Indie for Nintendo Switch — top best games in the Indie genre / Page 33

Arcade, Board / Group Game, Side view, Cooperative (co-op), Online, Action, Indie

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 6 August 2020

Players: 6.7/10

Steam: 100/100

Swimsanity! is a cooperative underwater shooter with a side view. Together with your friends you will go to conquer the wonderful world of the ocean...

Adventures Of Pip

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 10 September 2020

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 75/100

This side-scrolling platform adventure follows Pip, a one-pixel hero in a retro world who sets out to rescue a kidnapped princess from Queen...

If Found...

Adventure, Interactive movie, Visual novel, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 22 October 2020

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 84/100

If Found... is an interactive visual novel about finding connections. The game takes place on the island of Achill on December 31, 1993. A young...

Bit.Trip Core

Action, Music game, Top-down view, Indie

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 25 December 2020

Players: 5/10

Steam: 57/100

Metacritic: 80/100

A retro arcade action-rhythm game inspired by 1980s games, with a modern twist. In Bit.Trip Core, players control two axes, unlike the single-axis...

Tadpole Treble

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Music game, Side view, Indie

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 21 January 2021

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Tadpole Treble is a side-scrolling adventure music rhythm game. You have to take on the role of a newly born fish who is eager to explore the world...

Anodyne 2: Return to Dust

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Indie, Exploration

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 18 February 2021

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 94/100

Anodyne 2: Return to Dust is a continuation of the action-adventure Anodyne. You take on the role of Nova, a nanoscavenger tasked with collecting...

Backworlds

Free game, Logic, Puzzle, Side view, Platformer, Indie

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 20 May 2021

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 97/100

Backworlds is a side-scrolling adventure puzzle platformer in which you can influence the game world using a special eraser. This is what the main...

Silver Case

Adventure, Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Indie, Detective

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 6 July 2021

Players: 7/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 64/100

Silver Case — adventure visual novel in Japanese style. The game is dedicated to the investigation of a series of brutal murders that occurred...

Monster Harvest

Role-playing game, Adventure, Simulation, Business / Management, Top-down view, Indie, Farm Simulator, Exploration

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 31 August 2021

Players: 9/10

Steam: 53/100

Metacritic: 57/100

Monster Harvest is a colorful adventure farming simulator with a top-down view. In the game you will go on an unforgettable adventure — you...

Ultra Age

Action, Slasher, Indie, Third-person view

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 9 September 2021

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 69/100

Ultra Age is a science-fiction action game set in 3174, where warrior Age travels to an apparently lifeless Earth to find a key to humanity’s...

Lila's Sky Ark

Metroidvania, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 21 April 2022

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 57/100

Lila’s psychedelic world is in danger in this action-adventure about a musical and magical realm under threat. Alongside her eccentric friends, she...

DEATHRUN TV

Arcade, Futurism (Future), Top-down view, Shooter, Roguelike, Dungeons, Indie

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 1 June 2022

Steam: 81/100

DEATHRUN TV is a dynamic top-down twin-stick shooter with roguelike elements. The world's largest studio presents a show where contestants put their...

Bilkins' Folly

Adventure, Exploration, Indie, Top-down view, Open world, Puzzle

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 2 October 2023

Steam: 90/100

The main character is a young adventurer traveling across the islands in search of ancient temples with ruins, treasures and various unusual...

Everdeep Aurora

Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle, Indie, Side view, Fantasy, Exploration

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 10 July 2025

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 75/100

A post-apocalyptic game in which the population moved underground due to a meteor shower. The main character, a cat named Shell, went in search of...

Shadow Bug

Arcade, Platformer, Side view, Action, Indie

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 30 March 2018

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 74/100

Shadow Bug is a side-scrolling arcade platformer for mobile platforms. In the game you will destroy the forces of evil of unknown origin with the...

Hotel Sowls

Indie, Adventure, Point & Click

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 30 July 2020

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 67/100

This 2D mystery adventure follows a pharmacologist who, after a difficult journey, obtains a valuable and mysterious stone and stops to rest at Hotel...

Journey of the Broken Circle

Adventure, Indie, Platformer

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 18 September 2020

Steam: 74/100

Metacritic: 76/100

An adventure about self-discovery, love, and existentialism. The protagonist is the Circle, who journeys through an unusual universe and gradually...

Runbow

Arcade, Platformer, Side view, Indie, Casual game, Action

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 3 July 2018

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Runbow is a side-scrolling platformer where shifts in the colourful background affect the platforms and obstacles: anything matching the background...

Polygod

Shooter, Strategy, First-person view, Action, Indie

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 17 August 2018

Steam: 86/100

Polygod is a randomly generated rogue-like first-person shooter with a brutal difficulty curve. Combining the fast-paced style of Quake with the...

Morphies Law

Online, Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Indie

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 30 July 2019

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 48/100

Morphies Law is an unusual 4v4 team shooter with a third-person view. You will go to conquer a futuristic post-apocalyptic world in which only morph...

LISA: Definitive Edition

Role-playing game, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 18 July 2023

Metacritic: 83/100

After the mysterious White Flash wipes out all women, Brad journeys across the barren world of Olathe to save his daughter, the last girl alive...

ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove

Arcade, Action, Adventure, In real time, Isometric, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Casual game

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 1 March 2019

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 72/100

This is an isometric roguelike adventure about aliens ToeJam and Earl, who crash-land on Earth and search for the missing pieces of their ship, the...

Indiecalypse

Action, Adventure, Arcade, Indie, Side view, Top-down view, Casual game

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 29 May 2020

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 34/100

Indiecalypse is a side-scrolling action-adventure game that lets you experience the real life of an indie game developer. Three misfits team up to...

Interrogation: You will be Deceived

Simulation, Indie, Strategy, Role-playing game, Adventure, Business / Management, Detective, Visual novel

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 28 July 2020

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 67/100

Interrogation: You will be Deceived is a thrilling noir detective story with role-playing elements, where you take control of a special police...

Drink More Glurp

Indie, Action, Side view, Casual game

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 6 August 2020

Players: 7.4/10

Steam: 89/100

Drink More Glurp is an indie action game with a side view. After binge-watching Earth TV, the aliens are convinced that advertising is the most...

Ord.

Adventure, Logic, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 6 November 2020

Steam: 92/100

Ord. is a short text adventure where the main feature is that there cannot be more than three words on the screen at any one time. The essence of the...

Defentron

Strategy, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Simulation, Arcade

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 17 December 2020

Steam: 81/100

Defentron is a retro "Tower Defense" strategy game with a top-down view. In it, you are a computer system that is trying to protect itself from...

Crashnauts

Arcade, Online, Shooter, Platformer, Side view, Indie, Action

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 21 January 2021

Steam: 100/100

A dynamic arcade platformer-player for 2-6 players with quick and spectacular battles. Matches take place on different arenas, where you can use a...

Neoverse

Adventure, Card game, Futurism (Future), Third-person view, Indie, Roguelike, Tactics, Anime / Manga, Turn-based, Japanese role-playing game

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 21 January 2021

Players: 7.3/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 62/100

Neoverse is a tactical card game in the futuristic genre with a third-person view and anime elements. This is a beautiful, fantastic game of...

Habroxia 2

Action, Shooter, Top-down view, Science fiction, Arcade, Indie

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 3 February 2021

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Habroxia 2 is an old-school space shooter with pixel graphics and a top-down view. After a brutal attack in the free space zone, humanity sends...

Boomerang X

Action, Indie, Shooter, First-person view, Parkour

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 8 July 2021

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Boomerang X is a dynamic old-school shooter with a first-person view and a phantasmagoric atmosphere. You will set off to conquer a crazy and vibrant...

Button City

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Isometric, Indie, Comedy, Point & Click

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 10 August 2021

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 69/100

A vibrant game about friendship and community, set in a world of dioramas inspired by '90s nostalgia. There are plenty of animal characters to...

KungFu Kickball

Online, Action, Side view, Indie, Sports game, Arcade

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 10 February 2022

Steam: 91/100

KungFu Kickball is a side-scrolling multiplayer pixel sports arcade game where you have to kick a ball to hit the enemy team's bell. The winner is...

Moonrise Fall

Adventure, Top-down view, Puzzle, Indie, Exploration, Walking Simulator

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 3 June 2022

Steam: 85/100

An atmospheric puzzle game with a top-down view and pixel graphics, telling the story of a boy who got lost in a supernatural forest. The gameplay is...

Save Room - Organization Puzzle

Arcade, Business / Management, Puzzle, Indie, Logic, Survival horror

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 11 November 2022

Steam: 97/100

Save Room — Organization Puzzle — an unusual variation of "Tetris," in which instead of classic blocks you will be filling inventory slots from...

A Space for the Unbound

Anime / Manga, Side view, Adventure, Indie, Exploration, Puzzle, Mysticism / Supernatural

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 19 January 2023

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 98/100

Metacritic: 84/100

Two school friends with supernatural powers explore the Indonesian countryside to uncover its secrets. There is an opportunity to communicate with...

Promise Mascot Agency

Adventure, Simulation, Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Open world, Role-playing game, Indie

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 10 April 2025

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 79/100

The game takes place in a cursed Japanese city. The main character collects mascot creatures to help them, but they can also perform various tasks on...

Nightmare: The Lunatic

Action, Slasher, Platformer, Indie, Roguelike, Side view, Fantasy, Replayability

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 4 December 2025

Steam: 87/100

A hardcore platformer in which the player tries to escape a nightmare. The main task is to get out of the eternal nightmare. As you progress, you can...

GoNNER

Arcade, Roguelike, Side view, Indie, Platformer, Shooter

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 29 June 2017

Players: 10/10

Steam: 56/100

Metacritic: 79/100

GoNNER is a brutally challenging 2D platformer with roguelike elements and procedurally generated levels. The game tells the story of the friendship...

Hammerwatch

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Slasher, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Dungeons

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 14 December 2017

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 87/100

A fantasy action-adventure hack-and-slash in pixel art follows a climb through Castle Hammerwatch. The castle can be explored solo or in co-op, as...

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Best Games in the Indie genre for Nintendo Switch