20 Hidden Indie Gems on Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2 - Nindie Spotlight
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Jenny LeClue - Detectivu

One of the more overall neglected flavors on the Switch has been single-player experiences I would consider to be bot...

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Biped
I first encountered Biped at PAX East, repeatedly walking by the booth on the way to other appointments and seeing small...
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A Juggler's Tale

With its marionette characters and associated string-based challenges, rhyming narration, and a healthy dose of charm...

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Blossom Tales II: The Minotaur Prince
Though continuing with many of the charms of the original, the somewhat dumbed down challenge gives it less appeal
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STAR WARS: The Force Unleashed
It has been pretty wild to return to many of the classic Star Wars titles on the Switch, and consistent with their origi...
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A Little Golf Journey
Part golf game, part puzzler, A Little Golf Journey is hard to put in a pre-defined box. Rather than being dominated wit...
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Epistory - Typing Chronicles
Forgive me, but I’m an absolute sucker for games that do things differently… in fact, I tend to seek them out. One of th...
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King of Seas
Whenever you embark on a journey while raising your Jolly Roger on the high seas, pretty well everyone out there is goin...
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Say No! More
The thing about “weird games” is that they can be very hard to define or describe by typical genre rules or through comp...
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Jet Kave Adventure
When it comes to reasonably-prices platformers typically retro pixel art games are what comes to mind, but in the case o...
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Blasphemous
From first glance during a Direct there was no question that Blasphemous, visually, was something pretty special. With a...
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FAR: Lone Sails
This is one of those titles where I walked into the experience not really knowing much about it, being surprised by it b...
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Strikey Sisters
For people who are willing to get over the initial hump of getting used to Strikey Sisters there’s plenty of challenging...
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Koloro
You’ll play the game as Kora, a young girl who is trying to find and save her sister. Once the action begins she’ll just...
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Calm Colors

While a great deal of my time playing games on the Switch has been focused on action, excitement, and general crazine...

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Gang Beasts
Both “wacky physics” and local multiplayer games have a tendency to suffer from people having extremely positive or nega...
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Monster Sanctuary
When you create a franchise as successful as the Pokemon series it’s inevitable that there will be a long line of imitat...
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Mana Spark
Despite my complaints I was surprised at how much the loop of Mana Spark got me hooked. There’s some smart tactical comb...
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Raging Justice
If you're a massive fan of the classic beat-em-ups of the 80s there may not be a game that's more of a love letter to th...
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Super One More Jump
While in the early going the game will feel almost painfully simple for each new group of levels you unlock new concepts...
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