Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games
Expert-reviewed Nintendo Switch games, scored out of 10.
516 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...

FRACTER
The Sixth Hammer
FRACTER is a beautifully haunting, if brief, journey into a world of shadow and light. Its meticulously crafted puzzles are a triumph of minimalist de...

OneShot
Future Cat LLC
OneShot is not merely a game; it's a profound, meta-narrative experience that masterfully collapses the barrier between player and protagonist, leavin...

The Longing
4M2Q Studios
The Longing is a fascinating, maddening, and ultimately unforgettable experiment that weaponizes boredom to ask profound questions about time, purpose...

Sunless Sea
Failbetter Games
Sunless Sea is a masterclass in interactive fiction and atmospheric horror, yoked to a serviceable but deeply underwhelming combat system. It's an ess...

OMORI
OMOCAT, LLC
OMORI is not the charming indie RPG it pretends to be. It's a devastating, unflinching, and essential exploration of trauma, dressed in the deceptivel...

Risk of Rain 2
Hopoo Games
Risk of Rain 2 is not merely a successful sequel; it's a benchmark for the roguelite genre. Hopoo Games has crafted a relentlessly compelling shooter ...

Darkest Dungeon
Red Hook Studios
Darkest Dungeon is a punishing, deeply strategic, and psychologically taxing RPG that elevates the roguelike genre from a mere dungeon crawl into a ha...

Dorfromantik
Toukana Interactive
Dorfromantik is a masterclass in minimalist design, transforming the simple act of placing a tile into a deeply satisfying, low-stakes obsession. It m...

Strange Horticulture
Bad Viking
Strange Horticulture brilliantly pairs methodical puzzle gameplay with a quietly unnerving narrative, creating one of the most unique and engrossing i...


Moncage
Optillusion
Moncage is a brilliantly conceived puzzle box that delivers sublime 'aha!' moments. While its central mechanic occasionally borders on frustratingly o...

Animal Well
Billy Basso
Animal Well is a masterclass in tension and discovery, trading the genre's typical combat for a dense, layered world of puzzles that respects player i...

Balatro
LocalThunk
Balatro is a masterclass in game design, transforming the rigid rules of poker into an explosive, wildly addictive, and strategically bottomless rogue...

Vampire's Fall: Origins
Early Morning Studio
Vampire's Fall: Origins delivers a surprisingly deep and satisfying old-school RPG experience, but its mobile game skeleton rattles too loudly to igno...

Thronefall
GrizzlyGames
Thronefall is a masterful exercise in reductionism, stripping the strategy and tower defense genres down to their diamond-hard core. What remains is a...

Minit
JW, Kitty, Jukio, Dom
Minit isn't just a game; it's a brilliant design experiment that weaponizes a 60-second lifespan into one of the most compelling gameplay loops in rec...

In Other Waters
Fellow Traveller
In Other Waters is a triumph of minimalist design and confident, literary storytelling. It trades graphical fidelity for the boundless power of the pl...


Library Of Ruina
ProjectMoon
Library of Ruina is a fiercely intelligent and punishingly difficult strategy game, blending deck-building, turn-based tactics, and a visual novel int...

Townscaper
Oskar Stålberg
Townscaper is less a game and more a meditative instrument; a beautifully focused digital toy for creating picturesque island towns with zero pressure...

Undertale
tobyfox
Undertale is not just a game; it's a foundational critique of the RPG genre itself, a masterclass in interactive narrative that weaponizes player choi...

Chained Echoes
Umami Tiger (Matthias Linda)
Chained Echoes is not just a love letter to the 16-bit JRPGs of a bygone era; it's a brilliant, forward-thinking evolution of the form that rivals the...

The Past Within
Rusty Lake
The Past Within isn't just a puzzle game; it's a masterfully designed social experiment that weaponizes information asymmetry. It forces genuine, ofte...

What the Golf?
Triband
What the Golf? is less a game about golf and more a brilliantly executed, interactive cartoon that uses the sport as a jumping-off point for a relentl...

Cassette Beasts
Bytten Studio
Cassette Beasts leverages a brilliant monster-fusing mechanic and a mature narrative to create a creature-collecting RPG that respects the player's in...

Carrion
Phobia Game Studio
Carrion delivers a brutally satisfying power fantasy, putting you in the sinewy tentacles of the monster. While its core loop is a triumph of visceral...