Nintendo Switch 2025 'Year In Review' Is Available Now

My most played:

1. Silksong
2. Tears of the Kingdom
3. Mario Galaxy 2
4. Captain Toad Treasure Tracker
5. Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo

1) Tears of the Kingdom
2) Breath of the Wild
3) Age of Imprisonment
4) ... and not much else

PSA, this also features individual reviews for every year that you've owned the Switch!

Anyway, my top 3 for this year:

Tears of the Kingdom (121 hrs)
Super Mario Maker 2 (94 hrs)
Pokémon Scarlet (73 hrs)

I had 573 hours last year. Definitely quite active! I believe items #4 and #5 would be Mario Kart World (60 hrs) and DK Bananaza (50 hrs).

1. HITMAN World of Assassination
2. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
3. The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of
Wisdom

Very nice, my most played games this year are:

1. Cyberpunk 2077
2. Donkey Kong Bananza
3. Dark Souls Remastered
4. Mario Kart World
5. Street Fighter 6

Overall: 612 hours this year

Switch and switch 2 186 hours
PS5 94

Now Xbox are not doing one this year but I know it will be close between Xbox and switch.

Oh well, goes to show Sony are not doing right nowadays.

In the first two years PS5 was first.
Years 3,4 and 5 it’s been Xbox or switch top.

My most played:
1. Silksong
2. Mario Kart World
3. Cuphead

I played/finished Cuphead in the first two months. Played a lot of Mario Kart World in June when the Switch 2 came out. Also liked playing THPS 3+4 on the Switch 2 in July and August. The last 4 months of the year was a lot of Silksong.

Quite the exhaustive look at your gaming history there. Fun scroll through memory lane!

Oh, we’re all doing our top 3, huh? Well, mine were
1. Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection
2. Pokemon Legends Z-A
3. Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma

Little surprised DK Bananza didn’t make it in the top 3, but it and Mario Kart were runners up.

1. Tears of the Kingdom
2. Silksong
3. FC 26

I created a new account when Switch 2 dropped in June, so this isn't totally accurate.

I played for 664 hours.

My 3 most played games in order were Mario Kart World (153 hours), Pokémon Legends: Z-A (83 hours), and Donkey Kong Bananza (57 hours).

My favorite game was Deltarune.

Never seen the appeal of this.

Tune in next time to learn of more things I'm not interested in.

678 hours total in 2025. I played more XCX and Splatoon 3 than MKW, but not by as much as I thought. Also, I like that it congratulates me for buying a Switch 2. Makes me feel extra important.

I voted for Bananza as my favorite, though.

My top 3 most played for 2025 were Super Mario Maker 2, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, and Super Mario Party Jamboree. 463 total hours for the year.

I played 1108 hours

1. Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel (296 hours)
2. Assassin's Crees Shadows (65 hours)
3. Kirby Air Riders (64 hours, did also spent 17 hours in the online demo which isn't included here)

75 games for 1760 hours

1. Balatro: 358 hours
2. Hello Kitty Island Adventure: 318 hours
3. Vampire Survivors: 265 hours

My stats:

74 games and 1,448 hours

Most played:
1. UFO 50, 225 hours
2. Pokémon Legends Z-A, 169 hours
3. Hollow Knight: Silksong, 145 hours

It seems "RPG" was a highly played genre for me this year since I played Fantasian Neo Dimension in January, Romancing SaGa 2 Revenge of the Seven in February, and Omori in March. (And I 100%ed all three of these games!)

It's really great. They expanded it and show me details about all the years I have my switch now.

1) DK Bananza
2) Mario Kart World
3) Silksong

Sounds about right, though my favourite games I've played this year on my switch/switch 2 are the smaller indies I completed at the begining of the year like Slay the Princess and 1000Xresist.

Top 3 played games were Tokyo Xanadu ex, Hundred Line Last Defence Academy and Rune Factory Guardians of Azuma. First year in a while where a Nintendo IP hasn't been in the top 3. But saying that it doesn't include December which I know i put around 40 hours into Hyrule Warriors.

@Waluigi451 ye that was a nice surprise, wish playstations was as detailed

I played and finished 64 games with a total of 1305 hours.

My top 3 were

Last Faith
Laika, aged through blood
Elliot Quest

My 2025...

95 games and 470 hours!

My most played games...

1) Hades II - 92hrs
2) Smash Bros - 92hrs
3) Fortnite - 52hrs

Action is my genre of choice at 46%, with character driven titles dead last at 4%, which checks out.

9 Years Later...
Smash Bros - 883hrs! 🤯
Animal Crossing - 261hrs!
Vampire Survivors - 121hrs!
BoTW - 117hrs & ToTK -136hrs!

