Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games

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

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Severed Steel

Severed Steel

Greylock Studio

8.8
game
Our verdict

Severed Steel is a blistering, neon-soaked fever dream that strips the first-person shooter to its core kinetic essentials and leaves the reload butto...

Taiji

Taiji

Matthew VanDevander

8.9
game
Our verdict

A masterful evolution of the "witness-like" genre that replaces heavy-handed tutorials with pure, unadulterated epiphany; it is the most rewarding log...

Laysara: Summit Kingdom

Laysara: Summit Kingdom

Quite OK Games

8.4
game
Our verdict

Laysara: Summit Kingdom abandons the flat-earth comfort of traditional city builders for a grueling, beautiful, and mechanically dense vertical climb....

Conscript

Conscript

Jordan Mochi, Catchweight Studio

9.2
game
Our verdict

Conscript is a harrowing, masterfully executed descent into the trenches that proves historical reality is far more terrifying than any supernatural e...

Cloudpunk

Cloudpunk

ION LANDS

8.2
game
Our verdict

Cloudpunk is a breathtaking exercise in atmospheric world-building that swaps cybernetic combat for the meditative, rain-slicked life of a futuristic ...

Epistory - Typing Chronicles

Epistory - Typing Chronicles

Fishing Cactus

8.8
game
Our verdict

Epistory - Typing Chronicles is a rare mechanical marvel that transcends the "educational" stigma of its genre to deliver a hauntingly beautiful, visc...

Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

Nikita Kryukov

8.5
game
Our verdict

A harrowing, twenty-minute descent into the static-filled mind of a girl buying groceries. It is less a "game" and more a brutal, beautiful simulation...

7 Billion Humans

7 Billion Humans

Tomorrow Corporation

8.8
game
Our verdict

A brutal, hilarious, and intellectually demanding expansion on parallel processing that turns the drudgery of office work into a masterclass in logic....

Heaven's Vault

Heaven's Vault

inkle Ltd

8.5
game
Our verdict

Heaven’s Vault is a rare intellectual achievement that treats language not as window dressing, but as the primary engine of discovery. It is a slow, m...

Please, Touch The Art

Please, Touch The Art

Thomas Waterzooi

8.5
game
Our verdict

A minimalist masterclass that turns the "look but don't touch" ethos of high art into a tactile, rhythmically satisfying logic puzzle. It is as much a...

Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate

Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate

PUNKCAKE Delicieux

8.8
game
Our verdict

A masterclass in "what-if" game design that transforms the ossified rules of chess into a visceral, high-stakes roguelike where every shell counts.

Roadwarden

Roadwarden

Moral Anxiety Studio

9.2
game
Our verdict

A hauntingly dense, text-driven masterpiece that proves prose and pixel art remain the most potent tools for world-building in the RPG genre.

Peglin

Peglin

Red Nexus Games Inc.

8.7
game
Our verdict

Peglin is a brilliantly executed genre-mashup that proves physics-based chaos is the perfect partner for roguelike strategy. It’s addictive, punishing...

Dandara: Trials of Fear Edition

Dandara: Trials of Fear Edition

Long Hat House

8.7
game
Our verdict

By stripping away the most fundamental mechanic in gaming—the ability to walk—Dandara forces a total cognitive rewire that results in the most innovat...

Abzû

Abzû

Giant Squid

8.5
game
Our verdict

Abzû is a masterclass in atmospheric storytelling that prioritizes emotional resonance over mechanical complexity. It isn't a game you play; it’s a wo...

Vagante

Vagante

Nuke Nine

8.7
game
Our verdict

Vagante is a punishing, deeply systems-driven roguelike that trades Spelunky’s slapstick chaos for a gritty, loot-heavy descent into darkness. It is a...

A Hat in Time

A Hat in Time

Gears for Breakfast

9.2
game
Our verdict

Gears for Breakfast has weaponized nostalgia into a mechanically dense, fiercely inventive masterclass that proves the 'collectathon' never died—it ju...

Bonfire Peaks

Bonfire Peaks

Corey Martin, Alan Hazelden, Mari Zand, Zach Soares

9.2
game
Our verdict

A masterclass in spatial economy that proves restricted movement is the ultimate canvas for puzzle-solving brilliance. It is intellectually honest, me...

Webbed

Webbed

Sbug Games

9.2
game
Our verdict

Sbug Games has achieved something rare: a physics platformer where the movement feels like a natural extension of intent rather than a struggle agains...

Luck be a Landlord

Luck be a Landlord

TrampolineTales

8.9
game
Our verdict

A masterclass in probability management that strips the predatory skin off slot machines to reveal a brilliant, satirical roguelike engine-builder.

Can of Wormholes

Can of Wormholes

munted finger

9.7
game
Our verdict

Munted Finger has delivered a near-perfect puzzle odyssey that sheds the genre's typical "filler" bloat in favor of relentless, handcrafted innovation...

Telling Lies

Telling Lies

Sam Barlow, Half Mermaid, Furious Bee Limited

8.2
game
Our verdict

An ambitious, prestige-tier expansion of the FMV genre that proves more data isn't always better for the detective's soul, though its mechanical stubb...

Synthetik: Legion Rising

Synthetik: Legion Rising

Flow Fire Games

8.8
game
Our verdict

Synthetik: Legion Rising is a masterclass in mechanical depth that proves friction is a feature, not a bug. It is a relentlessly punishing, deeply rew...

Paper Trail

Paper Trail

Newfangled Games

8.8
game
Our verdict

Paper Trail transforms spatial reasoning into a tactile masterpiece, proving that the most profound innovations often come from a simple change in per...

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