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Best Games in the Action genre for Nintendo Switch

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Mortal Kombat 11 Aftermath - a game in the Action genre
Mortal Kombat 11 Aftermath
Arcade, Action, Fighting, Futurism (Future), Side view
Game released: Nintendo Switch → 26 May 2020
Players: 7.9/10
Metacritic: 77/100
Mortal Kombat 11 Aftermath — continuation of the story campaign of the fighting game Mortal Kombat 11, known for its deadly finishers and bloody fatalities. It...
Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga - a game in the Action genre
Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Science fiction, Star Wars, Open world, Cooperative (co-op), Comedy
Game released: Nintendo Switch → 5 April 2022
Players: 8.6/10
Metacritic: 81/100
Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is an arcade action game with a third-person view in the popular Star Wars universe, which combines all the released films of the...
Among Us - a game in the Action genre
Among Us
Science fiction, Action, Arcade, Isometric, Online, Cooperative (co-op)
Game released: Nintendo Switch → 15 December 2020
Players: 7.5/10
Metacritic: 82/100
Among Us is a casual multiplayer online game focused on social deduction. It is a simplified and fast-paced version of "Mafia": from 4 to 10 players try to survive...
Rayman Legends - a game in the Action genre
Rayman Legends
Arcade, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Cooperative (co-op)
Game released: Nintendo Switch → 12 September 2017
Players: 8.3/10
Metacritic: 90/100
Rayman Legends is a continuation of the exciting side-scrolling arcade platformer Rayman Origins. Rayman and his friends find a mysterious tent in the magical...
Dead by Daylight - a game in the Action genre
Dead by Daylight
Action, Horror, Online, Third-person view
Game released: Nintendo Switch → 24 September 2019
Players: 7.5/10
Metacritic: 64/100
Dead by Daylight is a multiplayer action-horror game with a third-person view, which tells the story of four teenagers and a maniac who wants to shred everyone and...
The Outer Worlds - a game in the Action genre
The Outer Worlds
Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, First-person view, Futurism (Future)
Game released: Nintendo Switch → 5 June 2020
Players: 8.3/10
Metacritic: 80/100
The Outer Worlds – a single-player first-person sci-fi RPG with elements of shooter, action, and stealth. The focus is on role-playing and the dialogue system in...
Cult of the Lamb - a game in the Action genre
Cult of the Lamb
Action, Strategy, Adventure, Simulation, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Roguelike
Game released: Nintendo Switch → 11 August 2022
Players: 8.8/10
Metacritic: 84/100
Cult of the Lamb is a dark action roguelike with base building and dungeon crawling. The main character is an possessed lamb who was once saved from death by a...
Goat Simulator 3 - a game in the Action genre
Goat Simulator 3
Action, Simulation, Third-person view, Indie, Cooperative (co-op)
Game released: Nintendo Switch → 27 August 2024
Players: 7.8/10
Metacritic: 72/100
Continuation of the crazy goat simulator. As in previous parts, the game has a lot of humor and crazy fun. The player finds himself in an open world filled with...
Mortal Kombat 1: Khaos Reigns - a game in the Action genre
Mortal Kombat 1: Khaos Reigns
DLC, Fighting, Side view, Action, Fantasy, Futurism (Future)
Game released: Nintendo Switch → 24 September 2024
Players: 7.7/10
Metacritic: 60/100
According to the plot of the add-on, the heroes come together again to repel the ruthless titan Havik. Liu Kang continues to defend his New Era by battling the...
Moss: The Forgotten Relic - a game in the Action genre
Moss: The Forgotten Relic
Action, Adventure, Platformer, Isometric, Puzzle, Fantasy
Game released: Nintendo Switch → 16 July 2026
Metacritic: 81/100
A re-release of the adventure puzzle duology Moss and Moss: Book 2, fully adapted for play without a VR headset. The game takes you to the ruins of a fallen...
Rogue Legacy 2 - a game in the Action genre
Rogue Legacy 2
Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Fantasy, Medieval era
Game released: Nintendo Switch → 9 November 2022
Players: 8.7/10
Metacritic: 89/100
One day, a brave knight gets to a mysterious place where some kind of devilry happened many years ago. Skeletons, ghosts and other evil spirits roam everywhere, and...
A Plague Tale: Innocence - a game in the Action genre
A Plague Tale: Innocence
Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval
Game released: Nintendo Switch → 6 July 2021
Players: 8/10
Metacritic: 82/100
A Plague Tale: Innocence is a single-player third-person action-adventure game. The events will transport the player to the southwestern part of France, where a...
Biomutant - a game in the Action genre
Biomutant
Role-playing game, Action, Third-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Open world, Fantasy
Game released: Nintendo Switch → 14 May 2024
Players: 8.5/10
Metacritic: 65/100
Open world action RPG. The player takes on the role of a mutant who goes on a journey to save the world from a threat. The main character can mix up melee attacks...
