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...

A Monster's Expedition
Draknek & Friends
A Monster's Expedition elevates the puzzle genre with a masterclass in design elegance. Its simple log-rolling mechanic unfolds into a surprisingly de...

The Pedestrian
Skookum Arts
The Pedestrian elevates a simple, universal symbol into one of the most inventive puzzle-platformers in years, challenging the player not just to solv...

Kentucky Route Zero
Cardboard Computer
Kentucky Route Zero is a landmark achievement in interactive storytelling. It's a slow, poetic, and deeply melancholic masterpiece that's less a game ...

Manifold Garden
William Chyr Studio
Manifold Garden is a stunning, architectural puzzler that rewires your brain’s understanding of space. It’s a triumphant fusion of art and logic, even...

Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
Steel Crate Games
An ingenious, high-tension party game that forgoes graphical horsepower to create one of the purest, most chaotic, and hilarious tests of communicatio...

Patrick's Parabox
Patrick Traynor
Patrick's Parabox is not merely a clever puzzle game; it's a landmark achievement in logical design that fundamentally rewires your understanding of s...

The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe
Crows Crows Crows
The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe isn't just a remaster; it's a surgically precise and hilariously subversive critique of video games themselves. It's...


Viewfinder
Valve Corporation
Viewfinder is a masterclass in mechanical innovation, a puzzle game so conceptually audacious it feels like a glimpse into the future. While its narra...

Sea of Stars
Sabotage Studio
Sea of Stars is a masterclass in modernization, a meticulously crafted RPG that polishes the 16-bit formula to a brilliant shine. It doesn't reinvent ...


COCOON
Geometric Interactive
COCOON is a masterclass in puzzle design, a cerebral and elegant adventure that folds reality in on itself. It’s short, but it’s also unforgettable.

80 Days
inkle Ltd, Cape Guy Ltd
80 Days transforms a classic novel into a masterclass of interactive storytelling, where every choice carves a unique and unforgettable path around a ...


Spelunky 2
Valve Corporation
Spelunky 2 doesn't just expand on its legendary predecessor; it deepens the abyss, crafting a masterclass in risk, reward, and procedurally generated ...

CrossCode
Radical Fish Games
CrossCode is a masterclass in game design, wrapping a poignant narrative inside a fictional MMO that sports some of the most satisfying combat and puz...

Slay the Princess
Black Tabby Games
Slay the Princess is not just a game; it's a meticulously crafted narrative scalpel that dissects the very nature of choice, trust, and reality. It st...

Eliza
Zachtronics
Eliza is a brilliant, unsettling narrative that forces a hard look at the gig economy, mental healthcare, and our own complicity in a tech-driven worl...

WORLD OF HORROR
panstasz
WORLD OF HORROR is a masterclass in atmospheric dread, using its stark 1-bit aesthetic and roguelite structure to create a uniquely terrifying and end...

SIGNALIS
ROSE-ENGINE
SIGNALIS is a brutalist triumph, a survival horror masterpiece that weaponizes nostalgia to deliver a chilling, sorrowful meditation on memory and ide...

TOEM
Something We Made
TOEM trades high-octane action for a deliberately paced, charming photography adventure. It’s a masterclass in minimalist design and a potent antidote...

Citizen Sleeper
Jump Over the Age
Citizen Sleeper is a masterclass in narrative design, using the elegant pressure of a tabletop RPG to tell a powerful, deeply human story about surviv...

The Forgotten City
Modern Storyteller
The Forgotten City transcends its humble origins as a mod to deliver a masterclass in narrative design and moral philosophy, proving that a sharp scri...

Thumper
Drool
Thumper is not merely a game; it's a grueling, hypnotic, and masterfully executed descent into aural and visual chaos. It's an essential experience th...

Firewatch
Campo Santo
Firewatch is a masterclass in narrative design and environmental storytelling. Its stunning world and resonant characters are only slightly undercut b...

Unpacking
Witch Beam
Unpacking is a masterclass in minimalist design and narrative innovation, using the mundane act of organizing a home to tell a deeply human story of g...

PowerWash Simulator
FuturLab
PowerWash Simulator transforms mundane labor into a digital meditation, offering a profoundly satisfying and unexpectedly deep experience that's only ...