Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games

A gorgeous, wordless meditation on growing up that turns card-stacking into genuine emotion—but its puzzles are so forgiving they occasionally forget ...

Grimvalor is a razor-sharp action platformer that treats your phone like a real gaming console—demanding precision, rewarding mastery, and refusing to...

Eidos-Montréal made a smart, funny, genuinely heartfelt single-player adventure that respects your time and your wallet—then watched it get buried by ...

A ruthless, riotous co-op cooking sim that turns your living room into a shouting match — and that's the highest praise I can give it. Overcooked! 2 f...

A decade after its Vita debut, Persona 4 Golden remains the gold standard for how to make 80 hours feel like time well spent — a genre-bending JRPG wh...

Fifteen years on, Rocksteady's open-world Gotham remains the gold standard for what a licensed game can be — a brawler with real teeth, a stealth sand...

Asobo Studio's follow-up to *Innocence* is a gorgeous, gut-punching piece of interactive theater that reaches for greatness and mostly gets there — he...

A savage, hilarious, endlessly replayable roguelike that turns permadeath into a punchline and a punishment in equal measure. Rough edges and brutal R...

Double Fine's crowdfunded passion project is one of the most gorgeous point-and-click adventures ever animated, buoyed by a razor-sharp voice cast and...

A ruthlessly efficient arcade climber that turns a single swipe into a compulsion loop few mobile games can match. On Switch it's a small classic; on ...

Broforce is a gleeful, self-aware ode to '80s action cinema built on the best destructible sandbox this side of a Michael Bay set — a chaotic, co-op-f...

A gorgeous, brutally tactical RPG whose enemies actually remember you — Star Renegades pairs one of the smartest combat systems in the genre with a gr...

Kenny Sun took Breakout, Vampire Survivors, and a city-builder, threw them in a blender, and somehow poured out one of the most compulsively replayabl...

Okomotive trades the sci-fi melancholy of *FAR* for windswept mountaintops and a herd of fuzzy companions, delivering a wordless, achingly pretty pilg...

A brainy, unhurried aquarium builder that trades the usual tycoon frenzy for genuine systems mastery — brilliant for 30 hours, a little too polite to ...

Evil Empire took the DNA that made Dead Cells sing and grafted it onto a Persian myth, and the result is one of the most kinetic roguelites on the mar...

A sharper, riskier, more ambitious sequel that trades the cozy fatalism of the original for white-knuckle survival — and mostly earns the trade. If yo...

Highwater is a gorgeous, sharp-witted narrative adventure that wears its low-poly heart on its sleeve—but its turn-based combat is a rowboat with one ...

Backbone opens as one of the most atmospheric detective games in years, then throws its own genre out the window—leaving you with a gorgeous, melancho...

Carto turns cartography into its core verb, and the result is one of the most inventive puzzle ideas in years—wrapped in a cozy, gorgeous package that...

A wordless, wistful puzzle-box about the moment two childhood friends realize they're growing apart. It's short, gentle, and gorgeous—and its most rad...

Röki is a hand-painted Nordic fairy tale that trades combat for compassion and mostly wins, held back only by pacing that occasionally makes you walk ...

A gorgeous, brain-bending tactics RPG where the terrain itself is your deadliest weapon and your worst enemy. Brilliant and uncompromising in equal me...

Ghost Song is a gorgeous, melancholy Metroidvania that nails atmosphere and combat feel but rarely surprises you with an idea you haven't seen before ...