So many games, so little time. 🫠

aw man this is only for EU and NA 😭 But here I'll list some games I like to join in 🤪

1) Silksong
2) Splatoon 3
3) Undertale(definitely not my most played, but as said I'm just listing games I liked)

Favorite game of 2025 was Silksong

I love this! It's never been so fleshed out before.
I played 82 games over 1,007 hours (42 days 😬)
Most played:
1) Silksong
2) Persona 5 Royal
3) Super Smash Bros: Ultimate
First two make sense, but I'm shocked by Smash Bros, it's my in-between game, but I guess it adds up over time

Top 3 most played:
1) Cyberpunk 2077 (89 hours)
2) Assassin’s Creed Shadows (77 hours)
3) Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (47 hours)

1) Hades 1 (106)
2) Silksong NS2 Edition (100)
3) Tetris 99 (76)

@FraserG

Look at you rubbing it in that you have abs of steel! 😝 Seriously, though, that's impressive how much Ring Fit you have played. Kudos!! I hope they rerelease this on Switch 2 at some point, as I'd like to give it a try.

1. Xenoblade: DE
2. TOTK
3. YIIK

Yep, that sounds about right. Technically one of those games is N64, but I'm not counting that and thanks to the monthly stats I know YIIK is the 3rd actual individual most played game.

Actually here's something wild. So its showing the games I played in past years, and it brings up Overwatch 2. I did not play Overwatch 2, Overwatch 2 did not even exist at this time. I did play Overwatch 1. So it apparently replaced Overwatch 1 with 2 in its systems. I discovered a quirk of Nintendo's game listings by accident, go me!

@LinktotheFuture

I thought I played Vampire Survivors and Balatro a lot (121 and 66hrs, respectfully), but you clearly take all the crowns! Nice.

Wow, almost 196 hours on Xeno X and I feel like I'm missing something! I should do another 4 hours I guess!

I only turned on the "surveillance" settings late last year, so no 'Year in Review' for 2025 for me, but I'm pretty sure my most played games (apps) on Switch/Switch 2 were Capcom Fighting Collection 2 (40 hours), Tomb Raider I-III Remastered (25 hours), Atari 50 collection (24 hours), Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection (20 hours) and Mortal Kombat Legacy Kollection (18 hours). Total playtime on Switch/Switch 2 probably 450 hours.

@foursider I have crippling anxiety and rarely leave the house, so I got that working for me. 🙂☹️

Well well well, it's finally time!

1. Mario Kart World
2. Persona 5 Royal (Nearly at the end of this after 3 whole years of playing, have loved every second but am also looking forward to finishing it once and for all)
3. Splatoon 3

The most surprising bit was that my most-played in January was Cuphead! Which is strange as I don't play that an awful lot...perhaps I just had a particularly long session with it.

@LinktotheFuture

I'm so sorry! 😥 But, am glad you have an outlet! 🤗 I live vicariously though games, myself; often escaping within Animal Crossing to visit "friends" and a happier, safer realm to explore. Hang in there! ✨

The top 3 games were

1. Rune Factory Guardians of Azuma - Switch 2 (71 Hours)

2. Metroid Prime 4: Beyond - Switch 2 (33 Hours)

3. Fantasy Life I: The Girl That Steals Time - Switch 2 (32 Hours)

Total hours - 246 (June - December)

I opted out, but I know it anyway.
Those above 50 hours:
Fantasy Life i 125
Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition 115
Cyberpunk 2077 85
Hello Kitty Island Adventure 80
Donkey Kong Bananza 70
Ace Attorney Investigations Collection 60
Mario & Luigi: Brothership 55

My most played were:
1. Story of seasons: grand bazaar
2. Hades 2
3. Unicorn overlord
I'm happy that I could keep focus and actually finish several games during 2025, including those three

@Freek Did you play The Last Faith on Switch 1 or 2? And how did it run? I've been interested but heard performance was quite sketchy. Not sure if it every got fixed.

My top 3

1. Stitch (63 hours)
2. Donkey Kong Bananza (35 hours)
3. Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty (34 hours)

@foursider Thanks!

The games I played the most were the following:
1. Graveyard Keeper
2. Dragon Quest 1&2 HD 2D Remake
3. Mega Man Zero/ZX collection.
4. Stardew Valley
5. Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake.

My most played were botw S2 edition and XCX DE.

My top three:

1. Pokemon Legends Z-A
2. Persona 5 Royal
3. Zelda: Breath of the Wild

All hovering around 50 hours

Number One by a long shot: Hades 2, for 240 hours! I knew I loved it and played a lot, but wow. Great feature, very interesting to look back.

300 hours of playtime.

