Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games

Expert-reviewed Nintendo Switch games, scored out of 10.

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Supraland

Supraland

Supra Games

8.7
game
Our verdict

One German developer built a first-person Metroidvania that respects your intelligence more than most studio productions respect your time. The combat...

Hollow Knight: Silksong

Hollow Knight: Silksong

Team Cherry

9.2
game
Our verdict

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...

Fall Guys

Fall Guys

Mediatonic

8.1
game
Our verdict

A gloriously dumb, endlessly watchable party royale that turns humiliation into a spectator sport — held back only by a cosmetics store that treats yo...

Kingdom Rush

Kingdom Rush

Ironhide Game Studio

9.2
game
Our verdict

More than a decade on, Ironhide's fantasy tower defense still sets the standard—tight, funny, and ruthlessly well-designed. If you own a screen and a ...

Ender Magnolia: Bloom in the Mist

Ender Magnolia: Bloom in the Mist

Adglobe, Live Wire

8.8
game
Our verdict

A sequel that outgrows its predecessor in every measurable way, *Ender Magnolia* is a gorgeous, generous, emotionally literate Metroidvania that trade...

GRIME

GRIME

Clover Bite

8.6
game
Our verdict

GRIME is one of the most visually audacious Soulslikes ever made, welding grotesque anatomical horror to a parry-and-devour combat loop that feels gen...

Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight

Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight

Bombservice

8.7
game
Our verdict

Bombservice built a lean, punishing, and gorgeous action-platformer that respects your time and your reflexes in equal measure. It ends before you wan...

Iconoclasts

Iconoclasts

Joakim Sandberg

8.3
game
Our verdict

Joakim Sandberg spent the better part of a decade building a Metroidvania that fights above its weight class on nearly every front—combat, puzzles, ar...

Split Fiction

Split Fiction

Hazelight Studios

9.2
game
Our verdict

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...

Ultimate Chicken Horse

Ultimate Chicken Horse

Clever Endeavour Games

8.7
game
Our verdict

The rare party game that turns level design into a blood sport, Ultimate Chicken Horse is a small-studio masterclass in emergent chaos—transcendent wi...

Hades II

Hades II

Supergiant Games

9.3
game
Our verdict

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...

Neon Abyss

Neon Abyss

Veewo Games

7.8
game
Our verdict

Neon Abyss buries you in an avalanche of stackable loot until the screen bleeds bullets and the physics give up — thrilling, chaotic, and occasionally...

Tunche

Tunche

LEAP Game Studios

7.2
game
Our verdict

Tunche is one of the best-looking beat 'em ups you can buy, a storybook come to life with a killer four-player couch mode—but its roguelite scaffoldin...

Deliver Us The Moon

Deliver Us The Moon

KeokeN Interactive

7.8
game
Our verdict

A gorgeous, genuinely tense sci-fi mystery that nails atmosphere and dread better than almost anything in its price bracket—held back by puzzles that ...

Type:Rider

Type:Rider

Ex Nihilo, ARTE France

7.8
educational
Our verdict

Type:Rider is one of the most beautiful history lessons you'll ever play—a gorgeous, atmospheric platformer whose floaty physics never quite live up t...

BOKURA

BOKURA

Outlaw Game design, James Scott

8.4
game
Our verdict

BOKURA weaponizes miscommunication into a puzzle mechanic, delivering one of the most genuinely cooperative games ever made—provided you have a patien...

Lucah: Born of a Dream

Lucah: Born of a Dream

melessthanthree

8.4
game
Our verdict

A brutal, beautiful action-RPG that fuses NieR-grade combat depth with a hand-drawn nightmare about trauma and self-forgiveness. The difficulty and de...

Disc Room

Disc Room

Terri, Dose, Kitty, JW

8.6
game
Our verdict

A savage, brilliant little arcade machine that weaponizes failure into progression—**Disc Room** turns dying into the most satisfying verb in gaming, ...

CATO: Buttered Cat

CATO: Buttered Cat

Malastin

8.7
game
Our verdict

A daft internet meme becomes one of the smartest cooperative puzzle-platformers in years. Malastin builds an entire mechanical language around a dumb ...

Prodeus

Prodeus

Bounding Box Software Inc.

8.5
game
Our verdict

Prodeus is the rare nostalgia act that earns its swagger—a blistering, gore-soaked shooter that borrows Doom's DNA and Quake's tempo, then wraps them ...

Bugsnax

Bugsnax

Young Horses

8.2
game
Our verdict

A deceptively adorable creature-collector that smuggles a genuinely mature story about grief, obsession, and belonging past its candy-colored exterior...

Patapon

Patapon

SAS CO.,LTD.

7.7
game
Our verdict

A near-flawless HD revival of two rhythm-strategy cult classics that finally fixes the latency demons — dragged down only by a grind-heavy loop that h...

Alisa

Alisa

Casper Croes

8.1
game
Our verdict

Alisa 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...

Moonlighter

Moonlighter

Digital Sun

8.2
game
Our verdict

Digital Sun built a game around a genuinely fresh idea—run a shop by day, raid a dungeon by night—and executed it with enough polish and charm that it...

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