Tag: Best Switch Games
Guide Best Nintendo Switch Open World Games
Everything the light touches
Updated with Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition. Enjoy! You see that mountain on the horizon? You can go there! That old gaming chestnut has been around for a very long time now, but for old-school gamers who remember the compartmentalised kingdoms of yore, there's a special magic still to be derived from being...
Guide The Best Nintendo Switch Games (2025)
The very best Switch games to play right now
Nintendo Switch has amassed a huge amount of great games since the console launched back in 2017. But what are the best games for Nintendo Switch available in 2025? Which Switch games are must-haves? What should you play first on Switch? To answer those questions, we've compiled this ranked list of the...
Guide Best Nintendo Switch Collections And Compilation Games
Bundles of joy
We've given this list an early spring clean with several new additions and tweaks. Enjoy! Switch is many a gamer's go-to console for revisiting retro classics, at home on the TV, or wherever you happen to take the handheld hybrid. Squeezing in nostalgia trips between the big new releases has never been easier, and there have been a...
Guide Best Cheap Nintendo Switch Games
50 games under 20 bucks
We've swept and bolstered this list of great Switch games on the cheaper end of the spectrum. We've also added the lowest-ever sale price to each entry, in case you'd rather wishlist 'em and wait for a bargain. Nintendo Switch's huge library can be overwhelming, with quite literally hundreds of incredible options on eShop...
Guide Best Nintendo Switch RPGs
The finest trad-style Switch RPGs available to humanity
Updated with Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition. Enjoy! Nintendo Switch has amassed a huge number of quality titles across almost every category since launching back in 2017, but that may be more true with RPGs than any other genre. Switch RPG fans are spoilt for choice, with a...
Guide Best Nintendo Switch Metroidvania Games
Or Search-Action, if you prefer? Castloid?
Updated with Momodora: Moonlit Farewell, Laika: Aged Through Blood and Blade Chimera. Enjoy! The word 'Metroidvania' might rub some the wrong way, but it's a useful catch-all to describe a very specific type of search-action game experience. Combining elements from both the Metroid series and Koji...
Guide 15 Best Sidequests In Switch Games
Optional escapades
If you've played a handful of video games, chances are you've lost yourself in the side content more often than the main game. Sidequests are a procrastinator's dream. Don't want to finish the main story? Worried about missing some fantastic rewards or lore dumps? Well, thank goodness there are tons of people across the world...
Guide Best Nintendo Switch Life Sims And Farming Games
Life comes at you slow
Updated with Hello Kitty Island Adventure. Enjoy! If you're looking for a change of pace and some welcome distraction from everyday life, few mediums offer such engrossing, ongoing escapism as video games. Even the best books have an ending, but some games can go on almost indefinitely and come to form a calming part of our...
Guide Best Nintendo Switch 2D Platformers
Jump up, jump up and get down
Updated with Antonblast. Enjoy! With so many excellent platformers on Switch, picking the best can be hard. The genre has a strong pedigree on Nintendo systems going back to Super Mario Bros. on NES (which you can find on Switch along with several of its celebrated sequels via Nintendo Switch Online). Over the years,...
Guide Best Nintendo Switch Games Of 2024
The finest Switch games of 2024
Despite its advancing years, Nintendo's hybrid handheld showed that it wasn't going quietly into that good night in 2024, at least where great games were concerned. Nintendo's first-party output was mainly helmed by partner studios in 2024. with plenty of HD remakes and remasters in the mix. However, Switch did play...
Guide Best Nintendo Switch Games For Kids
The best Switch games for your little ones
We've given this list a big spruce up ahead of the Festive season so you can prepare for some holiday gaming with the family! Nintendo Switch is a console with brilliant software for gamers young and old. Nintendo's wholesome, family-friendly image is well-earned, and with characters like Mario, Luigi,...
Guide Best Retro Throwback Nintendo Switch Games - Modern Games With Old-School Style
Scratch that nostalgia itch with these Switch neo-classics
Ah, nostalgia — it's a tricksy thing. How many times have we gone back to revisit a treasured classic only to find that modern games have spoiled it for us? For all the brilliant aspects of retro games, the mod cons and performance we're used to now are pretty fantastic, too, and sometimes...
Guide Best Nintendo Switch Strategy Games
What are the best Strategy games on Switch?
