Fall Guys (Switch eShop)
Fall Guys’ brand of chaotic fun is still great all of these years later, and the free-to-play Switch release is no different, assuming you can ignore your opponents' choppy frame rate. All six seasons of content are included off the bat as well as a brand new seventh season ironically named ‘Season One’, with each one having a specific theme like Jungle, Future, or Medieval. As the Switch release coincides with the free-to-play launch, features that are new to the game such as a premium battle pass are included. If this is your first time entering the Blunderdome, the Switch version offers a solid way to play if you're looking for some barmy 60-bean battling and the barrier to entry has never been lower.
Mario Strikers: Battle League (Switch)
Mario Strikers: Battle League is a masterclass in competitive game design. The game is just so much fun, and it’s absolutely gorgeous to boot. The game already felt like a complete product when it first released, but the additional updates and characters got us to keep coming back for more. For online, Quick Battle is great for diving into a match with friends or randoms, but for the true online experience, Strikers Club is where it's at. If arcade sport action isn’t your bag, it’ll likely do nothing to sway your opinion, but if you have even a passing interest in this kind of caper, Mario Strikers: Battle League is the best sports game on Switch right now.
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That's it for our round-up of wonderful online multiplayer games to keep you occupied on Switch. Do you think we've missed any? As always, let us know below.
This article is one of our Switch Essentials guides which cover a wide variety of genres, including the Best Switch FPS Games, the Best Switch RPGs, the Best Switch Games For Kids, the Best Switch Couch Co-Op Games and the Best Switch Fitness and Exercise Games. We can also help out hunting down the Best Switch Horror Games, the Best Switch Racing Games, the Best Switch Action-RPGs, the Best Nintendo Switch Roguelikes, Roguelites and Run-Based Games, the Best Free Switch Games, the Best Remakes And Remasters, the Best Switch Music And Rhythm Games, Best Feel-Good Switch Games, Best Switch Open-World Games, Best Switch Soulslike Games, Best LGBTQ+ Switch Games, and even Games to Play After You've Finished Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
Whatever your favourite genre, we've got you covered: Strategy Games, Metroidvanias, Puzzle Games, Party Games, Online Multiplayer Games, Local Wireless Multiplayer Games, Shmups, Twin-Stick Shooters, Visual Novels, Kart Racers, Fighting Games, Football Games, Funny Games, Golf Games, 'Walking Sims' And Narrative Games, Switch Games For Lovers And Lonely Hearts, Detective Games, Hidden Gems, 2D Platformers, 3D Platformers, Puzzle Platformers, Tabletop Mode Games, Run and Gun Games, LEGO Games, Sports Games, Survival Games, Beat 'Em Ups, Camera Games, Chill Games, Family Games, Retro-Inspired Games, Short Games, Card Games and Deck-Builders, and Life Sims And Farming Games.
Still hungry for more? Elsewhere we look at Wholesome Games, TATE Mode Games, Flight Sim and Space Combat, Point and Click Adventure Games, and the Best Switch Exclusives, as well as Every Arcade Archives Game, Every ACA Neo Geo Game, Every SEGA AGES Game On Switch, plus the Best Switch Ports, Best Wii U-To-Switch Ports, Best Switch Collections And Compilations, Best Cheap Switch Games, Best Switch Demos, Games That Are Better On Switch OLED, Switch Games Under $10, $20, $50, and Switch games with the Best Soundtracks and the Best Graphics. Phew!
If you're looking for the best Switch games regardless of genre, our reader-voted selection of the Best Nintendo Switch Games should help you out, and you can also find the Best Nintendo Switch Games of 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021. And finally, if you're interested in other Nintendo consoles and retro games, check out the Best Game Boy Games, Best GBC Games, Best GBA Games, Best Nintendo DS Games, Best Nintendo 3DS Games, Best NES Games, Best SNES Games, Best N64 Games, Best GameCube Games, and Best Wii Games, and Best Wii U Games, as well as Every Available Nintendo Switch Online Retro Game, and ranked lists of Every Nintendo Switch Online NES, SNES, N64 and Sega Genesis / Mega Drive Game.
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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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