Every Nintendo game from the Switch 2's first year, ranked |
The Nintendo Switch 2 is already one year old, and what a maiden voyage it has been. Over the past 12 months, Nintendo has gone all in on supporting its shiny new toy with an average of one first-party game a month. The quality of those games has been remarkably high across the board, even if nothing has come close to matching Switch launch game The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Key franchises like Mario, Metroid, Kirby, and Pokémon have all gotten solid new games on Switch 2 already.
Now’s as good a time as any to zoom out and take a big-picture look at Switch 2’s first year library. What we found when ranking all 12 games is that there are hardly any duds in the bunch. Aside from two glorified tech demos, just about everything we’ve gotten from Nintendo in the past year has been some degree of fun. That makes it hard to put a list together without stirring some disagreement, but know that even some of the lower-ranking games on our list are still pretty darn enjoyable.
Below, see every first-party game from the Switch 2’s first year ranked. (This list includes games the were released on both Switch and Switch 2.)
Release date: Aug. 14, 2025
Read Polygon's Drag x Drive review
Drag x Drive was meant to be the game that showed off what the Nintendo Switch 2’s mouse controls were capable of. Sure, a Joy-con could be used as a mouse in a shooter, but the real draw was combining two controllers to create entirely new control schemes. Regrettably, the wheelchair-basketball game was a bad sales pitch thanks to its awkward (and noisy) mouse-dragging movement. It’s little more than a shallow tech demo that’s only fun to toy around with for a few rounds.
11 Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour
Release date: June 5, 2025
Read Polygon's Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour review
I won’t mince words: Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour is a glorified instruction manual that should have come bundled with the console. Nintendo’s........