Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games

A wrenching, formally brilliant text-message drama about the Syrian refugee crisis that weaponizes your phone's most familiar interface against your c...

Amanita Design weaponizes its own cuteness in a two-hour nightmare that's more art installation than puzzle box. It's short, it's simple, and it will ...

RiME is a gorgeous, gentle puzzle adventure whose final hour recontextualizes everything before it — a trick few games attempt and fewer land. The puz...

Snake Pass is the rare 3D platformer with a genuinely original locomotion idea, executed with charm and conviction. Its physics-first controls will de...

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...

Pilgrims compresses Amanita Design's twenty years of hand-drawn whimsy into a two-hour, card-driven adventure that respects experimentation over corre...

inkle has bottled the chaos of a living, gossiping social simulation into taut 40-minute runs — and the result is one of the smartest detective games ...

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

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 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...

Storyteller is one of the most genuinely original puzzle games of the decade — a drag-and-drop narrative machine that makes you feel like a mischievou...

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...

Varney Lake is a lean, beautifully composed slice of vampire pulp that proves interactive fiction can still feel cinematic. It's short, it's more nove...

A gorgeous, sharply written pulp-horror visual novel that turns 1980s computer graphics into pure atmosphere — brief, occasionally padded, but well wo...

Beethoven & Dinosaur's follow-up to *The Artful Escape* is a gorgeous, needle-drop-driven ode to the end of adolescence—but it asks you to feel more t...

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...

A quietly radical little RPG that reads your character by watching what you *do*, not what you *say*—and the results land closer to home than any Buzz...

A physics-comedy sandbox that mines one absurd joke — a pistol-packing squirrel — for far more mileage than it has any right to. It's short, occasiona...

GalaxyTrail took a fan-game's DNA and forged one of the finest momentum-platformers in a decade — a generous, gorgeous, occasionally overlong love let...

A gorgeous, wordless meditation on growing up that turns card-stacking into genuine emotion—but its puzzles are so forgiving they occasionally forget ...

Grimvalor is a razor-sharp action platformer that treats your phone like a real gaming console—demanding precision, rewarding mastery, and refusing to...

Eidos-Montréal made a smart, funny, genuinely heartfelt single-player adventure that respects your time and your wallet—then watched it get buried by ...

Fifteen years on, Rocksteady's open-world Gotham remains the gold standard for what a licensed game can be — a brawler with real teeth, a stealth sand...

Asobo Studio's follow-up to *Innocence* is a gorgeous, gut-punching piece of interactive theater that reaches for greatness and mostly gets there — he...