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title: 'My Top 20 Nintendo Switch Games'
pubDate: '3/7/25'
tags: ['Gaming']
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It’s crazy that the Nintendo Switch has been around for 8 years now. While I didn’t get the Switch until about a year after it released, I think it just might be the console that I’ve played regularly for the longest amount of time (just barely edging out the Nintendo 3DS), and as such will always have a special place in my heart. Even with the Switch 2 on the horizon, I’m not sure I’m ready to move on.

The Switch is also the console I’ve played the most games on, so I thought it would be fun to go through and rank my personal top 20 games that I played on the system. Because I’m posting this on the Internet, I should give the disclaimer that this is my own purely subjective selection of games that are meaningful to me personally. There may be objectively better games than some of the ones on this list, but I either haven’t played them or they weren’t as personally meaningful to me.

Also, I listed them in alphabetical order partly because I couldn’t decide on a ranking, but mostly because it makes my brain happy. 🧠

* A Short Hike
* Animal Crossing: New Horizons
* Fire Emblem Engage
* Hades
* Kirby and the Forgotten Land
* The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
* Metroid Dread
* Persona 5 Royal
* Pokemon Legends: Arceus
* Sea of Stars
* Shantae and the Seven Sirens
* Splatoon 3
* Super Mario Odyssey
* Super Mario Wonder
* Super Smash Bros Ultimate
* Tetris 99
* Unicorn Overlord
* The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
* Xenoblade Chronicles 3
* Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair

I opted to stay away from remasters/remakes, but as a bonus here are the ones that stood out to me…

- Assassin’s Creed: The Ezio Collection
- Bayonetta
- Final Fantasy IV Pixel Remaster
- The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening
- Life is Strange Remastered
- Pokemon Brilliant Diamond/Shining Pearl
- Star Ocean The Second Story R
- Super Mario RPG
- Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition
