Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games
Expert-reviewed Nintendo Switch games, scored out of 10.
276 reviewed
Featured on Nintendo Switch

Hades II
Supergiant Games
Supergiant 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...

Hollow Knight: Silksong
Team Cherry
Team Cherry spent seven years building a game that is bigger, faster, and meaner than *Hollow Knight* — and mostly better for it, provided you can sto...

Super Mario Bros. Wonder
Nintendo
Nintendo's latest 2D Mario entry is not merely a nostalgia trip; it is a masterclass in revitalizing a beloved genre, delivering an almost ceaseless t...

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
Nintendo
Nine years after its Wii U debut, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe remains the most polished, complete, and mechanically honest kart racer ever shipped. It's not j...

Split Fiction
Hazelight Studios
Hazelight has done it again — **Split Fiction** is a relentlessly inventive two-player adventure that refuses to reuse a good idea when it could inven...

SIGNALIS
ROSE-ENGINE
SIGNALIS is a brutalist triumph, a survival horror masterpiece that weaponizes nostalgia to deliver a chilling, sorrowful meditation on memory and ide...

It Takes Two
Hazelight Studios
Hazelight Studios delivers a brilliant, wildly inventive, and mechanically diverse cooperative adventure that sets a new high bar for the genre, even ...

Nier: Automata
Square Enix, PlatinumGames Inc.
NieR: Automata is not merely a game; it's a brutal, elegant, and unforgettable meditation on existence, wrapped in one of the most inventive action RP...

Thumper
Drool
Thumper is not merely a game; it's a grueling, hypnotic, and masterfully executed descent into aural and visual chaos. It's an essential experience th...

Tunic
TUNIC Team
Tunic is a masterclass in curiosity-driven design, wrapping a brutal and brilliant action-adventure in a linguistic puzzle that trusts the player comp...

Katana ZERO
Askiisoft
Katana ZERO is a masterclass in kinetic violence and narrative intrigue, a tightly-wound clockwork of death and discovery that's over too soon, but le...

Hades
Supergiant Games
Hades is a masterclass in game design, blending a fiendishly addictive combat loop with a narrative and character depth that most AAA games can only d...

Stumble Guys
Scopely
Stumble Guys shamelessly borrows its blueprint from *Fall Guys*, but delivers a faster, more accessible, and brutally effective dose of multiplayer ma...

Celeste
Maddy Makes Games Inc.
Celeste is a masterclass in game design, weaving a profoundly human story about mental health into a pixel-perfect, brutally challenging platformer. I...

Hollow Knight
Team Cherry
Hollow Knight is not merely a game; it's a pilgrimage into a beautifully broken world. It stands as the definitive modern Metroidvania, a harrowing, u...

Outer Wilds
Mobius Digital
Outer Wilds is not merely a game; it's a profound, melancholy, and masterfully constructed mystery box. It trusts the player's intelligence completely...

Wreckfest
HandyGames
Wreckfest isn't just a racing game; it's a physics-driven celebration of automotive destruction that masterfully balances sophisticated damage modelin...

Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons
Starbreeze Studios AB
An unforgettable, emotionally resonant fable that masterfully uses its unique control scheme not as a gimmick, but as the very soul of its story about...

Door Kickers: Action Squad
PixelShard, KillHouse Games
Action Squad is a masterclass in focused design, delivering a brutally satisfying loop of tactical murder that is as addictive as it is demanding. It’...

Vampire Survivors
poncle
Vampire Survivors strips the modern roguelite down to its bones and rebuilds it into one of the most compelling and dangerously addictive feedback loo...

LIMBO
Playdead
LIMBO remains a masterclass in minimalist design, where its stark, monochromatic world and brutal physics puzzles create an atmosphere so oppressive a...

SteamWorld Heist
Image & Form Games
SteamWorld Heist masterfully fuses turn-based tactics with skill-based shooting, creating a compulsively playable and deeply satisfying strategy game ...

Downwell
Moppin
Downwell is a masterclass in minimalist design, turning a simple, gravity-fueled descent into a brutally elegant and endlessly replayable action puzzl...

The Pathless
Giant Squid
Giant Squid delivers a visually stunning adventure that masterfully trades the bloat of modern open-worlds for a singular, hypnotic focus on kinetic g...

Oddmar
Mobge Ltd
Oddmar doesn’t invent the platformer; it perfects it for the modern age. This is a gorgeous, fluid, and utterly confident game that stands as a defian...

Donut County
Ben Esposito
Donut County is a brilliantly minimalist physics puzzler that delivers more charm and wit than actual challenge. It’s a supremely confident, short-for...

Transistor
Supergiant Games
Transistor is a stunningly confident and mechanically inventive RPG from Supergiant Games. It’s a masterclass in atmosphere, where the strategic comba...

Bastion
Supergiant Games
A masterclass in interactive storytelling and polished action, Bastion remains a landmark indie title that proves style can be substance. It's an esse...

The Talos Principle
Croteam
The Talos Principle is a rare and brilliant achievement—a puzzle game that respects its audience enough to challenge not only their spatial reasoning ...