The Best Dog Games for Nintendo Switch

Update : Paw Paw Destiny added at rank #18.
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Farewell North (2024)

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Restore color to the desolate islands of Farewell North, an atmospheric journey where you play as a border collie on an adventure with your human. Explore land and sea, uncover hidden paths and free wildlife to bring color back to her world, while revealing an emotional story about saying farewell.


  • dog
  • emotional
  • atmospheric
  • nature
  • stylized
  • story
  • relaxing
  • exploration
  • family-friendly
  • third-person
  • colourful
  • dark
  • puzzle
  • open-world
  • cinematic

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Grapple Dogs: Cosmic Canines (2024)

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Swing, jump, and blast through dimensions in the follow-up to the critically-acclaimed 2D action-platformer Grapple Dog. Zip between action-packed worlds as Pablo and Luna team up to save the cosmos in their own unique ways.


  • platform
  • dog
  • collectathon
  • 2d
  • precision
  • family-friendly
  • cartoony
  • pixel
  • colourful
  • cute
  • comedy

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The Red Lantern (2020)

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The Red Lantern is a narrative, dog sledding game about survival. You play as the Musher who, along with her team of 5 sled dogs, must find her way home. Care for your dogs, discover their stories, and learn how to navigate the unknowns of the Alaskan wilderness and prepare for your new life.

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  • dog
  • choices
  • snow
  • rogue-like
  • emotional
  • hunting
  • fiction
  • survival
  • resource-management
  • relaxing
  • adventure
  • interactive
  • exploration
  • survival-rogue-like
  • colourful

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Bilkins' Folly (2023)

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Percy’s on a quest to find his missing relatives, and he needs your help! Join him and his beloved dog Drayton as they adventure through a series of unusual islands, solve puzzles to uncover valuable treasure, and bring to light the foreboding family secret buried beneath it all.

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  • nonlinear
  • adventure
  • puzzle
  • dog
  • colourful
  • multiple-endings
  • pixel
  • choices
  • exploration
  • family-friendly
  • cute
  • open-world
  • skill
  • light-hearted
  • pirates

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Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse (2024)

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The last game in the episodic Sam & Max trilogy, beautifully remastered! As the intergalactic villains who seek the Devil’s Toybox close in and Max’s psychic abilities grow beyond his control, the Freelance Police will come up against their most frightening adversary yet: the power of Max’s mind.

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  • cartoony
  • comic
  • dog
  • satire
  • point-and-click
  • detective
  • lovecraftian
  • book
  • comedy
  • 3d
  • third-person
  • colourful
  • adventure
  • episodic
  • puzzle

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Pets at Work (2022)

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Some pets got lost from their owners in an office and now need to work together, using boxes, mats, buttons, climb on shelves and tables or just make a mess trying to find them in this colorful co-op game!


  • dog
  • cats
  • cooperative
  • platform
  • 2d
  • local
  • colourful
  • pixel
  • puzzle
  • cartoony

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Wild Dogs (2023)

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The world is under a frantic alien attack. Amidst the chaos and with the army virtually subdued, the deadliest and most inconsequential pair of specialists are called upon to do what must be done. Join the war hunting aliens around the world and in every way possible.

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  • dog
  • soundtrack
  • retro
  • scroller
  • shoot-em-up
  • aliens
  • pixel
  • robots
  • 2d
  • fast-paced
  • run-and-gun
  • arcade
  • shooter
  • platform
  • contra

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Bluey: The Videogame (2023)

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Play a brand-new story set across 4 interactive adventures, explore iconic locations, play your favourite games from the TV show and also play with your friends and family in local multiplayer.


  • cartoony
  • dog
  • local
  • cooperative
  • action-adventure
  • friends-and-family
  • colourful
  • multiplayer
  • interactive
  • family-friendly
  • adventure
  • cute
  • park
  • exploration
  • recreation

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6Souls (2021)

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6Souls is an exciting 2D pixel-art action-adventure platformer. Join Jack and his dog, Butch, as they embark on an adventurous journey to find the abandoned Clifford Castle and uncover its secrets and the fate of the Clifford family.

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  • dog
  • 2d
  • platform
  • scroller
  • pixel
  • medieval
  • mystery
  • action-adventure
  • family-friendly
  • colourful
  • adventure
  • controller-support
  • exploration
  • cute
  • fantasy

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An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs (2021)

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An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs is an open-world comedy adventure game. Talk to stock photo dogs. Solve their problems. Catch your flight. And call it Dog Airport Game when you get tired of saying the full title, like I did three months ago.


  • dog
  • walking-simulator
  • comedy
  • surreal
  • family-friendly
  • sandbox
  • funny
  • first-person
  • open-world
  • conversation
  • visual-novel
  • real-time
  • comedy-adventure
  • emotional
  • physics

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