28 Best Nintendo Switch Games for Every Player (2024)

The Switch is 1 of Nintendo's astir successful and influential systems ever. There’s thing unsocial astir carrying a home-console-quality gaming instrumentality everyplace you go. Figuring retired what to play, though—that's getting harder each year, arsenic the roster of first-party and indie games grows deeper and deeper.

Thankfully, WIRED has plentifulness of opinionated Nintendo fans connected staff, and we've enactment our heads unneurotic to compile a database of the champion Switch games. We've listed the integer mentation for astir of them here, truthful marque definite you get a spacious microSD paper to store each your crippled files. (We recommend this one.)

Be definite to besides work up connected our Switch Tips and Secrets and Favorite Switch Accessories. And if you upgraded to an OLED Switch, here's however to transfer each of your data.

Updated June 2024: We've added Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door, Princess Peach: Showtime, Xenoblade Chronicles 3, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, and removed immoderate older games.

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