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

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...

Alba: A Wildlife Adventure
ustwo games
A gorgeous, sun-drenched lesson in localized environmentalism that prioritizes charm over challenge. While mechanically simplistic, its heartfelt mess...

Raging Loop
KEMCO
Raging Loop is a masterfully written psychological thriller that weaponizes the death-loop trope to create a social deduction puzzle as cerebral as it...

The House in Fata Morgana
NOVECT
A dark, grueling gothic masterwork that strips away standard gameplay to deliver one of the most emotionally devastating narratives in interactive fic...

AI: The Somnium Files
Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
A masterclass in narrative architecture that weaponizes surrealism to tell a deeply human detective story, despite some occasional friction in its dre...

Overboard!
inkle Ltd
A masterclass in narrative efficiency that turns the classic murder mystery on its head by casting you as the villain in a race against the clock. It ...

ElecHead
NamaTakahashi, Tsuyomi
ElecHead is a masterclass in subtractive design, proving that a single, well-executed gimmick is worth more than a dozen half-baked features. It is a ...

Coffee Talk
Toge Productions
A meditative, character-driven experience that proves sometimes the most revolutionary act in a fantasy world isn't slaying a dragon, but serving a pe...

Maquette
Graceful Decay
Maquette is a brilliant conceptual experiment that often trips over its own feet, offering a hauntingly beautiful narrative trapped inside a clunky ph...

Tails of Iron
Odd Bug Studio
Tails of Iron is a punishingly beautiful 2D RPG that proves there’s more to the Souls-like genre than just hollow clones; it’s a masterclass in atmosp...

Gunbrella
doinksoft
Gunbrella is a masterclass in kinetic momentum, turning a goofy premise into one of the most mechanically satisfying 2D action-adventures in years. It...

Faith: The Unholy Trinity
Airdorf Games
Airdorf Games has crafted a masterpiece of psychological friction, proving that the most effective horror doesn't require a high-end GPU, but a profou...

Chrono Ark
Al Fine
Chrono Ark is a masterclass in tactical synergy, trading the simplicity of the solo deck-builder for a sophisticated, party-based engine that demands ...

Platform 8
KOTAKE CREATE
A claustrophobic, high-tension refinement of the anomaly-hunting subgenre that proves the mundane is far more terrifying than the monstrous.

Crypt Custodian
Kyle Thompson
Crypt Custodian is a masterclass in accessible Metroidvania design, trading the genre's typical grimness for a vibrant, broom-swinging adventure that ...

Gato Roboto
doinksoft
Gato Roboto is a masterclass in minimalist design, stripping the Metroidvania genre down to its bare essentials without losing an ounce of its bite. I...

The Last Campfire
Hello Games
Hello Games trades the procedural infinity of *No Man’s Sky* for a hand-crafted, emotionally resonant puzzle-adventure that prioritizes soul over scal...

Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc
Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd., Abstraction Games
A masterclass in psychological tension and "psycho-pop" style that turns the visual novel genre into a lethal logic puzzle you can't look away from.

The Artful Escape
Beethoven and Dinosaur
The Artful Escape is a visually arresting, aurally sublime interactive fever dream that sacrifices traditional mechanical depth for pure, unadulterate...

The Excavation of Hob's Barrow
Cloak and Dagger Games
A masterclass in atmospheric folk horror that trades cheap jump scares for creeping dread, anchoring its point-and-click mechanics in a gripping, slow...

Wayward Strand
ghost pattern
Ghost Pattern’s airborne hospital simulator swaps high-stakes action for radical empathy, offering a brilliant but stubbornly slow-burn narrative expe...

The Rise of the Golden Idol
Color Gray Games
A grotesque, genius-level puzzle box that respects your intelligence and sets a new high-water mark for the detective genre.

Selfloss
Goodwin Games
Selfloss is a hauntingly beautiful exploration of grief that pairs striking Slavic-Icelandic aesthetics with a high-friction dual-control system that ...

Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective
CAPCOM Co., Ltd.
A brilliant, kinetic Rube Goldberg machine of a puzzle game that proves Shu Takumi’s narrative wit and inventive mechanics are as immortal as its prot...

Smushi Come Home
SomeHumbleOnion
Smushi Come Home is a masterclass in the "tiny-open-world" subgenre, offering a mechanically satisfying and educationally rich escape that respects yo...