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Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Switch)
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is a delightful addition to Nintendo's slow-life-sim series and one which upholds the traditions of being able to visit friends' towns and nosily inspect their tragic sense of interior and exterior decor. While there are a host of multiplayer options that include Party Play with one Switch or local co-op with more than one Switch in the same room, the online option gives you the opportunity to visit any willing host's island, judge it mercilessly and, perhaps, take home some exotic fruit or other goodies.
Sure, it's hardly the cutthroat world of death matches and score-based competition you may find in other online experiences, and it's not without problems that we'd like to see addressed in an update (the process of actually getting to another island is sluggish, and even slower if multiple people are visiting), but once you're actually at your destination, the game's gentle, sedate brand of online multiplayer is well worth investigating if you're stuck at home far away from friends and family.
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Warframe (Switch eShop)
While Digital Extremes hasn’t quite perfected the formula it needs to make Warframe completely accessible - the sheer number of interconnected systems and customisable elements suggests it never quite will - it still offers a brilliant co-operative third-person shooter with all the MMORPG elements you never thought you’d see running on Nintendo Switch. From the impressive visual fidelity Panic Button has maintained, to the sheer breadth of free-to-play content, Warframe represents another milestone for the console.
Minecraft (Switch)
This is yet another excellent port of Minecraft, nothing more and nothing less. The versatile setup of the Switch allows this to be the most easily accessible, convenient and playable version to date. Of course, it's a game that’s often best enjoyed with others, and both online and offline multiplayer are supported here, with up to four players allowed locally and eight players online. If you want to play the best portable version of the game, look no further.
Realm Royale (Switch eShop)
Another one from Hi-Rez Studios, some might write off Realm Royale as a Fortnite wannabe, and occasionally it can feel like one if you choose to play it that way, but the core principles of its gameplay bring enough new features to help differentiate it from its battle royale bedfellows. The unique traits of its four classes make a big difference, especially to teamplay, while the combination of forges (and their crafting potential) and the ability to seek shelter when downed (as a chicken, naturally) offer a more complex, and ultimately more forgiving experience. It’s also still in its beta, so expect developers Heroic Leap to be improving it for years to come.
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order (Switch)
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order isn’t a groundbreaking, narrative-heavy reinterpretation of the comic characters you know and love, but then again neither were the first two games. In that regard, it’s a very faithful sequel that mines the vast roster of characters from the comics while including plenty of nods to the current state of the more modern Marvel Cinematic Universe. While it doesn’t do anything particularly new or outstanding, it embraces the brainless fun of its brawler combat with gusto, and it’s at its absolute best when played with a team of player-controlled supers whether locally or (as its placement on this list necessitates) online. Excelsior!
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Switch)
How does Super Smash Bros. Ultimate stack up against previous entries? Vocal concerns about past games have been actively addressed, every single fighter from the series is present, the customisability is overwhelmingly vast and it’s all topped off with super-solid single-player modes to boot. Online is a bit of a minefield for games like Smash that demand precision timing and the lowest latency possible, but Ultimate plays just fine online for the most part. You’ll occasionally run into a game with someone whose connection is less than solid, but the majority of the time it feels practically as responsive as playing a local game with a wireless controller (possibly thanks to the system’s preference for matching up against nearby players). Die-hard fighting game fans may find Smash Ultimate's online performance disappointing, but casual Smashers shouldn't have trouble enjoying an online brawl at all.
Among Us (Switch eShop)
Among Us is an instantly accessible and super-addictive casual gaming experience that serves up some hilarious whodunnit hijinks in short bursts that are perfectly suited to portable play. There are a few niggles here with regards to controls that make communication fussier than it really needs to be, but this is a fine port that enables Switch gamers to jump in and see what all the fuss is about with this most unlikely of gaming sensations.
Knockout City (Switch eShop)
Knockout City is an absolute blast, a colourful arcade sports game that's easy to jump into for newbies with plenty of depth and strategy for crews looking to become the ultimate dodgeball champions. With four modes and five stages on offer from launch, tons of unlockable cosmetics, daily challenges and cross-play/cross-progression included from the get-go, this one hit the ground running. It's a great game from Velan Studios, the team behind Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit, and there's absolutely no reason not to jump in and see how you fare.
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Where’s Warframe?
Doom and Diablo have been fantastic on the Switch, and Street Fighter is always a pleasure. Smash goes without saying.
Still....no Wargroove love? That game has been the sole focus of multiplayer gaming in my house since it launched!
I never picked up doom as I assumed it's online would be a wasteland and Ill never find a game.?
Also am considering worms as its on 50% off but again I feel this will be dead.
