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

Streets of Rogue
Matt Dabrowski
Streets of Rogue is a rare triumph of systemic design, offering a dizzying level of player freedom that transforms the often-rigid roguelite genre int...

Invisible, Inc.
Klei Entertainment
A masterclass in tactical economy that ditches random dice rolls for high-stakes, information-driven tension. It is the thinking person’s heist simula...

Dungeon Clawler
Stray Fawn Studio
Dungeon Clawler is a masterclass in skeuomorphic chaos, proving that the most dangerous weapon in a dungeon isn’t a magic missile, but a poorly calibr...

Antonblast
Summitsphere
Antonblast is a masterclass in kinetic momentum, stripping the mascot platformer of its politeness and replacing it with a sledgehammer and a gallon o...

Symphonia
Sunny Peak
Symphonia is a mechanically rigorous, visually arresting precision platformer that successfully trades traditional combat for a sophisticated, instrum...

Across the Obelisk
Dreamsite Games
A masterclass in party-based synergy that turns the solitary deck-builder into a high-stakes social marathon. It is brilliant, dense, and occasionally...

Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo
Square Enix
A razor-sharp, subversion-heavy visual novel that weaponizes genre tropes and system settings to deliver the most inventive supernatural mystery in ye...

Shogun Showdown
Roboatino
Shogun Showdown is a masterclass in tactical restraint, proving that a single dimension is all you need for a deep, punishing, and utterly addictive s...

Severed Steel
Greylock Studio
Severed Steel is a blistering, neon-soaked fever dream that strips the first-person shooter to its core kinetic essentials and leaves the reload butto...

Taiji
Matthew VanDevander
A masterful evolution of the "witness-like" genre that replaces heavy-handed tutorials with pure, unadulterated epiphany; it is the most rewarding log...

Laysara: Summit Kingdom
Quite OK Games
Laysara: Summit Kingdom abandons the flat-earth comfort of traditional city builders for a grueling, beautiful, and mechanically dense vertical climb....

Conscript
Jordan Mochi, Catchweight Studio
Conscript is a harrowing, masterfully executed descent into the trenches that proves historical reality is far more terrifying than any supernatural e...

Pools
Tensori
Tensori’s **POOLS** is a masterclass in atmospheric minimalism that proves the scariest thing in the dark isn't a monster, but the sheer, clinical ind...

The Pale Beyond
Saltstone Studios
A chilling masterclass in narrative tension that proves leadership is less about heroism and more about deciding who is most expendable when the coal ...

Cloudpunk
ION LANDS
Cloudpunk is a breathtaking exercise in atmospheric world-building that swaps cybernetic combat for the meditative, rain-slicked life of a futuristic ...

Epistory - Typing Chronicles
Fishing Cactus
Epistory - Typing Chronicles is a rare mechanical marvel that transcends the "educational" stigma of its genre to deliver a hauntingly beautiful, visc...

Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
Nikita Kryukov
A harrowing, twenty-minute descent into the static-filled mind of a girl buying groceries. It is less a "game" and more a brutal, beautiful simulation...

7 Billion Humans
Tomorrow Corporation
A brutal, hilarious, and intellectually demanding expansion on parallel processing that turns the drudgery of office work into a masterclass in logic....

Katamari Damacy REROLL
MONKEYCRAFT Co. Ltd.
Katamari Damacy REROLL is a masterclass in mechanical purity that remains as delightfully unhinged as it was in 2004, proving that truly inspired game...

13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim
SEGA
An audacious, brain-melting sci-fi epic that proves Vanillaware is the industry’s premier storyteller, even if the tactical combat trades visual splen...

Heaven's Vault
inkle Ltd
Heaven’s Vault is a rare intellectual achievement that treats language not as window dressing, but as the primary engine of discovery. It is a slow, m...

Please, Touch The Art
Thomas Waterzooi
A minimalist masterclass that turns the "look but don't touch" ethos of high art into a tactile, rhythmically satisfying logic puzzle. It is as much a...

NUTS
Joon, Pol, Muutsch, Char & Torfi
A surveillance procedural that swaps gritty cityscapes for a psychedelic forest, proving that watching squirrels is far more unsettling—and rewarding—...

Later Alligator
thatgamecompany
A masterclass in character-driven comedy and hand-drawn aesthetics that proves the point-and-click genre still has plenty of bite. It is, quite simply...