The switch is one of Nintendo’s best games successful and influential system when. There’s something unique about carrying a home console-quality gaming device with you everywhere you go. But figuring out what to play—it gets harder and harder every year as the roster of indie and first-party games grows deeper and deeper.
Thankfully, WIRED has plenty of steadfast Nintendo fans on staff, and we’ve put together a list of the best Switch games. We’ve listed digital versions for most of them here, so make sure you have a spacious microSD card to store all your game files. (We Recommend this.)
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Updated June 2024: We added Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door, Princess Peach: Showtime, Xenoblade Chronicles 3, The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening and removed some older games.
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