best switch games 2023

95%Game Brain Score

story, gameplay

grinding, replayability

98% User Score Based on 14,631 reviews

Critic Score 77%Based on 1 reviews

Uncover an ominous truth and unveil the mysteries of a fascinating universe.

89%Game Brain Score

story, gameplay

grinding, replayability

96% User Score Based on 42,766 reviews

Critic Score 82%Based on 48 reviews

DREDGE is a single-player fishing adventure with a sinister undercurrent.

92%Game Brain Score

story, music

grinding, stability

98% User Score Based on 22,352 reviews

Critic Score 87%Based on 18 reviews

Youre here to slay the princess. Dont believe her lies.

84%Game Brain Score

story, graphics

optimization, stability

91% User Score Based on 170,068 reviews

Critic Score 81%Based on 11 reviews

Pre-order Hogwarts Legacy on PlayStation Store, an immersive, open-world action RPG set in the world first introduced in the Harry Potter books.

94%Game Brain Score

gameplay, graphics

grinding, story

94% User Score Based on 23,200 reviews

Dive into intense Roguelike challenges, survive, and reach Bullet Heaven!

98%Game Brain Score

music, gameplay

grinding, story

98% User Score Based on 4,472 reviews

Critic Score 98%Based on 1 reviews

Enter the Rhythm Dimension. Match colours and beats as you spin, tap, flick and flow through the juiciest beats in the universe.

96%Game Brain Score

story, gameplay

grinding, stability

96% User Score Based on 6,680 reviews

Digging through your attic you found a box set of an old children's TV show, Amanda the Adventurer, starring a brave girl named Amanda and a cowardly sheep named Wooly. You don't recall any...

95%Game Brain Score

gameplay, story

grinding, stability

97% User Score Based on 4,805 reviews

Critic Score 87%Based on 1 reviews

A sci-fi roguelike deckbuilder with a deep new single-axis spin on tactics games! Dodge missiles, line up your cannons, and blast 'em out of the sky... Then get to the bottom of these time loops, before it's too late!

87%Game Brain Score

story, gameplay

grinding, stability

97% User Score Based on 49,624 reviews

Critic Score 40%Based on 1 reviews

Discover Dave the Diver on the official PlayStation website - screenshots, trailers, game features, DLC and more

94%Game Brain Score

gameplay, atmosphere

story, grinding

94% User Score Based on 6,321 reviews

Critic Score 93%Based on 2 reviews

You are trapped in an endless underground passageway. Take a good look around and find a way to escape.

88%Game Brain Score

music, story

grinding, stability

98% User Score Based on 16,994 reviews

Critic Score 79%Based on 1 reviews

Bomb Rush Cyberfunk, an indie action-adventure platformer, features 1 second per second of highly advanced funkstyle. In a world where self-styled crews are equipped with personal boostpacks, new heights of graffiti are reached. Start your own cypher and dance, paint, trick, face off with the cops and stake your claim to the extrusions and cavities of a sprawling metropolis in an alternate future.

96%Game Brain Score

story, gameplay

stability, grinding

96% User Score Based on 5,512 reviews

BOKURA is a two-player puzzle adventure game.

90%Game Brain Score

gameplay, story

grinding, stability

93% User Score Based on 7,526 reviews

Critic Score 81%Based on 1 reviews

Viewfinder is a puzzle game where you can reshape the world around you by taking photos with an instant camera.

95%Game Brain Score

gameplay, graphics

grinding, stability

98% User Score Based on 2,828 reviews

Critic Score 80%Based on 1 reviews

Loddlenaut is an ocean cleanup adventure set on a vibrant alien planet. Play as an interstellar custodian sent to clean up a polluted ocean planet. Repurpose marine debris and take care of axolotl-like alien creatures! As you clean up the planet, you’ll run into axolotl-like aliens known as “loddles.” Protect them from the polluted waters and feed them aquatic fruits while you make their planet h…

BE THE HOPE OF THE UNIVERSE

94%Game Brain Score

story, gameplay

stability, grinding

94% User Score Based on 6,132 reviews

Buy Five Nights at Freddy’s: Help Wanted 2 at PlayStation Store, the sequel to the terrifying VR experience that brought new life to the iconic horror franchise.

