Topic: Top 10 switch games lists

In no particular order; just my top 10 overall.

Splatoon 2
Splatoon 3(took what the first 2 did and further refined and improved upon the formula and is constantly improving with all the updates and added content..a shooter masterpiece. i never have had more fun gaming than i have with the splatoon series!)
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe(for the first few years i frankly thought it was far too similar to the wii u version with not enough new content to really impress me, but then the booster course pass happened..)
Metroid Prime Remastered
Metroid Dread
Hollow Knight
Doom 2016
Doom Eternal
Sonic Mania
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

There's of course tons and tons of other great games on the system from 3rd party/indie developers, these are just the ones that came to mind for my top 10. I did not include Breath of the Wild or Tears of the Kingdom because massive open world Zelda is not for me, sorry. I much prefer the more linear 3D Zeldas. I left out great titles like Tropical Freeze and Super Mario 3D World because they're enhanced Wii U ports.

1. Animal Crossing New Horizons
2. ARMS
3. 1-2-Switch
4. Go Vacation
5. LEGO CITY UNDERCOVER
6. Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster
7. Yonder the Cloud Catcher Chronicles
8. Final Fantasy XII The Zodiac Age
9. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
10. Youtubers Life 2

1) Breath Of The Wild
2) Fire Emblem Three Houses
3) Super Mario Odyssey
4) Undertale
5) Persona 5 Royal
6) Xenoblade Chronicles 3
7) Dragon Quest 11
8) Super Mario All Stars (purely for Galaxy)
9) Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition
10) Metroid Dread

1. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
2. Super Mario Odyssey
3. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
4. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
5. Animal Crossing: New Horizons
6. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
7. Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics (Mainly for the memories I have playing with friends and family.)
8. Kirby and the Forgotten Land
9. Super Mario 3D All-Stars
10: Splatoon 3

Having bought and played some new games since I made my original top 10 in April, I need to update the list:

Fire Emblem: Three Houses
Hollow Knight
Ikenfell
Nier: Automata
Octopath Traveller
Persona 5
Snipperclips Plus
Steamworld Dig 2
Xenoblade Chronicles
Tears of the Kingdom

Hollow Knight could've been on my original list, but back then I hadn't played the Switch port. Now I have, and it's pretty much just as good as the PC version, so it deserves a spot.

1) Breath of the Wild
2) Tears of the Kingdom
3) Smash Bros Ultimate
4) Metroid Dread
5) Metroid Prime Remastered
6) Xenoblade Remastered
7) Megaman 11
8) Bayonetta 2
9) Link's Awakening
10) Mario Odyssey

Note I still have a lot of games I haven't even opened like Xenoblade 3 or Bayo 3

Leaving out ports of games from prior generations:
1. Metroid Dread
2. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge
3. Monster Hunter Rise
4. Luigi's Mansion 3
5. Super Mario Odyssey
6. Streets of Rage 4
7. Bayonetta 3
8. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
9. No More Heroes III
10. Astral Chain

I've played some great games on the Switch since last July, so time to update the list again:

The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood
Divinity: Original Sin 2
Fire Emblem: Three Houses
Hollow Knight
I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
Nier: Automata
Octopath Traveller
Snipperclips Plus
Steamworld Dig 2
Xenoblade Chronicles

It's been 2 years since this thread was made. My top 10 hasn't changed a lot, but two new Nintendo games have pushed off 2 third party games so I'm even more biased towards Nintendo now:

1) Super Mario Maker 2
2) Animal Crossing New Horizons
3) Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
4) Kirby and the Forgotten Land
5) Pokemon Legends Arceus
6) Super Mario 3D World + Bowsers Fury
7) Super Mario Wonder
8) A Short Hike
9) Rogue Legacy
10) Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker

The top 3 are the only Switch games I have given pure 10/10s to.

