Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games

Expert-reviewed Nintendo Switch games, scored out of 10.

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7 Days to End with You

7 Days to End with You

Lizardry

8.6
game
Our verdict

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

Train Valley 2

Alexey Davydov, Sergey Dvoynikov, Timofey Shargorodskiy, Flazm

8.6
game
Our verdict

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

Golf Peaks

Heaven Brotherhood

8.5
game
Our verdict

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

Wylde Flowers

Studio Drydock Pty Ltd

8.4
game
Our verdict

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

Do Not Feed the Monkeys

Fictiorama Studios

8.4
game
Our verdict

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

Autonauts

Denki

8.2
game
Our verdict

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

Buddy Simulator 1984

Buddy Simulator 1984

Not a Sailor Studios

8.5
game
Our verdict

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

FAR: Lone Sails

FAR: Lone Sails

Okomotive

8.5
game
Our verdict

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

Roots of Pacha

Soda Den

8.8
game
Our verdict

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

Elasto Mania Team, Balazs Rozsa

7.0
game
Our verdict

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

Prison Architect

Introversion Software, Double Eleven

9.0
game
Our verdict

A chillingly precise simulation that turns the grim logistics of mass incarceration into a compulsively playable, systems-driven masterpiece.

while True: learn()

while True: learn()

Luden.io

8.2
educational
Our verdict

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

Minami Lane

Blibloop, Doot

8.7
game
Our verdict

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

Tavern Talk

Gentle Troll Entertainment

8.7
game
Our verdict

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

Little Kitty, Big City

Double Dagger Studio

8.5
game
Our verdict

A masterclass in low-friction exploration that swaps high-octane combat for the simple, kinetic joy of knocking flowerpots off ledges.

The Operator

The Operator

Bureau 81

8.7
game
Our verdict

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

Good Pizza, Great Pizza

TapBlaze

8.7
game
Our verdict

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

Sticky Business

Spellgarden Games

8.7
game
Our verdict

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

Wobbledogs

Wobbledogs

Animal Uprising

8.8
game
Our verdict

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

Touhou Mystia's Izakaya

二色幽紫蝶, Re零同人社

8.8
game
Our verdict

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

Platform 8

KOTAKE CREATE

8.7
game
Our verdict

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

Wayward Strand

Wayward Strand

ghost pattern

8.2
game
Our verdict

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

The Wandering Village

Stray Fawn Studio

8.4
game
Our verdict

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

I Was a Teenage Exocolonist

Northway Games

9.2
game
Our verdict

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

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