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

Hades II
Supergiant Games
Supergiant took the best roguelike of the last decade and refused to simply photocopy it. Hades II is bigger, thornier, and more ambitious than its pr...

Hollow Knight: Silksong
Team Cherry
Team Cherry spent seven years building a game that is bigger, faster, and meaner than *Hollow Knight* — and mostly better for it, provided you can sto...

Super Mario Bros. Wonder
Nintendo
Nintendo's latest 2D Mario entry is not merely a nostalgia trip; it is a masterclass in revitalizing a beloved genre, delivering an almost ceaseless t...

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
Nintendo
Nine years after its Wii U debut, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe remains the most polished, complete, and mechanically honest kart racer ever shipped. It's not j...

Split Fiction
Hazelight Studios
Hazelight has done it again — **Split Fiction** is a relentlessly inventive two-player adventure that refuses to reuse a good idea when it could inven...

Niche - a genetics survival game
Stray Fawn Studio
A genuinely clever strategy game that smuggles a college-level genetics course inside a pack of huggable creatures — brilliant on PC, compromised on c...

Beholder
Alawar Stargaze (Warm Lamp Games)
A morally corrosive spy simulator that turns snooping into gut-wrenching arithmetic — brilliant, oppressive, and occasionally so punishing it forgets ...

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...

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...

Crystal Project
Andrew Willman
A one-man love letter to Final Fantasy V that swaps hand-holding for a genuine open world, Crystal Project is one of the most quietly ambitious JRPGs ...

Slayaway Camp
Blue Wizard Digital
A Sokoban puzzler wearing a rubber Halloween mask, *Slayaway Camp* smuggles genuinely brutal spatial-reasoning challenges inside a gleefully tasteless...

Roguebook
Abrakam Entertainment SA
Roguebook takes the sacred cow of the deckbuilding genre—keep your deck small—and cheerfully slaughters it, delivering a gorgeous, tactically rich rog...

Gordian Quest
Mixed Realms Pte Ltd, Swag Soft Holdings Pte Ltd
Gordian Quest is a brilliantly complex hybrid of deckbuilding and tactical grid combat that occasionally buckles under the weight of its own mechanica...

Monster Sanctuary
moi rai games
Monster Sanctuary is a fiercely intelligent, demanding RPG that trades mindless level-grinding for deep, tactical team synergy and Metroidvania explor...

20 Minutes Till Dawn
flanne
By reintroducing the tactile friction of active aiming and shooting, *20 Minutes Till Dawn* rescues the horde-survival genre from passive automation, ...

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.

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...

Wall World
Alawar
Wall World is a masterclass in genre-blending that proves there is still plenty of gold to be found in the "mining rogue-lite" hills—even if those hil...

Filament
Beard Envy
Filament is a cerebral, often punishing masterclass in spatial reasoning that trades hand-holding for pure, unadulterated logic. It is one of the most...

Vault of the Void
Spider Nest Games
Vault of the Void is a masterclass in deterministic strategy that systematically dismantles the RNG-heavy frustrations of the roguelike deckbuilder ge...

Mundaun
Illwinter Game Design
*Mundaun* is a triumph of atmospheric horror that trades cheap jump scares for a creeping, suffocating dread, entirely rendered in meticulous, graphit...

Terra Nil
Free Lives, Clockwork Acorn
A masterclass in "reverse" strategy that proves tearing things down can be just as satisfying as building them up, even if the high doesn't last long.

Chrono Ark
Al Fine
Chrono Ark is a masterclass in tactical synergy, trading the simplicity of the solo deck-builder for a sophisticated, party-based engine that demands ...

Wargroove
Chucklefish
Wargroove is more than a pitch-perfect homage to the Advance Wars era; it is a robust, genre-revitalizing engine that hands the keys of creation to th...

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...

Mind Scanners
The Outer Zone
Mind Scanners is a harrowing, skeuomorphic descent into state-mandated psychiatry that forces you to choose between your daughter's freedom and your p...

Death and Taxes
Placeholder Gameworks
A biting, beautifully rendered critique of corporate compliance that proves the afterlife is just another office job—and that your choices matter more...

The Last Spell
Ishtar Games
A masterclass in tactical desperation that rewards calculated risks and punishes the slightest hesitation with mathematical cruelty. It is a grueling,...

Jupiter Hell
ChaosForge
ChaosForge manages the impossible: making a grid-based, turn-based roguelike feel like a blistering 144Hz shooter. It is a masterclass in distilled me...