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

Supraland
Supra Games
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
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...

Fall Guys
Mediatonic
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
Ironhide Game Studio
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
Adglobe, Live Wire
A sequel that outgrows its predecessor in every measurable way, *Ender Magnolia* is a gorgeous, generous, emotionally literate Metroidvania that trade...

GRIME
Clover Bite
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
Bombservice
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
Joakim Sandberg
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
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...

Ultimate Chicken Horse
Clever Endeavour Games
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
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...

Neon Abyss
Veewo Games
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
LEAP Game Studios
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
KeokeN Interactive
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
Ex Nihilo, ARTE France
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
Outlaw Game design, James Scott
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
melessthanthree
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
Terri, Dose, Kitty, JW
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
Malastin
A daft internet meme becomes one of the smartest cooperative puzzle-platformers in years. Malastin builds an entire mechanical language around a dumb ...

Prodeus
Bounding Box Software Inc.
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
Young Horses
A deceptively adorable creature-collector that smuggles a genuinely mature story about grief, obsession, and belonging past its candy-colored exterior...

Patapon
SAS CO.,LTD.
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
Casper Croes
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
Digital Sun
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...