1. Red Dead Redemption - 35 hours
2. Final Fantasy 6 Pixel Remaster - 25 hours
3. GBA - NSO (mostly Golden Sun) - 22 hours
4. Mario Galaxy 2 - 15 hours

I got a Switch 2, but the screen honestly makes me feel nauseous due to its slow pixel response time. I mostly played on my Switch OLED.

i listed out all and just the rpgs i played this past year and had to delete it... i question if and how much i like them, but it's atleast interesting seeing the fingerprints and influences

@EarthboundBenjy I can't wait to try UFO 50! I'm waiting for my physical copy from Fangamer.

As someone with OCD, I usually live for this kind of stuff, but being able to view play times now via the Nintendo Store app now makes this a little redundant, admittedly.

Anyways, I played my Switch/Switch 2 for a whopping 1,327 hours this year across 87 different games. In my defense, I have a YouTube gaming channel I post to regularly, so you could argue I was technically working... 😬

My top 3 most-played games were as follows:

1. Fantasy Life i - 280 hrs.
2. Super Mario Maker 2 - 209 hrs.
3. GameCube NSO - 116 hrs.

If you're wondering why I played so much Mario Maker in the Year of our Lord 2025, it's because I finally completed my 40-level Mario World "sequel" I started years ago and even made a whole Mario 3 themed course world as well. Was a lot of fun.

@SillyPlanet92
The physical copy of UFO 50 is from Fangamer, and is not planned to have a limited production run as far as I know.

If you're waiting for something from Limited Run, you might be thinking of a different game.

Number one was Tears of the Kingdom at 208 hours. I didn't "finish" the game (missed some shrines, didn't explore the depths) in my first playthrough, amassed about 90 hours the first time. When the Switch 2 edition dropped I challenged myself to 100% the game (other than Korok seeds because no) in a new save file and 208 hours later it's done! (Thank Hylia for item duplication glitch for the armour upgrades ohmylanta)

My top 5 were MK World, DK Bananza, MK8D, Smash Ultimate, and Aqua Jet. 170 hours for the year.

Picross -LogiartGrimoire- 75 Hours
Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope - 51 Hours
GBA app - 39 Hours (mostly Fire Emblem Sacred Stones)

328 Hours total with very wide distribution. Five months of single digit hours. Three months in the 20-25 hour range, and four 50+ hours (87 max). Some of the low use months were mostly spent on my Vita, as I finally got into Persona 4 Golden and Persona 3 Portable from my backlog.

Played 386 hours and 24 games.

My most played is... Silksong, urgh. What a waste of time.

I voted for Bananza as my favorite game this year. Great memories with this one.

My top 3 games were MK World, DK Bananza, and (as a carry-over from prior to getting my Switch 2 Mario Kart 8 deluxe :3

I played a total of 38 different games this year and played for a nice, clean looking 333 hours. I'm a little surprised that isn't MUCH higher though, I feel like I've played a lot of Nintendo this year.

1) Xenoblade Chronicles X DE
2) Bravely Default HD
3) Xenoblade Chronicles 3
Clocked in at 91 games and 483 hours last year. It was cool, if somewhat expected, to see the spike once the Switch 2 came out.

1.) Octopath Traveller 2
2.) Zelda: ToTK
3.) Tokyo Xanadu: XE
4.) Ghostbusters: The Video Game
5.) Mario Kart World

My Top Five Most Played Games
1. Splatoon 3- 1,919 hours
2. Animal Crossing: New Horizons- 1,626 hours
3. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate- 1,624 hours
4. Splatoon 2- 1,363 hours
5. Disney Dreamlight Valley- 513 hours

I liked Splatoon 1, but 2 was what made me a fan, and for the most part 3 has been that much better to become my most-played game ever.
I had a complete first island in ACNH but sadly had to start all over and struggled with coming up with another one until I finally got the island I wanted last October.
Smash Ultimate's amazing Stage Builder was a complete game-changer for me. I wouldn't have played that game nearly as much without it. I've made and downloaded up to a full 99 custom stages, and love every single one!
I still can't believe I put up with Dreamlight Valley's jankiness on Switch, but I stopped as soon as it was announced to be coming to Switch 2. I'm eagerly awaiting news on that Switch 2 version anytime now! Life sims will definitely be coming back to me with a vengeance in 2026...

@EarthboundBenjy corrected. It was fangamer lol. It's been a while.

For my Switch 2, Mario Kart World is already tied with Mario Kart 8 Deluxe at 169 hours!

Donkey Kong Bananza is my 10th most-played game overall at 121 hours, though Kirby Air Riders at 100 should eventually overtake it. However, I know I'll occasionally play Bananza for Emerald Rush events or a story playthrough once or twice a year.

@AlanaHagues Uh...??? Don't you guys usually provide the link to the page?

