Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games

Expert-reviewed Nintendo Switch games, scored out of 10.

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Duck Game

Duck Game

Landon Podbielski

9.1
game
Our verdict

A decade on, Duck Game remains the gold standard for couch multiplayer — a physics-drunk, one-hit-kill arena brawler whose 50+ weapons turn every 15-s...

Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime

Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime

Asteroid Base

8.4
game
Our verdict

Asteroid Base built a co-op machine that turns communication breakdown into comedy and teamwork into genuine delight. A decade on, it remains one of t...

Headliner: NoviNews

Headliner: NoviNews

Unbound Creations

8.0
game
Our verdict

Unbound Creations built a two-hour morality machine about who controls the news, and it lands harder than games ten times its length. Buy it, play it ...

Road 96

Road 96

Digixart

7.8
game
Our verdict

Road 96 gambles that a procedurally shuffled road trip can carry real political weight — and mostly wins. Its cast is unforgettable and its structure ...

Tangledeep

Tangledeep

Impact Gameworks

8.2
game
Our verdict

Tangledeep is one of the most generous, mechanically dense roguelikes of its generation — a 16-bit dungeon crawler that respects both the genre purist...

Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark

Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark

6 Eyes Studio

8.2
game
Our verdict

6 Eyes Studio built the tactical RPG that Square Enix stopped making twenty years ago, and the class system is genuinely superb — but the story it's b...

Record of Lodoss War: Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth

Record of Lodoss War: Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth

Team Ladybug, WSS playground

8.4
game
Our verdict

A gorgeous, precision-built Metroidvania that trades sprawl for craft — six hours of near-flawless sprite work and a genuinely smart elemental combat ...

OPUS: Echo of Starsong

OPUS: Echo of Starsong

SIGONO INC.

8.6
game
Our verdict

SIGONO has built one of the most emotionally precise science-fiction stories the medium has produced this decade, then wrapped it in mechanics that ra...

Paratopic

Paratopic

Arbitrary Metric

7.9
game
Our verdict

Paratopic is the most confidently edited horror game of its generation — a 50-minute low-poly fever dream that trusts its audience more than most AAA ...

Absolute Drift

Absolute Drift

Funselektor Labs Inc.

8.6
game
Our verdict

Absolute Drift is a masterclass in focused design — one mechanic, sharpened to a razor's edge, wrapped in stark white minimalism and drum & bass. It w...

Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion

Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion

Snoozy Kazoo

8.2
game
Our verdict

Snoozy Kazoo's shredder-happy vegetable crime spree is one of the funniest, tightest small games of its generation — and it ends roughly forty minutes...

Kero Blaster

Kero Blaster

Studio Pixel

8.6
game
Our verdict

Daisuke "Pixel" Amaya spent seven years after *Cave Story* building something almost aggressively small — a two-hour run-and-gun about a frog extermin...

Airborne Kingdom

Airborne Kingdom

The Wandering Band LLC

7.4
game
Our verdict

Airborne Kingdom builds one of the freshest hooks the city-builder genre has produced in a decade — a metropolis that must physically stay aloft — the...

Chicken Police – Paint it RED!

Chicken Police – Paint it RED!

The Wild Gentlemen

8.4
game
Our verdict

A Hungarian studio nobody had heard of photographed a bunch of taxidermy-grade animal heads, dropped them into a rain-slicked noir city, and wrote dia...

Behind the Frame: The Finest Scenery

Behind the Frame: The Finest Scenery

Silver Lining Studio

8.1
game
Our verdict

Silver Lining Studio's painted vignette is one of the most emotionally efficient games of its generation — it earns its ending honestly, and the endin...

Anthology of the Killer

Anthology of the Killer

thecatamites / Tommy Tone / A. Degen

8.7
game
Our verdict

Stephen Gillmurphy's nine-episode horror-comedy is the funniest, strangest, most confidently written adventure game in years — and it barely bothers t...

Papetura

Papetura

Petums

8.6
game
Our verdict

Papetura is the rare game where the medium *is* the argument — every set was physically cut, folded and glued by one person before a camera ever touch...

Sorry We're Closed

Sorry We're Closed

à la mode games

8.7
game
Our verdict

à la mode games built a survival horror hybrid that snaps between fixed-camera dread and first-person arcade shooting without either half feeling like...

Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader

Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader

Owlcat Games

8.6
game
Our verdict

Owlcat has built the most ambitious licensed CRPG in years — a 130-hour interrogation of the Imperium's rot that respects your intelligence and punish...

Skate Story

Skate Story

Sam Eng

8.8
game
Our verdict

Skate Story is the rare game that takes a genre defined by physics and repetition and turns it into something devotional. It's not the deepest skater ...

Toki Tori 2+

Toki Tori 2+

Two Tribes

8.2
game
Our verdict

Toki Tori 2+ strips the puzzle-platformer down to two verbs — whistle and stomp — and builds one of the genre's most quietly radical designs on top of...

Toodee and Topdee

Toodee and Topdee

dietzribi

8.4
game
Our verdict

A solo-developed puzzle-platformer that mines one genuinely original idea — toggling between a 2D platformer and a top-down puzzler in the same level ...

Heroes of Hammerwatch

Heroes of Hammerwatch

Crackshell

8.3
game
Our verdict

Heroes of Hammerwatch takes the ancient arcade bones of Gauntlet, grafts on a rogue-lite meta-progression system that actually respects your time, and...

Wizard of Legend

Wizard of Legend

Contingent99

8.3
game
Our verdict

Wizard of Legend strips the roguelike down to pure kinetic combat — dash, cast, chain, repeat — and the result is one of the genre's most satisfying a...

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