Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games

Sephonie is a gorgeous, emotionally ambitious platformer that trusts you to feel your way through both its caves and its characters — but its slippery...

A solo-developed comedy RPG that treats every battle as a chance to reinvent itself — sometimes you fight, sometimes you draw the boss yourself. Uneve...

Brace Yourself Games traded the roguelike dungeon for three vertical lanes and, against the odds, landed a rhythm game that rewards reading over rote....

Haven is a rare thing—a game that treats an already-in-love couple as the story, not the reward. It's gorgeous, tender, and beautifully scored, but th...

Pixpil's debut is a gorgeous, big-hearted love letter to 16-bit adventure games that occasionally forgets when to end a sentence — but the sentence is...

Louis Rigaud's card-battler about fighting your own depression is one of the sharpest, most emotionally honest roguelikes of its generation — but the ...

DrinkBox took the one mechanic every action RPG treats as a gimmick — shapeshifting — and made it the entire load-bearing wall. The result is a dungeo...

Happy Ray Games built a tactical RPG where every single attack demands your thumbs, not your MP bar — and wrapped it in the warmest, sharpest-written ...

One German developer built a first-person Metroidvania that respects your intelligence more than most studio productions respect your time. The combat...

A dense, brilliantly written dark fantasy caravan sim that treats your attention as a resource it has every right to demand. It will bore anyone looki...

A sequel that outgrows its predecessor in every measurable way, *Ender Magnolia* is a gorgeous, generous, emotionally literate Metroidvania that trade...

GRIME is one of the most visually audacious Soulslikes ever made, welding grotesque anatomical horror to a parry-and-devour combat loop that feels gen...

*Tiny Bookshop* takes the most low-stakes premise imaginable—selling used paperbacks from a trailer—and turns it into one of the most quietly compelli...

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...

Neon Abyss buries you in an avalanche of stackable loot until the screen bleeds bullets and the physics give up — thrilling, chaotic, and occasionally...

Tunche is one of the best-looking beat 'em ups you can buy, a storybook come to life with a killer four-player couch mode—but its roguelite scaffoldin...

A wildly inventive love letter to Saturday-morning Tokusatsu that welds studio-management sim to grid tactics — brilliant in concept, occasionally thi...

A sharp, empathetic narrative adventure that turns the emotional labor of gig work into its core mechanic. The mystery underwhelms and the ride ends t...

A landmark of narrative ambition wrapped around a traversal system that actively fights you — the writing and voice work are among the best the medium...

BOKURA weaponizes miscommunication into a puzzle mechanic, delivering one of the most genuinely cooperative games ever made—provided you have a patien...

A brutal, beautiful action-RPG that fuses NieR-grade combat depth with a hand-drawn nightmare about trauma and self-forgiveness. The difficulty and de...

A daft internet meme becomes one of the smartest cooperative puzzle-platformers in years. Malastin builds an entire mechanical language around a dumb ...

Coromon isn't content to cosplay as a Game Boy Advance-era Pokémon clone—it interrogates the genre's oldest habits and fixes most of them. A stamina-d...

A remaster that wears its 3DS origins on its sleeve, but underneath the dated polygons sits one of the most generously packed action-RPG-slash-life-si...