Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games

Obsidian took a one-joke premise — *Honey, I Shrunk the Kids* as a survival game — and built one of the most inventive, mechanically confident entries...

Unbound Creations built a two-hour morality machine about who controls the news, and it lands harder than games ten times its length. Buy it, play it ...

Road 96 gambles that a procedurally shuffled road trip can carry real political weight — and mostly wins. Its cast is unforgettable and its structure ...

SIGONO has built one of the most emotionally precise science-fiction stories the medium has produced this decade, then wrapped it in mechanics that ra...

Paratopic is the most confidently edited horror game of its generation — a 50-minute low-poly fever dream that trusts its audience more than most AAA ...

Snoozy Kazoo's shredder-happy vegetable crime spree is one of the funniest, tightest small games of its generation — and it ends roughly forty minutes...

ASTLIBRA Revision looks like a shovelware asset flip and plays like the work of a man who spent a decade and a half refusing to let go. Push past the ...

Daisuke "Pixel" Amaya spent seven years after *Cave Story* building something almost aggressively small — a two-hour run-and-gun about a frog extermin...

Airborne Kingdom builds one of the freshest hooks the city-builder genre has produced in a decade — a metropolis that must physically stay aloft — the...

A Hungarian studio nobody had heard of photographed a bunch of taxidermy-grade animal heads, dropped them into a rain-slicked noir city, and wrote dia...

Silver Lining Studio's painted vignette is one of the most emotionally efficient games of its generation — it earns its ending honestly, and the endin...

Stephen Gillmurphy's nine-episode horror-comedy is the funniest, strangest, most confidently written adventure game in years — and it barely bothers t...

Papetura is the rare game where the medium *is* the argument — every set was physically cut, folded and glued by one person before a camera ever touch...

à la mode games built a survival horror hybrid that snaps between fixed-camera dread and first-person arcade shooting without either half feeling like...

Owlcat has built the most ambitious licensed CRPG in years — a 130-hour interrogation of the Imperium's rot that respects your intelligence and punish...

UNBEATABLE takes the most restrictive input scheme in the rhythm genre and builds one of its most expressive games on top of it. The story mode is bri...

Skate Story is the rare game that takes a genre defined by physics and repetition and turns it into something devotional. It's not the deepest skater ...

Toki Tori 2+ strips the puzzle-platformer down to two verbs — whistle and stomp — and builds one of the genre's most quietly radical designs on top of...

A solo-developed puzzle-platformer that mines one genuinely original idea — toggling between a 2D platformer and a top-down puzzler in the same level ...

Wizard of Legend strips the roguelike down to pure kinetic combat — dash, cast, chain, repeat — and the result is one of the genre's most satisfying a...

A gorgeous, wordless meditation on play and parenthood that treats LEGO bricks with more reverence than any licensed blockbuster ever has — just don't...

A gentle, gorgeously illustrated meditation on death and memory that trades challenge for warmth — and mostly gets away with it. Come for the inventiv...

Image & Form's card-battling RPG is the rare genre hybrid where both halves pull their weight — a genuinely deep combat system wrapped in a gorgeous, ...

Escape Academy is the rare video game adaptation of a physical hobby that understands *why* people love the original. Its rooms are genuinely clever, ...