Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games

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

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Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark

Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark

6 Eyes Studio

8.2
game
Our verdict

6 Eyes Studio built the tactical RPG that Square Enix stopped making twenty years ago, and the class system is genuinely superb — but the story it's b...

Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader

Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader

Owlcat Games

8.6
game
Our verdict

Owlcat has built the most ambitious licensed CRPG in years — a 130-hour interrogation of the Imperium's rot that respects your intelligence and punish...

The Jackbox Party Pack

The Jackbox Party Pack

Jackbox Games, Inc.

7.8
game
Our verdict

The original Jackbox Party Pack solved a problem the industry had ignored for decades — getting non-gamers to play — with one brilliant stroke: a brow...

PlateUp!

PlateUp!

It's happening

8.8
game
Our verdict

PlateUp! takes the Overcooked formula, bolts on a roguelite spine and a genuinely deep automation sandbox, and ends up as the smartest co-op cooking g...

Desta: The Memories Between

Desta: The Memories Between

ustwo games

7.8
game
Our verdict

ustwo'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...

Ring of Pain

Ring of Pain

Simon Boxer, Twice Different

8.4
game
Our verdict

Ring of Pain takes one structural idea — the dungeon as a rotating ring of cards — and builds a genuinely tense, mechanically airtight roguelike aroun...

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...

Monster Train 2

Monster Train 2

Shiny Shoe

9.0
game
Our verdict

Shiny Shoe took a near-perfect roguelike deckbuilder and made it deeper, denser, and more demanding without breaking what worked. **Monster Train 2** ...

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 ...

Tenderfoot Tactics

Tenderfoot Tactics

Kevin Maxon, Michael Bell, Isa Hutchinson, Taylor Thomas, Zoe Vartanian, Madison Pathe

8.2
game
Our verdict

A gorgeous, brain-bending tactics RPG where the terrain itself is your deadliest weapon and your worst enemy. Brilliant and uncompromising in equal me...

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 ...

Overland

Overland

Finji

7.6
game
Our verdict

Finji's post-apocalyptic road roguelike is a masterclass in tension and restraint — a game that makes you grieve over a dog you met four turns ago — b...

Iris and the Giant

Iris and the Giant

Louis Rigaud

8.1
game
Our verdict

Louis Rigaud's card-battler about fighting your own depression is one of the sharpest, most emotionally honest roguelikes of its generation — but the ...

One Step From Eden

One Step From Eden

Thomas Moon Kang

8.4
game
Our verdict

A brilliant, merciless collision of Slay the Spire and Mega Man Battle Network that asks you to build a deck and dodge a bullet hell at the same time ...

Vagrus - The Riven Realms

Vagrus - The Riven Realms

Lost Pilgrims Studio

8.2
game
Our verdict

A dense, brilliantly written dark fantasy caravan sim that treats your attention as a resource it has every right to demand. It will bore anyone looki...

Kingdom Rush

Kingdom Rush

Ironhide Game Studio

9.2
game
Our verdict

More than a decade on, Ironhide's fantasy tower defense still sets the standard—tight, funny, and ruthlessly well-designed. If you own a screen and a ...

The Wild at Heart

The Wild at Heart

Moonlight Kids

7.8
game
Our verdict

A gorgeous pop-up storybook wrapped around borrowed mechanics, *The Wild at Heart* nails atmosphere and heart but stumbles on pacing and busywork. It'...

Chroma Squad

Chroma Squad

Behold Studios

7.8
game
Our verdict

A wildly inventive love letter to Saturday-morning Tokusatsu that welds studio-management sim to grid tactics — brilliant in concept, occasionally thi...

Coromon

Coromon

TRAGsoft

8.4
game
Our verdict

Coromon isn't content to cosplay as a Game Boy Advance-era Pokémon clone—it interrogates the genre's oldest habits and fixes most of them. A stamina-d...

Shadowrun: Dragonfall

Shadowrun: Dragonfall

Harebrained Schemes

8.9
game
Our verdict

Dragonfall is the rare tactical RPG where the writing hits as hard as the shotguns. A decade on, it remains the sharpest cyberpunk story you can play,...

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