than monsters. It's short, mechanically si...Great8.2Thimbleweed Park
Adventure gameRon Gilbert and Gary Winnick built a time machine, and it works. Thimbleweed Park is a sharp, well-produced classic point-and-click adventure — provid...Good7.9Duck Game
Action gameA decade on, Duck Game is still the couch multiplayer game to beat — a physics-drunk, one-hit-kill arena brawler whose 50+ weapons turn every 15-secon...Great8.6Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
Action gameAsteroid Base built a co-op machine that turns communication breakdown into comedy and teamwork into genuine delight. A decade on, it remains a stando...Good7.4Headliner: NoviNews
Adventure gameHeadliner: NoviNews is a two-hour morality machine about who controls the news, and its brevity is both its sharpest design decision and its most legi...Good7.1Road 96
Action gameRoad 96's shuffled-scene structure is a genuinely novel idea, and its cast is unforgettable — but featherweight mechanics, repetitive runs, and a toot...Mixed6.9Tangledeep
RPG gameTangledeep is a mechanically dense, unusually welcoming roguelike that lowers the genre's barriers without gutting its depth. Its flaws — weak onboard...Good7.2