You forget that it is hip to hate on Fortnite...SO HOW CAN IT BE GOOD?
Good list, just wish there was some more online games yo play.
Missing Warframe and Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate on that list. Ouch.
@ReaderRagfihs i was about to say this. It's an unplayable mess.
Warframe +1 over here!
You put Street Fighter on there but no Warframe, or Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate?
Only like 12 people still play ARMS. Stop trying to push it.
Warframe and Monster Hunter... we’ll ponder those over the weekend 😉
Arms being here and not Mario Tennis Aces is criminal.
I also suggest dragon ball fighterz. What a game!!
@Thecoe my partner plays Worms online on the Switch... with some difficulty. There are players but not many so you end up playing the same people regularly. Due to the few players and the length of matches it could take up to 15 mins to find someone to play with. The people that do play have really stuck with it though.
I'm still yet to buy ARMS but guessing there won't be many people to play online with anymore, especially now everyone has to pay a subscription.
"Let’s face it – this is probably sitting on your Switch dashboard already, and there it should stay."
It didn't.
Splatoon 2 is probably the most solid online experience I've had on the Switch. Great game!
ARMS - is the game I've played online the most - every party crash I pull it back out. It remains the game I feel is least appreciated on the Switch - due to it's brutal early learning curve. I'm glad they are continuing to do Party Crashes - they have plenty of people playing them.
MK8 - I played a good bit online, and can humbly say I'm insanely good at the game, but the cheaters make things frustrating online. Watching someone fire a blue shell at the start line, right as the race begins, before we've even gotten to the power-ups is frustrating and happens more often than it should.
Rocket League - such a disaster online. I really liked it local, played 30 hours with friends and family, then went online and stopped playing the game altogether. I've never seen worse match-making in my life.
I wish there was a way to report or ban so-called “squid parties.”
Best games I found great online support
Smash
Splatoon
Mario kart 8
Mario tennis ace
Rocket league
Fortnite
Tetris 99
Hard to find games
Arms
Super bomberman r
I have traded these in
How come Warframe is quite often ignored on this site? Seems strange especially in an article like this. It's an amazing game, a technical stunning production, and one of a few F2P games that actually lives up to the free part. Not to mention the huge amount of single and multiplayer content.
Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate and Warframe. Gotta mention these.
@wazlon arms was great at launch but it took a big hit after the online subscription. Tennis aces took a hit as did all the online games but arms was really hard for me to get a game online. Sometime I waited over 10 minutes.
I bought ARMS at about half price a while ago, but haven’t played it. I am not that interested in the multiplayer, but I am very interested in the game.
Without a doubt, Tetris 99 is definitely my top online game on Switch. It's addictive, it's rewarding, it's maddening and has made me want to throw my Switch out the window numerous times already - in short, it's everything you could want from a competitive online experience.
Got a lot of love for aces, shame it never launched with doubles, local couch co-op against others online is genius!!
I'm glad that you've included Diablo 3 in the list. This game tends to get brushed off as "a port of an old PC game". It's actually a pretty rare game that's as fun online as it is offline. And it feels nothing like a port.
No Mario Tennis?? Really??? Too bad, it's one of the best multiplayer games in the console now.
Pretty dissapointed. It deserves to be there much more than many from the list.
Clearly Paladins for me. One of the best free to play on console. I have really good time with it and the motion control with the controller pro is really great, almost as great as the one in Splatoon. Good diversity beetween all the characters and spending money is totally for new cosmetics. You just have to connect 2 mins each days and after a week you'll have a good amount of money and 50 jewels to buy the cosmetics for characters or yo unlocks new characters. This game is awesome from my point of view.
Vivian's my best!!!
Having regional match ups to compete for GLOBAL Smash Power in Ultimate is absolute nonsense.
They should have dedicated servers for the game. People are paying for an online service now. They didn't pay for NES games, pleasant though those are.
Furthermore, there was nothing wrong with For Glory/For Fun. The arena system is abysmal, so as it stands there is no quick way of having a casual online match that doesn't affect your ranking.
And that's the biggest problem with it, they've introduced a highly competitive element in Elite Smash, but they've not seen to ensuring that online works well enough for that. In Smash 4 if you had lag playing an online For Glory match, that was just annoying. Now it's destroying your Switch infuriating. Even winning when the connection is this bad isn't fun. And other online games that I own don't have nearly as many difficulties.
People have apparently accused the Smash development team of being lazy. That clearly isn't the case. The issue is they have made some bad choices, particularly with the online, and have focused on adding to the chaos of a Smash game, rather than focusing on it actually working online. I would take merely the original 12 roster if it could work properly online. Spirit Adventure is OK, but did we need it?
