Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games
Expert-reviewed Nintendo Switch games, scored out of 10.
129 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...

Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
Asteroid Base
Asteroid Base built a co-op machine that turns communication breakdown into comedy and teamwork into genuine delight. A decade on, it remains one of t...

Headliner: NoviNews
Unbound Creations
Unbound Creations built a two-hour morality machine about who controls the news, and it lands harder than games ten times its length. Buy it, play it ...

APICO
ellraiser, TNgineers
APICO takes the Forestry-mod DNA of genetics-driven bee breeding, strips out the punishment, and wraps it in a pixel-art conservation story that respe...

Absolute Drift
Funselektor Labs Inc.
Absolute Drift is a masterclass in focused design — one mechanic, sharpened to a razor's edge, wrapped in stark white minimalism and drum & bass. It w...

Airborne Kingdom
The Wandering Band LLC
Airborne Kingdom builds one of the freshest hooks the city-builder genre has produced in a decade — a metropolis that must physically stay aloft — the...

Bury Me, My Love
The Pixel Hunt, ARTE France, FIGS
A wrenching, formally brilliant text-message drama about the Syrian refugee crisis that weaponizes your phone's most familiar interface against your c...

Snake Pass
Sumo Digital
Snake Pass is the rare 3D platformer with a genuinely original locomotion idea, executed with charm and conviction. Its physics-first controls will de...

Outlanders
Pomelo Games
Pomelo Games has quietly built one of the most approachable strategy games of the decade — a mission-based town builder where letting go of control is...

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

Root
Dire Wolf
Root is a superb digital adaptation of one of the decade's most demanding board games — patient, polished, and honest about its source material's brut...

SUMMERHOUSE
Friedemann
SUMMERHOUSE is a tiny, gorgeous building toy that asks nothing of you and gives back more than games fifty times its price. It runs out of pieces befo...

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...

Squirrel with a Gun
Dee Dee Creations LLC
A physics-comedy sandbox that mines one absurd joke — a pistol-packing squirrel — for far more mileage than it has any right to. It's short, occasiona...

Star Renegades
Massive Damage, Inc.
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...

Megaquarium
Twice Circled
A brainy, unhurried aquarium builder that trades the usual tycoon frenzy for genuine systems mastery — brilliant for 30 hours, a little too polite to ...

Moonstone Island
Studio Supersoft
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 ...

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

Wide Ocean Big Jacket
Turnfollow
A gorgeous, razor-sharp 90-minute story about growing up that trades puzzles and combat for the most believable dialogue in games. If you can accept t...

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

Two Point Museum
Two Point Studios
Two Point Studios has built its most confident, layered game yet—a management sim that turns curation into a genuine creative act. It borrows heavily ...

Tiny Bookshop
neoludic games
*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...

Niche - a genetics survival game
Stray Fawn Studio
A genuinely clever strategy game that smuggles a college-level genetics course inside a pack of huggable creatures — brilliant on PC, compromised on c...

Spirittea
Cheesemaster Games
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...

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 ...