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

A Dance of Fire and Ice
7th Beat Games
A ruthlessly precise metronome that demands total cognitive surrender, rewarding the patient with a flow state that few modern titles can match. It is...

Sludge Life
Asobimo, Inc.
Sludge Life is a confident, foul-mouthed middle finger to the polished conventions of the modern open-world genre. It is a short, sharp shock of aesth...

Wobbledogs
Animal Uprising
Wobbledogs is a brilliant, slightly cursed subversion of the pet simulator that replaces sterile perfection with the glorious, physics-defying chaos o...

Maquette
Graceful Decay
Maquette is a brilliant conceptual experiment that often trips over its own feet, offering a hauntingly beautiful narrative trapped inside a clunky ph...

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...

Tails of Iron
Odd Bug Studio
Tails of Iron is a punishingly beautiful 2D RPG that proves there’s more to the Souls-like genre than just hollow clones; it’s a masterclass in atmosp...

Grapple Dog
Andreas Georgiou
Grapple Dog isn't just another retro-tribute; it's a mechanical triumph that proves the grappling hook is still the most satisfying tool in the develo...

Gunbrella
doinksoft
Gunbrella is a masterclass in kinetic momentum, turning a goofy premise into one of the most mechanically satisfying 2D action-adventures in years. It...

Fights in Tight Spaces
ECHTNICE GmbH
A masterclass in spatial tactical design that turns every corridor into a lethal puzzle, though its steep difficulty and occasional RNG friction can f...

Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider
JoyMasher
Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider is a masterclass in mechanical purity, trading modern bloat for the surgical precision and aesthetic grit of the 16-bit a...

Faith: The Unholy Trinity
Airdorf Games
Airdorf Games has crafted a masterpiece of psychological friction, proving that the most effective horror doesn't require a high-end GPU, but a profou...

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.

N++
Metanet Software Inc.
N++ is the rarest kind of software—a decade-long obsession distilled into a perfect, punishing, and profoundly stylish physics sandbox. It is the defi...

A Little to the Left
Max Inferno
A Little to the Left is a masterclass in minimalist puzzle design that elevates the mundane to the meditative, though a few unintuitive logic leaps an...

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 ...

Touhou Mystia's Izakaya
二色幽紫蝶, Re零同人社
A masterclass in rhythm and resource management that proves the Touhou universe is capable of far more than just dodging projectiles. It is a deceptiv...

Platform 8
KOTAKE CREATE
A claustrophobic, high-tension refinement of the anomaly-hunting subgenre that proves the mundane is far more terrifying than the monstrous.

Crypt Custodian
Kyle Thompson
Crypt Custodian is a masterclass in accessible Metroidvania design, trading the genre's typical grimness for a vibrant, broom-swinging adventure that ...

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...

Mark of the Ninja
Klei Entertainment
A masterclass in mechanical transparency, Mark of the Ninja remains the definitive blueprint for how stealth should function in a digital space. It’s ...

Gato Roboto
doinksoft
Gato Roboto is a masterclass in minimalist design, stripping the Metroidvania genre down to its bare essentials without losing an ounce of its bite. I...

The Last Campfire
Hello Games
Hello Games trades the procedural infinity of *No Man’s Sky* for a hand-crafted, emotionally resonant puzzle-adventure that prioritizes soul over scal...

Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc
Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd., Abstraction Games
A masterclass in psychological tension and "psycho-pop" style that turns the visual novel genre into a lethal logic puzzle you can't look away from.

The Artful Escape
Beethoven and Dinosaur
The Artful Escape is a visually arresting, aurally sublime interactive fever dream that sacrifices traditional mechanical depth for pure, unadulterate...