Sarah HertzkeThe Last Cube is atmospheric, engaging, and fun rolling cube puzzle game that is also a sci-fi adventure. Unique mechanics where the stickers that are applied to your surfaces aren't just for pressing matching buttons, they also give you special abilities.
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/the-last-cube-switch/
The Last Cube for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site
Venture into the desolate cube world where you’ll discover 3D puzzles in diverse, colorful environments. As the Last Cube, you must prove your worth and save your dying home. Features: - Award-winning puzzle gameplay, revolving around the unique “sticker…
Dark Water : Slime Invader is a fun, charming, quirky action platformer. Unusual visual style and gameplay, with a lot of different gameplay mechanics that all work together well.
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/dark-water-slime-invader-switch/
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/dark-water-slime-invader-switch/
Dark Water: Slime Invader for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site
Dark Water is a story about a granddaughter and grandmother's adventure to save their village from cursed slime attacks. Use various bow skills to defeat slimes, overcome the traps and save the village from the crisis. Dark Water, a Fantasy side-scrollin…
The Knight Witch is AWESOME. A twin-stick shooter epic fantasy adventure. Gorgeous visuals, an engaging story, and lots of cool game mechanics and systems: deck-building, exploration, auto-aim, and more.
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/the-knight-witch-switch/
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/the-knight-witch-switch/
The Knight Witch for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site
Shoot 'Em Up Spellcasting Sorcery! Encounter evil foes and choose whether you wield your magic or use your weapons and wits to take them down. With their flight capabilities, superior fighting strength and reality-bending magic, The Knight Witches absolu…
F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch is an awesome Metroidvania about an old veteran rabbit who returns to battle, with his giant mechanical fist, one last time. Crunchy, satisfying combat with grabs and finishers, great visuals, engaging story.
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/f-i-s-t-forged-in-shadow-torch-switch/
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/f-i-s-t-forged-in-shadow-torch-switch/
F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site
After the animals of Torch City were defeated by the invading Robotic Legion in the Resistance War six years ago, former Resistance fighter Rayton the rabbit has kept a low profile. The arrest of a friend meant he had no choice but to put on his giant me…
LEAVES - The Journey is a beautiful and cryptic point-and-click adventure. Explore and search and solve challenging puzzles to find the lost leaves. Feels very much like an Amanita Design game (that's a big compliment).
https://store.steampowered.com/app/569800/LEAVES__The_Journey/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/569800/LEAVES__The_Journey/
I haven't played it myself yet, but the sequel, LEAVES - The Return is also on sale.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/569810/LEAVES__The_Return/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/569810/LEAVES__The_Return/
Daggerhood is a solid, fun platformer. The teleporting dagger is a neat mechanic. Nothing groundbreaking, just a good game.
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/daggerhood-switch/
https://store.playstation.com/en-us/product/UP0891-CUSA14147_00-RATAGADAGGERHOOD/
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/daggerhood-switch/
https://store.playstation.com/en-us/product/UP0891-CUSA14147_00-RATAGADAGGERHOOD/
Daggerhood for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site
Every man should have a skill and for Vincent S. Daggerhood, that skill was thieving. Quick with his hands, there was no loot he couldn’t plunder and no treasure chest he couldn’t escape with. For Daggerhood, life was good, until come that fateful day he…
Knightin'+ is a very unserious, dungeon-only Zelda-lite. Retro graphics, solid gameplay, gets quite challenging.
