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

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...

Invisible, Inc.
Klei Entertainment
A masterclass in tactical economy that ditches random dice rolls for high-stakes, information-driven tension. It is the thinking person’s heist simula...

Antonblast
Summitsphere
Antonblast is a masterclass in kinetic momentum, stripping the mascot platformer of its politeness and replacing it with a sledgehammer and a gallon o...

Symphonia
Sunny Peak
Symphonia is a mechanically rigorous, visually arresting precision platformer that successfully trades traditional combat for a sophisticated, instrum...

Across the Obelisk
Dreamsite Games
A masterclass in party-based synergy that turns the solitary deck-builder into a high-stakes social marathon. It is brilliant, dense, and occasionally...

Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo
Square Enix
A razor-sharp, subversion-heavy visual novel that weaponizes genre tropes and system settings to deliver the most inventive supernatural mystery in ye...

Taiji
Matthew VanDevander
A masterful evolution of the "witness-like" genre that replaces heavy-handed tutorials with pure, unadulterated epiphany; it is the most rewarding log...

Conscript
Jordan Mochi, Catchweight Studio
Conscript is a harrowing, masterfully executed descent into the trenches that proves historical reality is far more terrifying than any supernatural e...

Pools
Tensori
Tensori’s **POOLS** is a masterclass in atmospheric minimalism that proves the scariest thing in the dark isn't a monster, but the sheer, clinical ind...

Cloudpunk
ION LANDS
Cloudpunk is a breathtaking exercise in atmospheric world-building that swaps cybernetic combat for the meditative, rain-slicked life of a futuristic ...

Epistory - Typing Chronicles
Fishing Cactus
Epistory - Typing Chronicles is a rare mechanical marvel that transcends the "educational" stigma of its genre to deliver a hauntingly beautiful, visc...

Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
Nikita Kryukov
A harrowing, twenty-minute descent into the static-filled mind of a girl buying groceries. It is less a "game" and more a brutal, beautiful simulation...

Heaven's Vault
inkle Ltd
Heaven’s Vault is a rare intellectual achievement that treats language not as window dressing, but as the primary engine of discovery. It is a slow, m...

NUTS
Joon, Pol, Muutsch, Char & Torfi
A surveillance procedural that swaps gritty cityscapes for a psychedelic forest, proving that watching squirrels is far more unsettling—and rewarding—...

Later Alligator
thatgamecompany
A masterclass in character-driven comedy and hand-drawn aesthetics that proves the point-and-click genre still has plenty of bite. It is, quite simply...

Roadwarden
Moral Anxiety Studio
A hauntingly dense, text-driven masterpiece that proves prose and pixel art remain the most potent tools for world-building in the RPG genre.

Dandara: Trials of Fear Edition
Long Hat House
By stripping away the most fundamental mechanic in gaming—the ability to walk—Dandara forces a total cognitive rewire that results in the most innovat...

Abzû
Giant Squid
Abzû is a masterclass in atmospheric storytelling that prioritizes emotional resonance over mechanical complexity. It isn't a game you play; it’s a wo...

Vagante
Nuke Nine
Vagante is a punishing, deeply systems-driven roguelike that trades Spelunky’s slapstick chaos for a gritty, loot-heavy descent into darkness. It is a...

A Hat in Time
Gears for Breakfast
Gears for Breakfast has weaponized nostalgia into a mechanically dense, fiercely inventive masterclass that proves the 'collectathon' never died—it ju...

Solar Ash
Heart Machine
Solar Ash is a masterclass in kinetic movement and scale, offering a "flow state" experience that is occasionally hamstrung by its own repetitive stru...

Webbed
Sbug Games
Sbug Games has achieved something rare: a physics platformer where the movement feels like a natural extension of intent rather than a struggle agains...

Telling Lies
Sam Barlow, Half Mermaid, Furious Bee Limited
An ambitious, prestige-tier expansion of the FMV genre that proves more data isn't always better for the detective's soul, though its mechanical stubb...

Paper Trail
Newfangled Games
Paper Trail transforms spatial reasoning into a tactile masterpiece, proving that the most profound innovations often come from a simple change in per...

Minishoot' Adventure
SoulGame Studio
Minishoot' Adventure is a masterclass in genre-bending, stripping away the bloat of modern gaming to deliver a pure, high-octane marriage of Zelda-sty...