Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games

Polychroma Games has built one of the most emotionally precise narrative adventures of the decade—a game that disguises a devastating meditation on gr...

Coromon isn't content to cosplay as a Game Boy Advance-era Pokémon clone—it interrogates the genre's oldest habits and fixes most of them. A stamina-d...

Amanita Design abandons its point-and-click roots for a hand-painted puzzle-platformer built on one genuinely clever idea—monsters that freeze into fu...

Portable Moose's five-episode occult mystery is one of indie horror's most emotionally punishing achievements—a game that weaponizes its clunky puzzle...

Dragonfall is the rare tactical RPG where the writing hits as hard as the shotguns. A decade on, it remains the sharpest cyberpunk story you can play,...

Wadjet Eye Games has crafted the smartest point-and-click adventure in a decade—a party-based, choice-driven urban fantasy that treats you like an adu...

A gorgeous, gut-wrenching illustrated elegy for the men and women ground up by World War I. The puzzles are featherweight, but the storytelling hits l...

A genuinely clever mashup of Ace Attorney courtroom theater and Picross puzzling, carried by a sharp buddy-comedy script and a killer soundtrack—so lo...

Silt is a gorgeous nightmare — a monochrome plunge into the deep that nails atmosphere and dread better than almost anything in its genre, but stumble...

Spirittea nails the fantasy of running a spirit bathhouse with a hypnotic management loop and gorgeous pixel art, but finicky controls and thin hand-h...

A surreal survival-horror gem that weaponizes corporate dread into genuine terror, hobbled only by a save system that punishes curiosity. Weird, funny...

Prodeus is the rare nostalgia act that earns its swagger—a blistering, gore-soaked shooter that borrows Doom's DNA and Quake's tempo, then wraps them ...

A deceptively adorable creature-collector that smuggles a genuinely mature story about grief, obsession, and belonging past its candy-colored exterior...

A near-flawless HD revival of two rhythm-strategy cult classics that finally fixes the latency demons — dragged down only by a grind-heavy loop that h...

A courtroom drama that dresses 19th-century French satire in a bird costume and, against all odds, makes it sing. The mechanics are lighter than the A...

A morally corrosive spy simulator that turns snooping into gut-wrenching arithmetic — brilliant, oppressive, and occasionally so punishing it forgets ...

Alisa is a love letter to 1998 written in the fluent, deliberately clumsy dialect of tank controls and fixed cameras—a survival horror throwback so co...

A rare puzzle game that turns translation itself into an emotional gut-punch — brilliant, brief, and occasionally its own worst enemy. If the Android ...

Digital Sun built a game around a genuinely fresh idea—run a shop by day, raid a dungeon by night—and executed it with enough polish and charm that it...

Loveshack Entertainment turned the humble comic panel into a control scheme, and the result is a gorgeous, brief, endlessly imitated puzzle game that ...

inkle didn't just port a stack of dusty 1980s paperbacks to your phone—it rebuilt them into one of the smartest, most quietly ambitious pieces of inte...

Train Valley 2 trades its predecessor's frantic crash-avoidance for the quiet, obsessive pleasure of building a logistics machine that hums. It's a pu...

Bithell Games turns the humble text adventure into a taut two-hour sci-fi noir that trusts its writing above all else — a small, sharp game that says ...

A gorgeous, hand-drawn love letter to the *Where's Waldo* era that trades challenge for charm—and mostly gets away with it. Just don't expect the puzz...