The Best Dark Games for Nintendo Switch - Page 4

Update : NanoApostle added at rank #24.
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Evil Wizard (2023)

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Evil Wizard is a humor-filled action RPG that puts you in the shoes of a former Final Boss. Rise from defeat, rediscover long lost powers, and fight to reclaim your castle from an army of so-called heroes.

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  • villain
  • protagonist
  • dark
  • humor
  • cartoony
  • metroidvania
  • magic
  • rpg
  • comedy
  • action-adventure
  • hack-and-slash
  • dungeon-crawler
  • action
  • rogue-like
  • top-down

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Cats and the Other Lives (2023)

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Part interactive fiction, part Felis domesticus adventure, “Cats and the Other Lives” explores the reunion of a broken family from the perspective of their house cat, Aspen.

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  • cats
  • dark
  • drama
  • pixel
  • narrative
  • fiction
  • emotional
  • point-and-click
  • psychological
  • investigation
  • humor
  • interactive
  • atmospheric
  • 2d
  • story

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Beholder 3 (2022)

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

When a high-ranking security officer saves you from prison, you end up a pawn in her schemes. Now you must eliminate anyone standing in the way of her secret plans and try to get your life back while working two jobs. No tenant, employee or superior is safe from your spying.


  • dystopian
  • political
  • choices
  • dark
  • point-and-click
  • simulation
  • lgbtq
  • multiple-endings
  • humor
  • management
  • isometric
  • nonlinear
  • atmospheric

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Rage in Peace (2018)

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Nintendo Switch Mac OS PC Windows

Rage in Peace started out as a prototype developed during the "Indies vs PewDiePie" Game Jam in 2014.[2] Although the game did not make top 10 out of the 800 submissions to be played in PewDiePie's channel (it ranked 17th), it was played on his stream regardless, causing other YouTube channels to play the game as well and drawing interest into it.[3]

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  • gore
  • dark
  • violent
  • comedy
  • humor
  • side-scrolling
  • emotional
  • philosophical
  • adventure
  • drama
  • memes
  • experimental
  • supernatural

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Whateverland (2022)

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Find your way out of a magical prison in this non-linear point'n'click adventure full of mini games and challenges. Get to meet the charismatic Whateverlanders, steal and deceive or be a good boy to discover all the different endings of Vincent's story.

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  • dark
  • humor
  • hand-drawn
  • music
  • point-and-click
  • nonlinear
  • multiple-endings
  • turn-based
  • team
  • puzzle
  • narration
  • magic
  • supernatural
  • choices
  • non-linear

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Selfloss (2024)

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Selfloss is an emotional exploration game filled with rich lore, set in a whale-worshipping, Slavic-inspired world. Embark on the journey of the healer, Kazimir, and his magical staff as he fights a mysterious Miasm in search of a ritual to cure his wounded soul.


  • dark
  • fantasy
  • whale-worshiping
  • emotional
  • lore
  • slavic
  • metroidvania
  • puzzle
  • post-apocalyptic
  • magic
  • atmospheric
  • stylized
  • medieval
  • action-adventure
  • exploration

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Atari Mania (2022)

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Playstation 5 PC Windows Nintendo Switch Playstation 4

Atari Mania is a microgame collection wrapped in an hilarious retro-driven narrative of exploration and surprise. You play as the Caretaker of the Atari Vault, the storehouse of classic Atari games.


  • pixel
  • comedy
  • retro
  • arcade
  • boss
  • classic
  • fiction
  • 1980s
  • dark
  • warioware
  • bite-sized
  • point-and-click
  • exploration
  • 1990s
  • interactive

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Chicken Assassin: Reloaded (2016)

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Linux Mac OS Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch PC Windows

Fight your way as Mean Mcallister, the baddest chicken in town, through multiple hordes of enemies to save your girlfriend in this hilarious, strategic button-mashing, action-RPG.

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  • dark
  • clicker
  • humor
  • beat-em-up
  • comic
  • idler
  • cyberpunk
  • action-adventure
  • book
  • 2d
  • funny
  • comedy
  • survival
  • single-player
  • casual

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Prison Simulator (2021)

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Nintendo Switch Xbox One PC Windows Playstation 4

Get a taste of prison life! Become a prison guard and deal with dangerous convicts. Prison management, lots of daily activities. Will you become the best guard in history? Or maybe you'll turn into the worst scumbag this Prison has ever seen?

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  • conversation
  • first-person
  • crime
  • dark
  • trading
  • sandbox
  • comedy
  • management
  • stealth
  • inventory
  • atmospheric
  • fps
  • open-world
  • simulation
  • realistic

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DROS (2023)

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Discover the world of Dros, a beautifully detailed story-driven adventure about a slimy little creature and her human bounty hunter shell.

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  • dark
  • 3d
  • fantasy
  • platform
  • steampunk
  • humor
  • comedy
  • third-person
  • action-adventure
  • atmospheric
  • controller-support
  • funny
  • diorama
  • puzzle
  • combat

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