Sifu - a game in the Action genre
Sifu
Action, Third-person view, Indie, Beat them all, Roguelike, Adventure
Game released: Nintendo Switch → 8 November 2022
Players: 8.4/10
Metacritic: 81/100
Hurricane hand-to-hand combat with a multitude of enemies from the creators of Absolver. A young kung fu student embarks on a path of revenge. Chasing shadows...
Cat Quest 2 - a game in the Action genre
Cat Quest 2
Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Isometric, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Open world
Game released: Nintendo Switch → 24 October 2019
Players: 8.9/10
Metacritic: 77/100
Cat Quest 2 is a continuation of the fun role-playing action game with an isometric camera view. The game will take you to a fantasy universe in which there are two...
Tomb Raider - a game in the Action genre
Tomb Raider
Action, Shooter, Adventure, Third-person view, Open world
Game released: Nintendo Switch → 18 November 2025
VGTimes: 8.2/10
Players: 8.7/10
The game reinterprets the story of Lara Croft, showing her not as an immortal legend, but as a living person, facing the wild and ruthless environment for the first...
Warface - a game in the Action genre
Warface
Action, Shooter, Online, First-person view, Free game
Game released: Nintendo Switch → 18 February 2020
Players: 5.2/10
Metacritic: 62/100
Warface — a free-to-play dynamic multiplayer first-person shooter. Players choose one of five classes — assault, medic, engineer, sniper, or SED — and fight in...
Gothic 2 - a game in the Action genre
Gothic 2
Role-playing game, Action, Third-person view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval
Game released: Nintendo Switch → 29 November 2023
Players: 9.3/10
Metacritic: 71/100
Gothic 2 is a continuation of the legendary action role-playing game with a third-person view in a fantasy setting. The action takes place shortly after the events...
Warframe - a game in the Action genre
Warframe
Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Free game, Cooperative (co-op)
Game released: Nintendo Switch → 20 November 2018
Players: 8.3/10
Metacritic: 76/100
A dynamic online third-person action game where the warrior's journey takes place through an expansive interplanetary system torn by faction conflicts. Under the...
Death Road to Canada - a game in the Action genre
Death Road to Canada
Role-playing game, Action, Top-down view, Post-apocalyptic, Roguelike
Game released: Nintendo Switch → 8 May 2018
Players: 5.5/10
Metacritic: 79/100
Death Road to Canada is a top-down action RPG set in a post-apocalyptic world. You will go to the center of a full-scale invasion of the living dead. Having taken...
Resident Evil 4 (2005) - a game in the Action genre
Resident Evil 4 (2005)
Action, Adventure, Horror, Third-person view
Game released: Nintendo Switch → 21 May 2019
Players: 8.3/10
Metacritic: 81/100
Continuation of the action-horror adventure with a third-person view in the Resident Evil series. The story of the fourth part takes place in 2004, six years after...
Zombie Army 4: Dead War - a game in the Action genre
Zombie Army 4: Dead War
Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view
Game released: Nintendo Switch → 26 April 2022
Players: 7.9/10
Metacritic: 76/100
Zombie Army 4: Dead War is a continuation of the series of first-person shooters with horror elements. According to the plot of the game, the war with the dead did...
South Park: The Fractured but Whole - a game in the Action genre
South Park: The Fractured but Whole
Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Fantasy / Medieval
Game released: Nintendo Switch → 24 April 2018
Players: 7.9/10
Metacritic: 81/100
South Park: The Fractured but Whole is an action-adventure role-playing game in the South Park universe. The game continues the story of the previous part, South...
Vampire: The Masquerade - Swansong - a game in the Action genre
Vampire: The Masquerade - Swansong
Role-playing game, Third-person view, Adventure, Detective, Action
Game released: Nintendo Switch → 28 September 2023
Players: 5.5/10
Metacritic: 64/100
Adventure role-playing game, which takes place in the Vampire: The Masquerade universe in accordance with the rules of the fifth edition of the board game. Vampires...
Call of Cthulhu - a game in the Action genre
Call of Cthulhu
Action, Adventure, Horror, First-person view
Game released: Nintendo Switch → 8 October 2019
Players: 9/10
Metacritic: 66/100
Call of Cthulhu is an action-adventure game with a first-person view and horror elements. The game is filled with a dark and oppressive atmosphere of the Lovecraft...
Prince of Persia The Lost Crown - a game in the Action genre
Prince of Persia The Lost Crown
Adventure, Action, Platformer, Side view
Game released: Nintendo Switch → 18 January 2024
Players: 8.3/10
Metacritic: 87/100
A reimagining of the Prince of Persia series, the main character of which is the Persian soldier Sargon from the elite group of warriors “Immortals”, who is able to...
