
Mario has a catsuit, and the game is littered with cat-themed things. If you're someone who tends to like 2D Mario games more than the big 3D adventures like Mario Odyssey, you may like this one. Subscriptions help fund the work we do every day. This includes unlimited access to and our print magazine (if you'd like). Special offer for Gear readers: Get a 1-year subscription to WIRED for $5 ($25 off). Updated May 2023: We've added Tears of the Kingdom, It Takes Two, Cozy Grove, and Disney Dreamlight Valley.

And if you were lucky enough to upgrade to an OLED Switch, here's how to transfer all of your data. (We recommend this one.) Be sure to also read up on our Switch Tips and Secrets, Favorite Switch Accessories, and Switch Bundle Deals. We've listed the digital version for most of them here, so make sure you get a spacious microSD card to store all your game files. Thankfully, WIRED has plenty of opinionated Nintendo fans on staff, and we've put our heads together to compile a list of the best Switch games. Figuring out what to play, though-that's getting harder every year, as the roster of first-party and indie games grows deeper and deeper. There’s something unique about carrying a home console-quality gaming device everywhere you go. Pioneering precise platforming controls and vivid 2D side-scrolling better than any game before it, it’s dated a lot in its presentation prowess since 1985, but has lost little of the magic that made it such a hit almost 40 years ago.The Switch is one of Nintendo's most successful and influential systems ever.

With more colour, more creativity and most importantly more variety than either of its two predecessors, even though it was made by just eleven people – the lead designer being Nintendo’s Mario maestro, Shigeru Miyamoto.


That means those games outside of the ever-expanding Nintendo Switch Online catalogue, which now encompasses the majority of the Chris Pratt impersonator's back catalogue. For reasons of sheer brevity, we're kept our ranking to those Mario games that have been released specifically for the Nintendo Switch.
