Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games
Expert-reviewed Nintendo Switch games, scored out of 10.
- Reviewed
- 158
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
Kabuto Park
RPG gameA compact, well-priced creature collector with a clear design and real limits. It is easy to recommend to players who want a short, focused campaign, ...Good7.2Death Howl
Adventure gameA punishing, slow-burning deckbuilder whose grid tactics and persistent deck fit together well, though the rough opening and steep difficulty narrow w...Good7.1Kami 2
Board gameKAMI 2 turns a worn-out color-flood premise into a quiet argument with yourself, and mostly wins it. The core design is solid and the mobile version i...Good7.5Cookie Clicker
Simulation gameFew games can claim to have founded a genre and still hold their place in it, but Cookie Clicker comes close. It's a lean, funny, surprisingly deep ec...Great8.3Long Live the Queen
RPG gameA small, cruel, clever sim that treats failure as the lesson plan. For players willing to die repeatedly to learn what the court wants, it's a rewardi...Good7.5SteamWorld Build
Simulation gameSteamWorld Build is too gentle for its own good. The link between its frontier town and the mine beneath it is a real design idea, but the game hands ...Mixed6.5Pirates Outlaws
Card gamePirates Outlaws leans so heavily on Slay the Spire's skeleton that its own identity rests almost entirely on one idea, and harsh difficulty spikes can...Mixed6.8Hexologic
Education gameHexologic takes a familiar number-sum rule and gets real depth out of it by moving it to a hexagonal grid, and it does so with unusual restraint. It's...Good7.6
Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine
Action gameMonaco is a co-op crime caper built on one sharp idea — you can only see what your thief sees — and with a full crew that idea carries it a long way. ...Good7.5A Fold Apart
Adventure gameA Fold Apart folds its geometry and its story into the same object, and few puzzle games make mechanic and meaning line up this cleanly. The puzzles s...Good7.2El Hijo - A Wild West Tale
Adventure gameEl Hijo – A Wild West Tale is a charming, low-stakes stealth adventure that's more affectionate pastiche than genre breakthrough — and at $19.99, it...Mixed5.9Curious Expedition
RPG gameMaschinen-Mensch's roguelike expedition sim earns its genre mashup through brutal, meaningful resource management. It stumbles on repetition and luck,...Good7.3Inkulinati
Strategy gameFor all its wit and genuinely distinctive art, Inkulinati is hard to recommend to most people: Journey mode repeats too soon, the difficulty rarely ...Mixed6.6Kine
Strategy gameKine is a smart, charming 3D puzzle game with a jazz soundtrack that asks more of players than its cute look suggests. Its three-robot movement system...Good7.0No Umbrellas Allowed
Simulation gameA second-hand shop sim with the soul of a noir novel — its appraise-haggle-resell loop is one of the tensest economies in the genre, and it's kneecapp...Good7.1Tharsis
RPG gameTharsis has a genuinely original central idea — your crew are the dice — wrapped around a difficulty curve so pitiless it will drive off most of its...Mixed6.0Black Book
Adventure gameBlack Book is a deck-building RPG whose cards are incantations drawn from 19th-century Ural folk charms, wrapped in a grief story with teeth. The co...Good7.3Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes
Action gameHard to recommend for most people: a Suikoden successor with a genuinely brilliant recruitment loop, undermined by unskippable battle animations, heav...Mixed6.3Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3?!
Action gameCook, Serve, Delicious! 3?! is a demanding, content-heavy action game priced like an indie title — a hundred-hour typing test disguised as a restauran...Good7.7Dicefolk
Action gameDicefolk's central trick — handing you the enemy's dice as well as your own — converts a genre built on gambling into a series of tight, solvable comb...Good7.1Legend of Keepers: Career of a Dungeon Manager
RPG gameA clever inversion of the dungeon crawl that turns evil into a middle-management job — sharp, funny, and mechanically tight early on, until its shallo...Good7.0Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition
Adventure gameTwenty-five years on, BioWare's 2000 classic remains one of the deepest, cruelest, most rewarding party RPGs ever shipped — and Beamdog's remaster is ...Great8.6Game Dev Story
Simulation gameGame Dev Story remains a tightly built business sim with a genuinely funny premise, and the core loop still holds up. But it has barely changed since ...Good7.4Nowhere Prophet
Card gameNowhere Prophet's punishing attrition and thin early-run power curve will strand plenty of players in the first biome, and that undercuts one of the m...Mixed6.4