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/knightin-plus-switch/
https://store.playstation.com/en-us/product/UP0891-CUSA17967_00-RATAGAMEKNIGHTIN/
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/knightin-plus-switch/
https://store.playstation.com/en-us/product/UP0891-CUSA17967_00-RATAGAMEKNIGHTIN/
Knightin'+ for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site
Join brave Sir Lootalot on his epic quest in this little adventure. Explore and fight your way through the four dangerous dungeons filled with dangerous traps, devious puzzles and magical artifacts. Survive all four dungeons by unlocking new abilities an…
FAITH: The Unholy Trinity is an engaging and frightening horror game about a young priest fighting the forces of Satan. Very retro in ways both good and bad, there's some frustrating bits. But overall an incredible experience.
https://www.gog.com/en/game/faith_the_unholy_trinity/
https://www.gog.com/en/game/faith_the_unholy_trinity/
Spooky Ghosts Dot Com is a fun and simple Metroidvania with ghosts to bust and cute cats to rescue. Fairly short, but challenging.
https://zertuk.itch.io/spooky-ghosts-dot-com
https://zertuk.itch.io/spooky-ghosts-dot-com
SJ-19 Learns To Love! is a short, quirky metroidvania about a killer robot developing emotions and maybe deciding it doesn't want to kill everything. Maybe. Kinda silly, but challenging.
https://zertuk.itch.io/sj-19-learns-to-love
https://zertuk.itch.io/sj-19-learns-to-love
TENDY: Robot Gardener is a funky little puzzle game. Take care of a space garden by giving instruction to a robot. Has weird rules including a bit of randomness. Fun strange visuals. Part of the CosmOS 9 Bundle.
https://toomuchtomato.itch.io/tendy/
https://toomuchtomato.itch.io/tendy/
Timelie is a neat stealth puzzle game. Time-manipulation is mostly used in an interesting way: it allows you to time your actions precisely, down to the second. It's sort of like SUPERHOT that way. Sometimes a little slow, but very good.
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/timelie-switch/
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/timelie-switch/
Timelie for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site
Foresee and rewind The Timeline ability gives players the power to control time just like a media player. Drag the Timeline left rewind time and undo your past mistakes. Drag it right to watch your future unfold and gain you valuable information to chang…
PHOGS! is incredibly bizarre and utterly delightful. Puzzles aren't that hard, but they are fun and interesting. Co-op must be crazy but I haven't been able to try it myself.
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/phogs-switch/
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/phogs-switch/
PHOGS! for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site
In PHOGS! you play as a duo of dogs on a captivating, puzzle-filled adventure. Linked by a stretchy belly, you’ll need to bark, bite and bounce your way through obstacles set across the themed worlds of Food, Sleep and Play, in co-op or single-player. Fo…
Gato Roboto is a wonderful and silly, stylish and unique metroidvania about a kitty in a mech. The story is fun, the visuals are great, and the game is a nice challenge.
https://www.gog.com/game/gato_roboto
https://www.gog.com/game/gato_roboto
BTW, the developers of Gato Roboto are working on a new game. Check out Gunbrella, it's awesome! A fun, challenging action-platformer with distinctive style and great gameplay. Demo available.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1580180/Gunbrella/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1580180/Gunbrella/
No Longer Home is a melancholy visual novel about life and coping with things out of our control. Softly surreal and introspective, follow two queer recent grads figuring out their lives and their selves.
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/no-longer-home-switch/
https://www.humblebundle.com/store/no-longer-home
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/no-longer-home-switch/
https://www.humblebundle.com/store/no-longer-home
No Longer Home for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site
Bo and Ao are graduating university and preparing to leave the flat they’ve lived in together for a year. Thanks to visa limitations, Ao is forced to return to Japan, leaving Bo in England. Disillusioned by post-educational life and shoved aside by a gov…
Teacup is a short, gentle, charming adventure game. Teacup, an introverted frog, needs to overcome her shyness and talk to and help lots of different folks to get enough tea for her upcoming tea party. Easy and friendly.
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/teacup-switch/
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/teacup-switch/
Teacup for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site
Teacup is a short and wholesome narrative adventure game with a focus on exploration and non-linear progression. You play as the titular Teacup, a shy and introverted young frog who loves drinking tea and reading. The day before she is to host a tea part…
A Fold Apart is a sweet puzzle game that tells the story of a long distance relationship. The puzzle mechanics of folding are really creative and neat (if kinda easy), and the story is just wonderful.