Content Warning - a game in the Action genre
Content Warning
Action, Online, First-person view, Cooperative (co-op), Mysticism / Supernatural, Exploration, Procedural generation, Survival horror
Game released: Nintendo Switch → 1 April 2026
Players: 8.2/10
A cooperative horror puzzle game in the spirit of Lethal Company. The game is about a group of bloggers trying to get viral on the local equivalent of YouTube. To...
Resident Evil 6 - a game in the Action genre
Resident Evil 6
Action, Shooter, Adventure, Horror, Third-person view, Cooperative (co-op)
Game released: Nintendo Switch → 29 October 2019
VGTimes: 7.2/10
Players: 7.8/10
Metacritic: 67/100
Resident Evil 6 is an action-horror adventure game with a third-person view in the popular Resident Evil series. Ten years have passed since that memorable night...
Payday 2 - a game in the Action genre
Payday 2
Online, Action, Shooter, First-person view, Cooperative (co-op)
Game released: Nintendo Switch → 23 February 2018
Players: 8/10
Metacritic: 71/100
Payday 2 is a continuation of the cooperative online shooter with a first-person view. The main characters are still four robbers, each of whom wears memorable...
Subnautica - a game in the Action genre
Subnautica
Action, Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Virtual Reality (VR), Survival, Open world
Game released: Nintendo Switch → 14 May 2021
Players: 8.7/10
Metacritic: 83/100
A single-player adventure in a vast open world, with a first-person view, survival elements, and sandbox features. Playing the game will evoke feelings that arise...
Overwatch (2016) - a game in the Action genre
Overwatch (2016)
Action, Shooter, Online, First-person view, Third-person view, Futurism (Future)
Game released: Nintendo Switch → 15 October 2019
Players: 7.7/10
Metacritic: 86/100
Overwatch is a team-based online first-person shooter from the developers of Blizzard Entertainment. The game takes place on the Earth of the future, which is...
Sniper Elite 4 - a game in the Action genre
Sniper Elite 4
Action, Shooter, Stealth, First-person view, Third-person view, Historical
Game released: Nintendo Switch → 17 November 2020
Players: 7.6/10
Metacritic: 79/100
A direct sequel to Sniper Elite 3, in which the main character travels to Italy in 1943. He acts in the ranks of the Italian resistance and tries to free the...
Postal 2 Redux - a game in the Action genre
Postal 2 Redux
Action, Shooter, First-person view, Comedy, Exploration, Old school
Game in development: Nintendo Switch → 2026
Anticipation Rating: 10/10
A remaster of the controversial shooter Postal 2 from 2003. The main character in the game is a certain Dude, who is used to solving his problems in the most...
Terminator 2D: No Fate - a game in the Action genre
Terminator 2D: No Fate
Action, Platformer, Side view
Game released: Nintendo Switch → 12 December 2025
Players: 8.3/10
Metacritic: 71/100
Hurricane action with pixel graphics, inspired by the arcade games of the 80-90s, which is based on the 1991 film “Terminator 2: Judgment Day”. Players can take...
Minecraft Dungeons - a game in the Action genre
Minecraft Dungeons
Action, Adventure, Isometric, Role-playing game
Game released: Nintendo Switch → 26 May 2020
Players: 7.6/10
Metacritic: 72/100
Minecraft Dungeons is an action-adventure game set in the Minecraft universe, supporting cooperative play for up to 4 players. The story revolves around a demon...
Don't Starve Together - a game in the Action genre
Don't Starve Together
Action, Isometric, Cooperative (co-op), Survival
Game released: Nintendo Switch → 12 April 2022
Players: 8.5/10
A standalone multiplayer version of the famous survival simulator Don't Starve, where exploration, building, and the fight for survival become even more interesting...
Клеть - a game in the Action genre
Клеть
Action, Horror, First-person view, Cooperative (co-op)
Game in development: Nintendo Switch → 2026
Players: 8.8/10
Cooperative action-horror from the creators of Kuzhlevka. Players try to survive in the Gigakhryushchevka, riding a living and voracious elevator...
Doom Eternal: The Ancient Gods - Part Two - a game in the Action genre
Doom Eternal: The Ancient Gods - Part Two
Action, Shooter, Futurism (Future), First-person view, Horror
Game released: Nintendo Switch → 26 March 2021
Players: 7.7/10
Metacritic: 78/100
Doom Eternal: The Ancient Gods — Part Two — the second standalone expansion Doom Eternal: The Ancient Gods - Part One. This time, events will take place not only...
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy - a game in the Action genre
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy
Adventure, Action, Comics, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Shooter
Game released: Nintendo Switch → 26 October 2021
Players: 8.7/10
Metacritic: 81/100
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy is an action-adventure game with a third-person view in the Guardians of the Galaxy comic universe. In the game, you take on the...
The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe - a game in the Action genre
The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe
Action, Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Indie
Game released: Nintendo Switch → 27 April 2022
Players: 9.1/10
Metacritic: 90/100
The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe is an improved version of the office adventure with a first-person view. You will play the role of office plankton Stanley, who...
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