Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games

Passtech Games delivers a roguelite with some of the most tactile, punishing combat in the genre — but its refusal to let you break the rules keeps it...

Size Five Games' brilliant hybrid is both an incredibly funny comedy and a masterful structural critique of modern game design. By forcing point-and-c...

An incredibly witty, mechanically inventive RPG that proves stick figures and deadpan humor can carry a sprawling, highly replayable cosmic horror mys...

Gordian Quest is a brilliantly complex hybrid of deckbuilding and tactical grid combat that occasionally buckles under the weight of its own mechanica...

Autonauts transforms complex systems engineering into a delightful, stress-free sandbox, though its brilliance on PC is severely compromised by clunky...

Square Enix’s HD-2D remake of Live A Live resurrects a bold, experimental 1994 anthology with stunning modern fidelity, offering a masterclass in modu...

Buddy Simulator 1984 is a brilliantly manipulative psychological horror experience that weaponizes retro nostalgia and a simulated operating system to...

Monster Sanctuary is a fiercely intelligent, demanding RPG that trades mindless level-grinding for deep, tactical team synergy and Metroidvania explor...

Nightdive Studios has delivered a masterclass in modernizing a classic without diluting its hostility, proving that games are often at their best when...

Demon's Tilt is a brilliant, chaotic, and relentlessly fast virtual pinball game that subverts traditional table design with shoot-'em-up mechanics an...

Outward is a fiercely uncompromising survival RPG that strips away power fantasies to deliver genuine adventure, demanding meticulous preparation in p...

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is a masterclass in gothic Metroidvania design that honors its heritage without being trapped by it. Aside from mino...

Deadbolt is a brutal, hyper-kinetic 2D stealth-action masterpiece that strips away any margin for error, transforming every assassination into a high-...

Pikmin 4 is a spectacular refinement of real-time strategy that swaps stressful resource-management panic for satisfying, optimized workflow design. N...

A brilliant, beautifully constructed Metroidvania that successfully marries tight character-swapping mechanics with an addictive rogue-lite progressio...

Phoenotopia: Awakening is a beautifully crafted, fiercely challenging retro adventure that rewards patience and punishes carelessness. If you have the...

FAR: Lone Sails is a masterfully paced, atmospheric triumph that turns the potentially tedious chore of vehicle maintenance into an intimate, emotiona...

Fabraz's Demon Turf delivers a masterclass in momentum-driven platforming and striking visual style, though its clunky, physics-focused combat occasio...

Cosmic Express hides a brutally challenging, beautifully constructed logical puzzle under an adorable low-poly coat of paint. It is a brilliant, uncom...

By reintroducing the tactile friction of active aiming and shooting, *20 Minutes Till Dawn* rescues the horde-survival genre from passive automation, ...

Melatonin strip-mines the rhythm genre of its clutter, offering a visually stunning, hand-drawn pastel dreamscape that tests your absolute timing thro...

Roots of Pacha strips away the hyper-individualistic grind of traditional farming simulators, replacing it with a brilliant, cooperative prehistoric c...

Moonring is an uncompromising, beautifully eerie retro RPG that respects your intelligence, trading modern handholding for brilliant tactical depth an...

Stuffed Wombat’s *Mosa Lina* is a brilliant, deeply hostile anti-puzzle game that rejects the cozy curation of modern platformers, forcing players to ...