20 Hidden Indie Gems on Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2 - Nindie Spotlight
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Thumper

As has been the case with quite a number of games I’ve enjoyed on the Switch to date I would gladly recommend T...

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Railbound
Carefully plotting your rails to ensure your train will leave the station has never been so addicting
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Gunborg: Dark Matters
More budget-friendly titles are almost always a challenge to know how to score against their more full-priced brethren. ...
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Curse of the Dead Gods
Roguelikes have exploded in popularity in the past few years, with games like Dead Cells and Hades showing the way the l...
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Jet Lancer
With so many high-quality shooters of all types and styles it takes some effort to put something new on the table, parti...
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Regency Solitaire
You’ve got to respect a development team that takes on a well-known casual card game and decides to swing for the fences...
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Crying Suns
When it comes to strategy games, on a general level it feels like the Switch hasn’t been terribly well-represented as a ...
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Knight Squad
I’ll just put it right out there, while I love the spirit of the movement to bring back local co-op games and the part t...
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Monster Prom: XXL
In the event your days as a teenager in high school weren’t traumatic enough, and you’re looking to recapture some of th...
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Aerial_Knight's Never Yield

This is one of those titles where I'm a bit torn in terms of how I feel about it. Starting with the positive Neve...

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Mr. Sun's Hatbox
A mix of roguelike challenge, stealth, some strategy, base building, and platform shooting that can still feel a bit too much like a grind
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They Always Run

Having played quite a number of action platformers at this point, many on the Switch, I’ve begun to feel someti...

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Z-Warp
Z-Warp is a decidedly old-school looking vertical shooter that packs a challenge and some real fun, but if you’re like m...
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Phantom Breaker: Omnia
With colorful and stylish anime characters, a few dollops of funky personalities, and a host of modes to try to give you...
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Evertried
Strategy hasn’t tended to be a very common flavor for roguelikes on the Switch (well, at least ones that aren’t deck-bui...
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Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl
This is one of those titles you walk into with at least a twinge of dread as a reviewer. Not only is it a licensed game,...
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SnowRunner
Realistic all-terrain driving games are an odd breed that has emerged in popularity in more recent years, and to date ha...
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Knight Squad 2
The original Knight Squad was a pleasant surprise, delivering pretty easy-to-grasp local multiplayer game that worked we...
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Supermarket Shriek
Ah, I do appreciate a weirdo title and Supermarket Shriek is more than happy to deliver. Played either solo or with a fr...
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REZ PLZ
This is a title I originally saw at PAX and that impressed me with its morbid sense of humor and somewhat clever puzzlin...
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