Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games

Dragonfall is the rare tactical RPG where the writing hits as hard as the shotguns. A decade on, it remains the sharpest cyberpunk story you can play,...

Wadjet Eye Games has crafted the smartest point-and-click adventure in a decade—a party-based, choice-driven urban fantasy that treats you like an adu...

Spirittea nails the fantasy of running a spirit bathhouse with a hypnotic management loop and gorgeous pixel art, but finicky controls and thin hand-h...

A near-flawless HD revival of two rhythm-strategy cult classics that finally fixes the latency demons — dragged down only by a grind-heavy loop that h...

A morally corrosive spy simulator that turns snooping into gut-wrenching arithmetic — brilliant, oppressive, and occasionally so punishing it forgets ...

Digital Sun built a game around a genuinely fresh idea—run a shop by day, raid a dungeon by night—and executed it with enough polish and charm that it...

inkle didn't just port a stack of dusty 1980s paperbacks to your phone—it rebuilt them into one of the smartest, most quietly ambitious pieces of inte...

A one-man love letter to Final Fantasy V that swaps hand-holding for a genuine open world, Crystal Project is one of the most quietly ambitious JRPGs ...

Roguebook takes the sacred cow of the deckbuilding genre—keep your deck small—and cheerfully slaughters it, delivering a gorgeous, tactically rich rog...

An incredibly witty, mechanically inventive RPG that proves stick figures and deadpan humor can carry a sprawling, highly replayable cosmic horror mys...

Gordian Quest is a brilliantly complex hybrid of deckbuilding and tactical grid combat that occasionally buckles under the weight of its own mechanica...

Square Enix’s HD-2D remake of Live A Live resurrects a bold, experimental 1994 anthology with stunning modern fidelity, offering a masterclass in modu...

Buddy Simulator 1984 is a brilliantly manipulative psychological horror experience that weaponizes retro nostalgia and a simulated operating system to...

Monster Sanctuary is a fiercely intelligent, demanding RPG that trades mindless level-grinding for deep, tactical team synergy and Metroidvania explor...

Outward is a fiercely uncompromising survival RPG that strips away power fantasies to deliver genuine adventure, demanding meticulous preparation in p...

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is a masterclass in gothic Metroidvania design that honors its heritage without being trapped by it. Aside from mino...

Phoenotopia: Awakening is a beautifully crafted, fiercely challenging retro adventure that rewards patience and punishes carelessness. If you have the...

Roots of Pacha strips away the hyper-individualistic grind of traditional farming simulators, replacing it with a brilliant, cooperative prehistoric c...

Toby Fox isn't just iterating on a formula; he’s deconstructing the very idea of player agency in a genre-defining RPG that feels both nostalgic and d...

CD Projekt Red didn't just build an open world; they built a standard for narrative gravity that most modern RPGs still struggle to reach. It’s messy,...

Signs of the Sojourner is a masterclass in ludonarrative harmony, using the rigid logic of deck-building to expose the messy, fragile nature of human ...

Everhood is a masterful, unsettling fusion of rhythm mechanics and philosophical RPG storytelling that subverts standard gaming tropes. It demands hyp...

Wytchwood is an atmospheric triumph that wraps a dark, Grimm-inspired fairy tale inside a gorgeous paper-cutout aesthetic. While its hypnotic crafting...

Raging Loop is a masterfully written psychological thriller that weaponizes the death-loop trope to create a social deduction puzzle as cerebral as it...