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/a-fold-apart-switch/
https://store.playstation.com/en-us/product/UP1184-CUSA19327_00-LL9QDQ41J80WBI7M/
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/a-fold-apart-switch/
https://store.playstation.com/en-us/product/UP1184-CUSA19327_00-LL9QDQ41J80WBI7M/
A Fold Apart for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site
Lightning Rod Games presents A Fold Apart: an award-winning puzzle game that explores the emotional rollercoaster of a long-distance relationship — in a world of folding paper! Featuring: - A relatable, true-to-life story of a long-distance relationship…
Princess Farmer is super queer, super charming, super great, furry visual novel/match-3 puzzle game. Wholesome and fun, and cute as heck, with a unique approach to classic puzzle mechanics. Amazing.
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/princess-farmer-switch/
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/princess-farmer-switch/
Princess Farmer for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site
Princess Farmer is a match3 puzzle and visual novel game with easy to learn action mechanics and different difficulty levels that let you breeze through the game or challenge you to earn more rewards. The story is played in episodes, much like magical-gi…
Puddle Knights is a creative, charming, and very unique puzzle game. Help the nobles keep their feet clean. Tons of interesting puzzles with lots of clever mechanics.
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/puddle-knights-switch/
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/puddle-knights-switch/
Puddle Knights for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site
A mud-based puzzle game where you arrange snake-like capes of chivalrous knights to cover puddles and other hazards. Help the nobles to reach their goal in this lighthearted medieval mindmuck! Key features: * 100+ head-scratching levels of increasing dif…
Demons of Asteborg is a great retro action platformer with just a little bit of exploration. Great retro visuals, good combat, and an engaging story.
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/demons-of-asteborg-switch/
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/demons-of-asteborg-switch/
Demons of Asteborg for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site
Demons of Asteborg® is an original and challenging new 2D game, mixing action, small puzzles and strategy. This 16-bit game will bring back many memories for retro fans. The story Long ago in the Kingdom of Asteborg, a war broke out, pitting humans and d…
0°N 0°W is a surreal experience. An exploration with no real objectives, just a variety of strange and wild worlds to explore. Not for people who are a looking for a "game," so to speak, but for people into art and weird stuff.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/670750/0N_0W/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/670750/0N_0W/
Moon Raider is a nice, challenging pixel art action-platformer. Gameplay is solid; though it does have a few awkward quirks, but it's really fun and it looks great.
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/moon-raider-switch/
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/moon-raider-switch/
Moon Raider for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site
Ava is the young daughter of the brilliant-but-aging scientist Dr. Cavor and Selene, the former queen of the moon. Selene is a selenite whose life depends on special energy only moon gems can provide. With none left and time running out, Dr. Cavor enlist…
Ghost Parade is a charming platformer action RPG based in Indonesian folklore. The visuals are magical, and you'll meet and recruit a variety of cute & spooky characters. A nice adventure with unique flavor. A bit janky, but good.
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/ghost-parade-switch/
https://store.playstation.com/en-us/product/UP1024-CUSA16151_00-GHOSTPARADE12345/
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/ghost-parade-switch/
https://store.playstation.com/en-us/product/UP1024-CUSA16151_00-GHOSTPARADE12345/
Ghost Parade for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site
There’s something spooky in the woods... And it needs your help! Your walk home takes an other-worldly turn as you become lost in a dark, mysterious forest. Join a mystical battle to protect the supernatural inhabitants from those who are trying to level…
Two Parsecs From Earth is a fun, challenging, no combat metroidvania. Fairly short, but it has branching playthroughs and multiple endings. Maybe not the most impressive game, but it's still good.
