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Ring Fit Adventure fixes both of those problems by gamifying exercise and letting you work out from home while somehow making the entire experience feel like a fun, casual RPG. By strapping the Nintendo Switch Joy-Con to your leg and with the strange, brilliant new Ring-Con peripheral, Ring Fit encourages you to use your whole body to battle monsters, collect coins, level up, and push past your personal bests — all while giving you a serious workout within the confines of your living room.

Have you played Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker? Ring Fit Adventure made our list of the best Nintendo Switch exclusives. It modernizes the classic beloved Zelda game with a shiny new coat of paint, some excellent quality of life improvements, and loads more hidden collectibles but, ultimately, its greatest accomplishment is retaining the weird, haunting, beautiful feeling of the original Game Boy game.

Astral Chain is PlatinumGames at its best. Platinum's next Switch game is Bayonetta 3 , which is expected to be released sometime in SteamWorld Dig 2 is a textbook example of everything a sequel should be: bigger, smarter, and just straight up more fun.

The series' next game is a co-op, third-person action adventure called SteamWorld Headhunter. You can play using a comfortable pro-controller, but you can also slay its more than monsters in person with friends. On top of the ridiculous amount of content packed in, you can also play as an adorable cat and pet alpacas. Splatoon 2 is one of those rare games you can play for more than a year and still not be tired of it.

Many players hoped for a fast port to Switch to hit the ground running, but what we got was an impressive sequel with an all-new single-player campaign and plenty of incredible, and free, post-release content. Splatoon 3 is coming to Switch in Nintendo showed off new gameplay and plot details during its last Direct. Paper Mario: The Origami King may not a perfect game — or, in fact, not even the best entry in the Paper Mario series — but it is one of the most charming adventures on the Nintendo Switch.

The Switch port of the Wii U original features an easy mode with Funky Kong but retains all the white knuckle platforming that made Tropical Freeze a hit back in Characters are extremely well written, there are dozens of Blades to unlock, all with their own unique look and personality, and the combat system is satisfying and complex.

This lovely town manager has you ferrying friendly souls to their ultimate rest, building them homes and growing close as you do. Stardew Valley is a wonderfully open-ended farming sim. It's scheduled to hit Switch in Super Mario Maker 2 helped us achieve our childhood dreams of building our own Super Mario levels. OK, technically the first game did that, too, but the sequel took everything great about the original and somehow made it even more charming and wonderful.

SMM2 is truly one of the Switch's best experiences: a challenging platformer that satisfies your creative urges, and offers a near-infinite stream of delights. Celeste is a surprise masterpiece. Its 2D platforming is some of the best and toughest since Super Meat Boy , with levels that are as challenging to figure out as they are satisfying to complete.

But the greatest triumph of Celeste is that its best-in-class jumping and dashing is blended beautifully with an important and sincere story and an incredible soundtrack that make it a genuinely emotional game, even when your feet are planted firmly on the ground. The expertly crafted map that is the kingdom of Hallownest has an absurd amount of paths to explore, bosses to fight, and secrets to uncover.

That's all drawn in a somber but expressive art style that gives the adorable bug people who live their lives, and stories, of their own. It can undoubtedly be a challenging and demanding game, but what you get out of will be a reward worth far more than you put in. Slay the Spire made our updated list of the 10 best roguelikes. Mario Kart 8 is the best-selling racing game in U. To date, it's sold nearly 39 million copies worldwide.

Fighting your way out of the Greek underworld is a ruthless and challenging affair, but every failure is rewarded in a way that somehow makes them exciting in their own right. Charming, clever, and absolutely gorgeous to look at, Luigi's Mansion is 17 levels of pure ghost-hunting joy. Working your way through each of the haunted hotels may never extremely challenging, but the creative boss fights and deviously hidden collectibles will keep you busy for a dozen hours or more. The excitement of getting to a new level just to see its theme TV Studio!

Sewer Maze! Fire Emblem: Three Houses takes the series to new heights, deftly blending grueling battles with an expansive social hub that allows for near limitless customization as you recruit, train, and bond with the memorable characters on your team. Its unique take on a three-pronged story ensures that no matter which house you choose, the engrossing plot that unfolds always leaves enough mystery to make multiple playthroughs incredibly hard to resist.

