Top 100 / Best Indie Games of the Year on Nintendo Switch [2021 Edition] - Nindie Spotlight

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Unbound: Worlds Apart Banner
Unbound: Worlds Apart
While they weren’t initially very well-represented on the Switch, in the past 2 years the Metroidvania genre has been th...
Clone Drone in the Danger Zone Banner
Clone Drone in the Danger Zone
One genre that’s lacking in depth and variety on the Switch has definitely been fighters. Sure, there are both some AAA ...
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Boomerang X
With indie titles I’m always tickled when I encounter something just a bit different that feels fresh and challenging, a...
Mushihimesama Banner
Mushihimesama
While there are certainly more modern takes on bullet hell shmups from the past it’s always interesting to see an OG cla...
Alba: A Wildlife Adventure Banner
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 ...
Astalon: Tears of the Earth Banner
Astalon: Tears of the Earth
I tend to have a love/hate relationship with retro throwback games of various kinds. Sure, I have fond memories of the 8...
EARTH DEFENSE FORCE: WORLD BROTHERS Banner
EARTH DEFENSE FORCE: WORLD BROTHERS
While I’ve generally heard good things about the Earth Defense Force series, to date it’s one that I’ve never had the pl...
Pathway Banner
Pathway
Elevator pitch time: Set off on an adventure with a party of your choosing with a wide variety of skills. Every step of ...
Sumire Banner
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 Banner
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...
Cozy Grove Banner
Cozy Grove
While bludgeoning or blowing away bad guys can always be good fun, everyone should have some time in their lives to slow...
Bladed Fury Banner
Bladed Fury
While side-scrolling slashers have been around for quite some time, and tend to show up in some abundance, I’ve more oft...
Curse of the Dead Gods Banner
Curse of the Dead Gods
Roguelikes have exploded in popularity in the past few years, with games like Dead Cells and Hades showing the way the l...
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Blizzard Arcade Collection
Before they became Blizzard and released the likes of the WarCraft and Diablo series, among others, the folks at then Si...
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UnderMine
As a connoisseur of roguelike titles of all stripes Undermine had me excited at first glance. With its pick-axe throwing...
Bonkies Banner
Bonkies
While my family and I have become quite jaded with multiplayer titles, since so many of them fall into pretty predictabl...
LEGO® Builder's Journey Banner
LEGO® Builder's Journey

The first thought people tend to have with a LEGO title is an action-oriented romp you can casually enjoy on your own...

El Hijo - A Wild West Tale Banner
El Hijo - A Wild West Tale

Stealth games, in general, usually aren’t my bag for whatever reason but while El Hijo heavily involves that me...

My Singing Monsters Playground Banner
My Singing Monsters Playground

With release timing that isn’t ideal in such close proximity to the latest Mario Party, and having been let dow...

HOT WHEELS UNLEASHED™ Banner
HOT WHEELS UNLEASHED™

Having spent a fair portion of my childhood playing with the cars, tracks, and quite a few playsets there’s abs...

Asterix & Obelix: Slap them All! Banner
Asterix & Obelix: Slap them All!

While the genre struggled in the early days on the Switch, the beat-em-up has proven to be alive and well on the Swit...

A Juggler's Tale Banner
A Juggler's Tale

With its marionette characters and associated string-based challenges, rhyming narration, and a healthy dose of charm...

Monster Train First Class Banner
Monster Train First Class

While I’ll admit to having a bit of deckbuilding strategy fatigue, there have been a number of titles on Switch...

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FILMECHANISM
It’s always great to see smart puzzle games that deliver play that hasn’t been run into the ground and that provide the ...
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One Hand Clapping

OK, so to start I’ll admit that this isn’t your ordinary game and that’s both a good and a bad thin...

Super Impossible Road Banner
Super Impossible Road
Rolling onto the scene and feeling like the marriage of Super Monkey Ball, a futuristic racer, and an exercise in calcul...
Archvale Banner
Archvale
This is just one of those titles that’s hard to describe in a way that gives it justice, a sort of retro-looking twin-st...
Klang 2 Banner
Klang 2
When it comes to music and rhythm games there are those titles that take a familiar road, often mapping buttons to speci...
The Smurfs - Mission Vileaf Banner
The Smurfs - Mission Vileaf
Whenever approaching a licensed property, especially one associated more with kids, veteran gamers are going to come to ...
Ghosts and Apples Banner
Ghosts and Apples

Just because a puzzle game is pretty simple in its design doesn’t mean it can’t be challenging and even m...

Happy Game Banner
Happy Game
Like a moth to a flame I tend to be easily drawn to the oddball titles on Switch, and there’s no doubt that Happy Game q...
Regency Solitaire Banner
Regency Solitaire
You’ve got to respect a development team that takes on a well-known casual card game and decides to swing for the fences...
Centipede: Recharged Banner
Centipede: Recharged
Taking classic arcade titles and trying to give them new life in the modern era tends to be a challenge, and I’ve defini...
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Dandy Ace
While I’ve been a fan of roguelikes for quite some time it’s only been in the past few years with top-tier titles the li...
Super Arcade Football Banner
Super Arcade Football
With the general lack of options for sporting experiences on the Switch, it’s always great to see a new contender enter ...
QUAKE Banner
QUAKE
OK, so I don’t think anyone needs to tell you that Quake is one of the most influential first-person shooters of all-tim...
Boyfriend Dungeon Banner
Boyfriend Dungeon
Elevator pitch time… so what if the goal was to make a game that fully embraces and meshes together intense slashing rog...
B.ARK Banner
B.ARK
What can I say, when you throw some cute pups into a game you’ve got my attention. B.ARK, as pained as that acronym seem...
Trigger Witch Banner
Trigger Witch
OK, so I’ll admit it, games that do something weird to combine elements I know and love tend to catch me by surprise and...
112 Operator Banner
112 Operator
Simulations can be a tricky business on consoles since they typically feature more complex controls better suited to the...
Cyber Hook Banner
Cyber Hook
Having originally checked it out at PAX East last year, Cyber Hook was a title I was pretty eagerly waiting to see in it...
ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights Banner
ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights
When you’ve played enough indie titles over time it’s hard not to get a bit cynical when you see certain elements in gam...
Crying Suns Banner
Crying Suns
When it comes to strategy games, on a general level it feels like the Switch hasn’t been terribly well-represented as a ...
King of Seas Banner
King of Seas
Whenever you embark on a journey while raising your Jolly Roger on the high seas, pretty well everyone out there is goin...
Tesla Force Banner
Tesla Force
My feelings on this title swung around a bit since, at first blush, Tesla Force has a ton in common with 10Tons previous...
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Kill It With Fire
While possibly not an ideal game for arachnophobes, Kill It With Fire is what I’d consider a “wacky physics type game” d...
Astrologaster Banner
Astrologaster
Inspired by the spirit of Shakespeare’s Renaissance England, Astrologaster features a unique pop-up book art style, chor...
Mail Mole + Expansions - Bundle Banner
Mail Mole + Expansions - Bundle

There’s no doubt that releasing a 3D platformer on a console that Mario built (and currently has quite a few ti...

SNK VS. CAPCOM: THE MATCH OF THE MILLENNIUM Banner
SNK VS. CAPCOM: THE MATCH OF THE MILLENNIUM

While there has been a whole series of conversions of the fighting games from the Neo Geo Pocket, and many have been ...

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Glyph

I’m a fan of games that combine elements from multiple titles to make for a new experience so Glyph, featuring ...

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