I've updated my top 10 as well, I think there's three new games in here, Night in the Woods, 1000 yr door and Undertale. That last one I had already played when I made my previous top 10, but somehow it didn't make it in. Anyway, here it is, I'm pretty happy with it:

10 Undertale
09 Night in the Woods
08 Downwell
07 Luigi's mansion 3
06 Paper Mario 1000th year door
05 Mario Kart 8 dx
04 DKC Tropical freeze
03 Mario Odyssey
02 Metroid Dread
01 Breath of the Wild

I have to add that although I have no desire to play it again, botw takes the first spot, due to the impact it had at the time, and the magic it envoked playing it for the first time, something that cannot be recreated. If this was a list of favourite, most replayable Switch games, Dread would have been number 1. I could go on and on about this top 10, but for now, I'm gonna leave it at that.

Would love to see others (updated) top 10 lists! With Switch 2 on the horizon I figure my list won't change much anymore, if at all.

Yeah, it's been a couple of years since I posted my top ten, and I've still got tons of stuff in the backlog that would likely make it in here, but the revised top ten looks like this:

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9. Paper Mario: The Origami King
8. Murder by Numbers
7. Ikaruga
6. Hades
5. MK8
4. Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle
3. Luigi's Mansion 3
2. 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim
1. Esp Ra.De Psy

Only 2 'new entries' in 13 Sentinels and stitch on Switch. Hellblade, Shredders Revenge and Sniper Elite 4 would've probably made this list, but I played on the Series X rather than Switch.

@FishyS woah very few people have ranked zelda eow that high (such a charming game tho 😸), is there anything particular reason why? all those games are great on that list though, although i still need to try a short hike 😛

My Top 10 list is basically just a mix of Nintendo, indies, and rereleases:
1. Kirby & The Forgotten Land
2. Freedom Planet 2
3. Celeste
4. Metroid Prime Remastered + Dread (I'm grouping them because two Metroid games seems unfair)
5. One Step From Eden
6. Legend Of Zelda: Link's Awakening 2019
7. Mega Man Zero/ZX Legacy Collection
8. Castlevania Dominus Collection
9. Undertale
10. Ys Origin

Art I love, top-down zelda I love, overflowing creativity which I love, playable Zelda which I have been desperately wanting for years, that successful feeling of Nintendo polish even though it wasn't in-house and even though making open world games feel polished is very hard. And I just really enjoyed playing it. Although I acknowledge some valid criticisms because no game is perfect, there were no true negatives which bothered me personally.

Short Hike is cute and emotional but may not hit everyone. I admit I now have so many 9/10 games on Switch it is a little hard to confidently decide the lower part of my top 10.

Here's my first Top 10 (in this thread), in no particular order other than the two standouts at the top:

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Hollow Knight
Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Rocket League
Fortnite
Metroid Dread
Super Mario Odyssey
Super Mario 3D All-Stars

I feel 3D All-Stars deserves its place based on the quality of the collection, but I'm also not sure which game I'd replace it with if collections weren't allowed. I've recently fallen for Minecraft a bit (Dragon Quest Builders would be here if it was more open like Minecraft), so maybe that, but I'd also be tempted by Pokémon Legends: Arceus, GRID Autosport, Runner 3, Inside, FIFA, maybe Kirby and the Forgotten Land, Yoshi's Crafted World, Mega Man 11 or RiME.

And what none of this adequately explains is the gargantuan list of games I've bought that I'm confident merit consideration here but that I'm yet to properly play. Blame the likes of Animal Crossing, Zelda, Fortnite, Rocket League and FIFA - stealing so much of my total play time.

Also feel I should mention that I'm not snubbing Tears of the Kingdom. I think it's great, but the added complexity to the gameplay, and the spoiling of the environment, are two reasons I don't love it the way I loved Breath of the Wild.

@FishyS yeah, i agree with all that (the artstyle is so cute) at the time it was kinda confusing why so many reviewers rated it lower than a 9/10. beautiful game!
yeah, ill have to try short hike sometime 🙃

So I almost posted a new thread for this, might as well post it here instead. Also noticed my list has changed from when I posted it 2 years ago, unsurprised.