"An unexpected error occurred" (all relevant settings enabled and never changed since the 2024 summary anyway). Either server overload or the "bowsillion bouncy objects" scripts have finally exceeded the capabilities of middle class mobile internet. I also love these messages in general because they seem to imply the existence of expected errors.😆

@TensuraFan7 the links are easier to overlook now, but check back with the "available in Europe and North America" part.

59 games, 910 total hours.

Most played:

• Persona 5 Royal
• Tears of the Kingdom
• The Binding of Isaac Repentance+

My favourite game of 2025: Metroid Prime 4 Beyond

120 games, 647 hours.
1) Octopath Traveler (58 hrs)
2) Pokémon Legends: Z-A, Switch 2 Edition (53 hrs)
3) Legend of Mana (47 hrs)

Doubt I actually played 120 games, but I think I entered/started many games played previously when I created my exophase profile to get accurate play time on all my games (since exophase only grabs last 30 games played or so).

29 games, 599 hours. Most played was Core Keeper with 120 hours.

99 games, 1236 hours.

1) Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definition Edition
2) Persona 5 Royal
3) Fire Emblem Three Houses.

I thought at least Cyberpunk or Pokemon would make my top 3 as the single Switch 2 game lol. But yeah, even though I'm playing Switch 2 games, that Switch 1 backwards compatibility is a great benefit for Switch 2.

I can't really decide on a favorite.

Keeping in mind I only own a Switch 2:

1.Animal Crossing: New Horizons - 208 hours
2. Fire Emblem: Three Houses - 116
3. Game Boy Advance NSO - 54 hours
4. Triangle Strategy - 28 hours
5. Diablo II: Resurrection - 27 hours

Favourite game this year was Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening.

I played 77 hours across 10 games, which is not bad for my third choice in gaming devices, top games where

breath of the wild s2 edition, 30 hours
donkey kong bananza, 23 hours
luigi’s mansion hd, 10 hours

I definitely underestimated the amount of silksong players lol I knew people loved it but wow I need to play it sometime

Some of my favorite games this year:

1. Hades 2
2. Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds
3. Mario Kart World
4. Kirby Air Riders
5. Donkey Kong Bananza

@sketchturner
Switch 1.
There was a little frame stuttering but nothing game breaking.
I put in 100's of hours so it can't be too bad

669 hours, with 25 titles played. The Switch is my main platform, though not the only one. Most played:
1. Ace Attorney Investigations Collection - 118 hours
2. Pokemon Scarlet (including the DLC) - 116 hours
3. Fire Emblem: Three Houses - 73 hours

Unsurprisingly, my playtime trends higher during the colder months. Though this year, part of that was I played both Mario & Luigi: Dream Team and Kirby: Planet Robobot (3DS) in late spring/early summer.

47 games, 369 hours

1) Mary Skelter 2: 82 hours
2) Harvestella: 59 hours
3) Omega Labyrinth Life: 49 hours

57 games, 520 hours

Most played of the year:

1.) Triangle Strategy - 144 hours
2.) Arcade Archives TETRIS® THE ABSOLUTE THE GRAND MASTER 2 PLUS - 75 hours
3.) Might & Magic - Clash of Heroes : Definitive Edition - 57 hours

Man, man I love Might and Magic - Clash of Heroes. I've beaten it three times now on three different platforms. There is absolutely no other game like this as far as I know. If there is, please, someone let me know!

Hello again, y'all! I supposedly played a total of 465 hours this year, but that's not counting the July and August time that my thing seemingly skipped over for no reason. Here are my top 3 and their hours:

1 Super Smash Bros. Ultimate: 87 hours
2 Animal Crossing New Horizons: 83 hours
3 The Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom: 80 hours (my Switch profile says 110 hours though, so I have no clue what's up with this)

Most played every month:
January: ACNH
February-April: TotK
May-June: Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake
July: it says SSBU, but it's only counting 2 hours from that month even though I played way more than that. I'm assuming DQ3 was most played this month too.
For some reason, August isn't present even though I did play this month. I'm assuming that it was TotK that won this month, since this was the month I beat the game.
September: SSBU
October: Dragon Quest XI
November-December: ACNH

Still confused as to why hardly any of my July and August time is showing up when my console was fully updated at that time but not during December.

Mostly played:
1. Zelda Echoes of Wisdom (probably the only big new game I played and it was great)
2. Minecraft (although a lot of that was the kids)
3. Skyrim (mostly the fishing quest)
4. Bonfire Peaks (replayed it and tried the new DLC, got stuck many times)
5. Cosmic Express (another classic puzzle game)

While I replayed a lot of games this year I had new hardware in the Switch Lite Hyrule Edition which made it a special year for Switch gaming!

