Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games

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

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...

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...

ASTLIBRA Revision looks like a shovelware asset flip and plays like the work of a man who spent a decade and a half refusing to let go. Push past the ...

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 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 ...

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

Image & Form's card-battling RPG is the rare genre hybrid where both halves pull their weight — a genuinely deep combat system wrapped in a gorgeous, ...

A solo-developed, Earthbound-descended RPG that hides one of the genre's most devastating emotional payloads behind goofy jokes and a brilliant transf...

Battle Chef Brigade fuses brawler combat and match-three puzzling into a cooking-tournament loop that has no business working this well. A short campa...

Potionomics smuggles a genuinely sharp deck-builder inside a pastel shopkeeping fantasy, and the Masterwork Edition sands off the original's most puni...

inkle has bottled the chaos of a living, gossiping social simulation into taut 40-minute runs — and the result is one of the smartest detective games ...

A near-solo passion project that out-crafts studios fifty times its size, Ghost of a Tale wraps genuinely tense stealth in one of the most lovingly de...

Absolum takes the pixel-perfect brawling of *Streets of Rage 4* and welds it to *Dead Cells*-style roguelite structure — the result is the most mechan...

A decade after its Vita debut, Persona 4 Golden remains the gold standard for how to make 80 hours feel like time well spent — a genre-bending JRPG wh...

A savage, hilarious, endlessly replayable roguelike that turns permadeath into a punchline and a punishment in equal measure. Rough edges and brutal R...

A gorgeous, brutally tactical RPG whose enemies actually remember you — Star Renegades pairs one of the smartest combat systems in the genre with a gr...

A sharper, riskier, more ambitious sequel that trades the cozy fatalism of the original for white-knuckle survival — and mostly earns the trade. If yo...

Carto turns cartography into its core verb, and the result is one of the most inventive puzzle ideas in years—wrapped in a cozy, gorgeous package that...

A gorgeous, brain-bending tactics RPG where the terrain itself is your deadliest weapon and your worst enemy. Brilliant and uncompromising in equal me...

Ghost Song is a gorgeous, melancholy Metroidvania that nails atmosphere and combat feel but rarely surprises you with an idea you haven't seen before ...

Afterimage is one of the most beautiful Metroidvanias ever drawn and one of the most confusing ones ever written. Aurogon Shanghai built a sprawling, ...

A genuinely clever mash-up of *Stardew Valley* comfort and *Slay the Spire* tactics that pulls off the fusion better than it has any right to—so long ...

A disarmingly clever management sim that hides a surprisingly tangled mystery — and a genuinely fiddly interface — beneath its impossibly cozy fur. It...