Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games

DrinkBox took the one mechanic every action RPG treats as a gimmick — shapeshifting — and made it the entire load-bearing wall. The result is a dungeo...

Haiku, the Robot is a gorgeous, mechanically confident metroidvania that never quite escapes the shadow of the game it worships. It's an excellent 12-...

One German developer built a first-person Metroidvania that respects your intelligence more than most studio productions respect your time. The combat...

Beacon Pines turns branching narrative from a menu into a mechanic, and the trick actually works — but the six-hour runtime and a critical path that o...

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...

A wordless, hand-painted meditation on regret and reconciliation that hits like a short story you'll remember longer than most 40-hour epics — just do...

A hand-drawn hidden-object game that ditches the exploitative freemium playbook for something rarer — patience, craft, and 2,000 sound effects made wi...

Reventure weaponizes failure. It takes the most punishing word in gaming — "you died" — and turns it into a punchline, a progress bar, and a reason to...

Bombservice built a lean, punishing, and gorgeous action-platformer that respects your time and your reflexes in equal measure. It ends before you wan...

Joakim Sandberg spent the better part of a decade building a Metroidvania that fights above its weight class on nearly every front—combat, puzzles, ar...

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...

Refunct isn't a game so much as a controlled exhale — a gorgeous, frictionless movement toy that rebuilds a dead world under your feet and asks nothin...

Neon Abyss buries you in an avalanche of stackable loot until the screen bleeds bullets and the physics give up — thrilling, chaotic, and occasionally...

Tunche is one of the best-looking beat 'em ups you can buy, a storybook come to life with a killer four-player couch mode—but its roguelite scaffoldin...

A gorgeous pop-up storybook wrapped around borrowed mechanics, *The Wild at Heart* nails atmosphere and heart but stumbles on pacing and busywork. It'...

A gorgeous, genuinely tense sci-fi mystery that nails atmosphere and dread better than almost anything in its price bracket—held back by puzzles that ...

Tarsier Studios turned childhood dread into a five-hour masterclass in atmosphere, and even its rough edges can't dull the terror. Short, punishing, a...

Type:Rider is one of the most beautiful history lessons you'll ever play—a gorgeous, atmospheric platformer whose floaty physics never quite live up t...

A sharp, empathetic narrative adventure that turns the emotional labor of gig work into its core mechanic. The mystery underwhelms and the ride ends t...

A landmark of narrative ambition wrapped around a traversal system that actively fights you — the writing and voice work are among the best the medium...

BOKURA weaponizes miscommunication into a puzzle mechanic, delivering one of the most genuinely cooperative games ever made—provided you have a patien...

A savage, brilliant little arcade machine that weaponizes failure into progression—**Disc Room** turns dying into the most satisfying verb in gaming, ...

A masterclass in dread that turns dead technology into a haunted house, **Stories Untold** is one of the most inventive horror games of the last decad...

A daft internet meme becomes one of the smartest cooperative puzzle-platformers in years. Malastin builds an entire mechanical language around a dumb ...