Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games
Expert-reviewed Nintendo Switch games, scored out of 10.
- Reviewed
- 22
Top rated on Nintendo Switch
- 01IkarugaIkaruga builds enormous complexity out of one binary mechanic and demands absolute cognitive presence, proving that mec…9.7Outstanding
- 02Persona 5 RoyalPersona 5 Royal refines an already exceptional JRPG to an unassailable standard, blending deep social simulation with s…9.7Outstanding
- 03UndertaleUndertale is a foundational critique of the RPG genre itself, one that weaponizes player choice to deliver an unforgett…9.7Outstanding
Featured on Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games
Retro Bowl
Simulation gameRetro Bowl pairs a one-gesture passing game with a front-office sim that actually bites, and hands over both for free. Its refusal to let you play def...Good7.7Circuit Superstars
Action gameCircuit Superstars looks like a coffee-table toy and is built to drive like a proper racing sim, and that gap is the whole point — a deep handling mod...Good7.1Grand Mountain Adventure
Adventure gameThree snowboarding brothers built a skiing game with an honest physics model and a top-down camera nobody else uses. That camera can hide the terrain ...Good7.7Golf With Your Friends
Sports gameBy throwing out mini golf's most sacred rule — take turns — Blacklight Interactive built one of the funniest party-game concepts on Steam, then left i...Mixed6.7Cursed to Golf
Action gameChuhai Labs built a sharp 2D physics puzzler and then bolted a punishing roguelike to its ankle. The golf is excellent; the structure around it is the...Good7.1Golf Club Wasteland
Adventure gameGolf Club Wasteland is a melancholy, well-crafted eulogy for human civilization delivered through a golf game — solid, affecting work that ends sooner...Good7.2Windjammers 2
Sports gameWindjammers 2 is a mechanically sharp two-player duel with the readable depth of a fighting game and little of the execution tax — but thin solo conte...Good7.4Descenders
Action gameRageSquid built a physics model strong enough to carry an entire genre experiment, and the result is a genuinely demanding skill curve in action sport...Good7.5
Lethal League Blaze
Action gameTeam Reptile built a fighting game where nobody punches anybody, and its design produces more genuine panic per minute than almost anything else on th...Good7.8Absolute Drift
Action gameAbsolute Drift is a study in focused design — one mechanic, sharpened hard, wrapped in stark white minimalism and drum & bass. Its punishing onboardin...Good7.8Skate Story
Action gameSkate Story takes a genre defined by physics and repetition and turns it into something devotional. It's not the deepest skater on the market, but it'...Great8.3Desta: The Memories Between
Action gameustwo's tactics-roguelite about grief is one of the most emotionally honest games in the genre, wrapped around a physics-based dodgeball system that's...Mixed6.7Sephonie
Action gameSephonie is an emotionally ambitious platformer with genuinely excellent writing, but slippery movement, a repetitive puzzle loop, and an unreliable c...Mixed6.4Fall Guys
Action gameA gloriously dumb, endlessly watchable party royale that turns humiliation into a spectator sport — held back by a cosmetics store that treats your wa...Good7.1Golf Peaks
Puzzle gameGolf Peaks strips golf down to a deck of cards and a grid, and the result is a calm, clever puzzler with a clear identity. It's short and occasionally...Good7.6Elasto Mania
Racing gameElasto Mania Remastered preserves a cult physics classic with admirable fidelity, but its refusal to accommodate newcomers, dated presentation, and po...Mixed5.9OlliOlli World
Action gameRoll7 has successfully pivoted from brutalist pixel-art precision to a lush, hand-drawn "flow state" that makes skateboarding feel like a playable Sat...Great8.9Despelote
Adventure gameDespelote is a quietly remarkable piece of hyper-specific cultural storytelling, using a soccer ball as a tactile anchor to recreate the ephemeral mag...Great8.7Lonely Mountains Downhill
Action gameLonely Mountains: Downhill blends serene exploration with punishing, precision-demanding mechanics, and the result is as frustratingly addictive a...Great8.5Rocket League
Action gameRocket League pioneered a genre and its core design still holds up, but persistent technical instability, aggressive monetization, and a compromised c...Mixed5.9F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch
Action gameF.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch is a mechanically dense Metroidvania with a striking dieselpunk world and a combat system built to reward mastery, bu...Good7.2GRID™ Autosport
Racing gameGRID™ Autosport sidesteps the gimmicks of its contemporaries, delivering a pure, challenging motorsport experience for the serious enthusiast. It's a ...Good7.2