I'm also not including remakes, because too much of my list would be for remakes otherwise.

1. Celeste: This is my gameplay as narrative game. It's the cool thing for cool developers to do, to try to have gameplay fully add to and connect with the story they want to tell. But this game did it in a more basic, yet equally effective way. At the risk of spoiling it, this is a game where playing a challenging video game, climbing a mountain and dealing with mental health struggles are all, I guess, metaphors for each other. They all work together for that goal in ways I've felt for few games, and even less for anything especially deep or meaningful. There's a minor backlash I've seen to how popular and beloved the game is, and I get it if you expect an amazing experience and the actual dialogue and characters are largely just...good. That's not why the game works so well, its how it all comes together in ways I couldn't have predicted, not out of plot twists but out of taking what could just be another good game with a good story and making them work together with what feels like no effort. It almost feels like an accident it works so well. And considering how I played quite a bit of this game in 2020, boy was it easy to use video games to explore that exact theme!

Also its just obviously one of the best platformers I've ever played.

2. Sonic Mania: Platformer bias wheee. My first experience with this game was nearly unmatched, just a joy playing through it all...again in 2020. There is no mental health metaphor in Sonic Mania, I'm pretty sure. But...its amazing, its peak Sonic in all the good ways, I watched the OK KO episode with Sonic literally like a week beforehand, by pure coincidence, and I decided that I never want Sonic to not be awesome and fun again. There's nothing interesting I can say because everyone who likes fun has said it, including the tragedy that there was no follow up. I would've played a Sonic Mania 2 and 3 and 4 etc if they were all even remotely close to as good as this one, and I've not bought a new Sonic since (not out of dislike or disinterest but because Sonic Mania would be the only thing that would make Sonic a priority over the other games I have bought the past 4 years).

3. Super Mario Odyssey: This is a weird one and tbh, I could switch this game with several below it. It's a weird thing that because of specific circumstances of how I played the post-game, my opinion of it slightly soured, and by weird coincidence, it was at the same time I was missing BOTW a year or so after I was done with it, so my opinions of both those games kinda reversed (and still has, but I played BOTW on Wii U so its not here). But before that point, it was the most refreshing 3d game I'd played in years. In a AAA gaming space that (before it started to collapse) felt like you could only make the most bloated giant open world or a hallway simulator, this was a game that had...reasonably sized explorable levels. gasp It was the closest any game had gotten to the joy I have playing Banjo Kazooie, combined with the joy I had the first time I played Mario Galaxy. Just everyone I want from a 3d platformer and in some ways 3d games in general. Wonderfully creative and fun and everything I want from Nintendo and Mario.

4. Super Smash Bros Ultimate: I can't fully justify it being this high based on how little I played multiplayer. Online is not great and I've just not gotten around to regularly playing local multiplayer in recent years. But Smash Bros, especially Melee, was a game I loved plenty in single player anyway, and despite taking a modern gaming "more is more" approach with its endless spirits, it worked out super well. I don't think I've even done half of the characters in classic mode yet, but the sheer amount of content kept me playing this game, which is probably just the best Smash Bros in terms of most things. It's a joy to play and my only regret is having not even put three digits worth of hours into it yet (...I think).

5. Great Ace Attorney Chronicles/2: I dunno if I should count a collection, so I'm putting 2 as well just to be safe. Borderline peak Ace Attorney, and its surprising since the first game...has issues. A lot of what's awesome about the series is still here, and its much better using a real setting instead of the fake ones the previous two NA released AA games did, but it has some bad pacing because of Shu Takumi's insistence on innovating the formula to a fault. But he didn't in the 2nd game and combined with being more a part 2 than anything, just allowed it to be the best AA game it can be, and it completely delivered. And like several of the Switch games I've bought, the fact I have a copy of it at all is part of what makes it cool.

