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Best Nintendo Switch games

Updated: 31.08.2026

This ranking comes from the answers players enter in the NintenDoku puzzle. The more often a game is chosen as a correct answer, the higher it ranks.

123 games in this category, 115 of them with entries.

1The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild+22 % vs. rank 2

The mix of Action and Adventure arrived on March 3, 2017 worldwide at the same time as a launch title for Nintendo Switch. There is no multiplayer mode, the title is a pure single player affair. About 35.76 million copies were sold worldwide, making it one of the big commercial hits. The game world is shown from a third-person perspective. The title supports amiibo and offers optional in-game purchases. According to HowLongToBeat, the single-player main story takes around 50.3 hours on average, which makes it a long, meaty game. At The Game Awards 2017 it won several awards: Game of the Year, Best Game Direction and Best Action/Adventure. Nintendo served as the primary developer. Critics awarded a Metascore of 97, the community a user score of 8.9. Critically that counts as excellent, among players as good; the scores stay close, though. In NintenDoku it is the most popular answer among games for Nintendo Switch and sits 22 percent ahead of #2.

2Fire Emblem: Three Houses+40 % vs. rank 3

The mix of Strategy, RPG and Turn-Based was released on July 26, 2019 worldwide at the same time for Nintendo Switch. There is no multiplayer mode, the title is a pure single player affair. It is played from a third-person perspective and in a top-down view. About 4.12 million copies were sold worldwide, a strong sales result. Its primary developer is Intelligent Systems. At The Game Awards 2019 it won several awards: Best Strategy Game and Player's Voice. Critics awarded a Metascore of 89, the community a user score of 8.9. Critics and community agree, rating it good. The main story takes around 49.3 hours on average according to HowLongToBeat (single-player), so a long, meaty game. The title supports amiibo and offers optional in-game purchases. Among NintenDoku players it takes second place among games for Nintendo Switch and sits 40 percent ahead of #3.

3Super Smash Bros. Ultimate+10 % vs. rank 4

The mix of Action and Fighting arrived on December 7, 2018 worldwide at the same time for Nintendo Switch. It is played in a side view. Beyond the single player mode there is a multiplayer mode. Bandai Namco served as the primary developer. According to HowLongToBeat, the single-player main story takes around 24.1 hours on average, which makes it a medium-length game. On Metacritic it holds a Metascore of 93, with a user score of 8.7. Critically that counts as excellent, among players as good; the scores stay close, though. Approximately 38.14 million copies were sold worldwide, making it one of the big commercial hits. The game supports amiibo and offers optional in-game purchases. At The Game Awards 2019 it won the Best Fighting Game award. It also earned a nomination in one more category. It rounds out the top 3 and sits 10 percent ahead of #4.

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Why the Switch ranking looks different than you would expect

The Nintendo Switch has the broadest data behind it of any platform on this site, for a simple reason. It stayed on shelves longer than any Nintendo console before it, it sold at a scale only the Wii and the Nintendo DS ever matched, and as a hybrid it served two markets at once that used to be separate. Before the Switch, playing an RPG on the go meant buying a handheld title. From 2017 onwards it meant the same version you played on your TV.

One rule shapes this ranking above all: only first releases count. That is why several titles most people firmly associate with the Switch are missing here. Mario Kart 8 is a Wii U game, even though the Deluxe version went on to become the best selling title on the console. The same applies to a whole run of Wii U games that found a second, far larger audience on Switch. So this list does not show what was played most on Switch. It shows which games actually debuted there.

The second effect is genre spread. The Switch library covers everything from sprawling open-world adventures to party games, and several series used it for a reinvention rather than a sequel. That flattens recognition rates compared with older systems. On a console with twenty games, almost everyone knows the same twenty. On a console with well over a thousand titles, attention scatters, and a game has to be genuinely prominent to reach the top.

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Where the Data Comes From

In the Nintendo puzzle NintenDoku, players enter game titles matching given categories every day. Every correct answer is counted. Only the top 3 and the percentage gaps are shown on purpose, no absolute numbers. This keeps the puzzle fair.