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/two-parsecs-from-earth-switch/
https://store.playstation.com/en-us/product/UP0891-CUSA23434_00-RGTWOPARSECSFROM/
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/two-parsecs-from-earth-switch/
https://store.playstation.com/en-us/product/UP0891-CUSA23434_00-RGTWOPARSECSFROM/
Two Parsecs From Earth for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site
Robot Z3-L1’s ship has crash landed on an inhospitable planet called Dimidium filled with alien landscapes and hostile surroundings. To escape and return home, Z3-L1 (/zeli/) must gather clues, gain powers and discover artifacts needed to fix a space shi…
It has a cute dragon girl!!! What more do you want?!! Okay, for my followers who aren't immediately persuaded, Shirone: The Dragon Girl is a fun action-adventure with a heavy puzzle emphasis. It really is pretty good.
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/shirone-the-dragon-girl-switch/
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/shirone-the-dragon-girl-switch/
Shirone: the Dragon Girl for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site
Imagine waking up in a haunted castle. "Where am I?" You ask every creature you see, but none of them know. The only thing you're sure of is that you need to get out of here. That's the situation Shirone is in, and she needs your help to escape. ”Shiron…
Cyber Protocol is a fast-paced tilt maze arcade game; like Tomb of the Mask. Fun, neon-cyberpunk style, lots of levels and challenges. Pretty straightforward, but a good challenge, especially getting a high score.
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/cyber-protocol-switch/
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/cyber-protocol-switch/
Cyber Protocol for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site
Cyber Protocol is an arcade puzzle game set in Cyberpunk scenario with a strong and dynamic gameplay. You impersonate the main hero, whose mission is to bring his Android friend (G0X6) back to life by activating the protocol. • ABSORBING GAMEPLAY ••••• T…
The Lightbringer is a neat 3D platformer. Explore thoroughly to gather light to purify the corruption, and when that's not enough, throw your trusty boomerang. Your sister's spirit guide you in rhyme. A little quirky, perhaps not for everyone.
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/the-lightbringer-switch/
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/the-lightbringer-switch/
The Lightbringer for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site
Dear brother, when this letter reaches your hands, I will no longer be protecting our lands. With great sorrow I pass this duty onto you. Do not be afraid, as I will guide you through. You will travel these lands across the shores, across the skies. I…
Mable & The Wood is strange and somber metroidvania with weird and unique gameplay. Turn into monsters because your sword is too heavy for you. Simple yet challenging, with multiple endings including a pacifist route.
https://www.gog.com/game/mable_the_wood
https://www.gog.com/game/mable_the_wood
Adventures of Chris is a fun, charming, nostalgic action-platformer inspired by the cartoons & games of the 90s. The bullied chubby kid saves the world! Feels like something a kid might make, because it kinda is, but with the polish of experience.
https://www.gog.com/game/adventures_of_chris
https://www.gog.com/game/adventures_of_chris
Boomerang X is AWESOME. Utterly unique, tense, exhilarating. Very fast and challenging, but more doable than you might think; the tools it gives you make it just work. You'll feel like a ninja when you pull things off.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1170060/Boomerang_X/
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/boomerang-x-switch/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1170060/Boomerang_X/
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/boomerang-x-switch/
Kaze and the Wild Masks is a fantastic, somewhat-retro platformer. While the influence of Donkey Kong Country is obvious, Kaze still manages to be very original, fun, and just gorgeous.
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/kaze-and-the-wild-masks-switch/
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/kaze-and-the-wild-masks-switch/
Kaze and the Wild Masks for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site
In Kaze and the Wild Masks, you journey through the Crystal Islands in 90’s classics platformer style. Play as Kaze and save your friend Hogo from a curse that spread chaos around the islands. Face enraged living vegetables by invoking the powers of the …
GOODBYE WORLD is a short, interesting game. Gameplay wise it's a nifty little retro puzzle-platformer, but the levels are separated by a story of young game developers struggling with life and their desire to make games.
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/goodbye-world-switch/
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/goodbye-world-switch/
Demon Turf, by Fabrazz, is an amazing 3D platformer. This game oozes style, and a has lot of character. Gameplay feels really good, and everything looks so unique. Lots of options and lots to do. Free Tower DLC coming soon.