Strategy and tactics games by their very nature require deep thought and careful consideration, and many gamers these days often find it hard to embark on epic multi-hour campaigns in a single sitting. Fortunately, the portability of Nintendo Switch, Switch Lite, and Switch OLED — plus their sleep...
Guide Best Nintendo Switch Couch Co-op Games
What are the best couch co-op games on Switch?
Updated with Tales of Graces f Remastered. Enjoy! While there's a huge variety of gaming experiences available on Nintendo's hybrid console, there's a good chance that couch co-op games were a big part of the reason you bought it. The Switch is tailor-made for multiplayer experiences thanks to its...
Guide Best LEGO Nintendo Switch Games
Every Switch LEGO game, ranked
Many games based on a Danish plastic brick system have graced Nintendo's hybrid system since launch in 2017. Looking back, we've had Switch ports of older Lego games, all-new releases, and even a couple that weren't licensed crossovers with another huge media franchise. But what is the best Lego game on Nintendo...
Guide Best Nintendo Switch Horror Games
Pack a spare pair of underpants
Are you troubled by strange noises in the middle of the night? Do you experience feelings of dread in your basement or attic? Have you or your family ever seen a spook, spectre, or ghost? If the answer is "no"... you obviously haven't been playing any of the excellent horror games on Nintendo Switch. There's no...
Guide Best Nintendo Switch Remakes And Remasters
Remake you feel my love
It used to be the case that, if you missed out on a particular game, your only way to catch up was to buy the original console and the original game. Then, thanks to services like the Virtual Console, you could emulate those old games without having to own any old consoles, for much more affordable prices (usually) than the...
Guide Best Nintendo Switch Roguelikes, Roguelites And Run-Based Games
Like Rogue?
What are the best roguelikes on Nintendo Switch? When it comes to modern video games, there are few more polarising genre terms. That divisive descriptor draws some players like moths to a flame, while others run a mile at the mere whisper of it. These days, it often feels like 'roguelike' is attached to every other game released. The...
Guide Best Nintendo Switch Short Games
Blast through these games in a single sitting
The Switch is the perfect console if you travel a lot, for work or pleasure. The console's portability makes it the perfect choice if you're spending any time at all in planes, trains, and automobiles. Of course, you may choose to pass the time playing a trusted standby, or grinding through your...
Guide Best Nintendo Switch Action RPGs
Playing the action role
Updated with Ys Memoire: The Oath in Felghana and given a fresh lick of paint. Enjoy! When does an RPG become an action RPG? Is it the moment turn-based battles are switched out for real-time combat? When does an action RPG stray into adventure or hack-and-slash territory, then? Do numbers have to go up? What year is this?...
Guide 36 Longest Switch Games Worth Playing To The End
Playing the long game
With Switch 2 not launching until sometime after April 2025, you might be looking to fill the time while you wait for the next Nintendo hotness. Fortunately, there are plenty of very big, very long games on Switch if you're a time-rich gamer. Sometimes you just want a quick hit of video game goodness to fill a half-hour gap in...
Guide Best Funny Games On Switch - Games That'll Make You Wii Yourself
Urine for a treat
What does it mean to be funny? Merriam-Webster defines funny as "affording light mirth and laughter", and in these dark times, don't we all need a little bit of Light Mirth? Well, do we have the mirth-inducing games for you! From witty writing to pants-wettingly chaotic co-op games, this list has every kind of light mirth that you...
Guide Best Nintendo Switch Puzzle Games
Piecing it together
From the very beginning, Nintendo handhelds have been a powerhouse in the puzzle genre, championing games that might have been lost in the bombastic, graphics-obsessed arena of home consoles. Switch’s bridging of the portable/home console divide means it upholds that proud puzzling tradition and gives on-the-go gamers a chance...
Guide Best Nintendo Switch Flight Sim And Space Combat Games
Choose your wingman
Updated with Ace Combat 7. Enjoy! It's taken a while, but as with most other genres since Switch launched back in 2017, Nintendo's console has steadily built a good library of flight combat games. Whether you're blasting bogeys and shooting your way though the clouds or the cosmos, there's a host of quality dogfighting games...
Guide Best Nintendo Switch Football Games
We mean Soccer, not that 'other' football
Hang on. England's in the final?!? 58 years of hurt had kinda stopped us dreaming, to be honest. Crazy times. As we head into the loft to dig out our Italia '90 squad poster and copy of Striker: Skills and Tactics ahead of Sunday's Euro 2024 final, here's a recap of some of the finest footy picks on Switch...
