Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games

BOKURA weaponizes miscommunication into a puzzle mechanic, delivering one of the most genuinely cooperative games ever made—provided you have a patien...

Draknek has smuggled a genuinely fiendish Sokoban into a game that looks like a greeting card, and the disguise is the point. If you finish the main r...

A brutal, beautiful action-RPG that fuses NieR-grade combat depth with a hand-drawn nightmare about trauma and self-forgiveness. The difficulty and de...

A savage, brilliant little arcade machine that weaponizes failure into progression—**Disc Room** turns dying into the most satisfying verb in gaming, ...

A masterclass in dread that turns dead technology into a haunted house, **Stories Untold** is one of the most inventive horror games of the last decad...

A daft internet meme becomes one of the smartest cooperative puzzle-platformers in years. Malastin builds an entire mechanical language around a dumb ...

Pocket Trap took a childhood toy, bolted it to a Zelda skeleton, and somehow invented a subgenre worth naming. "Yoyovania" isn't a marketing gimmick —...

Polychroma Games has built one of the most emotionally precise narrative adventures of the decade—a game that disguises a devastating meditation on gr...

Coromon isn't content to cosplay as a Game Boy Advance-era Pokémon clone—it interrogates the genre's oldest habits and fixes most of them. A stamina-d...

Bio Prototype is the rare survivors-like that treats its player like an engineer instead of a slot machine—a grotesque, brilliant node-editor disguise...

A remaster that wears its 3DS origins on its sleeve, but underneath the dated polygons sits one of the most generously packed action-RPG-slash-life-si...

Amanita Design abandons its point-and-click roots for a hand-painted puzzle-platformer built on one genuinely clever idea—monsters that freeze into fu...

Portable Moose's five-episode occult mystery is one of indie horror's most emotionally punishing achievements—a game that weaponizes its clunky puzzle...

Dragonfall is the rare tactical RPG where the writing hits as hard as the shotguns. A decade on, it remains the sharpest cyberpunk story you can play,...

Wadjet Eye Games has crafted the smartest point-and-click adventure in a decade—a party-based, choice-driven urban fantasy that treats you like an adu...

A gorgeous, gut-wrenching illustrated elegy for the men and women ground up by World War I. The puzzles are featherweight, but the storytelling hits l...

A genuinely clever mashup of Ace Attorney courtroom theater and Picross puzzling, carried by a sharp buddy-comedy script and a killer soundtrack—so lo...

Silt is a gorgeous nightmare — a monochrome plunge into the deep that nails atmosphere and dread better than almost anything in its genre, but stumble...

A genuinely clever strategy game that smuggles a college-level genetics course inside a pack of huggable creatures — brilliant on PC, compromised on c...

Spirittea nails the fantasy of running a spirit bathhouse with a hypnotic management loop and gorgeous pixel art, but finicky controls and thin hand-h...

A surreal survival-horror gem that weaponizes corporate dread into genuine terror, hobbled only by a save system that punishes curiosity. Weird, funny...

Prodeus is the rare nostalgia act that earns its swagger—a blistering, gore-soaked shooter that borrows Doom's DNA and Quake's tempo, then wraps them ...

A deceptively adorable creature-collector that smuggles a genuinely mature story about grief, obsession, and belonging past its candy-colored exterior...

A near-flawless HD revival of two rhythm-strategy cult classics that finally fixes the latency demons — dragged down only by a grind-heavy loop that h...