Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games

Bombservice built a lean, punishing, and gorgeous action-platformer that respects your time and your reflexes in equal measure. It ends before you wan...

Joakim Sandberg spent the better part of a decade building a Metroidvania that fights above its weight class on nearly every front—combat, puzzles, ar...

*Tiny Bookshop* takes the most low-stakes premise imaginable—selling used paperbacks from a trailer—and turns it into one of the most quietly compelli...

Refunct isn't a game so much as a controlled exhale — a gorgeous, frictionless movement toy that rebuilds a dead world under your feet and asks nothin...

The rare party game that turns level design into a blood sport, Ultimate Chicken Horse is a small-studio masterclass in emergent chaos—transcendent wi...

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...

Neon Abyss buries you in an avalanche of stackable loot until the screen bleeds bullets and the physics give up — thrilling, chaotic, and occasionally...

Tunche is one of the best-looking beat 'em ups you can buy, a storybook come to life with a killer four-player couch mode—but its roguelite scaffoldin...

A gorgeous pop-up storybook wrapped around borrowed mechanics, *The Wild at Heart* nails atmosphere and heart but stumbles on pacing and busywork. It'...

A gorgeous, genuinely tense sci-fi mystery that nails atmosphere and dread better than almost anything in its price bracket—held back by puzzles that ...

A wildly inventive love letter to Saturday-morning Tokusatsu that welds studio-management sim to grid tactics — brilliant in concept, occasionally thi...

Type:Rider is one of the most beautiful history lessons you'll ever play—a gorgeous, atmospheric platformer whose floaty physics never quite live up t...

A sharp, empathetic narrative adventure that turns the emotional labor of gig work into its core mechanic. The mystery underwhelms and the ride ends t...

A landmark of narrative ambition wrapped around a traversal system that actively fights you — the writing and voice work are among the best the medium...

BOKURA weaponizes miscommunication into a puzzle mechanic, delivering one of the most genuinely cooperative games ever made—provided you have a patien...

A brutal, beautiful action-RPG that fuses NieR-grade combat depth with a hand-drawn nightmare about trauma and self-forgiveness. The difficulty and de...

A savage, brilliant little arcade machine that weaponizes failure into progression—**Disc Room** turns dying into the most satisfying verb in gaming, ...

A masterclass in dread that turns dead technology into a haunted house, **Stories Untold** is one of the most inventive horror games of the last decad...

Polychroma Games has built one of the most emotionally precise narrative adventures of the decade—a game that disguises a devastating meditation on gr...

Coromon isn't content to cosplay as a Game Boy Advance-era Pokémon clone—it interrogates the genre's oldest habits and fixes most of them. A stamina-d...

Amanita Design abandons its point-and-click roots for a hand-painted puzzle-platformer built on one genuinely clever idea—monsters that freeze into fu...

Portable Moose's five-episode occult mystery is one of indie horror's most emotionally punishing achievements—a game that weaponizes its clunky puzzle...

Dragonfall is the rare tactical RPG where the writing hits as hard as the shotguns. A decade on, it remains the sharpest cyberpunk story you can play,...

Wadjet Eye Games has crafted the smartest point-and-click adventure in a decade—a party-based, choice-driven urban fantasy that treats you like an adu...