Best Nintendo Switch Games
1,470 Nintendo Switch games, ranked by the Rank and Play community.
Mega Man 11
Released: Oct 2, 2018
Critic rating: 79.8 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Shooter, Platform
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
The classic series takes a leap forward in visual presentation in Mega Man 11 with a 2.5D design direction introducing beautiful, completely hand-drawn characters and environments.
Sky Force Anniversary
Released: Jun 5, 2014
Critic rating: 77.0 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Shooter, Indie, Arcade
Platforms: PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Wii U, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Legendary shoot-'em-up makes its way on the PCs!
Road 96
Released: Aug 16, 2021
Critic rating: 83.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Puzzle, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Road 96 is a crazy, beautiful road-trip.
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit - Remastered
Released: Nov 6, 2020
Critic rating: 79.8 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Racing
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Feel the thrill of the chase and the rush of escape behind the wheels of the world’s hottest high-performance cars in Need for Speed Hot Pursuit Remastered– a heart-pumping, socially competitive racing experience.
Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair
Released: Oct 7, 2019
Critic rating: 86.1 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Platform, Puzzle, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Yooka and Laylee are back for a brand new adventure!
Stories Untold
Released: Feb 27, 2017
Critic rating: 78.3 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Puzzle, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Stories Untold is a compilation tape of four episodes from the now cancelled series of the same name, including a remaster of the original pilot episode “The House Abandon”.
The Dark Eye: Memoria
Released: Aug 29, 2013
Critic rating: 76.7 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Point-and-click, Puzzle, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Memoria combines classic point & click adventure gameplay with the features of The Dark Eye, one of the most successful RPG universes known in the fantasy world.
Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!!
Released: Sep 13, 2017
Critic rating: 82.5 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Simulator, Strategy, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Cook, Serve, Delicious!
The Jackbox Party Pack 7
Released: Oct 15, 2020
Critic rating: 77.8 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Puzzle, Strategy, Quiz/Trivia, Indie
Platforms: Amazon Fire TV, Google Stadia, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, PlayStation 5, Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Five new games: the hit threequel Quiplash 3, the collaborative chaos of The Devils and the Details, the fierce drawing game Champ'd Up, the speech game Talking Points and the guessing game Blather 'Round.
Milk Outside a Bag of Milk Outside a Bag of Milk
Released: Dec 16, 2021
Critic rating: 78.4 / 100 • 47 votes
Rating: T
Genres: Adventure, Indie, Visual Novel
Platforms: Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
A sequel to Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk.
The Red Strings Club
Released: Jan 22, 2018
Critic rating: 78.0 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Puzzle, Simulator, Adventure, Indie, Visual Novel
Platforms: Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
"The Red Strings Club is a cyberpunk narrative experience about fate and happiness featuring the extensive use of pottery, bartending and impersonating people on the phone to take down a corporate conspiracy."
Pokkén Tournament DX
Released: Sep 22, 2017
Critic rating: 77.4 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Fighting, Arcade
Platforms: Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Pokkén Tournament is a fighting video game and the first Pokémon title for the Nintendo Switch console.
Bendy and the Ink Machine
Released: Feb 10, 2017
Critic rating: 86.5 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Puzzle, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, PlayStation 5, Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Bendy and the Ink Machine is an indie first person puzzle-action-horror game with a unique cartoon atmosphere and an intense, frightening story line that keeps you guessing throughout.
Persona 4 Arena Ultimax
Released: Nov 28, 2013
Critic rating: 78.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Fighting, Visual Novel
Platforms: Arcade, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Persona 4 Arena Ultimax is a fighting video game developed by Arc System Works and Atlus.
Have a Nice Death
Released: Mar 22, 2023
Critic rating: 78.3 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Platform, Indie, Arcade
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Have a Nice Death is a 2D action roguelite where you play as an overworked Death, whose employees have run rampant, completely throwing off the balance of souls - and his vacation plans.
Doom
Released: Nov 10, 2017
Critic rating: 77.1 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Shooter
Platforms: Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Doom, the brutally fun and challenging modern-day shooter, can now be taken anywhere with Nintendo Switch!
The Gardens Between
Released: Sep 20, 2018
Critic rating: 81.0 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Puzzle, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Google Stadia, PlayStation 4, Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, PlayStation 5, Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
The Gardens Between is a surreal puzzle adventure through memory, moments and time that follows best friends, Arina and Frendt, as they fall into a mysterious world of beautiful garden islands.
Prison Architect
Released: Oct 6, 2015
Critic rating: 81.1 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Simulator, Strategy, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
The game is a top-down 2D construction and management simulation where the player takes control of building and running a prison.
Thronefall
Released: Oct 11, 2024
Critic rating: 78.3 / 100 • 27 votes
Rating: E10+
Genres: Fighting, Strategy, Tactical, Indie, Arcade
Platforms: Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
A minimalist game about building and defending a little kingdom.
Battle Chasers: Nightwar
Released: Oct 3, 2017
Critic rating: 77.9 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Battle Chasers: Nightwar is an American made JPRG and dungeon-crawler, based on the best-selling Battle Chasers comic series by Joe Maduriera and inspired by JPRG greats such as Final Fantasy, Suikoden, Chrono Trigger, and Phantasy Star.
Dungeon of the Endless
Released: Oct 27, 2014
Critic rating: 79.4 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Platform, Real Time Strategy (RTS), Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
In Dungeon of the Endless, the player takes the role of the survivors of a prison spaceship, its escape pod having crashed to the surface of a strange planet.
Dordogne
Released: Jun 13, 2023
Critic rating: 78.3 / 100 • 27 votes
Rating: E
Genres: Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Dordogne is a narrative adventure game in which you play as Mimi, a 32-year-old woman visiting the house of her recently deceased grandmother.
Yoshi's Crafted World
Released: Mar 29, 2019
Critic rating: 79.3 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Platform
Platforms: Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Co-operative
Lead Yoshi on a brand new adventure that will turn everything you've come to expect from side-scrolling games upside down!
Nuclear Throne
Released: Dec 5, 2015
Critic rating: 84.0 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Shooter, Adventure, Indie, Arcade
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Nuclear Throne is an action roguelike-like by Vlambeer about mutants fighting their way through a post-apocalyptic world.
Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus
Released: Nov 15, 2018
Critic rating: 76.5 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Tactical
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Take control of one of the most technologically advanced armies in the Imperium - The Adeptus Mechanicus.