Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games
Expert-reviewed Nintendo Switch games, scored out of 10.
514 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...

Severed Steel
Greylock Studio
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
Matthew VanDevander
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
Quite OK Games
Laysara: Summit Kingdom abandons the flat-earth comfort of traditional city builders for a grueling, beautiful, and mechanically dense vertical climb....

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

Cloudpunk
ION LANDS
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
Fishing Cactus
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
Nikita Kryukov
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
Tomorrow Corporation
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
inkle Ltd
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
Thomas Waterzooi
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
PUNKCAKE Delicieux
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
Moral Anxiety Studio
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
Red Nexus Games Inc.
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
Long Hat House
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
Giant Squid
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
Nuke Nine
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
Gears for Breakfast
Gears for Breakfast has weaponized nostalgia into a mechanically dense, fiercely inventive masterclass that proves the 'collectathon' never died—it ju...

Bonfire Peaks
Corey Martin, Alan Hazelden, Mari Zand, Zach Soares
A masterclass in spatial economy that proves restricted movement is the ultimate canvas for puzzle-solving brilliance. It is intellectually honest, me...

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

Can of Wormholes
munted finger
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
Sam Barlow, Half Mermaid, Furious Bee Limited
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
Flow Fire Games
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
Newfangled Games
Paper Trail transforms spatial reasoning into a tactile masterpiece, proving that the most profound innovations often come from a simple change in per...