Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games

A genuinely clever mashup of Ace Attorney courtroom theater and Picross puzzling, carried by a sharp buddy-comedy script and a killer soundtrack—so lo...

Silt is a gorgeous nightmare — a monochrome plunge into the deep that nails atmosphere and dread better than almost anything in its genre, but stumble...

A genuinely clever strategy game that smuggles a college-level genetics course inside a pack of huggable creatures — brilliant on PC, compromised on c...

A surreal survival-horror gem that weaponizes corporate dread into genuine terror, hobbled only by a save system that punishes curiosity. Weird, funny...

Prodeus is the rare nostalgia act that earns its swagger—a blistering, gore-soaked shooter that borrows Doom's DNA and Quake's tempo, then wraps them ...

A deceptively adorable creature-collector that smuggles a genuinely mature story about grief, obsession, and belonging past its candy-colored exterior...

A courtroom drama that dresses 19th-century French satire in a bird costume and, against all odds, makes it sing. The mechanics are lighter than the A...

A morally corrosive spy simulator that turns snooping into gut-wrenching arithmetic — brilliant, oppressive, and occasionally so punishing it forgets ...

Alisa is a love letter to 1998 written in the fluent, deliberately clumsy dialect of tank controls and fixed cameras—a survival horror throwback so co...

A rare puzzle game that turns translation itself into an emotional gut-punch — brilliant, brief, and occasionally its own worst enemy. If the Android ...

Digital Sun built a game around a genuinely fresh idea—run a shop by day, raid a dungeon by night—and executed it with enough polish and charm that it...

Loveshack Entertainment turned the humble comic panel into a control scheme, and the result is a gorgeous, brief, endlessly imitated puzzle game that ...

inkle didn't just port a stack of dusty 1980s paperbacks to your phone—it rebuilt them into one of the smartest, most quietly ambitious pieces of inte...

Train Valley 2 trades its predecessor's frantic crash-avoidance for the quiet, obsessive pleasure of building a logistics machine that hums. It's a pu...

A ruthlessly polished brick-breaker that trades the genre's mindless tapping for genuine geometry, Holedown is one of the most satisfying premium puzz...

Golf Peaks strips golf down to a deck of cards and a grid, then builds one of the most quietly brilliant mobile puzzlers of its generation. It's short...

Bithell Games turns the humble text adventure into a taut two-hour sci-fi noir that trusts its writing above all else — a small, sharp game that says ...

A gorgeous, hand-drawn love letter to the *Where's Waldo* era that trades challenge for charm—and mostly gets away with it. Just don't expect the puzz...

*Fran Bow* is a hand-painted descent into grief and mental illness that earns its horror through emotional honesty, not cheap scares — a genuine indie...

A brilliant, uncomfortable little machine that turns you into the exact kind of person you'd cross the street to avoid. Its surveillance loop is addic...

Aeterna Noctis is a gorgeous, sprawling, and mercilessly demanding Metroidvania that earns its cult following—but its 16-region ambition sometimes out...

A one-man love letter to Final Fantasy V that swaps hand-holding for a genuine open world, Crystal Project is one of the most quietly ambitious JRPGs ...

A Sokoban puzzler wearing a rubber Halloween mask, *Slayaway Camp* smuggles genuinely brutal spatial-reasoning challenges inside a gleefully tasteless...

Kouri's remake of *Ib* takes a beloved 2012 RPG Maker cult classic and rebuilds it into something sharper, prettier, and quietly devastating—proof tha...