20 Hidden Indie Gems on Nintendo Switch

InkyPen

I’d say mechanically everything the app does on Switch makes sense and that performance is surprisingly crisp as you fli...

Sky Force Anniversary

Starting with what really matters in a shooter of this kind the control, whether playing in docked mode with your Pro co...

Varion

While there are quite a lot of multiplayer arena shooters to choose from they're often hard to tell apart from one anoth...

Pizza Titan Ultra

You’re introduced to your eclectic team as a rookie pilot looking to make an impression. After a pretty brief, but effec...

Blade Strangers

Without a doubt the biggest surprise for me was this title from the folks at Nicalis, starting out with a new fighter co...

Shift Quantum

Where the design really begins to excel is when, of all things, movable boxes are introduced to the mix. Obviously you c...

Runner3

Taking it all in, scoring this game for a general audience is a challenge. On the one hand it has a ton of very cool con...

Super Saurio Fly

For the most part the level designs are straightforward and traditional but some variety gets thrown in at times like le...

#Breakforcist Battle

Given its very reasonable price, overall weirdness, and intense bursts of excitement #Breakforcist Battle is a pretty entertaining variation on the classic Breakout

Skies of Fury DX

While we'll overlook the fact that for the most part it utterly ignores gravity as you loop through the air, Skies of Fu...

Streets of Red - Devil's Dare Deluxe

What you’ll find as you play is that while you can certainly work through enemies one by one the key to success is getti...

Super Rocket Shootout

For as fast and frantic as the action can get there’s a surprising amount of potential for nuance. While you can certain...

Little Triangle

The action in the game is very basic at a fundamental level, you only have the ability to double jump. That said, in pra...

Sky Force Reloaded

While I can appreciate the volume of what can be unlocked a criticism would be that I think the rate you unlock it at is...

Stern Pinball Arcade

As a whole the base engine performs well on the Switch, only on rare occasions showing any signs of a stutter, I only hi...

The End Is Nigh

While not as viscerally-satisfying as its older sibling Super Meat Boy, Ash's quest to find cartridges and tumors in his...

Floor Kids

Probably the biggest criticism of the game is that, overall, with the exception of maximizing your scores to 5-star ever...

Crimsonland

I'm not positive there would be a wide critical consensus on something as old school and generally as basic as Crimsonla...

Mantis Burn Racing

What absolutely redeems the game for me, and actually what I’d love to see in a sequel, is the Battle Mode that was intr...

Party Golf

Going over issues even with the simplicity of the experience that isn’t to say there aren’t some rough patches. Periodic...

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