Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games

A roguelite that treats slapstick disaster as a design principle, *Mr. Sun's Hatbox* is one of the most inventive physics sandboxes on Steam and Switc...

A physics-comedy sandbox that mines one absurd joke — a pistol-packing squirrel — for far more mileage than it has any right to. It's short, occasiona...

GalaxyTrail took a fan-game's DNA and forged one of the finest momentum-platformers in a decade — a generous, gorgeous, occasionally overlong love let...

Grimvalor is a razor-sharp action platformer that treats your phone like a real gaming console—demanding precision, rewarding mastery, and refusing to...

Eidos-Montréal made a smart, funny, genuinely heartfelt single-player adventure that respects your time and your wallet—then watched it get buried by ...

A ruthless, riotous co-op cooking sim that turns your living room into a shouting match — and that's the highest praise I can give it. Overcooked! 2 f...

Fifteen years on, Rocksteady's open-world Gotham remains the gold standard for what a licensed game can be — a brawler with real teeth, a stealth sand...

Asobo Studio's follow-up to *Innocence* is a gorgeous, gut-punching piece of interactive theater that reaches for greatness and mostly gets there — he...

A savage, hilarious, endlessly replayable roguelike that turns permadeath into a punchline and a punishment in equal measure. Rough edges and brutal R...

A ruthlessly efficient arcade climber that turns a single swipe into a compulsion loop few mobile games can match. On Switch it's a small classic; on ...

Broforce is a gleeful, self-aware ode to '80s action cinema built on the best destructible sandbox this side of a Michael Bay set — a chaotic, co-op-f...

A gorgeous, brutally tactical RPG whose enemies actually remember you — Star Renegades pairs one of the smartest combat systems in the genre with a gr...

Kenny Sun took Breakout, Vampire Survivors, and a city-builder, threw them in a blender, and somehow poured out one of the most compulsively replayabl...

Evil Empire took the DNA that made Dead Cells sing and grafted it onto a Persian myth, and the result is one of the most kinetic roguelites on the mar...

Highwater is a gorgeous, sharp-witted narrative adventure that wears its low-poly heart on its sleeve—but its turn-based combat is a rowboat with one ...

Ghost Song is a gorgeous, melancholy Metroidvania that nails atmosphere and combat feel but rarely surprises you with an idea you haven't seen before ...

Afterimage is one of the most beautiful Metroidvanias ever drawn and one of the most confusing ones ever written. Aurogon Shanghai built a sprawling, ...

Fortnite stopped being a game years ago and became a platform—a chaotic, generous, occasionally exhausting entertainment machine that gives away the w...

Sephonie is a gorgeous, emotionally ambitious platformer that trusts you to feel your way through both its caves and its characters — but its slippery...

Brace Yourself Games traded the roguelike dungeon for three vertical lanes and, against the odds, landed a rhythm game that rewards reading over rote....

Pixpil's debut is a gorgeous, big-hearted love letter to 16-bit adventure games that occasionally forgets when to end a sentence — but the sentence is...

A brilliant, merciless collision of Slay the Spire and Mega Man Battle Network that asks you to build a deck and dodge a bullet hell at the same time ...

DrinkBox took the one mechanic every action RPG treats as a gimmick — shapeshifting — and made it the entire load-bearing wall. The result is a dungeo...

Haiku, the Robot is a gorgeous, mechanically confident metroidvania that never quite escapes the shadow of the game it worships. It's an excellent 12-...