95%Game Brain Score

monetization, gameplay

grinding, music

95% User Score Based on 5,359 reviews

Enter a world of magic and adventure and create your own RPG-style town!

90%Game Brain Score

story, music

grinding, monetization

95% User Score Based on 6,938 reviews

Critic Score 83%Based on 57 reviews

This game is a brand-new entry in the Octopath Traveler series. It takes the series’ HD-2D graphics, a fusion of retro pixel art and 3DCG, to even greater heights.In the world of Solistia, eight new travelers venture forth into an exciting new era.Where will you go? What will you do? Whose tale will you bring to life?Every path is yours to take. Embark on an adventure all your own.

97%Game Brain Score

graphics, music

replayability, grinding

97% User Score Based on 3,080 reviews

Birth is a point & click game about living alone in a large city. In order to quell your loneliness, you decide to construct a friend from spare bones and organs that you find while exploring the city

99%Game Brain Score

story, humor

monetization, grinding

99% User Score Based on 1,846 reviews

"Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines" - In this short branching visual novel story, Penny, a mild-mannered corporate grunt, pulls an all-nighter at the office in an effort to finish her project on time while overcoming distractions from coworkers, space aliens, imaginary friends, and herself.

90%Game Brain Score

gameplay, graphics

grinding, replayability

94% User Score Based on 5,540 reviews

Critic Score 87%Based on 30 reviews

An adventure across worlds within worlds.

87%Game Brain Score

graphics, gameplay

optimization, stability

92% User Score Based on 8,238 reviews

Critic Score 83%Based on 17 reviews

Progress never stops when you're pursuing footballing greatness. Gameplay upgrades empower you to develop a blueprint for success on and off the pitch. Pre-order for 10% off and Early Access*.

Conquer the barren wastelands and defend your raft from zombies! The apocalypse is upon us! Gather resources, expand your vehicle and find the last survivors who desperately need your help! Travel across different lands cutting your way through the hordes of zombies. Find people who survived and decide whether to accept them into your group. Assign duties to your members and use your baseball bat…

88%Game Brain Score

gameplay, story

grinding, stability

91% User Score Based on 6,699 reviews

Critic Score 85%Based on 48 reviews

Penance Never Ends

92%Game Brain Score

music, gameplay

grinding, stability

96% User Score Based on 2,942 reviews

Critic Score 84%Based on 5 reviews

Gravity Circuit is a flashy action packed 2D platformer in the spirit of console classics. Follow Kai, a lone operative war hero who harnesses the mysterious powers of the Gravity Circuit, on an adventure in a futuristic world inhabited by sentient robots.

97%Game Brain Score

gameplay, humor

music, replayability

97% User Score Based on 2,205 reviews

Originally created as part of The Dread X Collection II, Squirrel Stapler is a horror hunting simulator that satirizes low budget edutainment games with pitch black humor and panic-inducing absurdist horror. A lonely man living in a remote cabin wakes up one day and realizes his beloved--a dismembered corpse nailed to the cabin wall--has been made ugly and rotten by the flies that swarm her. He w…

86%Game Brain Score

gameplay, graphics

grinding, stability

91% User Score Based on 9,282 reviews

Critic Score 75%Based on 3 reviews

Take on the elements in Wildfrost, a tactical roguelike deckbuilder!

87%Game Brain Score

gameplay, music

grinding, stability

93% User Score Based on 6,164 reviews

Critic Score 80%Based on 10 reviews

Defend the last bastion of humanity with your squad of heroes! Exterminate fiendish monsters with magic and brute force by night and re-build your battered city defenses by day in this tactical RPG with rogue-lite mechanics.

89%Game Brain Score

story, emotional

grinding, stability

98% User Score Based on 6,758 reviews

Critic Score 81%Based on 15 reviews

In Stars and Time is a time-looping RPG adventure. With each loop, Siffrin gains a new perspective on the world around them, opening up new solutions to puzzles and allowing them to make better choices in conversation. Equip memories as armor, pray to the Change God to improve your team’s capabilities each loop, and challenge deadly foes to Rock, Papers, Scissors as Siffrin seeks the truth.