@Chimaj I knew I played a lot but was surprising to see that SOS: Grand Bazaar had more play time than Mario Kart and DK Bananza combined

I've played my Switch 2 a lot since I got it, probably about 2/3 of my gaming. Mostly JRPGs (Trails) and played maybe an hour of Bananza which has the best game title in history. I need to get on that. Haven't touched my OLED since. I loved my Switch 1, but always felt it was limited to games that ran well on it and/or wasn't a blurry pile of dog crap. Switch 2 fixed that and then some, so I was an ideal candidate to enjoy it a bunch. That is all.

Quite the boring return for me this year. 427 hours, and my top 3 were all 'old' games:

3. Animal Crossing: New Horizons
2. Tetris 99
1. Xenoblade Chronicles X

I was a bit unsure what to vote for as my favourite, because I've yet to put enough time into Donkey Kong Bananza and Metroid Prime 4, but I went with Mario Kart World cos I just love Mario Kart and this one has photo mode!

Gotta try to smash 500 hours in 2026. Who's with me?

My top three games were most to least Hundred Line, Persona 3 Reload, and Pokemon Scarlet. By month my most played was...

January - Donkey Kong Country Returns
February - Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
March - Pokemon Scarlet
April - The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy
May - The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy
June - Pokemon Scarlet
July - Donkey Kong Bananza (though doesn't really count, friend was playing it on my profile)
August - Pokemon Scarlet
September - Shuten Order
October - Persona 3 Reload
November - Persona 3 Reload
December - Fitness Boxing 3

1. Final Fantasy Tactics The Ivalice Chronicles
2. Tactics Ogre Reborn
3. Fire Emblem Engage

Lol 68 hours and most of it coming from pokemon unite. It was honestly just collecting dust for ages now. This year tho will have way more time as I've already put in hours into Bananza and gonna keep going. I plan to get Air Riders and if it's as good as the original I will be putting an ungodly amount of hours into that 😂. I'm gonna play some Mario kart here and there. Finish off Totk for good. And im hoping to do a replay of Mario Odyssey and finish more routes in FE 3 Houses. All that should put my Switch 2 to good use for the year not counting upcoming titles like the next FE if it turns out as good as 3H

I had 86 games played and 1238 hours, mostly in June cause no work.
1) Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate
2) Pokemon Unite
3) Story of Seasons Grand Bazaar

I'm honestly shocked Grand Bazaar is that high, still don't even have everything done in it, so many upgrades left to get. Unite was padded cause played daily with a friend but we dropped off that when MH Wilds came out and moved to MHGU instead so not shocked that its my top played.

@EarthboundBenjy When im finished with Ball X Pit im gonna get UFO 50. It looks pretty awesome

Mine looks like this:

I can advocate for these results.
I bought a lot of ACA NEOGEO games throughout the year plus Capcom Fighting Collection 2 in September and Marvel Vs. Capcom Fighting Collection in October made sure Fighting was one of my most played genres of 2025.

My playtime was reduced on April thanks to Jump Super Stars and Tingle's Balloon Fight DS, both of which I got on early April, then again on June and July due to my various Gamecube purchases of late May.

I'm trying to remember what made me go back to the Switch on May.

211 hours, not bad I guess
My top 3 games were
1. Smash Ultimate (not surprised)
2. Mario Kart World (kinda surprised considering how late got it)
3. Mario Odyssey (yep I expected that)
I'm guessing 4 and 5 are NSO and Spark 3

Total hours: 817 Hours

1. Mario Kart World (217 Hours)

2. Splatoon 3 (197 Hours)

3. Kirby Air Riders (137 Hours)

Favorite game: Kirby Air Riders

Notable details:

• This is the first year since 2021 where Splatoon 3 is not my most played game of the year.
• This is the first year where my top 3 most played games all reached 100+ hours (Donkey Kong Bananza also hit 100+ hours for me as well)

Most played by month:

Jan: Mario & Luigi Brothership

Feb-April: Splatoon 3

May: Super Mario Party Jamboree (3 hours overall. By far my least played month.)

Jun-Aug: Mario Kart World

Sep-Oct: Donkey Kong Bananza

Nov-Dec: Kirby Air Riders

Nintendo senpai says I played 80 different games for a total of 1410 hours - that’s a smidge over 3.75hrs per day! I do turn on my Switch or Deuce essentially every night, but probably half the time I fall asleep on the couch, controller in hand with the game in-progress. So I think my actual play time is more like 1100 hours or so.

My top 3 most-played in 2025 were:
1. Xenoblade Chronicles X Definitive Ed.
2. Hades II (my GOTY)
3. Freedom Wars Remastered

Sega Picross and Cyberpunk 2077 rounded out my top 5.

