Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games

The original Jackbox Party Pack solved a problem the industry had ignored for decades — getting non-gamers to play — with one brilliant stroke: a brow...

A gorgeous, wordless meditation on play and parenthood that treats LEGO bricks with more reverence than any licensed blockbuster ever has — just don't...

PlateUp! takes the Overcooked formula, bolts on a roguelite spine and a genuinely deep automation sandbox, and ends up as the smartest co-op cooking g...

A gentle, gorgeously illustrated meditation on death and memory that trades challenge for warmth — and mostly gets away with it. Come for the inventiv...

Ring of Pain takes one structural idea — the dungeon as a rotating ring of cards — and builds a genuinely tense, mechanically airtight roguelike aroun...

A wrenching, formally brilliant text-message drama about the Syrian refugee crisis that weaponizes your phone's most familiar interface against your c...

Amanita Design weaponizes its own cuteness in a two-hour nightmare that's more art installation than puzzle box. It's short, it's simple, and it will ...

A solo-developed, Earthbound-descended RPG that hides one of the genre's most devastating emotional payloads behind goofy jokes and a brilliant transf...

Snake Pass is the rare 3D platformer with a genuinely original locomotion idea, executed with charm and conviction. Its physics-first controls will de...

Battle Chef Brigade fuses brawler combat and match-three puzzling into a cooking-tournament loop that has no business working this well. A short campa...

inbento is a near-perfect bite of a puzzle game — gorgeous, gentle, and quietly clever — that ends too soon and now hides its mobile version behind a ...

Pilgrims compresses Amanita Design's twenty years of hand-drawn whimsy into a two-hour, card-driven adventure that respects experimentation over corre...

Potionomics smuggles a genuinely sharp deck-builder inside a pastel shopkeeping fantasy, and the Masterwork Edition sands off the original's most puni...

inkle has bottled the chaos of a living, gossiping social simulation into taut 40-minute runs — and the result is one of the smartest detective games ...

Lost Ember is a gorgeous, gentle five-hour meditation on loss and loyalty whose body-hopping mechanic is more sightseeing gimmick than systemic depth ...

A near-solo passion project that out-crafts studios fifty times its size, Ghost of a Tale wraps genuinely tense stealth in one of the most lovingly de...

Root is a superb digital adaptation of one of the decade's most demanding board games — patient, polished, and honest about its source material's brut...

SUMMERHOUSE is a tiny, gorgeous building toy that asks nothing of you and gives back more than games fifty times its price. It runs out of pieces befo...

Leap Year weaponizes fragility — a fall of more than a few pixels kills you — and turns that single rule into one of the smartest knowledge-based metr...

Railbound is one of the most elegantly designed puzzle games of the past few years — a track-routing brainteaser that's cozy on the surface and quietl...

Landfall has built the best pure-movement game since *Neon White* — a downhill sprint through the apocalypse where flow state is the whole point. It's...

Varney Lake is a lean, beautifully composed slice of vampire pulp that proves interactive fiction can still feel cinematic. It's short, it's more nove...

A gorgeous, sharply written pulp-horror visual novel that turns 1980s computer graphics into pure atmosphere — brief, occasionally padded, but well wo...

Shiny Shoe took a near-perfect roguelike deckbuilder and made it deeper, denser, and more demanding without breaking what worked. **Monster Train 2** ...