Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games

A courtroom drama that dresses 19th-century French satire in a bird costume and, against all odds, makes it sing. The mechanics are lighter than the A...

A morally corrosive spy simulator that turns snooping into gut-wrenching arithmetic — brilliant, oppressive, and occasionally so punishing it forgets ...

Alisa is a love letter to 1998 written in the fluent, deliberately clumsy dialect of tank controls and fixed cameras—a survival horror throwback so co...

Robust Games has built the rarest thing in modern gaming—a nostalgia act with actual jokes. **Loco Motive** is a razor-sharp, gorgeously animated poin...

A rare puzzle game that turns translation itself into an emotional gut-punch — brilliant, brief, and occasionally its own worst enemy. If the Android ...

Digital Sun built a game around a genuinely fresh idea—run a shop by day, raid a dungeon by night—and executed it with enough polish and charm that it...

Loveshack Entertainment turned the humble comic panel into a control scheme, and the result is a gorgeous, brief, endlessly imitated puzzle game that ...

inkle didn't just port a stack of dusty 1980s paperbacks to your phone—it rebuilt them into one of the smartest, most quietly ambitious pieces of inte...

Train Valley 2 trades its predecessor's frantic crash-avoidance for the quiet, obsessive pleasure of building a logistics machine that hums. It's a pu...

A ruthlessly polished brick-breaker that trades the genre's mindless tapping for genuine geometry, Holedown is one of the most satisfying premium puzz...

Golf Peaks strips golf down to a deck of cards and a grid, then builds one of the most quietly brilliant mobile puzzlers of its generation. It's short...

Bithell Games turns the humble text adventure into a taut two-hour sci-fi noir that trusts its writing above all else — a small, sharp game that says ...

A gorgeous, hand-drawn love letter to the *Where's Waldo* era that trades challenge for charm—and mostly gets away with it. Just don't expect the puzz...

*Fran Bow* is a hand-painted descent into grief and mental illness that earns its horror through emotional honesty, not cheap scares — a genuine indie...

Wylde Flowers is the rare cozy sim that treats its story as the main crop, not the fertilizer. The farming is thinner than genre royalty, but a fully ...

A brilliant, uncomfortable little machine that turns you into the exact kind of person you'd cross the street to avoid. Its surveillance loop is addic...

Aeterna Noctis is a gorgeous, sprawling, and mercilessly demanding Metroidvania that earns its cult following—but its 16-region ambition sometimes out...

A one-man love letter to Final Fantasy V that swaps hand-holding for a genuine open world, Crystal Project is one of the most quietly ambitious JRPGs ...

A Sokoban puzzler wearing a rubber Halloween mask, *Slayaway Camp* smuggles genuinely brutal spatial-reasoning challenges inside a gleefully tasteless...

Kouri's remake of *Ib* takes a beloved 2012 RPG Maker cult classic and rebuilds it into something sharper, prettier, and quietly devastating—proof tha...

*Islets* takes the most tired chore in the Metroidvania playbook—backtracking—and turns it into a literal act of world-building. It's cozy without bei...

Lone Fungus is a technically brilliant Metroidvania with movement so satisfying you'll forgive its baggy pacing—a one-developer labor of love that rea...

A murder mystery you solve by watching, not fighting—wrapped in the best art direction of its year and one of gaming's finest jazz soundtracks. It's s...

Roguebook takes the sacred cow of the deckbuilding genre—keep your deck small—and cheerfully slaughters it, delivering a gorgeous, tactically rich rog...