Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games

Afterimage is one of the most beautiful Metroidvanias ever drawn and one of the most confusing ones ever written. Aurogon Shanghai built a sprawling, ...

Fortnite stopped being a game years ago and became a platform—a chaotic, generous, occasionally exhausting entertainment machine that gives away the w...

A genuinely clever mash-up of *Stardew Valley* comfort and *Slay the Spire* tactics that pulls off the fusion better than it has any right to—so long ...

A disarmingly clever management sim that hides a surprisingly tangled mystery — and a genuinely fiddly interface — beneath its impossibly cozy fur. It...

A gorgeous, razor-sharp 90-minute story about growing up that trades puzzles and combat for the most believable dialogue in games. If you can accept t...

A gorgeous, big-hearted throwback that coasts on charm and comedy more than mechanics — short, funny, and genuinely touching, so long as you don't com...

Sephonie is a gorgeous, emotionally ambitious platformer that trusts you to feel your way through both its caves and its characters — but its slippery...

A solo-developed comedy RPG that treats every battle as a chance to reinvent itself — sometimes you fight, sometimes you draw the boss yourself. Uneve...

Brace Yourself Games traded the roguelike dungeon for three vertical lanes and, against the odds, landed a rhythm game that rewards reading over rote....

Two Point Studios has built its most confident, layered game yet—a management sim that turns curation into a genuine creative act. It borrows heavily ...

Finji's post-apocalyptic road roguelike is a masterclass in tension and restraint — a game that makes you grieve over a dog you met four turns ago — b...

Necrobarista is one of the most visually daring visual novels ever made — a cel-shaded, camera-drunk meditation on death and coffee that hits like a g...

Haven is a rare thing—a game that treats an already-in-love couple as the story, not the reward. It's gorgeous, tender, and beautifully scored, but th...

Pixpil's debut is a gorgeous, big-hearted love letter to 16-bit adventure games that occasionally forgets when to end a sentence — but the sentence is...

Louis Rigaud's card-battler about fighting your own depression is one of the sharpest, most emotionally honest roguelikes of its generation — but the ...

A brilliant, merciless collision of Slay the Spire and Mega Man Battle Network that asks you to build a deck and dodge a bullet hell at the same time ...

DrinkBox took the one mechanic every action RPG treats as a gimmick — shapeshifting — and made it the entire load-bearing wall. The result is a dungeo...

Happy Ray Games built a tactical RPG where every single attack demands your thumbs, not your MP bar — and wrapped it in the warmest, sharpest-written ...

Haiku, the Robot is a gorgeous, mechanically confident metroidvania that never quite escapes the shadow of the game it worships. It's an excellent 12-...

One German developer built a first-person Metroidvania that respects your intelligence more than most studio productions respect your time. The combat...

A dense, brilliantly written dark fantasy caravan sim that treats your attention as a resource it has every right to demand. It will bore anyone looki...

Beacon Pines turns branching narrative from a menu into a mechanic, and the trick actually works — but the six-hour runtime and a critical path that o...

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...

A gloriously dumb, endlessly watchable party royale that turns humiliation into a spectator sport — held back only by a cosmetics store that treats yo...