The Best Nostalgia Games for Nintendo Switch

Update : HOLYHUNT added at rank #10.
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Lucy Dreaming (2022)

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Discover a dark family secret and rid a young girl of her nightmares in this splendidly British point & click comedy adventure. Playing as sharp-witted Lucy, explore both dreams and reality to meet all the colourful characters who'll help you solve puzzles, gather clues and find a murderer.


  • nostalgia
  • point-and-click
  • comedy
  • pixel
  • humor
  • 1990s
  • 1980s
  • old-school
  • puzzle
  • mystery
  • adventure
  • funny
  • dark
  • retro
  • story

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Motesolo: No Girlfriend Since Birth (2020)

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On a late afternoon in Seoul, you discover two people talking at a local cafe, and you spy on their conversation.


  • choices
  • nostalgia
  • fmv
  • god-game
  • conversation
  • cinematic
  • dating-sim
  • music
  • experimental
  • visual-novel
  • text
  • procedural
  • narration
  • fiction
  • interactive

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Punch Club 2: Fast Forward (2023)

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You have come here to read game descriptions and play fighter management sims…and you’re all outta descriptions.

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  • arts
  • cyberpunk
  • nostalgia
  • time-management
  • martial
  • management
  • resource-management
  • rpg
  • 1990s
  • tactical
  • 1980s
  • life
  • sport
  • pixel
  • simulation

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Commander Keen: Keen Dreams (2023)

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Commander Keen is back. In the modernised Definitive Edition of the lost episode "Keen Dream". The game structure has been reworked to make the game a more modern experience without sacrificing any of the original charm!

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  • nostalgia
  • retro
  • side-scrolling
  • platform
  • cartoony
  • 2d
  • casual
  • scroller
  • adventure
  • compilation
  • non-linear
  • subscription
  • tile

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Block'Em! (2022)

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Block'Em! is an action-filled block-building party game for 2 to 4 players! The controls are simple but the road to victory is complex: be the first to reach the goal or be the last Blocky standing!


  • party
  • nostalgia
  • 4-player
  • local
  • pvp
  • 2.5d
  • precision
  • building
  • family-friendly
  • fast-paced
  • multiplayer
  • funny
  • colourful

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Kind Heart Defenders (2022)

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Kind Heart Defenders is an experience that brings the best of Space Shooter with the best of Tower Defense. Have fun building towers, trying different ships, laughing at the characters' jokes, and battling through intergalactic scenarios and gigantic bosses.


  • tower-defense
  • jet
  • flight
  • nostalgia
  • spaceships
  • cute
  • space
  • strategy
  • shooter
  • short
  • colourful
  • casual

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Bumballon (2021)

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If you already own the PS4™ version of this game, you can get the PS5’s digital version at no extra cost. Owners of a PS4  disc copy must insert it into the PS5â’¢ every time they want to download or play the digital version. This product entitles you to download both the digital PS4â'¢ version and the digital PS5’s version.

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  • nostalgia
  • collectathon
  • action-adventure
  • bullet
  • cute
  • casual
  • pixel
  • scroller
  • time
  • retro
  • colourful
  • 2d
  • linear
  • fantasy
  • cartoony

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Pink Explorer (2022)

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Pink Explorer Is an Retro style 2D Platformer. Play as the Pink Explorer and try to beat all the different levels littered with sweet platforming, enemies, gravity puzzles and more!


  • platform
  • nostalgia
  • 2d
  • precision
  • lgbtq
  • memes
  • cartoony
  • puzzle
  • relaxing
  • pixel
  • comedy
  • retro
  • casual
  • cute

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Demons Ate My Neighbors! (2023)

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Demons & VHS horrors terrorize y'alls neighborhood, a nostalgia nightmare! DAMN is a manic adventure roguelite shooter, & funky spin on co-op arcade classics. Find & exorcise neighbors from hell with upgrades, holy squirt guns & household weapons… before the ICE CREAM MAN gets ya! GET PUMPED!


  • rogue-like
  • nostalgia
  • campaign
  • gun
  • soundtrack
  • customization
  • cooperative
  • perma-death
  • 2.5d
  • 1990s
  • shoot-em-up
  • twin-stick
  • character
  • procedural
  • 1980s

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HOLYHUNT (2024)

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A love letter to 8-bit era in a punishing, rewarding, tight retro top-down shooter.


  • rogue-like
  • werewolves
  • nostalgia
  • twin-stick
  • shooter
  • bullet-hell
  • shoot-em-up
  • gun
  • demons
  • supernatural
  • top-down
  • retro
  • pixel
  • medieval

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