87%Game Brain Score

gameplay, story

grinding, stability

91% User Score Based on 5,460 reviews

Critic Score 65%Based on 5 reviews

Explore the mysterious Wall World on your giant robospider: mine for valuable resources, upgrade your equipment to fight off hordes of monsters, and discover exotic biomes in-between attacks. Will you be able to survive and learn the secrets of the Wall World?

92%Game Brain Score

story, graphics

grinding, stability

96% User Score Based on 1,742 reviews

Critic Score 84%Based on 2 reviews

Take Little Goody Two Shoes’ music anywhere you go with the Deluxe Edition! This bundle contains: - Little Goody Two Shoes - a fairy tale horror adventure game with a dark twist. Follow Elise, an ambitious girl determined to become rich and escape her humble life in the village of Kieferberg. - Official Soundtrack - The official soundtrack for Little Goody Two Shoes features 64 all-original track…

95%Game Brain Score

gameplay, humor

story, grinding

95% User Score Based on 2,175 reviews

A hostile interpretation of the immersive sim, where nothing is planned, and everything works

91%Game Brain Score

gameplay, graphics

grinding, stability

95% User Score Based on 2,331 reviews

Critic Score 84%Based on 10 reviews

Climb an astral tower and see how high you can get!

85%Game Brain Score

gameplay, story

grinding, stability

85% User Score Based on 26,812 reviews

Critic Score 88%Based on 13 reviews

Monster Hunter Rise (Deluxe Edition) is a compilation of: - Monster Hunter Rise (base game) - Monster Hunter Rise: Deluxe Kit (DLC)

85%Game Brain Score

story, gameplay

grinding, stability

85% User Score Based on 14,878 reviews

Sun Haven is a multiplayer fantasy farming sim with dragons, magic, a main questline, RPG-style skill progression, and even a final boss. Farm, fish, fight, mine, smith, cook, and craft in this cozy farming RPG!

94%Game Brain Score

story, atmosphere

grinding, stability

94% User Score Based on 2,186 reviews

Stasis: Bone Totem is a thrilling and spine-tingling journey into the unknown fathoms of the icy ocean and the terrors that await a family. They will uncover a threat far beyond their wildest dreams.

98%Game Brain Score

story, gameplay

grinding, optimization

98% User Score Based on 1,824 reviews

Lead your colony of cats into the mysterious Wildwood. Stalk prey to find food, defend your new home from dark intruders, and discover fresh herbs & ancient treasures. Build a thriving town for all cats to call home. Get to know the residents, fall in love, and raise a litter of kittens!

98%Game Brain Score

music, graphics

stability

98% User Score Based on 942 reviews

Find 100 cats hiding in Bali in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game

88%Game Brain Score

story, gameplay

grinding, stability

95% User Score Based on 3,444 reviews

Critic Score 81%Based on 20 reviews

Immerse yourself in an enchanting narrative experience as Fortuna, a fortune-teller Witch condemned to exile on her asteroid home. Craft your own Tarot deck, regain your freedom, and shape the fate of the cosmic Witch society.

89%Game Brain Score

music, gameplay

grinding, stability

94% User Score Based on 2,904 reviews

Critic Score 66%Based on 1 reviews

OTXO is a fast, brutal, violent roguelite, filled with precise but savage gunplay and time-bending slow motion.

96%Game Brain Score

gameplay, graphics

optimization, story

96% User Score Based on 1,342 reviews

Rediscover your engineering creativity in this bridge building masterpiece.

86%Game Brain Score

gameplay, story

grinding, optimization

92% User Score Based on 9,120 reviews

Critic Score 84%Based on 8 reviews

Buy Sifu on PlayStation Store. Sifu is a stylish yet gritty beat-em-up, featuring visceral hand-to-hand combat in a contemporary urban setting.

95%Game Brain Score

gameplay, graphics

grinding, optimization

95% User Score Based on 1,548 reviews

"Kill The Crows" is a fast-paced top-down arena shooter set in the twisted western era. A gunslinger burning with vengeance steps into the ruins of a forsaken town, ready to face death. Prepare for one-shot, one-kill gunfights using classic revolvers and fanning techniques.