My three most played games were:
1. Hades
2. Hades 2
3. Donkey Kong Bananza.

I forgot to finish the first game a month before the sequel and only beat it my first time this year. And figured I needed to beat it more times. For some reason could not beat it again. But I played the second game and was able to but the game multiple times in both the underworld and heavens. And that game was harder to me. Silksong would have probably been my third but I stopped playing a hour after realizing I didn’t play the first game.

I am glad Nintendo waited a month. It is nice to get the full year and not just 11 months. This needs to be the standard.

65 games for 311 hours. My most played game was Pokémon scarlet. I started playing it with my kids this year (they love it and are oblivious to issues like frame rate prop-in). On my account alone I played over 70 hours of Scarlet. Next most played games were Grandia HD and Final Fantasy IX. Other games I played a lot include Infernax and Cyberpunk which I got with my Switch 2 in November.

my most played game was fantasy life. i didnt think i played the game THAT much, but i suppose i did...

1-Xenoblade Chronicles X
2-Legend Of Heroes Trails Through Daybreak II
3-Dragon Quest I & II remake

@jolteon23 Honestly, I was surprised about my Ace Attorney Investigations time too lol. The collection is very much worth playing for any Ace Attorney fan or even those curious (Though I encourage newcomers to play the first Ace Attorney Trilogy first since AAIC references those games), especially AAI2. It's a direct sequel of AAI, so they're best played in order.

Several factors that racked up my time were at play:

• I played both games mostly blind, only turning to walkthroughs when I was truly stuck. So there was definitely some trial and error (and resets from the last save).
• To go with the above, most instances of AAI2's Mind Chess mechanic rely on perfect dialogue tree navigation, so there were some resets and accidentally leading Edgeworth in occasional text circles.
• I talk to everyone and inspect almost everything I can in the investigation sections.
• I did replay a few sections/saves of each final case to relive them again. I did have a false start for one case too.
• I spent some time with the collection's extras, mostly the art gallery and music player.
• I'm usually not a fast reader. Speeding through text means I often miss a lot of details and context. I tend to digest and reread info and mentally give character dialogue a "voice" when I read. Voice acting helps, but the AA games I've played so far don't have voice acting outside of the yelled sound bits.

I'm sure many people have played through the collection faster. I hope you enjoy it if you do decide to pick it up.

Seems there might be an error going around for some users (including myself) that it's missing a lot of data despite never having opted-out of this.

Mine starts tracking from May of 2025, despite my console Play Activity still noting the hundreds of hours in AC:NH and THOUSANDS of hours in Smash Ultimate.

I know it's not the end of the world, but hoping it's just an error they're working on fixing.

I absolutely love seeing this kind of data! Being able to look back on all 9 years was great too.
My top 10:
1. TotK
2. BotW
3. Tactics Ogre: Reborn
4. Hollow Knight
5. Xenoblade Chronicles, DQ XI
7. Animal Crossing NH
8. HK:Silksong
9. Unicorn Overlord
10. Brigandine: Legend of Runesia

@RickStar Ah, a man of culture.

23 Games
94 Hours

Top 3 based on playtime:

1. Mario Kart World - Switch 2 (22 hrs)
2. Hades - Switch OLED (18 hrs)
3. Metroid Dread - Switch OLED (16hrs)

I purchased Silksong at the end of the year but it’s already close to cracking those leaderboards, with 13 hrs. That’s like 15% of my yearly playtime in a couple weeks. So it’s a relatively large increase.

In all honesty, I am surprised I didn’t play more Donkey Kong Bananza. I’m sure I’ll get back to it, I have to finish Sea of Stars, I’ve got Cyberpunk 2077 to play, and I still want to buy Metroid Prime 4…. 😮‍💨

Curious if Elden Ring and The Duskbloods come out this year too. It’s gonna be a wild 2026. I have a good feeling

Top 3 most played games:
1. Hundred Line
2. Lunar Collection
3. Pokemon Scarlet

My top 3 games:
1. Silksong
2. XCX
3. PLZA

@DTFaux

That’s odd. I opted out once before (in December) but only for a couple weeks or so because I thought it was unnecessary. Then I discovered it was required for this year in reivew (thanks Nintendolife), so I re-enabled it.

My summary is 7 years long, since I first purchased a Switch in 2019 and that little blip didn’t seem to impact anything. I hope it gets resolved for you soon!

289 Total hours, most of it on the switch 2.
Top games:
1. Zelda Breath of The Wild Switch 2 edition
2. Cyberpunk 2077
3. Donkey Kong Bananza

71 Games / 538 Hours

1) Silksong (93)
2) Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (67)
3) Street Fighter 6 (45)

25 games over 358 hours (considering that Nintendo is my primary console, this is my second lowest year going back to 2017 (2019 was my lowest at 338 hours), and this was the year of the new hardware launch; that doesn't seem like a good sign.)

Top played games
1. Tears of the Kingdom (63 hours)
2. Pokemon Legends Z-A (56 hours)
3. Donkey Kong Bananza (39 hours)

Favorite game of the year
1. Mika and the Witch's Mountain (14 hours)
2. Avowed (82 hours) [Steam]
3. Pokémon Legends Z-A (56 hours)

It's fun that it gives you previous years too!
But it bugs me that Switch 2 Editions are counted separately lol
I have 191 hours in TOTK and 103 hours in TOTK NS2 and instead of showing that as my #1 overall, it's #3 and #9. Which reeeeeally doesn't matter at all... But would make me happy to be fixed lol

@Hwatt Thanks. The kicker is that it knows I've been in from the ground up (that part where it tells you about Switch 1 play history says 2017 for me), but currently doesnt pull up much more than that.

If it does fix itself before the world moves on, I'll update my comment(s).

Nintendo Switch - 2025

Me:
TOTAL: 213 hours played
GAMES PLAYED: 37

1.Mario Kart 8 Deluxe: 64 hours
2. Rogue Legacy 2: 27 hours
3. Super Mario 3D World: 21 hours

My Wife:
TOTAL: 258 hours played
GAMES PLAYED: 14

1.Binding of Isaac Repentance: 160 hours
2. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe: 65 hours
3. Super Mario 3D World: 14 hours

My 2 years old Daughter (she is 3 years old only in december - 18):
TOTAL: 520 hours played
GAMES PLAYED: 40

1.Super Mario 3D World: 307 hours
2. Mario Odyssey: 80 hours
3. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe: 29 hours

I played for the first time July - 2021, Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle
My Wife played for the first time September - 2021, Horizon Chase
My daughter played for the first time June - 2025, Super Mario 3D World

My daughter first year playing,...so little and she finished alone: Super Mario 3d World, Mario Odyssey and Princess Peach Showtime, all the games when she was 2 years old!!

IN 5 YEARS playing Nintendo Switch, the most played games are:

1. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe: 346 hours
2. World of Solitaire: 77 hours
3. Clubhouse Games 51: 63 hours
4. Super Smash Bros Ultimate: 61 hours
5. Brotato: 61 hours

My Wife:

1. Binding of Isaac Repentance: 1102 hours
2. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe: 380 hours
3. Smash Bros Ultimate: 41 hours
4. Mario Party Superstars: 39 hours
5. Horizon Chase Turbo: 30 hours

Nice!!!

My top 3 played games this year by hours played:

1. Xenoblade Chronicles X 105hrs
2. Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition 91hrs
3. Donkey Kong Bananza 54hrs

Favourite Switch game was DK Bananza by far.

44 games and 612 hours for me.

My top three:
Pokemon ZA - 148 hours
Xenoblade Chronicles 3 - 105 hours
Balatro - 93 hours

@buzzhoney I was surprised by how fun the mechanics were in SOS: Grand Bazaar, and the art style is beautiful!

No luck this morning either, including home wi-fi and VPN. Alas, poor server; I knew it, Horatio.😆

Not that the stats are a big mystery to me (by nature of attendance alone, the top 3 will likely be the usual freemiums like Speedstorm, Warframe and Guardian Tales), but how long do these pages usually last, again?

Mine won't load. I have the e-mail, but it just goes to the screen with the Mario power ups, but nothing happens. I did opt in for the review on my Nintendo account. Hmm. 😗

My expections are that it will mostly be NSO Nintendo consoles in the top 3 spots!

2879 hours.

1.Silksong.
2. Cyberpunk
3. Mario Kart 8

1. Hades
2. Hollow Knight: Silksong
3. Mario Kart World
4. The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
5. Paper Mario: The Origami King
6. Pikmin 3 Deluxe
7. Taiko no Tatsujin: Rhythm Festival
8. Super Mario RPG
9. Super Mario Party Jamboree
10. Animal Well
11. Mario vs. Donkey Kong
12. Super Smash Bros Ultimate
13. Layers of Fear 2

Total games played was apparently 110, for a total of 375 hours.

This year, my top three most played are:
Pokemon Legends Z-A - 61 Hours
Ace Attorney Investigations Collection - 49 Hours
Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity - 35 Hours

Honestly am a bit surprised I enjoyed Pokemon as much as I did. In the weeks before release I wasn’t even really sure if I’d even get it, but I did and it proved to be much more fun than I expected.
Ace Attorney games seem to regularly appear in my most played games these days, and with this collection letting me finally play Investigations 2, it’s not surprising I sunk a few hours into it (and yeah, I get the hype this game gets, it’s easily one of the best in the series).
Hyrule Warriors I’ve already talked about, but I basically played it to both get it out of the way so I can play the new one, and because the Switch 2 fixed the performance issues.

