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...

Behind the Frame: The Finest Scenery
Silver Lining Studio
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...

LEGO Builder's Journey
Light Brick Studio
A gorgeous, wordless meditation on play and parenthood that treats LEGO bricks with more reverence than any licensed blockbuster ever has — just don't...

inbento
Afterburn
inbento is a near-perfect bite of a puzzle game — gorgeous, gentle, and quietly clever — that ends too soon and now hides its mobile version behind a ...

Pilgrims
Amanita Design
Pilgrims compresses Amanita Design's twenty years of hand-drawn whimsy into a two-hour, card-driven adventure that respects experimentation over corre...

Rytmos
Floppy Club
Rytmos turns maze-solving into music-making with a confidence few rhythm hybrids ever manage, and its world-music curriculum is genuinely enriching. A...

Railbound
Afterburn
Railbound is one of the most elegantly designed puzzle games of the past few years — a track-routing brainteaser that's cozy on the surface and quietl...

Storyteller
Daniel Benmergui
Storyteller is one of the most genuinely original puzzle games of the decade — a drag-and-drop narrative machine that makes you feel like a mischievou...

Is This Seat Taken?
Poti Poti Studio
A featherlight logic puzzler that hides a real emotional payload behind its minimalist charm. It's short, it's gentle, and it never once raises its vo...

Where Cards Fall
The Game Band
A gorgeous, wordless meditation on growing up that turns card-stacking into genuine emotion—but its puzzles are so forgiving they occasionally forget ...

Broken Age
Double Fine Productions
Double Fine's crowdfunded passion project is one of the most gorgeous point-and-click adventures ever animated, buoyed by a razor-sharp voice cast and...

The Gardens Between
The Voxel Agents
A wordless, wistful puzzle-box about the moment two childhood friends realize they're growing apart. It's short, gentle, and gorgeous—and its most rad...

The Big Con
Mighty Yell
A gorgeous, big-hearted throwback that coasts on charm and comedy more than mechanics — short, funny, and genuinely touching, so long as you don't com...

Old Man's Journey
Broken Rules
A wordless, hand-painted meditation on regret and reconciliation that hits like a short story you'll remember longer than most 40-hour epics — just do...

Type:Rider
Ex Nihilo, ARTE France
Type:Rider is one of the most beautiful history lessons you'll ever play—a gorgeous, atmospheric platformer whose floaty physics never quite live up t...

A Good Snowman is Hard to Build
Draknek
Draknek has smuggled a genuinely fiendish Sokoban into a game that looks like a greeting card, and the disguise is the point. If you finish the main r...

Silt
Spiral Circus Games
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...

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

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

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

Train Valley 2
Alexey Davydov, Sergey Dvoynikov, Timofey Shargorodskiy, Flazm
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...

Holedown
grapefrukt games
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
Heaven Brotherhood
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...

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

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