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

The Operator
Bureau 81
The Operator is a masterclass in narrative skeuomorphism, transforming the mundane reality of a workstation into a claustrophobic, high-tension theate...

A Void Hope
Elden Pixels
A Void Hope trades the reflex-heavy demands of its predecessors for a haunting, low-friction meditation on loss that succeeds through sheer aesthetic ...

Ikaruga
TREASURE
Ikaruga is a masterclass in minimalist complexity that demands absolute cognitive presence, proving that mechanical purity is far more enduring than g...

Rabi-Ribi
CreSpirit, GemaYue
Rabi-Ribi is a mechanical masterpiece that hides its brutal, high-skill bullet-hell combat behind a deceptively sweet aesthetic, offering some of the ...

Good Pizza, Great Pizza
TapBlaze
TapBlaze’s culinary sim manages to strip away the stress of the service industry, leaving behind a meditative, hand-drawn loop that is as addictive as...

Mutazione
Die Gute Fabrik
Mutazione is a masterclass in narrative restraint, trading traditional mechanical friction for a deeply resonant, meditative exploration of community ...

Muse Dash
peropero
Muse Dash strip-mines the bloated corpse of traditional rhythm games, replacing complex inputs with a hyper-kinetic, two-button combat loop that is br...

Streets of Rage 4
Dotemu, Guard Crush, Lizardcube
Streets of Rage 4 is a spectacular masterclass in genre revival, blending hand-drawn artistic brilliance with a mechanical depth that sets a new high-...

Guacamelee! 2
Drinkbox Studios
Drinkbox Studios delivers a masterclass in action-platforming that marries satisfyingly complex combat with punishing precision platforming. It refine...

Unicorn Overlord
Vanillaware Ltd.
Vanillaware’s tactical masterpiece trades direct battlefield control for a brilliant, programmable squad-building system that elevates strategic think...

Sticky Business
Spellgarden Games
Sticky Business is a masterclass in low-friction creativity, stripping away the stress of entrepreneurship to leave behind a pure, meditative loop of ...

Everhood
Chris Nordgren, Jordi Roca
Everhood is a masterful, unsettling fusion of rhythm mechanics and philosophical RPG storytelling that subverts standard gaming tropes. It demands hyp...

Hauntii
Moonloop Games
*Hauntii* is a gorgeous, melancholic adventure that turns environmental possession into a playground of quiet curiosity, though its twin-stick combat ...

Wytchwood
Alientrap
Wytchwood is an atmospheric triumph that wraps a dark, Grimm-inspired fairy tale inside a gorgeous paper-cutout aesthetic. While its hypnotic crafting...

Alba: A Wildlife Adventure
ustwo games
A gorgeous, sun-drenched lesson in localized environmentalism that prioritizes charm over challenge. While mechanically simplistic, its heartfelt mess...

Raging Loop
KEMCO
Raging Loop is a masterfully written psychological thriller that weaponizes the death-loop trope to create a social deduction puzzle as cerebral as it...

The House in Fata Morgana
NOVECT
A dark, grueling gothic masterwork that strips away standard gameplay to deliver one of the most emotionally devastating narratives in interactive fic...

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...

Ion Fury
Voidpoint, LLC
Ion Fury is a masterclass in "boomer shooter" design that proves the 90s aesthetic wasn't just a limitation—it was a philosophy that modern shooters h...

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...

AI: The Somnium Files
Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
A masterclass in narrative architecture that weaponizes surrealism to tell a deeply human detective story, despite some occasional friction in its dre...

Overboard!
inkle Ltd
A masterclass in narrative efficiency that turns the classic murder mystery on its head by casting you as the villain in a race against the clock. It ...

ElecHead
NamaTakahashi, Tsuyomi
ElecHead is a masterclass in subtractive design, proving that a single, well-executed gimmick is worth more than a dozen half-baked features. It is a ...

Coffee Talk
Toge Productions
A meditative, character-driven experience that proves sometimes the most revolutionary act in a fantasy world isn't slaying a dragon, but serving a pe...