Guide Best Nintendo Switch Visual Novels
Reader’s digest
Nintendo Switch's portability makes it a great system to play a wide variety of genres, and while visual novels can be enjoyed perfectly well on your TV, there's something about playing them on a handheld which just feels 'right'. Since launch, the catalogue of great VNs on Switch has grown hugely. Everyone loves a good book,...
Guide Best Nintendo Switch Puzzle Platformers
For a slightly more cerebral platforming experience
The Switch has a lot of platformers, and a lot of puzzle games, and that extends to puzzle platformers. If you're raising your eyebrows and saying, "What are you on about, you can't just combine them like they're ice cream flavours," then stick with us. It's a thing, we promise. Rather than games...
Guide What Is EGGCONSOLE? - Full Game List, PC-88, MSX2 On Nintendo Switch, Best Games To Start
Every EGGCONSOLE game on Switch eShop
The Switch has been a boon for retro gaming enthusiasts for a while. Hamster's huge Arcade Archives series has felt right at home on the console, but late last year, a new retro rerelease series entered the fray EGGCONSOLE is a series of Japanese home computer games that are being ported to Switch by retro...
Guide Best Mech Games On Nintendo Switch
Suited and booted
Updated with Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition. Enjoy! What's the ultimate power fantasy for you? If it's getting inside a robot and delivering a metallic, explosive world of pain to your enemies, then you're probably a mecha fan. From Gundam to Evangelion, mecha have been hugely popular in culture — particularly in...
Guide Best Nintendo Switch 3D Platformers
Workin' the Z-axis
Revised and updated with Sonic X Shadow Generations. Enjoy! <related ids="173708"> Ah, the 3D platformer. Ever since Super Mario 64 landed and showed everyone just how good three-dimensional platforming could be, there have been developers hoping to capture just a smidgen of that game’s magic. It was a tough act to...
Guide Most Stressful Nintendo Switch Games
When real life isn't stressful enough
You know what? Life's too simple. Too free of complications and anxiety. Too relaxing! Everything's just so smooth and calming and tranquil across the globe in the 21st century, you're probably looking for some grit in your oyster, right? Right? Okay, perhaps not. But for whatever reason, you might be...
Guide Best Relaxing Nintendo Switch Games
Chill games for Nintendo Switch
Updated with Hello Kitty Island Adventure. Enjoy! Had a tough day? When it comes to getting your pulse racing and adrenaline coursing, there are more than enough video games that fit the bill. Whether battling to recover your humanity in Dark Souls, making it to the final two in Fortnite, or going up against a...
Guide Best Cozy Games On Switch
Prepare to have your fuzzies warmed
Cozy games are one of the big trends that have emerged over the past decade. As gaming becomes more and more widespread, and games have become playable on phones, tablets, and all sorts of devices, a broader range of genres and types of games have popped up. What exactly makes a game cozy, though? Is it the...
Guide Best Nintendo Switch Exclusives
Games you can only play on Nintendo Switch
Nintendo's Switch is home to an overwhelming number of fantastic games. A great deal of them have appeared on other platforms — whether celebrated indie titles or huge AAA releases getting a second wind on Nintendo's handheld hybrid — but the console also hosts brilliant exclusive titles. Here, we have...
Guide Best Nintendo Switch Demos - Try Before You Buy On Switch eShop
Play before you pay
Updated with Unicorn Overlord. Enjoy! Since its launch back in 2017, the amount of quality games that have come to Switch is simply staggering. Nintendo's system has quite literally thousands of titles to enjoy, many of them absolutely free to download and play, and many of the others with free demos available on the Switch...
Guide Best Nintendo Switch Card Games, Board Games, And Deckbuilders
Play your cards right
You'd be forgiven for thinking that physical tabletop gaming might have trouble surviving in this digital and ever-mobile age, but collectible card games and traditional board games are arguably more popular than ever. Excellent digital versions of household staples sit alongside entirely original offerings that serve up the...
Guide Best Nintendo Switch DLC & Expansions
Downloadable loving care
Updated with Vampire Survivors: Ode to Castlevania and Atari 50: The Wider World of Atari. Enjoy! DLC and Expansions are par the course for video games nowadays, but they're more than just little adjustments or patches — they often add a whole heap of content, allowing us to revisit our favourite games with some all new...
