The Best Casual Games for Nintendo Switch

Update : Tri Breaker: A Sacred Symbols Odyssey added at rank #1.
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Tri Breaker: A Sacred Symbols Odyssey (2024)

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Xbox Series X Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch PC Windows Xbox One

If Twin Breaker was a brick breaker about space, Tri Breaker is a brick breaker on steroids, and this go-around, it’s all about time. Explore 40 stages spread across periods of galactic history, and obliterate the brick-breaking formula.


  • retro-fueled
  • retro
  • 1980s
  • pixel
  • arcade
  • casual
  • 2d
  • pinball
  • boss-fight
  • ball-and-paddle
  • chiptune
  • action
  • goal-driven
  • narrative
  • multi-stage

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hocus 2 (2021)

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Nintendo Switch Mac OS PC Windows Android IOS iPhone

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  • minimalist
  • casual
  • isometric
  • relaxing
  • logic
  • puzzle
  • thought-provoking
  • single-player

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Peace, Death! 2 (2021)

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Android IOS iPhone Nintendo Switch PC Windows

Peace, Death! 2 is a midcore turn-based logic game where you send clients to Hell, Heaven, or Purgatory and help members of the Reapers Union as they work towards their great cause!

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  • comedy
  • memes
  • turn-based
  • point-and-click
  • casual
  • scroller
  • funny
  • 2d
  • pixel
  • humor
  • arcade
  • simulation
  • tactical
  • dark
  • puzzle

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Elasto Mania Remastered (2022)

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Android PC Windows Xbox Series X Playstation 4 Xbox One Nintendo Switch

The original cult classic returns. A blast from the past, better than ever. Are you ready?

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  • racing
  • cult
  • simulation
  • casual
  • old-school
  • retro
  • sport
  • 2d
  • platform
  • classic
  • challenging
  • online

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Ruku's Heart Balloon (2023)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows IOS iPhone

This puzzle game can be enjoyed by players of all ages. The gentle story is straight out of a picture book with voices, like telling a story to a child. There is also a puzzle mode to enjoy at your leisure.


  • puzzle
  • match-three
  • casual
  • cute
  • abstract
  • hand-drawn
  • relaxing
  • 2d
  • platform
  • family-friendly
  • pvp
  • atmospheric

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Gerda: A Flame in Winter - Liva's Story (2023)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows

You have five days to save your husband, who has just been arrested by the Gestapo. Investigate, explore and form allegiances in this story-rich RPG-lite. Who will you trust?


  • emotional
  • world-war-2
  • narration
  • casual
  • multiple-endings
  • adventure
  • rpg
  • historical
  • conversation
  • hand-drawn
  • stylized
  • fiction
  • choices
  • top-down
  • interactive

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Paper io 2 (2023)

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IOS iPhone Android Xbox One PC Windows Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch

Conquer territory solo or beat your friends in multiplayer mode with up to 4 players!


  • casual
  • battle
  • strategy
  • local
  • skill
  • cartoony
  • top-down
  • split-screen
  • arcade
  • multiplayer
  • pve
  • pvp
  • 4-player
  • 3d
  • reflexes

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Snakeybus (2019)

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Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Mac OS PC Windows Xbox One

The length of your bus grows as you pick up more people! Snake through the city streets and avoid crashing into yourself.

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  • auto
  • casual
  • arcade-driving
  • driving
  • arcade
  • psychological
  • simulation
  • truck
  • reflexes
  • action
  • horror

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Duck Souls (2018)

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IOS iPhone Nintendo Switch PC Windows Xbox One Playstation 4 vita

Duck Souls is a fast-paced, action platformer about a little duck with an incredible skill to dash and a mission: find all the lost eggs in order to save his species.

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  • casual
  • adventure
  • souls
  • action
  • pixel

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LIT: Bend the Light (2020)

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Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch PC Windows Xbox One Mac OS Linux

Light, darkness and remarkable puzzles! Bend the light to your will in this award winning physics-based puzzle game. Feel like a renaissance engineer, build your own solutions to light puzzles, feel your brain grow and all of that within the beautiful and mysterious world of LIT.

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  • open-ended
  • puzzle
  • casual
  • cartoony
  • steampunk
  • realistic
  • reflection
  • mirror
  • addictive
  • science
  • physics

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