Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games

Expert-reviewed Nintendo Switch games, scored out of 10.

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Framed

Framed

Loveshack Entertainment

8.7
game
Our verdict

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

Train Valley 2

Train Valley 2

Alexey Davydov, Sergey Dvoynikov, Timofey Shargorodskiy, Flazm

8.6
game
Our verdict

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...

Holedown

Holedown

grapefrukt games

8.7
game
Our verdict

A ruthlessly polished brick-breaker that trades the genre's mindless tapping for genuine geometry, Holedown is one of the most satisfying premium puzz...

Subsurface Circular

Subsurface Circular

Bithell Games

8.3
game
Our verdict

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 ...

Labyrinth City: Pierre the Maze Detective

Labyrinth City: Pierre the Maze Detective

Darjeeling

7.8
game
Our verdict

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...

Slayaway Camp

Slayaway Camp

Blue Wizard Digital

8.4
game
Our verdict

A Sokoban puzzler wearing a rubber Halloween mask, *Slayaway Camp* smuggles genuinely brutal spatial-reasoning challenges inside a gleefully tasteless...

Lair of the Clockwork God

Lair of the Clockwork God

Size Five Games

8.8
game
Our verdict

Size Five Games' brilliant hybrid is both an incredibly funny comedy and a masterful structural critique of modern game design. By forcing point-and-c...

Autonauts

Autonauts

Denki

8.2
game
Our verdict

Autonauts transforms complex systems engineering into a delightful, stress-free sandbox, though its brilliance on PC is severely compromised by clunky...

Buddy Simulator 1984

Buddy Simulator 1984

Not a Sailor Studios

8.5
game
Our verdict

Buddy Simulator 1984 is a brilliantly manipulative psychological horror experience that weaponizes retro nostalgia and a simulated operating system to...

20 Minutes Till Dawn

20 Minutes Till Dawn

flanne

8.0
game
Our verdict

By reintroducing the tactile friction of active aiming and shooting, *20 Minutes Till Dawn* rescues the horde-survival genre from passive automation, ...

Elasto Mania

Elasto Mania

Elasto Mania Team, Balazs Rozsa

7.0
game
Our verdict

Elasto Mania Remastered is a brutally uncompromising preservation of a physics-based cult classic. It is a masterpiece of pure mechanics that will del...

Minami Lane

Minami Lane

Blibloop, Doot

8.7
game
Our verdict

Minami Lane is a masterclass in "cozy" efficiency, stripping away the bloat of modern simulators to deliver a high-polish, Japanese-inspired street ma...

Tavern Talk

Tavern Talk

Gentle Troll Entertainment

8.7
game
Our verdict

Tavern Talk is a sophisticated subversion of the fantasy epic that swaps out sword-swinging for social engineering, delivering a narrative loop that i...

Little Kitty, Big City

Little Kitty, Big City

Double Dagger Studio

8.5
game
Our verdict

A masterclass in low-friction exploration that swaps high-octane combat for the simple, kinetic joy of knocking flowerpots off ledges.

Ynglet

Ynglet

Nifflas

8.8
game
Our verdict

Nifflas strips away the floor and the frustration, leaving a frictionless, generative kinetic playground that feels less like a game and more like a p...

Anodyne

Anodyne

Melos Han-Tani, Marina Kittaka

8.4
game
Our verdict

Anodyne is a haunting, 16-bit psychological odyssey that proves the most terrifying dungeons aren't filled with dragons, but with the mundane debris o...

If Found...

If Found...

DREAMFEEL

9.2
game
Our verdict

A masterclass in tactile storytelling that transforms the simple act of erasure into a profound, heartbreaking meditation on identity and the courage ...

Signs of the Sojourner

Signs of the Sojourner

Echodog Games

8.4
game
Our verdict

Signs of the Sojourner is a masterclass in ludonarrative harmony, using the rigid logic of deck-building to expose the messy, fragile nature of human ...

Linelight

Linelight

My Dog Zorro

9.2
game
Our verdict

Linelight is a masterclass in minimalism, stripping away the friction of modern gaming to reveal a pure, hypnotic core of logic and movement. It is qu...

Rabi-Ribi

Rabi-Ribi

CreSpirit, GemaYue

8.8
game
Our verdict

Rabi-Ribi is a mechanical masterpiece that hides its brutal, high-skill bullet-hell combat behind a deceptively sweet aesthetic, offering some of the ...

Good Pizza, Great Pizza

Good Pizza, Great Pizza

TapBlaze

8.7
game
Our verdict

TapBlaze’s culinary sim manages to strip away the stress of the service industry, leaving behind a meditative, hand-drawn loop that is as addictive as...

Muse Dash

Muse Dash

peropero

8.5
game
Our verdict

Muse Dash strip-mines the bloated corpse of traditional rhythm games, replacing complex inputs with a hyper-kinetic, two-button combat loop that is br...

Sticky Business

Sticky Business

Spellgarden Games

8.7
game
Our verdict

Sticky Business is a masterclass in low-friction creativity, stripping away the stress of entrepreneurship to leave behind a pure, meditative loop of ...

Wytchwood

Wytchwood

Alientrap

8.0
game
Our verdict

Wytchwood is an atmospheric triumph that wraps a dark, Grimm-inspired fairy tale inside a gorgeous paper-cutout aesthetic. While its hypnotic crafting...

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