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/demon-turf-switch/
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/demon-turf-switch/
Demon Turf for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site
The Demon World is inhabited by all kinds of nasties... Most of them lumped into gangs battling for dominion, each led by its own head honcho. Yet even these bad dudes are no match for the Demon King himself! Instead, the task falls to Beebz, a young dem…
I haven't played it myself yet, but the platforming-focused mini-sequel, Demon Turf: Neon Splash, is also on sale.
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/demon-turf-neon-splash-switch/
Also the bundle of both games
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/demon-turf-bundle-switch/
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/demon-turf-neon-splash-switch/
Also the bundle of both games
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/demon-turf-bundle-switch/
Demon Turf: Neon Splash for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site
Woah! Beebz and her friends were sucked into the neon splattered world of a painting and need to get the heck outta there! Can you escape these dangerous & surrealist environments, using your platforming skills, to get back home? FEATURES: - This paintin…
Circa Infinity is a challenging, mind-bending game like nothing else. It grabbed me the moment I started playing. The visuals are unique and striking and the gameplay is too.
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/circa-infinity-switch/
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/circa-infinity-switch/
Circa Infinity for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site
Reach the core of each level by slipping through a series of circular layers. Time your jumps carefully to avoid the creatures that reside within the circles and reach the next layer. As you go deeper, the action gets faster and more challenging! Can you…
Project Starship X is a wild and silly roguelite SHMUP. Dash and crash past or into enemies. Choose from several pilots, play 5 of 14 different possible levels, lots of options, and more. Very fun.
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/project-starship-x-switch/
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/project-starship-x-switch/
Project Starship X for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site
Project Starship is back with a wacky take on cosmic horror. In this rogue-lite shooter, you’ll take the role of the tentacled-yet-hip Swagthulhu as you CRASH-KILL comical abominations in flashy 16-bit style! With multi-purpose dodge mechanics and tons o…
Unbound: Worlds Apart is a gorgeous, enchanting puzzle-platformer adventure. The shifting mechanics here aren't very new, but they are done incredibly well, with a few interesting twists.
https://www.gog.com/game/unbound_worlds_apart
https://www.gog.com/game/unbound_worlds_apart
Mutazione is sooo good. An incredible adventure game that explores both the ordinary and the supernatural in an amazingly detailed world. Plus gardening! Fans of Kentucky Route Zero should give this a look.
https://www.gog.com/game/mutazione
https://www.gog.com/game/mutazione
BADLAND is thrilling, tough, inventive, and atmospheric. Simple gameplay, but it really keeps you on your toes. Tons of levels, and extra objectives to keep you playing for a while.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/269670/BADLAND_Game_of_the_Year_Edition/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/269670/BADLAND_Game_of_the_Year_Edition/
Dig Dog is a cute, simple, straightforward platformer roguelite. Just a fun, solid game. The developer made it without using his hands. Cheap!
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/dig-dog-switch/
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/dig-dog-switch/
Dig Dog for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site
Dig Dog is an action roguelike platformer. Dig to discover treasure, adventure and bones! Jump, dash, stomp and dig your way through a strange world inhabited by stranger creatures. Simple, expressive control scheme – Run, dig, drop, jump or dash using o…
Pile Up! Box by Box is a friendly and fun co-op (playable solo) 3D platformer. It's fairly easy, has pleasant visuals and interesting mechanics. Plus minigames!
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/pile-up-box-by-box-switch/
https://store.playstation.com/en-us/product/UP0977-CUSA20360_00-9781553436378311
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/pile-up-box-by-box-switch/
https://store.playstation.com/en-us/product/UP0977-CUSA20360_00-9781553436378311
Pile Up! Box by Box for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site
Pile Up! ticks all the right boxes as a family-friendly cooperative 3D platformer! Jump up, slide down, play together and carry the load! Coordinate with your friends or rely on your own creativity to navigate cardboard worlds full of uniquely joyful lev…
Gunhouse is an exciting tower-defense game with puzzle mechanics where you must slide tiles into formation to fill your ammo. Unique gameplay and wild, cartoony visuals.
