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


Inscryption
Daniel Mullins Games
Inscryption is a masterclass in psychological horror and genre-bending design, a game that plays its players with the same ruthless ingenuity that the...

Persona 4 Golden
ATLUS
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...

Animal Well
Billy Basso
Animal Well is a masterclass in tension and discovery, trading the genre's typical combat for a dense, layered world of puzzles that respects player i...

Ikaruga
TREASURE
Ikaruga is a masterclass in minimalist complexity that demands absolute cognitive presence, proving that mechanical purity is far more enduring than g...

Persona 5 Royal
Quirky Porcupine
Persona 5 Royal doesn't just refine an already exceptional JRPG; it elevates the experience to an unassailable standard, seamlessly blending deep soci...

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 ...

Train Valley 2
Alexey Davydov, Sergey Dvoynikov, Timofey Shargorodskiy, Flazm
Train Valley 2 trades its predecessor's frantic crash-avoidance for the quiet, obsessive pleasure of building a logistics machine that hums. It's a pu...

Golf Peaks
Heaven Brotherhood
Golf Peaks strips golf down to a deck of cards and a grid, then builds one of the most quietly brilliant mobile puzzlers of its generation. It's short...

Wylde Flowers
Studio Drydock Pty Ltd
Wylde Flowers is the rare cozy sim that treats its story as the main crop, not the fertilizer. The farming is thinner than genre royalty, but a fully ...

Do Not Feed the Monkeys
Fictiorama Studios
A brilliant, uncomfortable little machine that turns you into the exact kind of person you'd cross the street to avoid. Its surveillance loop is addic...

Autonauts
Denki
Autonauts transforms complex systems engineering into a delightful, stress-free sandbox, though its brilliance on PC is severely compromised by clunky...

Buddy Simulator 1984
Not a Sailor Studios
Buddy Simulator 1984 is a brilliantly manipulative psychological horror experience that weaponizes retro nostalgia and a simulated operating system to...

FAR: Lone Sails
Okomotive
FAR: Lone Sails is a masterfully paced, atmospheric triumph that turns the potentially tedious chore of vehicle maintenance into an intimate, emotiona...

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

Elasto Mania
Elasto Mania Team, Balazs Rozsa
Elasto Mania Remastered is a brutally uncompromising preservation of a physics-based cult classic. It is a masterpiece of pure mechanics that will del...

Prison Architect
Introversion Software, Double Eleven
A chillingly precise simulation that turns the grim logistics of mass incarceration into a compulsively playable, systems-driven masterpiece.

while True: learn()
Luden.io
Luden.io transforms the intimidating math of neural networks into a charming, node-based logic puzzle that proves machine learning is mostly just soph...

Minami Lane
Blibloop, Doot
Minami Lane is a masterclass in "cozy" efficiency, stripping away the bloat of modern simulators to deliver a high-polish, Japanese-inspired street ma...

Tavern Talk
Gentle Troll Entertainment
Tavern Talk is a sophisticated subversion of the fantasy epic that swaps out sword-swinging for social engineering, delivering a narrative loop that i...

Little Kitty, Big City
Double Dagger Studio
A masterclass in low-friction exploration that swaps high-octane combat for the simple, kinetic joy of knocking flowerpots off ledges.

The Operator
Bureau 81
The Operator is a masterclass in narrative skeuomorphism, transforming the mundane reality of a workstation into a claustrophobic, high-tension theate...

Good Pizza, Great Pizza
TapBlaze
TapBlaze’s culinary sim manages to strip away the stress of the service industry, leaving behind a meditative, hand-drawn loop that is as addictive as...

Sticky Business
Spellgarden Games
Sticky Business is a masterclass in low-friction creativity, stripping away the stress of entrepreneurship to leave behind a pure, meditative loop of ...

Wobbledogs
Animal Uprising
Wobbledogs is a brilliant, slightly cursed subversion of the pet simulator that replaces sterile perfection with the glorious, physics-defying chaos o...

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...

Platform 8
KOTAKE CREATE
A claustrophobic, high-tension refinement of the anomaly-hunting subgenre that proves the mundane is far more terrifying than the monstrous.

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...

The Wandering Village
Stray Fawn Studio
The Wandering Village is a visually arresting survival builder that successfully pivots the genre away from static expansion toward a precarious, livi...

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...