Top 100 / Best Indie Adventure Games on Nintendo Switch

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DAVE THE DIVER

Astoundingly varied and deep, dripping with funky charm, and both challenging and approachable. It’s fantastic

DREDGE

This is simply a nautical adventure that continues to surprise, somehow both placid and often tense, routine and yet full of nasty surprises

The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe

Among the indie games I’ve greatly enjoyed on PC over the years and have wondered when they would make their wa...

Nuclear Blaze

A creative take on a puzzle platforming adventure that’s challenging but fair, and has plenty of secrets to discover along the way

Blanc

This mesmerizing adventure in black and white is both accessible and brilliant for sharing with a friend or tackling solo

Flipping Death

Whenever you talk about classic adventure titles there's roughly a standing assumption that they'll bog down at some poi...

Citizen Sleeper

As regulars probably know well by now, I don’t tend to be a fan of visual novels and even sometimes struggle wi...

DYSMANTLE

While I’ve been able to be objective about survival games in order to attempt to give them an appropriately fair shake r...

The Wild at Heart

Sometimes all you need to get excited about a title are a few evocative words, commonly referred to as an “elevator pitc...

UNSIGHTED

Unsighted is interesting to me, in part because at just a casual glance, or even just a very short play session, I belie...

Eastward

When it comes to pixel art action-adventures the normal standard that is compared against would be The Legend of Zelda: ...

Lost in Random

Full disclosure, up front I’ll admit that I’ve always tended to be fond of games from the Zoink crew, in particular find...

Indivisible

Probably one of the things I appreciate most in an indie game is for it to surprise me, and with its unwillingness to be...

Sparklite

Since I’m a huge fan of roguelikes and their ability to revitalize and alter how you play more classic genres I’ve alway...

The Swords of Ditto: Mormo's Curse

While I know there are people out there who’ve kind of gotten tired of the label roguelike being thrown around I continu...

Pool Panic

This was hands down my favorite title I'd never really heard about that I got to check out at PAX East. Thoroughly weird...

Shantae: Half-Genie Hero Ultimate Edition

Oddly up until this year I'd only consistently heard good things about Shantae but I'd never had the chance to indulge f...

Planet of Lana

A solid take on a cinematic adventure of sorts as you try to evade capture and save your sister

Harmony: The Fall of Reverie

In many ways playing out as a more mature and deeper Choose Your Own Adventure take, Harmony offers great dynamic storytelling

Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space

Oh, Sam & Max, I simply can’t resist your weirdo humor, references, and charm. Once again the dysfunctional...

Tales of Kenzera™: ZAU

An attractive, reasonably challenging, and smart Metroidvania experience awaits

Tunic

Undoubtedly the most well-crafted “tough Zelda” game out there, with tons to discover and learn (usually the hard way)

Steve Jackson's Sorcery!

While I may be prone to complaining when titles put me to sleep with their droning stories and dry lore, when the qua...

Lucy Dreaming

A more retro-than-typical style of interface, cheeky humor, and great voice acting helps to lift this adventure up

Beacon Pines

Can you make the crucial decisions it takes to save your friends and your struggling town?

Kathy Rain: Director's Cut

While there have been a great number of LucasArts-esque point-and-click adventure titles on Switch, not all of them h...

Little Nightmares II

Having missed out on the original, though certainly having heard its praises, I walked into Little Nightmares 2 with ...

Botany Manor

An interesting mix of botanical rejuvenation, exploration, and problem solving

Song of Nunu: A League of Legends Story

Whether you’re familiar with League of Legends of not, this “boy and his beast” platforming adventure is a good time

Youropa

While this gravity-defying and somewhat mind-bending 3D puzzler can be aggravating it’s also quite unique

Bugsnax

As long-time followers of mine will undoubtedly know, I’m a lover of games that qualify as being weird. With th...

Hindsight

There’s just something about playing the right story-driven game that speaks to some aspect of your own life or trials t...

Endling - Extinction is Forever

When you’ve been playing 10 - 20 games a week for the last 4 years it can get to be a challenge for games to really stan...

The Big Con - GRIFT OF THE YEAR EDITION

Maybe it’s the 80s kid and 90s twenty-something in me, but I’ll admit that when a game features a slice of life from my ...

Tormented Souls

In general I’ll admit that I’ve been a bit frustrated by games from the indie space on Switch who describe themselves as...

FAR: Changing Tides

Picking up roughly where the original FAR left off, and generally offering up a very similar (though longer and refined)...

Wytchwood

When I think of games that heavily involve crafting my mind usually goes to survival titles, a genre I’ve struggled with...

Life is Strange: True Colors

While there are many excellent story-driven titles in the Switch eShop, the tendency is more usually on grand tales or b...

Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure

I’m pretty much always a sucker for the classic noir detective style, and when a game instead chooses to skewer it a bit...

Lamentum

I’m sad to say that more often than not, on the Switch, games pushing “horror” in some way have struggled and failed in ...

Alba: A Wildlife Adventure

It’s weird how at times in certain genres when it rains, it pours, and exploration-based discovery titles are currently ...

Sumire

Though I love running and gunning and high-intensity games there’s no denying that games with a compelling and heart-fel...

Layers of Fear 2

“Walking simulators” that play out as horror titles on the Switch, more often than not, have tended to be a bit of a bus...

Wildfire

Stealth-oriented games have never typically made for my favorite experiences but there are times when the mechanic is ei...

Chicken Police Paint it RED!

While it has been a pretty long time since the genre was even remotely in style I’ve always been a fan of the hard-boile...

Roki

When you’re young your imagination can truly be a powerful (and sometimes scary) thing. Being fed by your parents, the m...

Windbound

Starting out with an admission I’ll say that, in general, I’m not typically an automatic fan of survival games. Too ofte...

Helheim Hassle

Where weird games are concerned I may be one of the subgenre’s biggest fans. Granted, the style of play in them varies w...

The Outer Worlds

Before fully getting into why I think this is an excellent title, and a breath of fresh air I’ve been needing on Switch,...

Afterparty

The indie scene, in general, has seemed to fully embrace the concept of a “story-driven adventure”, less focused on acti...

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