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/gunhouse-switch/
https://store.playstation.com/en-us/product/UP4221-CUSA09627_00-GUNHOUSECOOLTOWN
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/gunhouse-switch/
https://store.playstation.com/en-us/product/UP4221-CUSA09627_00-GUNHOUSECOOLTOWN
Gunhouse for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site
Load your guns! Rain death from above! Protect your valuable orphans! Defeat giant, improbable bosses! Gunhouse is part puzzle, part active tower defense, as you make big combos to launch a hail of bullets and special attacks at the alien invaders who wo…
Induction is a sleek, minimalist, challenging time-traveling puzzle game that goes in some really weird directions. The different ways the systems in this game interact are fascinating and mind-bending.
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/induction-switch/
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/induction-switch/
Induction for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site
Induction is an abstract puzzle game about time travel and paradoxes. As you master its logic, Induction will rewire how you think about cause and effect. Across more than 50 meticulously designed puzzles, you must explore the counter-intuitive possibili…
Hourglass is an interesting and atmospheric first-person puzzle game. Uses a neat time-traveling mechanic. I've seen games like this before, but doing it in 3D is unusual, and it's very well done, with good puzzles.
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/hourglass-switch/
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/hourglass-switch/
Toodee and Topdee is a delightful mashup. Incredibly unique blend of a platformer and a top-down, Chips Challenge-ish puzzle game. More challenging than you might expect, thankfully there are lots of accessibility options.
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/toodee-and-topdee-switch/
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/toodee-and-topdee-switch/
Toodee and Topdee for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site
Toodee and Topdee is a 2D Platformer and a Top-Down Puzzler hybrid. Switch between Toodee and Topdee and their unique perspectives, and watch how the game bends to the rules of the current genre. Solve mind-melting puzzles! Overcome hard-as-nails challen…
Olija is an amazing and epic pixel-art action-adventure. Gameplay is fantastic and distinctive, and the visuals are great. The horror-tinged story is really engaging. Just all around incredible.
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/olija-switch/
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/olija-switch/
Olija for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site
Armed with a legendary harpoon, he and other castaways try to leave this hostile country to return to their homelands. Through adventurous exploration, narration and razor sharp combat, the player will discover a strange world and its inhabitants, includ…
Dropsy is a point & click adventure that draws from the classics but also innovates in telling the story of a dim but friendly clown who doesn't know how scary he looks. By turns strange, silly, sweet, tragic, touching, and creepy. A unique, special game.
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/dropsy-switch
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/dropsy-switch
Dropsy for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site
After a deadly circus fire shatters his world and tarnishes his name, Dropsy the Clown finds himself on a journey of self-discovery through a story that harnesses themes of love and unmerited kindness. With his father gravely ill and the world turning it…
Owlboy is a flying action-adventure with gorgeous graphics and an engaging story. Working with friends you recruit is fun and interesting. Making the hero actually mute was a bold choice that adds depth to the writing.
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/owlboy-switch/
https://store.playstation.com/en-us/product/UP4218-CUSA09914_00-OWLBOY0000000000/
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/owlboy-switch/
https://store.playstation.com/en-us/product/UP4218-CUSA09914_00-OWLBOY0000000000/
Owlboy for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site
Owlboy is a story-driven platform adventure game, where you can fly and explore a brand new world in the clouds! Pick up your friends, and bring them with you as you explore the open skies. Overcome obstacles and greater enemies, in one of the most detai…
Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna) is an incredible platformer adventure of a girl and a friendly fox. It was made in collaboration with the Iñupiat people of Alaska, with a story based in their culture and legends. A masterpiece.
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/never-alone-arctic-collection-switch
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/never-alone-arctic-collection-switch
Never Alone: Arctic Collection for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site
Experience the epic journey of Nuna and Fox as they search for the source of an eternal blizzard that threatens the survival of everything they have ever known. Never Alone is an atmospheric puzzle platformer developed in collaboration with the Iñupiat, …
Among the Sleep is a short but amazing horror game where you play as a toddler. Terrifying, emotional, with incredible detail and fantastic visuals.
