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

Overboard!
inkle Ltd
A masterclass in narrative efficiency that turns the classic murder mystery on its head by casting you as the villain in a race against the clock. It ...

Sludge Life
Asobimo, Inc.
Sludge Life is a confident, foul-mouthed middle finger to the polished conventions of the modern open-world genre. It is a short, sharp shock of aesth...

Chrono Ark
Al Fine
Chrono Ark is a masterclass in tactical synergy, trading the simplicity of the solo deck-builder for a sophisticated, party-based engine that demands ...

Touhou Mystia's Izakaya
二色幽紫蝶, Re零同人社
A masterclass in rhythm and resource management that proves the Touhou universe is capable of far more than just dodging projectiles. It is a deceptiv...

Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights
Live Wire, Adglobe
A masterclass in atmospheric storytelling that weaponizes melancholy. It is a grueling, gorgeous Metroidvania that justifies its brutality through mec...

Wayward Strand
ghost pattern
Ghost Pattern’s airborne hospital simulator swaps high-stakes action for radical empathy, offering a brilliant but stubbornly slow-burn narrative expe...

Selfloss
Goodwin Games
Selfloss is a hauntingly beautiful exploration of grief that pairs striking Slavic-Icelandic aesthetics with a high-friction dual-control system that ...

Smushi Come Home
SomeHumbleOnion
Smushi Come Home is a masterclass in the "tiny-open-world" subgenre, offering a mechanically satisfying and educationally rich escape that respects yo...

I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
Northway Games
Northway Games has engineered a devastatingly effective machine for empathy, transforming the abstract concept of "experience" into a tactile, high-st...

Mind Scanners
The Outer Zone
Mind Scanners is a harrowing, skeuomorphic descent into state-mandated psychiatry that forces you to choose between your daughter's freedom and your p...

Suzerain
Torpor Games
Suzerain is a masterclass in narrative tension that proves politics is the most dangerous game of all—a profound, punishing simulation of power and th...

Finding Paradise
Freebird Games
Finding Paradise is a surgical examination of a life half-lived, trading traditional RPG mechanics for an emotional resonance that most big-budget tit...

Stray Children
Onion Games
Stray Children is a haunting, psychological mirror that makes traditional level-grinding feel hollow; it is less a game and more a profound interrogat...

The Last Spell
Ishtar Games
A masterclass in tactical desperation that rewards calculated risks and punishes the slightest hesitation with mathematical cruelty. It is a grueling,...

Drova - Forsaken Kin
Just2D
A masterclass in "anti-handholding" design, Drova - Forsaken Kin is a grim, rewarding throwback that proves friction is often the secret ingredient to...

Jupiter Hell
ChaosForge
ChaosForge manages the impossible: making a grid-based, turn-based roguelike feel like a blistering 144Hz shooter. It is a masterclass in distilled me...

Nuclear Throne
Vlambeer
Vlambeer’s magnum opus is a brutal, unapologetic lesson in game feel that turns every death into a desperate craving for just one more run. It is the ...

Death's Door
Acid Nerve
Acid Nerve’s isometric masterpiece is a masterclass in atmospheric storytelling and mechanical precision, proving that the afterlife is best viewed th...

To the Moon
Freebird Games
To the Moon strips away almost every convention of modern gaming to prove that a profound narrative doesn't require a high-polygon count—it just needs...

Kingdom Come: Deliverance
Warhorse Studios
Warhorse Studios has crafted a masterpiece of historical friction that trades the escapism of power fantasies for the grueling, rewarding reality of 1...

Sunless Skies
Failbetter Games
Sunless Skies is a masterclass in atmospheric storytelling and narrative density, transforming the grueling reality of Victorian survival into a haunt...

The Legend of Tianding
Creative Games Computer Graphics Corporation, Neon Doctrine
A masterclass in 2D brawling that proves cultural specificity is the secret sauce for action-platformers. It’s fast, visceral, and visually arresting.

Streets of Rogue
Matt Dabrowski
Streets of Rogue is a rare triumph of systemic design, offering a dizzying level of player freedom that transforms the often-rigid roguelite genre int...

Dungeon Clawler
Stray Fawn Studio
Dungeon Clawler is a masterclass in skeuomorphic chaos, proving that the most dangerous weapon in a dungeon isn’t a magic missile, but a poorly calibr...