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...

Downwell
Moppin
Downwell is a masterclass in minimalist design, turning a simple, gravity-fueled descent into a brutally elegant and endlessly replayable action puzzl...

The Pathless
Giant Squid
Giant Squid delivers a visually stunning adventure that masterfully trades the bloat of modern open-worlds for a singular, hypnotic focus on kinetic g...


Sayonara Wild Hearts
Simogo
Sayonara Wild Hearts isn’t just a game; it’s a playable electronic pop album, a 90-minute shot of pure, uncut audiovisual adrenaline. It’s a mastercla...

The Room Two
Fireproof Games
Fireproof Games masterfully expands its puzzle-box formula, creating a sequel that is bigger and more ambitious without losing the tactile magic and u...

The Room
Fireproof Games
A masterclass in tactile design and atmospheric mystery, The Room remains the benchmark for puzzle-box games, even a decade after its debut. It trades...

OXENFREE
Night School Studio
OXENFREE isn't just a game you play; it's a conversation you inhabit. Night School Studio has crafted a chilling, intelligent narrative thriller where...

Transistor
Supergiant Games
Transistor is a stunningly confident and mechanically inventive RPG from Supergiant Games. It’s a masterclass in atmosphere, where the strategic comba...

Bastion
Supergiant Games
A masterclass in interactive storytelling and polished action, Bastion remains a landmark indie title that proves style can be substance. It's an esse...

The Talos Principle
Croteam
The Talos Principle is a rare and brilliant achievement—a puzzle game that respects its audience enough to challenge not only their spatial reasoning ...

Hyper Light Drifter
Heart Machine
Hyper Light Drifter is a brutal, beautiful, and unapologetically minimalist action RPG that rewards precision and patience. It’s a masterclass in envi...

Sky: Children of the Light
thatgamecompany
A breathtaking evolution of the concepts that made *Journey* a masterpiece, *Sky: Children of the Light* redefines the multiplayer landscape as a gent...

Monument Valley 2
Valve Corporation
Monument Valley 2 surpasses its predecessor by weaving a poignant, human story into its impossible architecture, creating an experience that is less a...

Playdead's INSIDE
Playdead
Playdead’s INSIDE is a haunting, minimalist masterpiece of interactive fiction. It is an unnerving, unforgettable journey that sets a new benchmark fo...

GRIS
Nomada Studio
GRIS is less a game and more a moving, interactive watercolor painting. It trades mechanical challenge for a profound, wordless emotional journey, cem...

Baba Is You
Hempuli Oy
An exceptionally clever and profound puzzle game that redefines the genre by turning its own rules into playable objects, offering a brain-bending exp...

The Battle of Polytopia
Midjiwan AB
The Battle of Polytopia masterfully condenses the sprawling 4X strategy genre into a potent, fast-paced format. It’s a brilliant exercise in strategic...

Cultist Simulator
Not Found
Cultist Simulator is a brilliantly infuriating puzzle box that redefines narrative gaming. It rewards intellect and patience with profound storytellin...

Northgard
Unknown Developer
Northgard masterfully trims the fat from the real-time strategy genre, delivering a tense and elegant survival simulation that values deliberate plann...

Plague Inc.
Ndemic Creations
Plague Inc. remains a masterclass in strategic thinking, packaging a grim, systems-heavy simulation into an unnervingly compulsive and elegant puzzle....


My Time at Portia
Pathea Games
My Time at Portia elevates the life-sim genre by masterfully blending a deep, commission-based crafting system with charming community-building, creat...

Don't Starve: Pocket Edition
Klei Entertainment
A punishing yet brilliant survival sandbox that trades hand-holding for deep, systemic gameplay and a stark, unforgettable art style. It's a masterpie...

The Escapists 2
Team17
A deeply engaging and often hilarious sandbox of systemic prison-life simulation, The Escapists 2 masters the art of the long con, rewarding meticulou...

Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas
Cornfox & Brothers Ltd.
Oceanhorn is a beautifully crafted and deeply familiar adventure that successfully channels the spirit of classic Zelda, offering a satisfying, if som...

Kingdom Two Crowns
Stumpy🐙Squid
Kingdom Two Crowns elevates its simple premise into a compulsively playable and surprisingly deep strategic experience, where every coin spent carries...