@sportymariosonicmixx Don't be so negative ... the news add up real quick on this site, which means they move quickly down the list and posting several times on the same topic allows more visibility to more visitors.

Nobody forces you to click, just like nobody forces you to use an adblocker ...

Thanks for everybody sharing their YiR, it was a lovely read. Here is mine:

I played 45 games and 1,256 hours:

1) Tetris Effect Connected - 225h
2) Hyrule Warriors AoC - 178h
3) Have A Nice Death - 134h

Action is my favourite genre and I've voted for Bayonetta 3 as my favourite game.

The timeline since Switch came out was unexpected and I'm not surprised of all the time spent on these amazing games:

Hyrule Warriors DE - 773h
Tetris 99 - 462h
Ring Fit Adventures - 412h
Zelda TotK - 400h
Zelda BotW - 321h

May 2026 be just as fun with many more cool games. And looking at my backlog, it seems like I'm on track 😬

I played 53 games for 982 hours in total.

1. Shin Megami Tensei V - 152 hrs
2. Hades - 130 hrs
3. Dicefolk - 79 hrs

Cheers

@Rykdrew Your wife has excellent taste in games, I too am still enjoying The Binding of Isaac Repentance! It's always cool to see a fellow die-hard of the game, hahaha!

I played 33 games in total and played for 437 hours.

My most played games:
1) World of Tanks Blitz at 359 hours
2) F-Zero 99 at 43 hours
3) Mario Kart World at 17 hours

WOTB is close to 3755 hours in total and F-Zero 99 is 210 hours in total. Tetris 99, which had a quiet year (I typically only play the Maximus Cups these days), is still my second most played overall at 590 hours.

Generally, I played for 50 hours a month unless on holidays or something (just 13 hours in September). WOTB was the most played game in every month. In July, 47 of the 50 hours played was WOTB. In June, when the Switch 2 launched, 24 of the 38 hours were WOTB. December was also a noticeable difference with only 20 of the 36 hours taken by WOTB. The other 16 hours would be Metroid Prime 4, some Mario Kart World, and dabbling in a few other titles.

Edit:
I would have played a lot of WOTB on my tablet and some on PC. When in Hong Kong and Japan in September, I used the tablet then (I don't take the Switch on holidays). I have 2213 hours logged there over 2.5 years. PC is probably near 2000 hours too (since April 2021). Probably nearing 8000 hours on one game since October 2020. 🤭

Playstation narrowly pips Nintendo this year in terms of hours played for me. 128 hours versus 165 hours.

This was sobering, made me realize I am just paying for the Nintendo Music app. I just didn’t play the Switch much in 2025.

Cancelled the auto renew on my Switch online membership, I love having access to the retro games but I clearly am not utilizing it enough. I can always turn it on if I get the itch or start playing enough again I guess.

Come on Nintendo, you’ve got til October to wow me into buying a Switch 2.

@Pillowpants Thank you! My wife says that if she doesn't achieve all the accomplishments in this game in this lifetime, they will be the inheritance for our kids. She’s going to write an emotional letter giving them the mission to finish what she didn’t LOL.

She has over 780 hours in this game on her Steam account. So....almost 2000 hours (switch + steam)! She played throughout both entire pregnancies.

This year I’m going to play co-op with her! That was my New Year’s promise!

@Rykdrew Hahaha, maybe I should put something to similar effect in my will, too! The fun thing is that if you finish one save file, you can do two more!

Co-op is a lot of fun, I sometimes play with one of my besties and we both love the game, but it's definitely not easier by any means!

@sportymariosonicmixx You have a point.
I would however like to suggest not to sound so brutal/violent in your comments, it's not necessary.
I believe the NL staff are all professional journalists, so it's up to them to decide what appears on their site and how. Your criticism comes accross as insulting. It's ok to disagree, and luckily we don't have to agree with everything, it's also ok to voice that disagreement, but there is no need to undermine the work of others.

This page is about users sharing their YiR. I would enjoy it if you would share yours too. Have I missed it ... or do I have to wait for the article with the NL staff YiR to read yours too ..? 😉

It was cool to see... especially way back since Jan 2018 when I bought the switch..

Overall the most hours played on the games I have - in no particular order:

Xenoblade 2
Zelda Breath otw
Zelda Totk
Xenoblade 3
Animal Crossing
Unicorn Overlord

Sooooo.....where exactly do you need to go to find this? This page was useless...