Top 100 / Best Indie Games of the Year on Nintendo Switch [2018 Edition]

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Bombslinger

Asking the question perhaps nobody answered: How do you finally give the tight gameplay of the classic Bomberman series ...

The Adventure Pals

With a look and quirky sense of humor that feels like it came from a Cartoon Network show, The Adventure Pals is a silly...

Last Day of June

In order to reveal next to nothing at all of the overall narrative, for fear of ruining pretty well anything, I’ll leave...

Flinthook

The exciting and dangerous life of a swashbuckling bounty hunter is the focus in Flinthook, and the mix of shooting, swi...

Bleed 2

While sharing a lot in common with the original title Bleed 2 made critical refinements to make this run and gun shootin...

Joe Dever's Lone Wolf

If the game was merely an interactive novel of sorts, where you’re simply making decisions that branch the storyline, it...

Night in the Woods

Returning from a failed attempt at going to college you'll play the part of Mae, a young woman with a checkered past who...

Clouds & Sheep 2

At its base this is a resource management game, you’ll want to keep your sheep provided for with ample food and water. Y...

Sundered: Eldritch Edition

Coming from the same team that worked on the boss fight-centric Jotun, Sundered has the same signature gorgeous hand-dra...

ABZU

Moving a bit further into the abstract you have Abzu, a game that relates the framework of a story with no words and tha...

Gelly Break Deluxe

Don’t let its somewhat cutesy appearance fool you, Gelly Break is going to challenge you. It starts out pretty simple, l...

Crashlands

By far the lightest survival title of this bunch, Crashlands is a great introductory journey into survival games. Sporti...

Varion

While there are quite a lot of multiplayer arena shooters to choose from they're often hard to tell apart from one anoth...

GRIP

Combat racing has always been something I've enjoyed and it's also a style of play that's challenging to get right. Whil...

I Hate Running Backwards

Though I initially struggled with it, wanting it to be a twin-stick shooter, once I got into the unique rhythm of I Hate...

The Jackbox Party Pack 5

Starting with the known quantity You Don’t Know Jack is really where these games originally got started so it’s always g...

Tricky Towers

Offering up a mix of iconic tetronimoes with a tower-building mechanic and some real concerns with gravity and your crea...

Pilot Sports

Each major set of levels includes 10 total stages and in order to unlock additional ones you’ll need to complete the maj...

Wandersong

Another adventure game that takes its own path when it comes to resolving conflicts in this title you'll play as a bard ...

Debris Infinity

I absolutely love me some classic arcade shooting action and Debris Infinity was one of my go-to titles for providing th...

Broforce

While playing with friends adds a layer of frustration, and potential for brutal trolling, to the mix, Broforce gets abs...

Ninjin: Clash of Carrots

This is another title changing up the classic formula, combining elements of a runner with the mechanics of a brawler. P...

Blade Strangers

Without a doubt the biggest surprise for me was this title from the folks at Nicalis, starting out with a new fighter co...

Little Dragons Cafe

Consistent with the fact that last year's Stardew Valley isn't a game that everyone adored, Little Dragons Cafe seems to...

Minit

Going with visuals that are very simple and reminiscent of the likes of Undertale (another indie darling), pretty well t...

Hand of Fate 2

Part card-based game of chance, part classic D&D-esque dungeon exploration, and part action game Hand of Fate 2 has ...

Runbow

While this is a hold-over from the previous generation this multiplayer runner is a lot of fun. Though in principle it's...

Lanota

Without a doubt Lanota was a massive surprise for me, as its unassuming presentation and opening levels completely gave ...

BLAZBLUE CROSS TAG BATTLE

In the end I’d consider BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle a pretty impressive fighting game that will easily fill the void left ...

Smoke And Sacrifice

This survival title has a mix of a main storyline driving your progress and some challenging survival play as well. You'...

Enigmatis 2: The Mists of Ravenwood

The classic hidden item puzzle game genre has made some real strides over the past few years. Throwing in a story, some ...

Runner3

Taking it all in, scoring this game for a general audience is a challenge. On the one hand it has a ton of very cool con...

Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles

On a general level if you were to make a game with a spirit similar to that of the Zelda series and then remove the comb...

Hyper Sentinel

Where things get complicated, and nuanced, is in everything layered on top of that. You’ll have to constantly keep an ey...

Skies of Fury DX

While we'll overlook the fact that for the most part it utterly ignores gravity as you loop through the air, Skies of Fu...

Streets of Red - Devil's Dare Deluxe

What you’ll find as you play is that while you can certainly work through enemies one by one the key to success is getti...

Super Daryl Deluxe

For me there's something really funny about such an unassuming (and honestly dumb-looking) burnout of a kid looking to s...

Clustertruck

While endless runners have become a pretty popular genre you'll find that they're almost always in 2 dimensions. This is...

Spy Chameleon

This is an action puzzle game that may not appeal to everyone, whether too frustrating or too simple, but that continues...

Aegis Defenders

Mixing together action platforming with tower defense, Aegis Defenders has a style all its own. While the game works wel...

Darkest Dungeon

Fans of tough games have no doubt already heard plenty about this dark and difficult RPG experience with a roguelike unp...

Furi

This was a tough title to find a genre for since it isn't so much of a strict beat-em-up as a tough-as-nails boss rush t...

I Am The Hero

This surprisingly-good side-scrolling brawler has more than a cool look going for it. The core moveset you begin with is...

Zarvot

While mechanically this is a sort of shooter adventure in terms of gameplay it's the presentation and story of Zarvot th...

Chiki-Chiki Boxy Racers

Anyone who had a NES back in the day should probably remember RC Pro-Am and the great racing it offered up. While not co...

Garage

This title which, at a glance, looks like a twin-stick zombie shooter meets Hotline Miami won't be for everyone but I re...

Raging Justice

If you're a massive fan of the classic beat-em-ups of the 80s there may not be a game that's more of a love letter to th...

Puzzle Puppers

With a pretty disgusting level of cuteness Puzzle Puppers manages to make solving some clever puzzles a bit of fun. With...

Dandara: Trials of Fear Edition

Possibly the most aggravating aspect of the game, especially when you pair it with the relative difficulty of dealing wi...

Cake Laboratory

There are really two aspects to the game, the stacking game itself and then customizing your own cakes. Stacking is quit...

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