Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games

A wordless, hand-painted meditation on regret and reconciliation that hits like a short story you'll remember longer than most 40-hour epics — just do...

More than a decade on, Ironhide's fantasy tower defense still sets the standard—tight, funny, and ruthlessly well-designed. If you own a screen and a ...

A hand-drawn hidden-object game that ditches the exploitative freemium playbook for something rarer — patience, craft, and 2,000 sound effects made wi...

Reventure weaponizes failure. It takes the most punishing word in gaming — "you died" — and turns it into a punchline, a progress bar, and a reason to...

A sequel that outgrows its predecessor in every measurable way, *Ender Magnolia* is a gorgeous, generous, emotionally literate Metroidvania that trade...

GRIME is one of the most visually audacious Soulslikes ever made, welding grotesque anatomical horror to a parry-and-devour combat loop that feels gen...

Bombservice built a lean, punishing, and gorgeous action-platformer that respects your time and your reflexes in equal measure. It ends before you wan...

Joakim Sandberg spent the better part of a decade building a Metroidvania that fights above its weight class on nearly every front—combat, puzzles, ar...

*Tiny Bookshop* takes the most low-stakes premise imaginable—selling used paperbacks from a trailer—and turns it into one of the most quietly compelli...

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...

Refunct isn't a game so much as a controlled exhale — a gorgeous, frictionless movement toy that rebuilds a dead world under your feet and asks nothin...

A deceptively simple physics puzzler that turns dropping fruit into a compulsion. It's brilliant on Switch and PC, but the mobile port's ad-riddled gr...

The rare party game that turns level design into a blood sport, Ultimate Chicken Horse is a small-studio masterclass in emergent chaos—transcendent wi...

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...

Neon Abyss buries you in an avalanche of stackable loot until the screen bleeds bullets and the physics give up — thrilling, chaotic, and occasionally...

Tunche is one of the best-looking beat 'em ups you can buy, a storybook come to life with a killer four-player couch mode—but its roguelite scaffoldin...

A gorgeous pop-up storybook wrapped around borrowed mechanics, *The Wild at Heart* nails atmosphere and heart but stumbles on pacing and busywork. It'...

A gorgeous, genuinely tense sci-fi mystery that nails atmosphere and dread better than almost anything in its price bracket—held back by puzzles that ...

A wildly inventive love letter to Saturday-morning Tokusatsu that welds studio-management sim to grid tactics — brilliant in concept, occasionally thi...

Nintendo took the 3D platformer, a genre it invented, and detonated it. *Super Mario Odyssey* is the rare sequel that makes everything before it feel ...

Tarsier Studios turned childhood dread into a five-hour masterclass in atmosphere, and even its rough edges can't dull the terror. Short, punishing, a...

Type:Rider is one of the most beautiful history lessons you'll ever play—a gorgeous, atmospheric platformer whose floaty physics never quite live up t...

A sharp, empathetic narrative adventure that turns the emotional labor of gig work into its core mechanic. The mystery underwhelms and the ride ends t...

A landmark of narrative ambition wrapped around a traversal system that actively fights you — the writing and voice work are among the best the medium...