Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games

UNBEATABLE takes the most restrictive input scheme in the rhythm genre and builds one of its most expressive games on top of it. The story mode is bri...

Skate Story is the rare game that takes a genre defined by physics and repetition and turns it into something devotional. It's not the deepest skater ...

Metroid Dread is the best 2D action game Nintendo has shipped in a decade — a lean, mean, occasionally merciless machine that justifies the 19-year wa...

Toki Tori 2+ strips the puzzle-platformer down to two verbs — whistle and stomp — and builds one of the genre's most quietly radical designs on top of...

A solo-developed puzzle-platformer that mines one genuinely original idea — toggling between a 2D platformer and a top-down puzzler in the same level ...

Heroes of Hammerwatch takes the ancient arcade bones of Gauntlet, grafts on a rogue-lite meta-progression system that actually respects your time, and...

Wizard of Legend strips the roguelike down to pure kinetic combat — dash, cast, chain, repeat — and the result is one of the genre's most satisfying a...

The original Jackbox Party Pack solved a problem the industry had ignored for decades — getting non-gamers to play — with one brilliant stroke: a brow...

A gorgeous, wordless meditation on play and parenthood that treats LEGO bricks with more reverence than any licensed blockbuster ever has — just don't...

PlateUp! takes the Overcooked formula, bolts on a roguelite spine and a genuinely deep automation sandbox, and ends up as the smartest co-op cooking g...

ustwo's tactics-roguelite about grief is one of the most emotionally honest games in the genre, wrapped around a physics-based dodgeball system that's...

A gentle, gorgeously illustrated meditation on death and memory that trades challenge for warmth — and mostly gets away with it. Come for the inventiv...

Image & Form's card-battling RPG is the rare genre hybrid where both halves pull their weight — a genuinely deep combat system wrapped in a gorgeous, ...

Ring of Pain takes one structural idea — the dungeon as a rotating ring of cards — and builds a genuinely tense, mechanically airtight roguelike aroun...

Escape Academy is the rare video game adaptation of a physical hobby that understands *why* people love the original. Its rooms are genuinely clever, ...

A wrenching, formally brilliant text-message drama about the Syrian refugee crisis that weaponizes your phone's most familiar interface against your c...

Amanita Design weaponizes its own cuteness in a two-hour nightmare that's more art installation than puzzle box. It's short, it's simple, and it will ...

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...

A solo-developed, Earthbound-descended RPG that hides one of the genre's most devastating emotional payloads behind goofy jokes and a brilliant transf...

Rakuen is a masterclass in narrative design disguised as a humble RPG Maker adventure — a hospital story that trades combat for compassion and lands h...

RiME is a gorgeous, gentle puzzle adventure whose final hour recontextualizes everything before it — a trick few games attempt and fewer land. The puz...

Snake Pass is the rare 3D platformer with a genuinely original locomotion idea, executed with charm and conviction. Its physics-first controls will de...

Pomelo Games has quietly built one of the most approachable strategy games of the decade — a mission-based town builder where letting go of control is...

Battle Chef Brigade fuses brawler combat and match-three puzzling into a cooking-tournament loop that has no business working this well. A short campa...