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...

Dave the Diver
MINTROCKET
Dave the Diver masterfully fuses two entirely different games into a single, cohesive, and utterly addictive experience that defies all expectations. ...


Inscryption
Daniel Mullins Games
Inscryption is a masterclass in psychological horror and genre-bending design, a game that plays its players with the same ruthless ingenuity that the...

VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action
Sukeban Games
VA-11 Hall-A swaps cyberpunk’s usual high-octane action for a bar towel and a shaker, delivering one of the most poignant, well-written narrative expe...

A Short Hike
adamgryu
"A Short Hike" is a masterclass in minimalist game design, proving that a compelling experience doesn't require high stakes, sprawling maps, or photor...

What Remains of Edith Finch
Giant Sparrow
Giant Sparrow's masterpiece isn't just a game; it's a profound, interactive anthology of a family's beautiful and heartbreaking history. It sets a new...

Celeste
Maddy Makes Games Inc.
Celeste is a masterclass in game design, weaving a profoundly human story about mental health into a pixel-perfect, brutally challenging platformer. I...

Subnautica
Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Subnautica is not just another survival crafting game; it's a masterclass in atmospheric design and narrative progression that uses psychological tens...

Return of the Obra Dinn
Lucas Pope
Return of the Obra Dinn is a singular, demanding, and utterly brilliant piece of detective work that trusts its player completely. It’s an unforgettab...

Hollow Knight
Team Cherry
Hollow Knight is not merely a game; it's a pilgrimage into a beautifully broken world. It stands as the definitive modern Metroidvania, a harrowing, u...

Outer Wilds
Mobius Digital
Outer Wilds is not merely a game; it's a profound, melancholy, and masterfully constructed mystery box. It trusts the player's intelligence completely...

Little Inferno
Tomorrow Corporation
Tomorrow Corporation has built a beautiful, unsettling, and masterfully subversive critique of consumer culture disguised as a casual game. It's less ...

Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons
Starbreeze Studios AB
An unforgettable, emotionally resonant fable that masterfully uses its unique control scheme not as a gimmick, but as the very soul of its story about...

Endling - Extinction is Forever
HandyGames
Endling is a mechanically simple but emotionally devastating survival adventure that weaponizes its stripped-down gameplay to deliver a powerful, puni...

World of Goo 2
2D BOY, Tomorrow Corporation
Sixteen years after the original, World of Goo 2 returns with its physics-based brilliance intact, expanding the formula with clever new mechanics. It...

LIMBO
Playdead
LIMBO remains a masterclass in minimalist design, where its stark, monochromatic world and brutal physics puzzles create an atmosphere so oppressive a...


Gorogoa
Buried Signal
Gorogoa isn't merely a game; it's a work of interactive art, a brief but profound journey that uses perspective-shifting puzzles to tell a story of qu...

Downwell
Moppin
Downwell is a masterclass in minimalist design, turning a simple, gravity-fueled descent into a brutally elegant and endlessly replayable action puzzl...

The Pathless
Giant Squid
Giant Squid delivers a visually stunning adventure that masterfully trades the bloat of modern open-worlds for a singular, hypnotic focus on kinetic g...


Sayonara Wild Hearts
Simogo
Sayonara Wild Hearts isn’t just a game; it’s a playable electronic pop album, a 90-minute shot of pure, uncut audiovisual adrenaline. It’s a mastercla...

Oddmar
Mobge Ltd
Oddmar doesn’t invent the platformer; it perfects it for the modern age. This is a gorgeous, fluid, and utterly confident game that stands as a defian...

The Room Two
Fireproof Games
Fireproof Games masterfully expands its puzzle-box formula, creating a sequel that is bigger and more ambitious without losing the tactile magic and u...

The Room
Fireproof Games
A masterclass in tactile design and atmospheric mystery, The Room remains the benchmark for puzzle-box games, even a decade after its debut. It trades...

Donut County
Ben Esposito
Donut County is a brilliantly minimalist physics puzzler that delivers more charm and wit than actual challenge. It’s a supremely confident, short-for...

OXENFREE
Night School Studio
OXENFREE isn't just a game you play; it's a conversation you inhabit. Night School Studio has crafted a chilling, intelligent narrative thriller where...