Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games
Expert-reviewed Nintendo Switch games, scored out of 10.
49 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...

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.

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...

A Little to the Left
Max Inferno
A Little to the Left is a masterclass in minimalist puzzle design that elevates the mundane to the meditative, though a few unintuitive logic leaps an...

Snakebird
Noumenon Games
Don't let the primary colors and chirping birds fool you; Snakebird is a punishing, brilliantly designed logic engine that will leave your brain bruis...

7 Billion Humans
Tomorrow Corporation
A brutal, hilarious, and intellectually demanding expansion on parallel processing that turns the drudgery of office work into a masterclass in logic....

Please, Touch The Art
Thomas Waterzooi
A minimalist masterclass that turns the "look but don't touch" ethos of high art into a tactile, rhythmically satisfying logic puzzle. It is as much a...

Paper Trail
Newfangled Games
Paper Trail transforms spatial reasoning into a tactile masterpiece, proving that the most profound innovations often come from a simple change in per...

Return to Monkey Island
TECOPARK
*Return to Monkey Island* isn't merely a nostalgic rehash; it's a meticulously crafted point-and-click adventure that respects its lineage while confi...

Grindstone
Capybara Games
Capybara Games' *Grindstone* is a deceptively deep, compulsively playable puzzle game that transforms simple chain-linking into a strategic dance with...


Moncage
Optillusion
Moncage is a brilliantly conceived puzzle box that delivers sublime 'aha!' moments. While its central mechanic occasionally borders on frustratingly o...

Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
Steel Crate Games
An ingenious, high-tension party game that forgoes graphical horsepower to create one of the purest, most chaotic, and hilarious tests of communicatio...

TOEM
Something We Made
TOEM trades high-octane action for a deliberately paced, charming photography adventure. It’s a masterclass in minimalist design and a potent antidote...

World of Goo 2
2D BOY, Tomorrow Corporation
Sixteen years after the original, World of Goo 2 returns with its physics-based brilliance intact, expanding the formula with clever new mechanics. It...

LIMBO
Playdead
LIMBO remains a masterclass in minimalist design, where its stark, monochromatic world and brutal physics puzzles create an atmosphere so oppressive a...


Gorogoa
Buried Signal
Gorogoa isn't merely a game; it's a work of interactive art, a brief but profound journey that uses perspective-shifting puzzles to tell a story of qu...

Bridge Constructor Portal
ClockStone
This unlikely crossover succeeds not as a gimmick, but as a genuinely clever and demanding physics-puzzler that weaponizes Portal's mechanics to creat...

The Room Two
Fireproof Games
Fireproof Games masterfully expands its puzzle-box formula, creating a sequel that is bigger and more ambitious without losing the tactile magic and u...

The Room
Fireproof Games
A masterclass in tactile design and atmospheric mystery, The Room remains the benchmark for puzzle-box games, even a decade after its debut. It trades...

Donut County
Ben Esposito
Donut County is a brilliantly minimalist physics puzzler that delivers more charm and wit than actual challenge. It’s a supremely confident, short-for...

The Talos Principle
Croteam
The Talos Principle is a rare and brilliant achievement—a puzzle game that respects its audience enough to challenge not only their spatial reasoning ...

Monument Valley 2
Valve Corporation
Monument Valley 2 surpasses its predecessor by weaving a poignant, human story into its impossible architecture, creating an experience that is less a...

Playdead's INSIDE
Playdead
Playdead’s INSIDE is a haunting, minimalist masterpiece of interactive fiction. It is an unnerving, unforgettable journey that sets a new benchmark fo...

Baba Is You
Hempuli Oy
An exceptionally clever and profound puzzle game that redefines the genre by turning its own rules into playable objects, offering a brain-bending exp...

Into the Breach
Subset Games
Into the Breach is not merely a game; it is a testament to the elegance of perfect design, transforming the turn-based tactics genre into a brutally f...