6. Tears of the Kingdom: The fact that I finally gave up on it, having not yet gotten every shrine, is why its below 5th. I'm more a BOTW fan, despite TOTK's improvements, because I don't need a game this large, even compared to BOTW, and I'm not inventive enough to make crazy enough contraptions to fully appreciate its new mechanics. But it still hit as well as it could have as a BOTW sequel, keeping what made that game great while changing and improving...just enough to not feel like a retread or a disappointment in any major way. And after Xenoblade 2, I had a real appreciation that this game with this much content, at least had a large enough world to make it make sense. Still one of the most fun games around, still some of the best use of music in gaming, still one of the best time wasters in gaming.

7. Metroid Dread: This is one tweak in art style and one improved soundtrack away from being the best 2D Metroid. As is, wonderful game to play, looking forward to replaying it when I can more than anything I can think of outside of my beloved childhood games (and maybe AM2R, fittingly enough). Few games I've enjoyed this much practically from gameplay alone, reminded me how much I love Metroidvanias after both series nearly vanished in the 2010s.

8. Hyrule Warriors Age of Calamity: I don't care, Hyrule Warriors is better than your average Zelda game. I don't care if I can justify that opinion, I love it. Zelda has defined itself in modern times by endless repetitive tasks it feels like, and I should be mad at that. And it speaks volumes to the games' qualities that I do not. To me, this is catharsis the video game. It is practically my comfy game, no matter what happens, I can just relax by endlessly destroying armies of enemies and it always works. While I do wish it committed to its BRILLIANT premise instead of being cowards about making a Zelda game with a sad ending, the story is such a small part of the game I don't know how much I care either? I just wanna destroy more lizalfos.

9. Neo: The World Ends With You: The reason this is on this list is the ending. Neo: The World Ends With You, despite being a bit lacking story-wise in the middle, is a wonderful new game in this series. It is almost peak coming of age adolescent anime storytelling, for my tastes and its art and music are the best, with as fun a combat system as I could've expected from a button focused sequel to what is arguably the magnum opus of DS gameplay ideas. But the story ends on a high note, especially for me. I'll just say, the exact month I finished it was the exact month I needed this game's exact ending. It was incredible timing and elevated the game for me.

10. Splatoon 2: Tough pick at the end, but I think I have to go with Splatoon 2. I have no idea if I think its the best Splatoon game, but at the end of the day, it didn't have the lacking content of 1, nor the online issues of 3, made huge additions I thought were quite cool and memorable and had the best campaign in its DLC, by far. I'm really fond of this series, even though I'm never gonna be able to justify the hundreds of hours to fully commit to it as an online game. Oh yeah, now that I think about it, I played it after I came out, queer as heck Splatoon community is peak.

@kkslider5552000 Online issues in Splatoon 3? It definitely did upon release, but those problems got squared away within the first few months. I haven't any problems in a long time.

Well those first few months was the time I would be the most likely to have justified putting a gigantic amount of time into the game (and I still put something like 70 hours into the game eventually). And the last times I played less than a year ago I still got more disconnects than previous games.

1. Mario Maker 2 (400 hours in and I’m still horrible at level design)
2. Breath Of the wild (The open world formula is far better in my opinion and this was my first time playing a game this big)
3. Tears of the kingdom (better gameplay than BOTW but BOTW wins in atmosphere)
4. Undertale ( I don’t have much too say except best 15$ of my life)
5. Deltarune ( once the story is complete it will probably pass undertale but I also enjoy speculating on the future chapters)
6. Brother Ship (The story had so many moving parts and the combat is the best in any Mario rpg)
7. Smash Bros Ultimate (I don’t know what to say about this one either it’s just fun to play with friends and family)
8. Luigi’s mansion 3 (the graphics seem impossible for the switch and it has some of my favorite puzzles in any game)
9. Legends Arceus ( I don’t even like Pokemon but this one is amazing)
10. Metroid Dread (I was stuck between this, Mario odyssey, and DK tropical freeze as chose this because DK tropical freeze is a remake and odyssey has too many bad moons