Top 100 / Best Indie Games of the Year on Nintendo Switch [2020 Edition] - Nindie Spotlight

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Void Bastards
While I’ve seen a few titles try to step up to the plate to establish a solid roguelike FPS to date nobody has really na...
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The Complex
Having played “interactive movie” style games since way back when CD-ROMs first allowed them to exist with the likes of ...
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Sky Racket
This is one of those games where with the elevator pitch alone I was revved up and ready to go. A retro-styled mash up o...
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Afterparty
The indie scene, in general, has seemed to fully embrace the concept of a “story-driven adventure”, less focused on acti...
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Two Point Hospital: JUMBO Edition

Sharing a thought, in many ways I still have a real beef with EA and the fact that they absorbed and pretty well ruin...

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Wunderling
Who ever said that puzzle games had to be for casual gamers? Oh sure, Wunderling could likely be enjoyed by just about a...
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Bloodroots
This is a title that got me excited the first time I saw it in a Nindie Direct and that I was even more thrilled with wh...
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Knights and Bikes
Memories from my childhood, while often involving playing games on a variety of systems or in arcades, involve a pretty ...
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198X
As a child of the 70s and 80s who spent an enormous amount of time in the arcades there’s no doubt 198X was made for me....
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Super Crush KO
Early in the Switch lifespan, when the pickings were sometimes a bit more thin, there were some core Nindie titles that ...
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AVICII Invector
While there have been quite a few great rhythm games on the Switch, it seems that room will now need to be made for anot...
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Quiplash
I’m so pleased that Jackbox Games has decided to release my absolute favorite game of theirs as a stand-alone title now ...
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Inertial Drift

While some people prefer their racing to be a bit rough around the edges, banging around turns and defying any sense ...

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Pinball FX3 - Williams™ Pinball: Volume 6

Once again it’s time for old school pinball fanatics to rejoice as a new pack of conversions from the classic c...

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Super Meat Boy Forever
Fans of one of the OG teeth-gnashing platforming challenges from the early indie days have been waiting for a number of ...
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Maid of Sker
Survival horror may be one of the most tricky genres I’ve seen to really make a quality game in. Whether the issue is to...
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Pure Pool
While I’ve never been super serious about playing pool it is a sport I’ve enjoyed in quite a number of pool halls and fr...
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Serious Sam Collection
As time has gone on the first-person shooter genre has gone through quite a lot of changes and evolution, generally movi...
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Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty
While the Switch has had some entries from the Oddworld series that have dabbled in a variety of styles of play, most of...
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Batbarian: Testament of the Primordials
What’s interesting with indie games is their consistent ability to seem familiar at first but then consistently surprise...
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Foregone
One glance at Foregone and many video game fans are likely to mistake it for the incredible Dead Cells… and given that t...
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The Survivalists
As I have noted a few times before, in general survival games haven’t tended to be a favorite of mine in the past. That ...
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Embracelet
This, for me, is one of those titles where it’s hard to articulate why I’m so taken in by it. With its low-poly look, it...
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Going Under
As an enormous fan of anything roguelike Going Under has been on my radar since I first saw it announced, billing itself...
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Rebel Galaxy Outlaw
As an old school fan of the Wing Commander series I’m always excited to take on any new space sim promising dogfights, e...
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Bake n Switch
While there’s no doubt that the Overcooked franchise has been wildly successful, and can be an absolute blast to play wi...
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Nexomon: Extinction
While there have been a few stabs at taking on Game Freak and the Big N’s mega-franchise they’ve tended to be at the hig...
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Nowhere Prophet
In the last generation I’ve been surprised to see the deck-building strategy genre not only move from the fringes into t...
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Destrobots
With loads of local multiplayer titles out there on Switch it’s a tough business to find a way to stand out in the crowd...
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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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Liberated
This is a title that easily caught my eye the first time I saw footage of it, the black-and-white comic book style and c...
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Dungeon of the Endless
I’ll admit that when I first started playing this title it was a struggle since there’s a distinct lack of explanation t...
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Broken Lines
Let’s face it, while there have been quite a few titles out there that have decided to try to take on the likes of X-Com...
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Curious Expedition
If you were to try to give The Curious Expedition an elevator pitch it would best be described as the love child of clas...
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Hidden Through Time

If you’ve ever had kids or were a kid at some point you may recall the Where’s Waldo books. Given a dense...

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Depixtion
While for many years the Picross series has sat safely at the top of its own puzzle kingdom, seeing threats from other c...
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Rune Factory 4 Special
With a bit of a window remaining until the release of Animal Crossing, if you’ve been looking for something relaxing and...
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GONNER2

I absolutely adore the original GoNNER but I won’t deny that it’s a love that wasn’t easy to develo...

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Journey of the Broken Circle

Who knew that an incomplete circle (who looks suspiciously like a certain gaming icon) and an oddball mix of plants a...

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MO:Astray

You'd think at this point in the history of gaming, given the popularity and abundance of platformers of all type...

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Fledgling Heroes

There’s no doubt a good reason for people to debate whether games like Fledgling Heroes “need” to b...

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Ghost Grab 3000

While I have a great appreciation for epic games that feature massive worlds and complex storylines for me to discove...

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Skellboy Refractured

When it comes to action adventure titles it is no doubt a challenge to do something that somehow feels fresh and new....

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Cat Girl Without Salad: Amuse-Bouche

When it comes to weird games I’m a bit of a connoisseur on the Switch, I’ve even set aside an entire cate...

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Golf Zero

Who knew that a game that initially confused me quite a bit in terms of what you were supposed to be doing (it should...

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Gunbrick: Reloaded

Puzzle platformers are generally pretty common on the Switch, so it can take some effort to stand apart from the pack...

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Touhou Luna Nights
Leave it to indie games to keep finding ways to push the “generic” genre experience of something so well-known as the Me...
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Home Sheep Home: Farmageddon Party Edition

OK, so charming and clever puzzle games that work as well solo as when playing with others are covered pretty well on...

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Spellbreak
Have you been feeling like Fortnite has become a bit played out? I have… though I think I felt that way pretty early sin...
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Mad Rat Dead
With an eShop full of titles it can pay to be different, but with the variety that’s out there even that has become a ch...

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