Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games

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

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Duck Game

Duck Game

Landon Podbielski

9.1
game
Our verdict

A decade on, Duck Game remains the gold standard for couch multiplayer — a physics-drunk, one-hit-kill arena brawler whose 50+ weapons turn every 15-s...

Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime

Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime

Asteroid Base

8.4
game
Our verdict

Asteroid Base built a co-op machine that turns communication breakdown into comedy and teamwork into genuine delight. A decade on, it remains one of t...

Grounded

Grounded

Obsidian Entertainment

8.7
game
Our verdict

Obsidian took a one-joke premise — *Honey, I Shrunk the Kids* as a survival game — and built one of the most inventive, mechanically confident entries...

Road 96

Road 96

Digixart

7.8
game
Our verdict

Road 96 gambles that a procedurally shuffled road trip can carry real political weight — and mostly wins. Its cast is unforgettable and its structure ...

Record of Lodoss War: Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth

Record of Lodoss War: Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth

Team Ladybug, WSS playground

8.4
game
Our verdict

A gorgeous, precision-built Metroidvania that trades sprawl for craft — six hours of near-flawless sprite work and a genuinely smart elemental combat ...

Absolute Drift

Absolute Drift

Funselektor Labs Inc.

8.6
game
Our verdict

Absolute Drift is a masterclass in focused design — one mechanic, sharpened to a razor's edge, wrapped in stark white minimalism and drum & bass. It w...

Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion

Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion

Snoozy Kazoo

8.2
game
Our verdict

Snoozy Kazoo's shredder-happy vegetable crime spree is one of the funniest, tightest small games of its generation — and it ends roughly forty minutes...

ASTLIBRA Revision

ASTLIBRA Revision

KEIZO

8.7
game
Our verdict

ASTLIBRA Revision looks like a shovelware asset flip and plays like the work of a man who spent a decade and a half refusing to let go. Push past the ...

Kero Blaster

Kero Blaster

Studio Pixel

8.6
game
Our verdict

Daisuke "Pixel" Amaya spent seven years after *Cave Story* building something almost aggressively small — a two-hour run-and-gun about a frog extermin...

Chicken Police – Paint it RED!

Chicken Police – Paint it RED!

The Wild Gentlemen

8.4
game
Our verdict

A Hungarian studio nobody had heard of photographed a bunch of taxidermy-grade animal heads, dropped them into a rain-slicked noir city, and wrote dia...

Sorry We're Closed

Sorry We're Closed

à la mode games

8.7
game
Our verdict

à la mode games built a survival horror hybrid that snaps between fixed-camera dread and first-person arcade shooting without either half feeling like...

Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader

Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader

Owlcat Games

8.6
game
Our verdict

Owlcat has built the most ambitious licensed CRPG in years — a 130-hour interrogation of the Imperium's rot that respects your intelligence and punish...

Skate Story

Skate Story

Sam Eng

8.8
game
Our verdict

Skate Story is the rare game that takes a genre defined by physics and repetition and turns it into something devotional. It's not the deepest skater ...

Toodee and Topdee

Toodee and Topdee

dietzribi

8.4
game
Our verdict

A solo-developed puzzle-platformer that mines one genuinely original idea — toggling between a 2D platformer and a top-down puzzler in the same level ...

Heroes of Hammerwatch

Heroes of Hammerwatch

Crackshell

8.3
game
Our verdict

Heroes of Hammerwatch takes the ancient arcade bones of Gauntlet, grafts on a rogue-lite meta-progression system that actually respects your time, and...

Wizard of Legend

Wizard of Legend

Contingent99

8.3
game
Our verdict

Wizard of Legend strips the roguelike down to pure kinetic combat — dash, cast, chain, repeat — and the result is one of the genre's most satisfying a...

PlateUp!

PlateUp!

It's happening

8.8
game
Our verdict

PlateUp! takes the Overcooked formula, bolts on a roguelite spine and a genuinely deep automation sandbox, and ends up as the smartest co-op cooking g...

Desta: The Memories Between

Desta: The Memories Between

ustwo games

7.8
game
Our verdict

ustwo's tactics-roguelite about grief is one of the most emotionally honest games in the genre, wrapped around a physics-based dodgeball system that's...

Battle Chef Brigade

Battle Chef Brigade

Trinket Studios

8.4
game
Our verdict

Battle Chef Brigade fuses brawler combat and match-three puzzling into a cooking-tournament loop that has no business working this well. A short campa...

Lost Ember

Lost Ember

Mooneye Studios

7.6
game
Our verdict

Lost Ember is a gorgeous, gentle five-hour meditation on loss and loyalty whose body-hopping mechanic is more sightseeing gimmick than systemic depth ...

Ghost of a Tale

Ghost of a Tale

SeithCG

8.2
game
Our verdict

A near-solo passion project that out-crafts studios fifty times its size, Ghost of a Tale wraps genuinely tense stealth in one of the most lovingly de...

Leap Year

Leap Year

Daniel Linssen

8.8
game
Our verdict

Leap Year weaponizes fragility — a fall of more than a few pixels kills you — and turns that single rule into one of the smartest knowledge-based metr...

Haste: Broken Worlds

Haste: Broken Worlds

Landfall

8.7
game
Our verdict

Landfall has built the best pure-movement game since *Neon White* — a downhill sprint through the apocalypse where flow state is the whole point. It's...

Absolum

Absolum

Dotemu, Guard Crush Games, Supamonks

8.7
game
Our verdict

Absolum takes the pixel-perfect brawling of *Streets of Rage 4* and welds it to *Dead Cells*-style roguelite structure — the result is the most mechan...

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