Triple-A bestsellers, quirky indie trailblazers, hour-sapping JRPGs and remastered ports fill the Nintendo Switch gaming catalogue. Couple this huge choice with the Switch’s handheld capability, and you’re looking at a console boasting countless hours of entertainment potential.

To help you find your next Ninty-fix, we’ve sifted through Nintendo’s formidable roster to bring you a guide to the best Switch games around.

Our choices of the best Switch games host plenty of familiar and moustachioed faces, but it’s not just Mario and Luigi filling our list. It’s brimming with the complex, chaotic and calming, with titles like Xenoblade Chronicles, Astral Chain and Stardew Valley filling its ranks. It’s a list detailing the best that a Nintendo console can offer, so naturally, Pokémon makes an appearance, as does the 2020 smash-hit Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

The Switch is an innovative and diverse system, and its catalogue is reflective of that fact. However, some Switch games counted amongst our favourites haven’t made it into our list of the best Switch games. Because we still want to shout about them, we’ve included a quick honourable mention round-up at the bottom of the page.