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

Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate
PUNKCAKE Delicieux
A masterclass in "what-if" game design that transforms the ossified rules of chess into a visceral, high-stakes roguelike where every shell counts.

Ghostrunner
One More Level, 3D Realms, Slipgate Ironworks™, All in! Games
Ghostrunner is a brutal, laser-focused exercise in kinetic mastery that strips the cyberpunk genre down to its razor-sharp bones and demands absolute ...

Roadwarden
Moral Anxiety Studio
A hauntingly dense, text-driven masterpiece that proves prose and pixel art remain the most potent tools for world-building in the RPG genre.

Peglin
Red Nexus Games Inc.
Peglin is a brilliantly executed genre-mashup that proves physics-based chaos is the perfect partner for roguelike strategy. It’s addictive, punishing...

Dandara: Trials of Fear Edition
Long Hat House
By stripping away the most fundamental mechanic in gaming—the ability to walk—Dandara forces a total cognitive rewire that results in the most innovat...

Abzû
Giant Squid
Abzû is a masterclass in atmospheric storytelling that prioritizes emotional resonance over mechanical complexity. It isn't a game you play; it’s a wo...

Vagante
Nuke Nine
Vagante is a punishing, deeply systems-driven roguelike that trades Spelunky’s slapstick chaos for a gritty, loot-heavy descent into darkness. It is a...

A Hat in Time
Gears for Breakfast
Gears for Breakfast has weaponized nostalgia into a mechanically dense, fiercely inventive masterclass that proves the 'collectathon' never died—it ju...

Solar Ash
Heart Machine
Solar Ash is a masterclass in kinetic movement and scale, offering a "flow state" experience that is occasionally hamstrung by its own repetitive stru...

Bonfire Peaks
Corey Martin, Alan Hazelden, Mari Zand, Zach Soares
A masterclass in spatial economy that proves restricted movement is the ultimate canvas for puzzle-solving brilliance. It is intellectually honest, me...

Webbed
Sbug Games
Sbug Games has achieved something rare: a physics platformer where the movement feels like a natural extension of intent rather than a struggle agains...

Luck be a Landlord
TrampolineTales
A masterclass in probability management that strips the predatory skin off slot machines to reveal a brilliant, satirical roguelike engine-builder.

Can of Wormholes
munted finger
Munted Finger has delivered a near-perfect puzzle odyssey that sheds the genre's typical "filler" bloat in favor of relentless, handcrafted innovation...

Telling Lies
Sam Barlow, Half Mermaid, Furious Bee Limited
An ambitious, prestige-tier expansion of the FMV genre that proves more data isn't always better for the detective's soul, though its mechanical stubb...

Synthetik: Legion Rising
Flow Fire Games
Synthetik: Legion Rising is a masterclass in mechanical depth that proves friction is a feature, not a bug. It is a relentlessly punishing, deeply rew...

Paper Trail
Newfangled Games
Paper Trail transforms spatial reasoning into a tactile masterpiece, proving that the most profound innovations often come from a simple change in per...

Minishoot' Adventure
SoulGame Studio
Minishoot' Adventure is a masterclass in genre-bending, stripping away the bloat of modern gaming to deliver a pure, high-octane marriage of Zelda-sty...

Post Void
YCJY Games
Post Void is a distillation of pure adrenaline, stripping the FPS genre down to its barest, most aggressive essentials. It is a masterpiece of momentu...

Nour: Play With Your Food
Terrifying Jellyfish
Nour is a visually arresting, tactile experiment that prioritizes sensory delight over traditional mechanics, though its lack of depth makes it a tran...

Ape Out
Gabe Cuzzillo, Bennett Foddy, Maxi Boch
Ape Out is a frantic, percussive masterpiece that transforms tactical violence into a high-speed jazz session; it’s the rare action game that prioriti...

Brotato
Blobfish
Brotato is a masterclass in distilled complexity, stripping the "survivors-like" genre to its mathematical bones and proving that true depth doesn't r...

SANABI
WONDER POTION
SANABI is a rare triumph that marries the punishing precision of a hardcore platformer with a narrative so emotionally resonant it makes the genre's t...

Mullet Mad Jack
HAMMER95
Mullet Mad Jack is a hyper-violent, 10-second-at-a-time suicide mission that successfully weaponizes 1990s anime nostalgia into the most exhilarating ...

Card Shark
Nerial
Card Shark is a masterclass in thematic cohesion that trades traditional card play for the high-stakes friction of a confidence game; it is a tense, b...