Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games
Expert-reviewed Nintendo Switch games, scored out of 10.
429 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...

Carrion
Phobia Game Studio
Carrion delivers a brutally satisfying power fantasy, putting you in the sinewy tentacles of the monster. While its core loop is a triumph of visceral...

A Monster's Expedition
Draknek & Friends
A Monster's Expedition elevates the puzzle genre with a masterclass in design elegance. Its simple log-rolling mechanic unfolds into a surprisingly de...

The Pedestrian
Skookum Arts
The Pedestrian elevates a simple, universal symbol into one of the most inventive puzzle-platformers in years, challenging the player not just to solv...


Control
Remedy Entertainment
Control is a confident, high-concept triumph of world-building and combat design. Remedy Entertainment has crafted a truly singular experience that fi...

Kentucky Route Zero
Cardboard Computer
Kentucky Route Zero is a landmark achievement in interactive storytelling. It's a slow, poetic, and deeply melancholic masterpiece that's less a game ...

Manifold Garden
William Chyr Studio
Manifold Garden is a stunning, architectural puzzler that rewires your brain’s understanding of space. It’s a triumphant fusion of art and logic, even...

The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe
Crows Crows Crows
The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe isn't just a remaster; it's a surgically precise and hilariously subversive critique of video games themselves. It's...


Viewfinder
Valve Corporation
Viewfinder is a masterclass in mechanical innovation, a puzzle game so conceptually audacious it feels like a glimpse into the future. While its narra...

Sea of Stars
Sabotage Studio
Sea of Stars is a masterclass in modernization, a meticulously crafted RPG that polishes the 16-bit formula to a brilliant shine. It doesn't reinvent ...

Dredge
Black Salt Games
Dredge masterfully combines the tranquil repetition of a fishing simulator with a creeping, Lovecraftian horror that proves deeply unsettling and utte...


COCOON
Geometric Interactive
COCOON is a masterclass in puzzle design, a cerebral and elegant adventure that folds reality in on itself. It’s short, but it’s also unforgettable.


Pentiment
Obsidian Entertainment
Obsidian Entertainment's Pentiment is a masterwork of narrative design, a slow-burn historical thriller that trades the sword for the pen and proves t...

80 Days
inkle Ltd, Cape Guy Ltd
80 Days transforms a classic novel into a masterclass of interactive storytelling, where every choice carves a unique and unforgettable path around a ...

CrossCode
Radical Fish Games
CrossCode is a masterclass in game design, wrapping a poignant narrative inside a fictional MMO that sports some of the most satisfying combat and puz...

Superliminal
Pillow Castle
Superliminal is a brilliant, if brief, exploration of perception-as-gameplay that stands as one of the most inventive puzzlers since *Portal*. It’s a ...

Slay the Princess
Black Tabby Games
Slay the Princess is not just a game; it's a meticulously crafted narrative scalpel that dissects the very nature of choice, trust, and reality. It st...

SIGNALIS
ROSE-ENGINE
SIGNALIS is a brutalist triumph, a survival horror masterpiece that weaponizes nostalgia to deliver a chilling, sorrowful meditation on memory and ide...

TOEM
Something We Made
TOEM trades high-octane action for a deliberately paced, charming photography adventure. It’s a masterclass in minimalist design and a potent antidote...

It Takes Two
Hazelight Studios
Hazelight Studios delivers a brilliant, wildly inventive, and mechanically diverse cooperative adventure that sets a new high bar for the genre, even ...

Citizen Sleeper
Jump Over the Age
Citizen Sleeper is a masterclass in narrative design, using the elegant pressure of a tabletop RPG to tell a powerful, deeply human story about surviv...

The Forgotten City
Modern Storyteller
The Forgotten City transcends its humble origins as a mod to deliver a masterclass in narrative design and moral philosophy, proving that a sharp scri...

Firewatch
Campo Santo
Firewatch is a masterclass in narrative design and environmental storytelling. Its stunning world and resonant characters are only slightly undercut b...

Chicory: A Colorful Tale
Wishes Ultd.
Chicory: A Colorful Tale masterfully uses a simple coloring-book mechanic to tell one of the most resonant stories about creativity and mental health ...

Tunic
TUNIC Team
Tunic is a masterclass in curiosity-driven design, wrapping a brutal and brilliant action-adventure in a linguistic puzzle that trusts the player comp...