Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games
Expert-reviewed Nintendo Switch games, scored out of 10.
514 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...

Tavern Talk
Gentle Troll Entertainment
Tavern Talk is a sophisticated subversion of the fantasy epic that swaps out sword-swinging for social engineering, delivering a narrative loop that i...

Little Kitty, Big City
Double Dagger Studio
A masterclass in low-friction exploration that swaps high-octane combat for the simple, kinetic joy of knocking flowerpots off ledges.

Corn Kidz 64
BogoSoft
Corn Kidz 64 is a jagged, surreal, and brilliant reconstruction of the 64-bit era that manages to feel like a lost classic rather than a modern imitat...

Ynglet
Nifflas
Nifflas strips away the floor and the frustration, leaving a frictionless, generative kinetic playground that feels less like a game and more like a p...

Deltarune
tobyfox
Toby Fox isn't just iterating on a formula; he’s deconstructing the very idea of player agency in a genre-defining RPG that feels both nostalgic and d...

Anodyne
Melos Han-Tani, Marina Kittaka
Anodyne is a haunting, 16-bit psychological odyssey that proves the most terrifying dungeons aren't filled with dragons, but with the mundane debris o...

The Last Door
The Game Kitchen
A masterful exercise in psychological restraint that proves your imagination is a far more terrifying rendering engine than any high-definition GPU.

If Found...
DREAMFEEL
A masterclass in tactile storytelling that transforms the simple act of erasure into a profound, heartbreaking meditation on identity and the courage ...

Signs of the Sojourner
Echodog Games
Signs of the Sojourner is a masterclass in ludonarrative harmony, using the rigid logic of deck-building to expose the messy, fragile nature of human ...

Tangle Tower
SFB Games
Tangle Tower is a masterfully crafted whodunit that respects the player’s intelligence, trading tired genre tropes for a sharp deduction system and wo...

Linelight
My Dog Zorro
Linelight is a masterclass in minimalism, stripping away the friction of modern gaming to reveal a pure, hypnotic core of logic and movement. It is qu...

Wall World
Alawar
Wall World is a masterclass in genre-blending that proves there is still plenty of gold to be found in the "mining rogue-lite" hills—even if those hil...

Tinykin
Splashteam
Tinykin strips away the friction of the creature-collection genre to deliver a kinetic, stress-free joyride through 90s nostalgia. It’s a rare instanc...

The Operator
Bureau 81
The Operator is a masterclass in narrative skeuomorphism, transforming the mundane reality of a workstation into a claustrophobic, high-tension theate...

A Void Hope
Elden Pixels
A Void Hope trades the reflex-heavy demands of its predecessors for a haunting, low-friction meditation on loss that succeeds through sheer aesthetic ...

Ikaruga
TREASURE
Ikaruga is a masterclass in minimalist complexity that demands absolute cognitive presence, proving that mechanical purity is far more enduring than g...

Rabi-Ribi
CreSpirit, GemaYue
Rabi-Ribi is a mechanical masterpiece that hides its brutal, high-skill bullet-hell combat behind a deceptively sweet aesthetic, offering some of the ...

Good Pizza, Great Pizza
TapBlaze
TapBlaze’s culinary sim manages to strip away the stress of the service industry, leaving behind a meditative, hand-drawn loop that is as addictive as...

Mutazione
Die Gute Fabrik
Mutazione is a masterclass in narrative restraint, trading traditional mechanical friction for a deeply resonant, meditative exploration of community ...

Muse Dash
peropero
Muse Dash strip-mines the bloated corpse of traditional rhythm games, replacing complex inputs with a hyper-kinetic, two-button combat loop that is br...

Streets of Rage 4
Dotemu, Guard Crush, Lizardcube
Streets of Rage 4 is a spectacular masterclass in genre revival, blending hand-drawn artistic brilliance with a mechanical depth that sets a new high-...

Guacamelee! 2
Drinkbox Studios
Drinkbox Studios delivers a masterclass in action-platforming that marries satisfyingly complex combat with punishing precision platforming. It refine...

Everhood
Chris Nordgren, Jordi Roca
Everhood is a masterful, unsettling fusion of rhythm mechanics and philosophical RPG storytelling that subverts standard gaming tropes. It demands hyp...

Hauntii
Moonloop Games
*Hauntii* is a gorgeous, melancholic adventure that turns environmental possession into a playground of quiet curiosity, though its twin-stick combat ...