Best Nintendo Switch Apps & Games
Expert-reviewed Nintendo Switch games, scored out of 10.
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Hades II
Supergiant Games
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...

Hollow Knight: Silksong
Team Cherry
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...

Super Mario Bros. Wonder
Nintendo
Nintendo's latest 2D Mario entry is not merely a nostalgia trip; it is a masterclass in revitalizing a beloved genre, delivering an almost ceaseless t...

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
Nintendo
Nine years after its Wii U debut, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe remains the most polished, complete, and mechanically honest kart racer ever shipped. It's not j...

Split Fiction
Hazelight Studios
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...

Duck Game
Landon Podbielski
A decade on, Duck Game remains the gold standard for couch multiplayer — a physics-drunk, one-hit-kill arena brawler whose 50+ weapons turn every 15-s...

Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
Asteroid Base
Asteroid Base built a co-op machine that turns communication breakdown into comedy and teamwork into genuine delight. A decade on, it remains one of t...

Grounded
Obsidian Entertainment
Obsidian took a one-joke premise — *Honey, I Shrunk the Kids* as a survival game — and built one of the most inventive, mechanically confident entries...

Headliner: NoviNews
Unbound Creations
Unbound Creations built a two-hour morality machine about who controls the news, and it lands harder than games ten times its length. Buy it, play it ...

Road 96
Digixart
Road 96 gambles that a procedurally shuffled road trip can carry real political weight — and mostly wins. Its cast is unforgettable and its structure ...

APICO
ellraiser, TNgineers
APICO takes the Forestry-mod DNA of genetics-driven bee breeding, strips out the punishment, and wraps it in a pixel-art conservation story that respe...

Tangledeep
Impact Gameworks
Tangledeep is one of the most generous, mechanically dense roguelikes of its generation — a 16-bit dungeon crawler that respects both the genre purist...

Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark
6 Eyes Studio
6 Eyes Studio built the tactical RPG that Square Enix stopped making twenty years ago, and the class system is genuinely superb — but the story it's b...

Record of Lodoss War: Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth
Team Ladybug, WSS playground
A gorgeous, precision-built Metroidvania that trades sprawl for craft — six hours of near-flawless sprite work and a genuinely smart elemental combat ...

OPUS: Echo of Starsong
SIGONO INC.
SIGONO has built one of the most emotionally precise science-fiction stories the medium has produced this decade, then wrapped it in mechanics that ra...

Paratopic
Arbitrary Metric
Paratopic is the most confidently edited horror game of its generation — a 50-minute low-poly fever dream that trusts its audience more than most AAA ...

Splatoon 3
Nintendo
Nintendo has built the most complete, most generous, most mechanically confident Splatoon ever made — and then wrapped it in netcode and menu friction...

Absolute Drift
Funselektor Labs Inc.
Absolute Drift is a masterclass in focused design — one mechanic, sharpened to a razor's edge, wrapped in stark white minimalism and drum & bass. It w...

Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion
Snoozy Kazoo
Snoozy Kazoo's shredder-happy vegetable crime spree is one of the funniest, tightest small games of its generation — and it ends roughly forty minutes...

ASTLIBRA Revision
KEIZO
ASTLIBRA Revision looks like a shovelware asset flip and plays like the work of a man who spent a decade and a half refusing to let go. Push past the ...

Kero Blaster
Studio Pixel
Daisuke "Pixel" Amaya spent seven years after *Cave Story* building something almost aggressively small — a two-hour run-and-gun about a frog extermin...

Kirby and the Forgotten Land
HAL Laboratory
HAL Laboratory's first fully 3D mainline Kirby is a small miracle of design confidence — inventive, gorgeous, and relentlessly generous — but its main...

Airborne Kingdom
The Wandering Band LLC
Airborne Kingdom builds one of the freshest hooks the city-builder genre has produced in a decade — a metropolis that must physically stay aloft — the...

Chicken Police – Paint it RED!
The Wild Gentlemen
A Hungarian studio nobody had heard of photographed a bunch of taxidermy-grade animal heads, dropped them into a rain-slicked noir city, and wrote dia...

Behind the Frame: The Finest Scenery
Silver Lining Studio
Silver Lining Studio's painted vignette is one of the most emotionally efficient games of its generation — it earns its ending honestly, and the endin...

Anthology of the Killer
thecatamites / Tommy Tone / A. Degen
Stephen Gillmurphy's nine-episode horror-comedy is the funniest, strangest, most confidently written adventure game in years — and it barely bothers t...

Papetura
Petums
Papetura is the rare game where the medium *is* the argument — every set was physically cut, folded and glued by one person before a camera ever touch...

Sorry We're Closed
à la mode games
à la mode games built a survival horror hybrid that snaps between fixed-camera dread and first-person arcade shooting without either half feeling like...

Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader
Owlcat Games
Owlcat has built the most ambitious licensed CRPG in years — a 130-hour interrogation of the Imperium's rot that respects your intelligence and punish...