Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games

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

129 reviewed

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Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime

Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime

Asteroid Base

8.4
game
Our verdict

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

Headliner: NoviNews

Unbound Creations

8.0
game
Our verdict

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

APICO

ellraiser, TNgineers

8.2
game
Our verdict

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

Absolute Drift

Funselektor Labs Inc.

8.6
game
Our verdict

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

Airborne Kingdom

The Wandering Band LLC

7.4
game
Our verdict

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

Bury Me, My Love

The Pixel Hunt, ARTE France, FIGS

8.4
game
Our verdict

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

Snake Pass

Sumo Digital

7.8
game
Our verdict

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

Outlanders

Pomelo Games

8.2
game
Our verdict

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

Potionomics

Voracious Games

8.4
game
Our verdict

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

Root

Root

Dire Wolf

8.6
game
Our verdict

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

SUMMERHOUSE

Friedemann

8.2
game
Our verdict

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

Storyteller

Daniel Benmergui

8.4
game
Our verdict

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

Squirrel with a Gun

Dee Dee Creations LLC

7.6
game
Our verdict

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

Star Renegades

Massive Damage, Inc.

8.2
game
Our verdict

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

Megaquarium

Twice Circled

8.1
game
Our verdict

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

Moonstone Island

Studio Supersoft

8.1
game
Our verdict

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

Bear and Breakfast

Gummy Cat

7.8
game
Our verdict

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

Wide Ocean Big Jacket

Turnfollow

8.4
game
Our verdict

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

Sephonie

Melos Han-Tani, Marina Kittaka

7.6
game
Our verdict

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 Museum

Two Point Studios

8.7
game
Our verdict

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

Tiny Bookshop

neoludic games

8.4
game
Our verdict

*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

Niche - a genetics survival game

Stray Fawn Studio

8.4
educational
Our verdict

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

Spirittea

Cheesemaster Games

7.6
game
Our verdict

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

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 ...

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