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/among-the-sleep-enhanced-edition-switch/
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Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site
In the enhanced edition of this award-winning first person horror adventure, you step into the pyjamas of a two year old child creeping through a dark and distorted house. Find your missing mother as you wander through sinister and surreal surroundings r…
Hell Pie gloriously gross and bizarre. An incredible 3D platformer with unusual mechanics expressed in much weirder ways. Make the most disgusting pie you can by gathering horrible ingredients and kick monster ass along the way.
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Hell Pie for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site
Hell Pie is an obscene 3D platformer that takes bad taste to the next level! The game sees you grab the horns of Nate, the ‘Demon of Bad Taste’. He is given the honorable task of gathering the disgusting ingredients for Satan’s infamous birthday pie. To …
Sparklite is a nifty Zelda-esque roguelite. There's a variety of interesting items and a crafting system. Good graphics, solid gameplay.
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Sparklite for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site
Sparklite is an action-adventure set in the whimsical and ever-changing land of Geodia. Battle foes in top-down action using an arsenal of gadgets, guns, and gear. Explore dangerous corners of the procedurally generated world, take down titans of the min…
Virtuous Western is a puzzle platformer about hunting down horse thieves. You have limited resources and must figure out how to use them to kill all the bandits. Finicky and short, but interesting and fun.
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Virtuous Western for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site
Welcome to the old western frontier, where justice is served from the barrel of a gun! A nasty gang of outlaws has come to town, and they’ve stolen our hero’s favorite steed. Use your trusty revolver to shoot down enemies, or find other ways to use the e…
Fling to the Finish is a fun cooperative racing 3D platformer where you (and potentially a friend) control two orbs tied together. The rope is both a help and a hindrance in the variety of interesting challenges. Silly and tough.
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In Fling to the Finish, teams of two players race through colorful, chaotic obstacle courses while tethered by a stretchy elastic rope. When you and your friends first pick up the game your rope will get tangled in practically everything you pass. But as you quickly improve your communication skills you'll learn that the rope is your biggest asset. Experienced players can use the rope to swing around perilous obstacles, and fling their partner up ledges before they fall to their doom. When pa...
Heave Ho is a fantastic and funny swinging platformer party game where you have no legs, just manually controlled arms. Ridiculous fun. Gets crazier and sillier the more people you have to play with.
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Heave Ho for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site
Players will use their own two hands and the outstretched grip of their friends to grapple across each level on their way to victory. Grab one another’s hands, climb across dangling bodies, and swing your pals to safety in a wobbly, dangly mass of limbs.…
Reventure is quirky, funny, meta, inventive, and fun. A platformer/action/adventure game that doesn't take itself seriously, it has 100 different endings to discover (with most of them involving your hilarious demise).
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DISTRAINT is a provocative and haunting morality tale/horror story. The aesthetic is neat, the horror elements are very effective, and the story is REALLY compelling. Asks some uncomfortable questions.
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DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site
DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition is a 2D psychological horror adventure game that tells the story of Price, a young man who seizes an old woman’s apartment. After seizing her home, his humanity is now gone. So begins his tale of regrets… Creep your way through …
I haven't played it myself yet, but DISTRAINT 2 is also on sale.
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DISTRAINT 2 for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site
Redemption… Hope… Are these things that one can hope to acquire again after selling your soul in your haunting past? You are Price, a man who sold his humanity to get a partnership from a leading company: McDade, Bruton & Moore. Collect items and solve …
The Count Lucanor is an incredible horror adventure where every choice matters. The gameplay goes in a variety of interesting directions (puzzles, exploration, stealth) and the horror is chilling. Be careful.
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The Count Lucanor for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site
Once upon a time, there was a poor boy named Hans who lived with his mother near the woods. On his birthday, the boy had no presents nor sweets. He got so upset he decided to leave home for good. Before he left, his mother gave him his grandfather's cane…