Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games

A ruthlessly polished brick-breaker that trades the genre's mindless tapping for genuine geometry, Holedown is one of the most satisfying premium puzz...

Aeterna Noctis is a gorgeous, sprawling, and mercilessly demanding Metroidvania that earns its cult following—but its 16-region ambition sometimes out...

*Islets* takes the most tired chore in the Metroidvania playbook—backtracking—and turns it into a literal act of world-building. It's cozy without bei...

Lone Fungus is a technically brilliant Metroidvania with movement so satisfying you'll forgive its baggy pacing—a one-developer labor of love that rea...

Passtech Games delivers a roguelite with some of the most tactile, punishing combat in the genre — but its refusal to let you break the rules keeps it...

Size Five Games' brilliant hybrid is both an incredibly funny comedy and a masterful structural critique of modern game design. By forcing point-and-c...

Monster Sanctuary is a fiercely intelligent, demanding RPG that trades mindless level-grinding for deep, tactical team synergy and Metroidvania explor...

Nightdive Studios has delivered a masterclass in modernizing a classic without diluting its hostility, proving that games are often at their best when...

Demon's Tilt is a brilliant, chaotic, and relentlessly fast virtual pinball game that subverts traditional table design with shoot-'em-up mechanics an...

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is a masterclass in gothic Metroidvania design that honors its heritage without being trapped by it. Aside from mino...

Deadbolt is a brutal, hyper-kinetic 2D stealth-action masterpiece that strips away any margin for error, transforming every assassination into a high-...

A brilliant, beautifully constructed Metroidvania that successfully marries tight character-swapping mechanics with an addictive rogue-lite progressio...

Phoenotopia: Awakening is a beautifully crafted, fiercely challenging retro adventure that rewards patience and punishes carelessness. If you have the...

FAR: Lone Sails is a masterfully paced, atmospheric triumph that turns the potentially tedious chore of vehicle maintenance into an intimate, emotiona...

By reintroducing the tactile friction of active aiming and shooting, *20 Minutes Till Dawn* rescues the horde-survival genre from passive automation, ...

Melatonin strip-mines the rhythm genre of its clutter, offering a visually stunning, hand-drawn pastel dreamscape that tests your absolute timing thro...

Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove is the rare "retro" project that surpasses its inspirations, offering a masterclass in mechanical density and level desi...

Corn Kidz 64 is a jagged, surreal, and brilliant reconstruction of the 64-bit era that manages to feel like a lost classic rather than a modern imitat...

Nifflas strips away the floor and the frustration, leaving a frictionless, generative kinetic playground that feels less like a game and more like a p...

Anodyne is a haunting, 16-bit psychological odyssey that proves the most terrifying dungeons aren't filled with dragons, but with the mundane debris o...

Linelight is a masterclass in minimalism, stripping away the friction of modern gaming to reveal a pure, hypnotic core of logic and movement. It is qu...

Wall World is a masterclass in genre-blending that proves there is still plenty of gold to be found in the "mining rogue-lite" hills—even if those hil...

Tinykin strips away the friction of the creature-collection genre to deliver a kinetic, stress-free joyride through 90s nostalgia. It’s a rare instanc...

Ikaruga is a masterclass in minimalist complexity that demands absolute cognitive presence, proving that mechanical purity is far more enduring than g...