92%Game Brain Score

music, story

grinding, monetization

99% User Score Based on 2,454 reviews

Critic Score 83%Based on 7 reviews

Play as a tiny lil' mushroom who's lost in the forest and can't find its way home. Explore unique areas freely at your own pace, chat with friendly inhabitants, and take on different adventures to get back home!

96%Game Brain Score

music, atmosphere

gameplay, graphics

96% User Score Based on 600 reviews

Critic Score 78%Based on 23 reviews

Experience the quiet terror of this 1-bit love letter to Junji Ito and H.P. Lovecraft. Navigate a hellish roguelite reality with turn-based combat and unforgiving choices. Experiment with your deck of event cards to discover new forms of cosmic horror in every playthrough. The inevitable awaits...

96%Game Brain Score

music, gameplay

story, replayability

96% User Score Based on 2,387 reviews

Critic Score 85%Based on 44 reviews

So much to play with 385 tracks included, more than ever before

87%Game Brain Score

story, music

grinding, stability

94% User Score Based on 3,772 reviews

Critic Score 80%Based on 31 reviews

Discover Planet of Lana on the official PlayStation website - buy the game, learn about its characters and gameplay, view screenshots, watch trailers.

89%Game Brain Score

story, gameplay

optimization, replayability

94% User Score Based on 2,338 reviews

Critic Score 84%Based on 10 reviews

Escape from a televised utopia in Out of the Blue’s brand new puzzle-platformer game.Welcome to Arcadia! A 70's retro-futuristic metropolis where all its citizens enjoy a life of luxury and comfort… unaware that they’re being broadcast live 24/7! Arcadia is not an ordinary city, but the most watched reality show on the planet - where a drop in popularity ratings comes at the highest cost: deat…

99%Game Brain Score

story, music

99% User Score Based on 602 reviews

A short game set in the Rakuen universe about an average white-collar worker who struggles to find meaning in a life full of constant overtime and isolation. After an accident lands him in the hospital, Mr. Saitou is spirited away to a strange fantasy world where an unexpected friend takes him on a life-changing adventure.

84%Game Brain Score

gameplay, graphics

optimization, grinding

91% User Score Based on 11,735 reviews

Critic Score 77%Based on 30 reviews

Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun - Forges of Corruption Edition is the most complete way to experience the ultimate Warhammer 40,000 homage to retro shooters, including the base game and Forges of Corruption DLC. Load up your Boltgun and plunge into battle headfirst! Experience a perfect blend of Warhammer 40,000, classic, frenetic FPS gameplay and the stylish visuals of your favourite 90’s retro shoote…

87%Game Brain Score

music, story

stability, atmosphere

96% User Score Based on 3,106 reviews

Critic Score 78%Based on 33 reviews

Murder. Gods. Romance. Band practice? Unravel the mystery of the Last Muse’s death in an interactive roleplaying musical where Greek gods live hidden among us. Use your newfound powers of musical persuasion to choose how this wry and moving saga will unfold. How will the curtain fall?

90%Game Brain Score

gameplay, story

grinding, optimization

95% User Score Based on 1,611 reviews

Critic Score 82%Based on 5 reviews

Roots of Pacha is a co-op farming and life simulation game set in the stone age, where you and your clan just settled in a promised and fertile land. By connecting with nature at your own pace you’ll help your clan evolve, develop culture and relationships, and discover the mysteries of Pacha, mother nature.

88%Game Brain Score

music, gameplay

story, grinding

88% User Score Based on 4,538 reviews

Critic Score 89%Based on 48 reviews

The Digital Deluxe Edition includes the complete Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2 Game, 'The Ripper' skater from Powell-Peralta, unique retro outfits for Tony Hawk, Steve Caballero and Rodney Mullen, and unique retro content for the Create-A-Skater mode.

99%Game Brain Score

graphics, gameplay

story, grinding

99% User Score Based on 524 reviews

Vividlope, the head-spinning, mind-bending arcade game with a puzzle touch! Master the imaginative realm, where the gravity doesn't quite work as you're used to, overcome your foes and keep on painting!