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

The Talos Principle
Croteam
The Talos Principle is a rare and brilliant achievement—a puzzle game that respects its audience enough to challenge not only their spatial reasoning ...

Hyper Light Drifter
Heart Machine
Hyper Light Drifter is a brutal, beautiful, and unapologetically minimalist action RPG that rewards precision and patience. It’s a masterclass in envi...

Star Wars™: KOTOR
BioWare
Over two decades after its debut, BioWare's *Knights of the Old Republic* remains an absolute benchmark for interactive storytelling and role-playing....

Sky: Children of the Light
thatgamecompany
A breathtaking evolution of the concepts that made *Journey* a masterpiece, *Sky: Children of the Light* redefines the multiplayer landscape as a gent...

Monument Valley 2
Valve Corporation
Monument Valley 2 surpasses its predecessor by weaving a poignant, human story into its impossible architecture, creating an experience that is less a...

Playdead's INSIDE
Playdead
Playdead’s INSIDE is a haunting, minimalist masterpiece of interactive fiction. It is an unnerving, unforgettable journey that sets a new benchmark fo...

GRIS
Nomada Studio
GRIS is less a game and more a moving, interactive watercolor painting. It trades mechanical challenge for a profound, wordless emotional journey, cem...

The Battle of Polytopia
Midjiwan AB
The Battle of Polytopia masterfully condenses the sprawling 4X strategy genre into a potent, fast-paced format. It’s a brilliant exercise in strategic...

Northgard
Unknown Developer
Northgard masterfully trims the fat from the real-time strategy genre, delivering a tense and elegant survival simulation that values deliberate plann...

Minecraft
Mojang
A decade after its launch, Minecraft remains an unparalleled platform for creativity and emergent gameplay. It is less a simple game and more a cultur...

Icewind Dale
Beamdog
Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition is a triumphant remaster of a classic, offering a deep, combat-centric dungeon crawl that prioritizes strategic party-b...

Planescape: Torment
Beamdog
Beamdog's Enhanced Edition of this CRPG classic is a triumphant port of one of the most intellectually ambitious and brilliantly written games ever ma...


My Time at Portia
Pathea Games
My Time at Portia elevates the life-sim genre by masterfully blending a deep, commission-based crafting system with charming community-building, creat...

Don't Starve: Pocket Edition
Klei Entertainment
A punishing yet brilliant survival sandbox that trades hand-holding for deep, systemic gameplay and a stark, unforgettable art style. It's a masterpie...

Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas
Cornfox & Brothers Ltd.
Oceanhorn is a beautifully crafted and deeply familiar adventure that successfully channels the spirit of classic Zelda, offering a satisfying, if som...

Kingdom Two Crowns
Stumpy🐙Squid
Kingdom Two Crowns elevates its simple premise into a compulsively playable and surprisingly deep strategic experience, where every coin spent carries...
Reigns
Nerial
Reigns masterfully distills the complex, often absurd, art of governance into a deceptively simple swipe. It's a brilliant and endlessly replayable loop of power, peril, and political satire that i...

Human: Fall Flat
No Brakes Games
An unconventional physics-puzzler that transforms clumsy controls and open-ended levels into a brilliant sandbox for emergent comedy, especially when enjoyed with friends.

This War of Mine
11 bit studios
This War of Mine is a harrowing, masterfully executed survival game that trades power fantasy for profound emotional weight, forcing players to confront the brutal realities of civilian life in a w...

Terraria
Re-Logic
Terraria is a masterclass in sandbox design, offering a seemingly endless adventure of crafting, combat, and exploration that has only grown richer with time. It remains a benchmark for the genre, ...

Dead Cells
Motion Twin
Dead Cells masterfully fuses high-stakes roguelite progression with precision action-platforming, creating an endlessly replayable and brutally rewarding experience that stands as a benchmark for t...