Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games

A featherlight logic puzzler that hides a real emotional payload behind its minimalist charm. It's short, it's gentle, and it never once raises its vo...

Beethoven & Dinosaur's follow-up to *The Artful Escape* is a gorgeous, needle-drop-driven ode to the end of adolescence—but it asks you to feel more t...

Absolum takes the pixel-perfect brawling of *Streets of Rage 4* and welds it to *Dead Cells*-style roguelite structure — the result is the most mechan...

A roguelite that treats slapstick disaster as a design principle, *Mr. Sun's Hatbox* is one of the most inventive physics sandboxes on Steam and Switc...

A quietly radical little RPG that reads your character by watching what you *do*, not what you *say*—and the results land closer to home than any Buzz...

A physics-comedy sandbox that mines one absurd joke — a pistol-packing squirrel — for far more mileage than it has any right to. It's short, occasiona...

GalaxyTrail took a fan-game's DNA and forged one of the finest momentum-platformers in a decade — a generous, gorgeous, occasionally overlong love let...

A gorgeous, wordless meditation on growing up that turns card-stacking into genuine emotion—but its puzzles are so forgiving they occasionally forget ...

A ruthless, riotous co-op cooking sim that turns your living room into a shouting match — and that's the highest praise I can give it. Overcooked! 2 f...

A savage, hilarious, endlessly replayable roguelike that turns permadeath into a punchline and a punishment in equal measure. Rough edges and brutal R...

Double Fine's crowdfunded passion project is one of the most gorgeous point-and-click adventures ever animated, buoyed by a razor-sharp voice cast and...

Broforce is a gleeful, self-aware ode to '80s action cinema built on the best destructible sandbox this side of a Michael Bay set — a chaotic, co-op-f...

A gorgeous, brutally tactical RPG whose enemies actually remember you — Star Renegades pairs one of the smartest combat systems in the genre with a gr...

Kenny Sun took Breakout, Vampire Survivors, and a city-builder, threw them in a blender, and somehow poured out one of the most compulsively replayabl...

Okomotive trades the sci-fi melancholy of *FAR* for windswept mountaintops and a herd of fuzzy companions, delivering a wordless, achingly pretty pilg...

A brainy, unhurried aquarium builder that trades the usual tycoon frenzy for genuine systems mastery — brilliant for 30 hours, a little too polite to ...

A sharper, riskier, more ambitious sequel that trades the cozy fatalism of the original for white-knuckle survival — and mostly earns the trade. If yo...

Backbone opens as one of the most atmospheric detective games in years, then throws its own genre out the window—leaving you with a gorgeous, melancho...

Carto turns cartography into its core verb, and the result is one of the most inventive puzzle ideas in years—wrapped in a cozy, gorgeous package that...

A wordless, wistful puzzle-box about the moment two childhood friends realize they're growing apart. It's short, gentle, and gorgeous—and its most rad...

Röki is a hand-painted Nordic fairy tale that trades combat for compassion and mostly wins, held back only by pacing that occasionally makes you walk ...

A gorgeous, brain-bending tactics RPG where the terrain itself is your deadliest weapon and your worst enemy. Brilliant and uncompromising in equal me...

Ghost Song is a gorgeous, melancholy Metroidvania that nails atmosphere and combat feel but rarely surprises you with an idea you haven't seen before ...

Afterimage is one of the most beautiful Metroidvanias ever drawn and one of the most confusing ones ever written. Aurogon Shanghai built a sprawling, ...