Guide Most Addictive Nintendo Switch Games
Just one more
Updated with Balatro. Enjoy (responsibly)! Video games. They can transport you to other worlds, put you in someone else's shoes, and artfully illuminate and educate while engaging your grey matter with entertainment of astonishing variety. There's no end to the incredible, life-affirming experiences on offer: from thought-provoking,...
Guide Best Time Loop Games On Nintendo Switch
Okay campers, rise and shine...
Gooooood morning (afternoon? evening?), all! We're republishing this piece in honour of Groundhog Day. Whether the groundhog saw its shadow or not, we want to celebrate the best games that throw you into an endless time loop. We've also added In Stars and Time and Outer Wilds to the list. Enjoy! Most video games are...
Guide Best Nintendo Switch Fighting Games
Final Round. Fight!
Updated with Guilty Gear Strive. Fight! It's ironic that one of the most violent video game genres is also one which has pulled millions of people together; ever since the early days of Fatal Fury and Street Fighter II, the humble 'fighting game' genre has created (and arguably ended) countless friendships. For anybody...
Guide Best Nintendo Switch Stealth Games
"!"
For all the gun-blazing, whip-cracking, all-out action, and mayhem there is to enjoy in video games, sometimes a change of pace is needed. All that one-note violence can get boring, no? Why not eliminate that patrolling guard or spittle-covered demon in a more sophisticated manner; something more understated than a rocket launcher to the face?...
Guide Best Point And Click Adventure Games For Nintendo Switch
For the clicks
In the years since launch, Nintendo Switch has hosted games from across the genres, including an array of old-school point-and-click adventure games, a genre that flourished on PCs in the old days and one which Nintendo's hybrid console offers a convenient way to play. The system's touchscreen makes it an ideal match for games which...
Guide The Easiest Nintendo Switch Games
Best easy Switch games
Sometimes you just want to take it easy. Perhaps you're looking to dip your toe into a new genre with unfamiliar mechanics, or you're simply not in the headspace to go toe-to-toe with unforgiving, inscrutable games like Dark Souls, Hollow Knight, and their ilk. If you're looking for easy games for Nintendo Switch — games...
Guide Best Trails / Kiseki Games On Nintendo Switch
Before the day breaks
Updated with Trails through Daybreak II. Remember, this list is dynamic and subject to real-time change according to each entry's User Rating in our database. If you haven't rated one, click the star in each entry's banner to score the game out of 10 and influence the ranking. Enjoy! The Trails / Kiseki series might be one...
Guide Best Nintendo Switch Games Of 2023
The finest Switch games of 2023, as ranked by you
2023 was an incredibly fruitful year for gamers, and Switch enjoyed an excellent seventh year on store shelves. Industry-wide layoffs in the latter half of the year made for a sobering counterpoint to the glut of great games, and at times the pandemic-related backlog of projects which finally...
Guide Best Nintendo Switch FPS Games
Lock and load with Switch's first-person finest
Switch's bulging catalogue of games covers practically every genre, and First-Person Shooters are no exception. Nintendo systems may have historically lagged behind other consoles in this department, yet classics like GoldenEye 007 and Perfect Dark helped define the console FPS, and the Metroid Prime...
Guide Best Nintendo Switch Party Games
Maximum fun, minimum fuss
So, you're having a party, possibly on a rooftop, dancing to the music and all that jazz, but suddenly there's a lull. Fear not because we've got just the thing to get the party started again! Nintendo Switch has a whole host of crowd-pleasing co-op and competitive party games, whether you're hosting a birthday party for a...
Guide Best Pokémon-Likes On Nintendo Switch - Games To Play After You've Finished Pokémon
The Mimikyus of video games
Updated with Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince. Enjoy! When they said "Pokémon! Gotta catch 'em all", we all assumed that they meant catching all the pocket monsters. But actually, what they were talking about was catching all the Pokémon and Pokémon-like games out there — of which there are many. And now, at...
Guide Best Nintendo Switch Marvel Games
All four(!) Switch games burdened with glorious purpose
Theatrical releases under the banner of the Marvel Cinematic Universe might not come with quite the same level of bravado that they did in a pre-Endgame world, but that isn't to say that all things Marvel are out for the count. Across film, TV, mobile apps, and a continued strong run of...
Guide Best Nintendo Switch Detective Games
Grab your trilby and trench coat
Everyone loves a good mystery, and even more so if they're the one who gets to solve it. The detective genre has evolved a great deal since its point-and-click adventure game roots, and this list proves how much things have changed. In fact, the games that we're including in this list range from typical noir...
