Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games

Lone Fungus is a technically brilliant Metroidvania with movement so satisfying you'll forgive its baggy pacing—a one-developer labor of love that rea...

A murder mystery you solve by watching, not fighting—wrapped in the best art direction of its year and one of gaming's finest jazz soundtracks. It's s...

Roguebook takes the sacred cow of the deckbuilding genre—keep your deck small—and cheerfully slaughters it, delivering a gorgeous, tactically rich rog...

Size Five Games' brilliant hybrid is both an incredibly funny comedy and a masterful structural critique of modern game design. By forcing point-and-c...

An incredibly witty, mechanically inventive RPG that proves stick figures and deadpan humor can carry a sprawling, highly replayable cosmic horror mys...

Gordian Quest is a brilliantly complex hybrid of deckbuilding and tactical grid combat that occasionally buckles under the weight of its own mechanica...

Autonauts transforms complex systems engineering into a delightful, stress-free sandbox, though its brilliance on PC is severely compromised by clunky...

Buddy Simulator 1984 is a brilliantly manipulative psychological horror experience that weaponizes retro nostalgia and a simulated operating system to...

Monster Sanctuary is a fiercely intelligent, demanding RPG that trades mindless level-grinding for deep, tactical team synergy and Metroidvania explor...

Demon's Tilt is a brilliant, chaotic, and relentlessly fast virtual pinball game that subverts traditional table design with shoot-'em-up mechanics an...

Deadbolt is a brutal, hyper-kinetic 2D stealth-action masterpiece that strips away any margin for error, transforming every assassination into a high-...

Phoenotopia: Awakening is a beautifully crafted, fiercely challenging retro adventure that rewards patience and punishes carelessness. If you have the...

FAR: Lone Sails is a masterfully paced, atmospheric triumph that turns the potentially tedious chore of vehicle maintenance into an intimate, emotiona...

Fabraz's Demon Turf delivers a masterclass in momentum-driven platforming and striking visual style, though its clunky, physics-focused combat occasio...

Cosmic Express hides a brutally challenging, beautifully constructed logical puzzle under an adorable low-poly coat of paint. It is a brilliant, uncom...

By reintroducing the tactile friction of active aiming and shooting, *20 Minutes Till Dawn* rescues the horde-survival genre from passive automation, ...

Melatonin strip-mines the rhythm genre of its clutter, offering a visually stunning, hand-drawn pastel dreamscape that tests your absolute timing thro...

Roots of Pacha strips away the hyper-individualistic grind of traditional farming simulators, replacing it with a brilliant, cooperative prehistoric c...

Moonring is an uncompromising, beautifully eerie retro RPG that respects your intelligence, trading modern handholding for brilliant tactical depth an...

Elasto Mania Remastered is a brutally uncompromising preservation of a physics-based cult classic. It is a masterpiece of pure mechanics that will del...

A chillingly precise simulation that turns the grim logistics of mass incarceration into a compulsively playable, systems-driven masterpiece.

Luden.io transforms the intimidating math of neural networks into a charming, node-based logic puzzle that proves machine learning is mostly just soph...

Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove is the rare "retro" project that surpasses its inspirations, offering a masterclass in mechanical density and level desi...

Minami Lane is a masterclass in "cozy" efficiency, stripping away the bloat of modern simulators to deliver a high-polish, Japanese-inspired street ma...