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...

Hotline Miami
Dennaton Games
Hotline Miami is a high-octane assault on the senses that demands surgical precision and rewards obsessive repetition, setting a gold standard for the...

Finding Paradise
Freebird Games
Finding Paradise is a surgical examination of a life half-lived, trading traditional RPG mechanics for an emotional resonance that most big-budget tit...

Super Meat Boy
Team Meat
Super Meat Boy is a brutal, uncompromising love letter to the 8-bit era that succeeds because it values your time as much as it tests your reflexes. I...

Stray Children
Onion Games
Stray Children is a haunting, psychological mirror that makes traditional level-grinding feel hollow; it is less a game and more a profound interrogat...

Despelote
Julián Cordero, Sebastian Valbuena
Despelote is a masterclass in hyper-specific cultural storytelling, using a soccer ball as a tactile anchor to recreate the ephemeral magic of childho...

The Messenger
Sabotage
Sabotage Studio didn't just build a love letter to *Ninja Gaiden*; they constructed a Trojan Horse that smuggles a brilliant, genre-bending Metroidvan...

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,...

Blippo Plus
YACHT, Telefantasy Studios, Noble Robot
Blippo Plus is a masterful piece of interactive voyeurism that trades traditional mechanics for a meticulously crafted, static-drenched descent into a...

Drop Duchy
Sleepy Mill Studio
Drop Duchy is a brilliant, high-friction marriage of Tetris-style spatial puzzles and deep deckbuilding strategy that demands far more than just quick...

Drova - Forsaken Kin
Just2D
A masterclass in "anti-handholding" design, Drova - Forsaken Kin is a grim, rewarding throwback that proves friction is often the secret ingredient to...

Promenade
Holy Cap
Promenade is a masterclass in structural translation, successfully distilling the sprawling joy of 3D "collectathons" into a dense, mechanically rich ...

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...

Wandersong
Wishes Ultd., Greg Lobanov, A Shell in the Pit
A masterclass in non-violent mechanical expression that proves optimism is a more powerful design tool than a sword.

Tetris Effect: Connected
Monstars Inc., Resonair, Stage Games
Tetris Effect: Connected is a rare, transcendent evolution of a 40-year-old formula that manages to weaponize nostalgia into a modern multi-sensory ma...

Lil' Gator Game
MegaWobble
A masterclass in friction-less exploration that proves the most compelling open worlds don't need to be massive; they just need to be meaningful. It i...

Nuclear Throne
Vlambeer
Vlambeer’s magnum opus is a brutal, unapologetic lesson in game feel that turns every death into a desperate craving for just one more run. It is the ...

Death's Door
Acid Nerve
Acid Nerve’s isometric masterpiece is a masterclass in atmospheric storytelling and mechanical precision, proving that the afterlife is best viewed th...

SteamWorld Dig 2
Image & Form Games
A masterclass in iterative design that ditches procedural generation for a handcrafted, airtight exploration loop. It is, quite simply, the most rewar...

To the Moon
Freebird Games
To the Moon strips away almost every convention of modern gaming to prove that a profound narrative doesn't require a high-polygon count—it just needs...

Enter the Gungeon
Dodge Roll
Enter the Gungeon is a masterclass in mechanical precision, proving that a punishing difficulty curve is entirely palatable when the core combat loop ...

Kingdom Come: Deliverance
Warhorse Studios
Warhorse Studios has crafted a masterpiece of historical friction that trades the escapism of power fantasies for the grueling, rewarding reality of 1...

Sunless Skies
Failbetter Games
Sunless Skies is a masterclass in atmospheric storytelling and narrative density, transforming the grueling reality of Victorian survival into a haunt...

The Legend of Tianding
Creative Games Computer Graphics Corporation, Neon Doctrine
A masterclass in 2D brawling that proves cultural specificity is the secret sauce for action-platformers. It’s fast, visceral, and visually arresting.

Unsighted
Flashbulb
Unsighted is a masterclass in tension, blending high-stakes, parry-heavy combat with a relentless time-management system that forces players to weigh ...