Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games
Expert-reviewed Nintendo Switch games, scored out of 10.
708 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...

Thumper
Drool
Thumper is not merely a game; it's a grueling, hypnotic, and masterfully executed descent into aural and visual chaos. It's an essential experience th...

Firewatch
Campo Santo
Firewatch is a masterclass in narrative design and environmental storytelling. Its stunning world and resonant characters are only slightly undercut b...

Unpacking
Witch Beam
Unpacking is a masterclass in minimalist design and narrative innovation, using the mundane act of organizing a home to tell a deeply human story of g...

PowerWash Simulator
FuturLab
PowerWash Simulator transforms mundane labor into a digital meditation, offering a profoundly satisfying and unexpectedly deep experience that's only ...

Chicory: A Colorful Tale
Wishes Ultd.
Chicory: A Colorful Tale masterfully uses a simple coloring-book mechanic to tell one of the most resonant stories about creativity and mental health ...

Tunic
TUNIC Team
Tunic is a masterclass in curiosity-driven design, wrapping a brutal and brilliant action-adventure in a linguistic puzzle that trusts the player comp...

Dave the Diver
MINTROCKET
Dave the Diver masterfully fuses two entirely different games into a single, cohesive, and utterly addictive experience that defies all expectations. ...

Loop Hero
Four Quarters
Loop Hero is a brilliantly subversive RPG that finds genius in restraint, turning the genre on its head by making you the architect of the hero's doom...


Inscryption
Daniel Mullins Games
Inscryption is a masterclass in psychological horror and genre-bending design, a game that plays its players with the same ruthless ingenuity that the...

VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action
Sukeban Games
VA-11 Hall-A swaps cyberpunk’s usual high-octane action for a bar towel and a shaker, delivering one of the most poignant, well-written narrative expe...

Katana ZERO
Askiisoft
Katana ZERO is a masterclass in kinetic violence and narrative intrigue, a tightly-wound clockwork of death and discovery that's over too soon, but le...

A Short Hike
adamgryu
"A Short Hike" is a masterclass in minimalist game design, proving that a compelling experience doesn't require high stakes, sprawling maps, or photor...

Factorio
Wube Software LTD.
Factorio is a masterpiece of logistical puzzles and automation, a brutally elegant system that will consume your nights and rewire your brain. It's no...

Hades
Supergiant Games
Hades is a masterclass in game design, blending a fiendishly addictive combat loop with a narrative and character depth that most AAA games can only d...

Stumble Guys
Scopely
Stumble Guys shamelessly borrows its blueprint from *Fall Guys*, but delivers a faster, more accessible, and brutally effective dose of multiplayer ma...

What Remains of Edith Finch
Giant Sparrow
Giant Sparrow's masterpiece isn't just a game; it's a profound, interactive anthology of a family's beautiful and heartbreaking history. It sets a new...

Celeste
Maddy Makes Games Inc.
Celeste is a masterclass in game design, weaving a profoundly human story about mental health into a pixel-perfect, brutally challenging platformer. I...

Subnautica
Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Subnautica is not just another survival crafting game; it's a masterclass in atmospheric design and narrative progression that uses psychological tens...

Return of the Obra Dinn
Lucas Pope
Return of the Obra Dinn is a singular, demanding, and utterly brilliant piece of detective work that trusts its player completely. It’s an unforgettab...

Hollow Knight
Team Cherry
Hollow Knight is not merely a game; it's a pilgrimage into a beautifully broken world. It stands as the definitive modern Metroidvania, a harrowing, u...

Outer Wilds
Mobius Digital
Outer Wilds is not merely a game; it's a profound, melancholy, and masterfully constructed mystery box. It trusts the player's intelligence completely...

Disco Elysium - The Final Cut
ZA/UM
Disco Elysium remains the high-water mark for narrative role-playing. The Final Cut's comprehensive voice acting elevates an already brilliant script ...

Little Inferno
Tomorrow Corporation
Tomorrow Corporation has built a beautiful, unsettling, and masterfully subversive critique of consumer culture disguised as a casual game. It's less ...

Wreckfest
HandyGames
Wreckfest isn't just a racing game; it's a physics-driven celebration of automotive destruction that masterfully balances sophisticated damage modelin...