The Best Manipulation Games for Nintendo Switch

Update : Orten Was The Case added at rank #5.
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Eternal Threads (2022)

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

Eternal Threads is a single-player, first-person story-driven puzzle game of time manipulation, choice and consequence.


  • time
  • manipulation
  • narrative
  • story
  • travel
  • investigation
  • emotional
  • multiple-endings
  • choices
  • puzzle
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • post-apocalyptic
  • interactive
  • exploration

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COGEN: Sword of Rewind (2022)

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Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch Xbox One Xbox Series X PC Windows

Rewind, rethink, redo. COGEN is a brand-new kind of 2D action game where there's no time for death.

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  • manipulation
  • 2d
  • dynamic
  • swordplay
  • time
  • platform
  • tutorial
  • attack
  • score
  • scroller
  • futuristic
  • narration
  • action-adventure
  • action
  • sci-fi

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Touhou Luna Nights (2019)

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Xbox One Playstation 4 j Playstation 5 PC Windows Nintendo Switch

Touhou Luna Nights is a metroidvania game with stunning 2D graphics and a unique time manipulation mechanic. You play as a maid fighting through a magical world. The game's puzzles and enemies are challenging and imaginative. The game also offers upgrades and new abilities for exploration. Despite the lack of detailed item information and backtracking, Touhou Luna Nights is a top-notch Metroidvania that genre fans should not miss.

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What we like:
  • Beautiful graphics
  • Smooth gameplay
  • Challenging boss fights
  • Engaging story
  • Impressive sound design
What could be improved:
  • Short playtime
  • Familiar game mechanics
  • Frustrating save system

  • metroidvania
  • faith
  • manipulation
  • bullet-hell
  • beat-em-up
  • time
  • exploration
  • scroller
  • anime
  • boss-fight
  • pixel
  • platform
  • action-adventure
  • 2d

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Inua - A Story in Ice and Time (2022)

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Nintendo Switch IOS iPhone PC Windows Android Mac OS

Inua is a point & click narrative game where three protagonists roam the same places in the far North, decades apart. Explore each era, collect ideas, and influence their decisions to change the course of history.

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  • space-time
  • manipulation
  • historical
  • narration
  • time
  • text
  • point-and-click
  • hidden-object
  • adventure
  • story
  • isometric
  • dynamic
  • military
  • stylized
  • nature

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Orten Was The Case (2023)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows Playstation 4 Xbox Series X Xbox One

Orten Was The Case - A free movement puzzle/adventure game where you play as a youngster stuck in a time loop with the simple task of saving the world from literal destruction.


  • manipulation
  • time
  • nonlinear
  • lore
  • metroidvania
  • 2.5d
  • humor
  • conspiracy
  • time-management
  • dystopian
  • choices
  • mystery
  • detective
  • dark
  • open-world

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Bullet Time Battle (2023)

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ps1 portable vita Linux Mac OS PC Windows Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch

Bullet Time Battle is a FPS that adds precision to combat against enemy forces with bullet time. Experience an explosive gameplay as you plant/defuse bomb or capture/defend flags while battling enemies. Are you ready?


  • manipulation
  • time
  • destruction
  • first-person
  • tactical
  • shooter
  • artificial
  • intelligence
  • fps
  • atmospheric
  • turn-based
  • 3d
  • funny
  • survival
  • team

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The Hero with a Thousand Arms (2023)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows Mac OS Linux

This game challenge you to play many mini games in one screen at the same time.

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  • manipulation
  • time
  • time-management
  • shoot-em-up
  • runner
  • pixel
  • retro
  • 2d
  • arcade

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Rayland 2 (2022)

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Welcome to Rayland. The inhabitants of this island use the energy coming from the laser beams to survive and to transport this energy they use the repeating cubes.


  • puzzle
  • clicker
  • futuristic
  • manipulation
  • point-and-click
  • minimalist
  • casual
  • isometric
  • strategy
  • logic
  • relaxing
  • 3d
  • sci-fi
  • grid
  • family-friendly

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Clocker (2019)

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Mac OS Nintendo Switch Xbox One PC Windows

Clocker is a time themed puzzle game. The game narrates the story by using dual protagonists. Players can advance the story in the perspectives of both the Father and the Daughter and the mystery will be unfolded step by step. Unique time-based puzzle solving mechanics, fancy hand drawn art style and innumerable interesting puzzles with a gripping story. All these elements are waiting for you in Clocker.

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  • time
  • manipulation
  • emotional
  • hand-drawn
  • puzzle
  • multiple-endings
  • short
  • platform
  • 2d
  • cartoony
  • travel
  • thought-provoking

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Sacred Zodongga Defense (2023)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows

Defend the sacred island of Zodongga against waves of invaders looking to subjugate and colonize them and "liberate" their exotic fruit resources. What's not to love about this challenge?


  • tower-defense
  • pve
  • tutorial
  • point-and-click
  • manipulation
  • time
  • top-down
  • nature
  • 3d
  • historical
  • resource-management
  • casual
  • cartoony
  • strategy
  • old-school

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