Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games

A savage, hilarious, endlessly replayable roguelike that turns permadeath into a punchline and a punishment in equal measure. Rough edges and brutal R...

Double Fine's crowdfunded passion project is one of the most gorgeous point-and-click adventures ever animated, buoyed by a razor-sharp voice cast and...

Broforce is a gleeful, self-aware ode to '80s action cinema built on the best destructible sandbox this side of a Michael Bay set — a chaotic, co-op-f...

Kenny Sun took Breakout, Vampire Survivors, and a city-builder, threw them in a blender, and somehow poured out one of the most compulsively replayabl...

Okomotive trades the sci-fi melancholy of *FAR* for windswept mountaintops and a herd of fuzzy companions, delivering a wordless, achingly pretty pilg...

Evil Empire took the DNA that made Dead Cells sing and grafted it onto a Persian myth, and the result is one of the most kinetic roguelites on the mar...

A sharper, riskier, more ambitious sequel that trades the cozy fatalism of the original for white-knuckle survival — and mostly earns the trade. If yo...

Highwater is a gorgeous, sharp-witted narrative adventure that wears its low-poly heart on its sleeve—but its turn-based combat is a rowboat with one ...

Backbone opens as one of the most atmospheric detective games in years, then throws its own genre out the window—leaving you with a gorgeous, melancho...

Carto turns cartography into its core verb, and the result is one of the most inventive puzzle ideas in years—wrapped in a cozy, gorgeous package that...

A wordless, wistful puzzle-box about the moment two childhood friends realize they're growing apart. It's short, gentle, and gorgeous—and its most rad...

Röki is a hand-painted Nordic fairy tale that trades combat for compassion and mostly wins, held back only by pacing that occasionally makes you walk ...

A gorgeous, brain-bending tactics RPG where the terrain itself is your deadliest weapon and your worst enemy. Brilliant and uncompromising in equal me...

Ghost Song is a gorgeous, melancholy Metroidvania that nails atmosphere and combat feel but rarely surprises you with an idea you haven't seen before ...

Afterimage is one of the most beautiful Metroidvanias ever drawn and one of the most confusing ones ever written. Aurogon Shanghai built a sprawling, ...

Fortnite stopped being a game years ago and became a platform—a chaotic, generous, occasionally exhausting entertainment machine that gives away the w...

A genuinely clever mash-up of *Stardew Valley* comfort and *Slay the Spire* tactics that pulls off the fusion better than it has any right to—so long ...

A disarmingly clever management sim that hides a surprisingly tangled mystery — and a genuinely fiddly interface — beneath its impossibly cozy fur. It...

A gorgeous, big-hearted throwback that coasts on charm and comedy more than mechanics — short, funny, and genuinely touching, so long as you don't com...

Sephonie is a gorgeous, emotionally ambitious platformer that trusts you to feel your way through both its caves and its characters — but its slippery...

A solo-developed comedy RPG that treats every battle as a chance to reinvent itself — sometimes you fight, sometimes you draw the boss yourself. Uneve...

Haven is a rare thing—a game that treats an already-in-love couple as the story, not the reward. It's gorgeous, tender, and beautifully scored, but th...

Pixpil's debut is a gorgeous, big-hearted love letter to 16-bit adventure games that occasionally forgets when to end a sentence — but the sentence is...

A brilliant, merciless collision of Slay the Spire and Mega Man Battle Network that asks you to build a deck and dodge a bullet hell at the same time ...