All of these are great, but there is one simple thing Nintendo can't do that makes me go to Fortnite WAY more than any others: Native voice chat. There is simply no point to play online with friends if you can't talk to them.
No Warframe makes this article a complete joke. Unlike fortnite whose only claim to fame on switch is voice chat, Warframe has voicechat plus it's a triple A experience with 1000s of hours of content.
Internet rage and such.
"Signing up for Nintendo Switch Online just to play [Tetris 99] might be a bit of a stretch..."
20 bucks for the GOTY? Sounds more like a 'killer app' for the service to me.
The online in Mario tennis is probably the best part.
Lots of people seem to play diablo how comes I never find a game to play with anyone?
I play hardcore which could be the issue but it's just no fun otherwise
@Franklin actually... I paid for the NES games.
And come on no Warframe or Monster Hunter? I do not know you guys any more? (Queue witty their checks must have been ost in the mail comment)
Rocket League is great! After a year and a half I am still playing and having fun.
I love Doom, Tetris 99, Mario Kart, Diablo 3 and Smash.
I feel that some of the games like ARMS and DOOM shouldn't be present on this list because the lobbies are completely dead.
I think I’ve got all of these (except the free to play ones), but don’t get online as much as I should. Then when I do I lose anyway.
Dragonball Fighterz the same too. I’d like to try Wargroove online but I’ve not got around to it yet.
As much as I love the game, Smash Bros Ultimate's online needs work. The issue of running into matches that I don't care for is still present and I also feel Squad Strike should have online functionality.
The worst part is to me, the easiest fix to the online is to just add in a decline option. When the game finds an opponent, it selects either your rules or your opponents but then it should present said rules to both players and if you're not okay with them, you have the option to decline it.
As much as I love Rocket League, it's just a constant buggy mess. I've never known any other game that clears a bunch of issues and introduces more with each update.
I just wish Psyonix would focus more on fixing the problems before adding anything new.
Wow, you list Minecraft, ARMS, Splatoon 2 and Doom before Warframe and Monster Hunter?
You suck.
My gut feel is that people aren’t really playing any of the games on this list anymore. They were possibly once great, but Nintendo stuffed up their online offering, and people have simply lost interest. In this day and age, you need to do it right first time, or not bother. And Nintendo didn’t do it right. But I’m sure those NES games are great...
Uninstalled Fortnite after giving it a longer leash than any other game ever. Buggy mess just isn't worth it.
Doom multiplayer is pretty nonexistent though the single player game is still worth the sticker price.
Splatoon 2 is not only the best Switch multiplayer game, is the best online game ever made.
I love Splatoon and my post is totally unbiased.
Smash Bros Ultimate is the worst online experience I've had in years, not even playing in front of my router seems to have solved any of the massive lag in the matches (due to being P2P, I can't do much about opponent's connection). To make things worse, they've advertised the Ethernet adapter as if it was our concern, a basic feature that was stripped from the dock is now almost mandatory to the experience.
It's almost cynical to see SSBU in this list.
@Blizzia Monster Hunter Boyzzz!🤘🏿
@1UP_MARIO Ouch! 10 minutes and if I remember from the demo then online matches aren't that long.
The Monster Hunter and Warframe cheques arrived! We've added them both to the list.
@Swiftstorm It's nothing personal against the game, more the reality of always having five new games in the queue I personally put about an hour into Warframe when it first came out - barely scratching the surface - and then had to move on to something else. Dom has had a great time with it, though, and we'll be adding to and evolving these lists over time from now on - we're happy to adjust them if something slips through the net.
@dartmonkey
Haha awesome! And no worries I was not implying foul play, just felt it strange that you hardly ever seem to mention the game, as it is really a great experience on Switch.
And don't worry an hour gets you as far as 200. It is in intricate web of convulted systems. The gameplay and community makes up for it. The best advice I got when starting was: "Have fun playing, do not worry if you don't understand the many systems".
But glad to see it included. Thanks!
@brandonbwii Um, it's on the list. Look again :/
@wazlon arms alone is a good game to play over and over. There are also matches to be had online as well. Not much has changed since the sub service.
where da fucc is overwatch mk11
luigi's mansion 3 & brawlhalla
Friday the 13th
It's kind of a bad list. Where's ARMS and Clubhouse Games and Super Mario Maker 2? Those are better online games than most of the things on the list.
@brandonbwii Literally on page 2. Made this acc just to laugh at you.
@Irrapture
I know, I just didn’t feel like deleting my post.
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