Released on the doorstep of a global pandemic, Animal Crossing: New Horizons provided a much need escape to many, selling nearly 34 million copies to date. Routine and discovery play equally important roles as you plan the perfect layout for your island, make friends or enemies with all your villagers, and invite your friends to your own little utopia to trade items and swap secrets. Animal Crossing's 2. Released at the height of the bit renaissance, Chrono Trigger gives us flawless fantasy RPG gameplay with mind-blowing storytelling mechanics that make it so fun to play.

Jumping between the past, present, and future, players navigate a complex web of parallel dimensions where your choices in one moment have ripple effects throughout the entire game.

Combine that with collaborative battle mechanics and in-depth character arcs, and Chrono Trigger is one of those games that you can play over and over as you discover different ending sequences and power up your character. Super Mario 3D World Nintendo, Wii U. Its internal logic is all over the shop, even for Mario why are there dinosaurs everywhere?

And not even Yoshi-style ones, just full on T-Rexes and you get Moons for just about everything you do. Levels are short, punchy obstacle courses that are relentlessly prepared to take an idea, deploy it once, and then throw it away, never to be used again.

Luigi's Mansion 2 Nintendo, GameCube, 3DS. Although the original Luigi's Mansion is the best-selling title launched on the GameCube, we're opting for Luigi's Mansion 2 as our pick for best Luigi game of all time. It's a tightly designed Nintendo adventure that makes you backtrack across its cleverly designed halls, but never makes it feel like you're retreading. Luigi's Mansion 2 has all the charm of the original, with added features for navigating in the dark and an improved system for catching ghosts.

Armed with little more than a torch, a vacuum cleaner and Charles Martinet's wonderful voice acting, Luigi's persona really shines in this ghost-hunting game. We're fans of alliteration as much as the next person, but in no way would this be half the fun if it was called Mario's Mansion. Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker A spin-off from the bonus levels in Super Mario 3D World, each level is a tiny diorama that an intrepid, anthropomorphic mushroom must explore, scale and reach the end of, solving compact puzzles along the way, while avoiding being sauteed by bullet bills, goombas, shy guys et al.

Absurdly delightful. Super Mario Galaxy 2 Nintendo, Wii. Super Mario Galaxy 2 began as a simple expansion pack to the original game, but it soon became clear that it had more than enough chops to stand on its own.

This fan favorite, first released on the WiiU, improves upon Super Mario Galaxy in almost every way, starting with the creative navigation controls that allow you to roam through different universes and play with gravity to complete objectives.

Plus, Super Mario Galaxy 2 comes with the exciting option for you to ride around on Yoshi's back, giving you the power to float through cavernous jumps and make invisible platforms glow. Fire Emblem: Awakening Nintendo, 3DS. And so the Fire Emblem franchise was revived — and how! Back came the rock-paper-scissors style tactics and the horrible, horrible fear that permadeath induces only this time you can turn it off if it really is too stressful.

Back also came the wonderful, mind-bending intrigue that came with letting your characters chat each other up, get married and have kids that can immediately start fighting under your banner as well. It was a perfect, intoxicating mix of the two and for our money, the best of the recent slate of Fire Emblem games, which have gravitated more and more towards Japanese dating simulators with each passing release.

Pikmin 2 Nintendo, GameCube, Wii. The first Pikmin game introduced lovable character design and intuitive gameplay that made it a cult classic in the world of real-time puzzle games. Pikmin 2 took all of the best parts of the original and revamped them into one of the best Nintendo games ever made. In Pikmin 2, players continue on as the main character from the first game, Captain Olimar, who must guide the colorful, peppy Pikmin critters to help uncover hidden treasure.

With playful cutscenes and detailed graphics, Pikmin 2 showcases a world of curiosity that you can enjoy alone or in co-op mode. Mario Kart 8 Nintendo being Nintendo though, the Japanese gaming giants still manage to innovate on top of the established karting formula, mixing in anti-grav segments to tracks, as well as some frankly terrifying facial animations for Luigi.