The Best Science Games for Nintendo Switch

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Update : Exographer added at rank #8.
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Terraformers (2022)

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Transform Mars into a habitable planet in Terraformers. With challenging strategizing and resource management, explore the planet and expand population, all while watching the stunning new natural wonders build up before your eyes. Take on different scenarios and bonuses and create a thriving utopia. Get lost in the addictive puzzle-like game with unique replayability and rewarding graphics and UI.


What we like:
  • Focus on strategy
  • Various difficulty levels
  • Unique victory conditions
  • Nice graphics and UI
  • Rich soundtrack
What could be improved:
  • Only one way to lose the game
  • Some bugs present
  • Game can become repetitive

  • turn-based
  • mars
  • space
  • resource-management
  • science
  • rogue-like
  • nonlinear
  • card
  • procedural
  • board-game
  • colony
  • sci-fi
  • choices
  • simulation
  • management

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Machinika Museum (2021)

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Come discover beautiful mysterious machines of extra-terrestrial origins and use your logic and sense of observation to fix them; and uncover a galaxy-spanning story. Machinika Museum is a puzzle game for people who like to have their brain teased and love a nice story to go along.

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  • science
  • investigation
  • puzzle
  • hidden-object
  • mystery
  • logic
  • point-and-click
  • short
  • sci-fi
  • narration
  • atmospheric
  • futuristic
  • aliens
  • pattern-matching
  • first-person

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Dexter Stardust: Adventures in Outer Space (2022)

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A Spacey Classic Point and Click Adventure for All!

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  • cartoony
  • cinematic
  • clicker
  • point-and-click
  • science
  • comic
  • fiction
  • adventure
  • visual-novel
  • choices
  • 1980s
  • interactive
  • hand-drawn
  • puzzle
  • book

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Tesla Force (2020)

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With science as your super power, charge up your coils and zap into action! Tesla Force is a rogue-lite top-down shooter featuring endless procedural gameplay with tentacle splitting action. Play as Tesla, Curie, Lovecraft and Shelley and blast the cosmic horror back into the galactic abyss!

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  • top-down
  • lovecraftian
  • mech
  • procedural
  • rogue-like
  • science
  • destruction
  • shooter
  • local
  • twin-stick
  • replay-value
  • cooperative
  • horror
  • gauntlet
  • sci-fi

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Mars Horizon (2020)

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Lead a major space agency as you guide humanity to Mars in this strategy simulation game. Construct a base, design and build rockets, conduct missions throughout the Solar System, and write your own history of Space exploration. Created with support from the European Space Agency.

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  • simulation
  • space
  • mars
  • turn-based
  • historical
  • exploration
  • management
  • historically
  • science
  • alternate
  • education
  • logic
  • choices
  • immersive
  • building

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Relicta (2020)

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Alone in the depths of the Moon, your scientific mind is the only thing that can keep your daughter alive …Play as a top physicist stranded on an eerie, derelict Moon base. Find your way around the enigmatic, terraformed craters by bending gravity and magnetism to your will in order to solve physical puzzles. Will you rush straight ahead and try to reach safety - or will you take your time to gather clues and unravel the intrigues of 22nd century orbital politics? Buried in the eternal darkness of the lunar craters lies a secret that might claim your daughter’s life - or change the fate of humanity forever. Are you ready to face the ultimate consequences of your research?

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  • mars
  • character
  • snow
  • narration
  • puzzle
  • science
  • logic
  • action-adventure
  • physics
  • first-person
  • sci-fi
  • 3d
  • exploration
  • story
  • colourful

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Get-A-Grip Chip and the Body Bugs (2022)

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Get-A-Grip Chip and the Body Bugs sends Chip on a new mission: enter the human body and dismantle digestive distress! In this satisfying 2D platformer, master Chip’s grappling hook to get things flowing. Raise an army of white blood cells to fight off the Body Bugs as you grapple for guts and glory.

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  • science
  • education
  • collectathon
  • platform
  • 2d
  • robots
  • scroller
  • action-adventure
  • psychedelic
  • cartoony
  • arcade
  • hand-drawn
  • colourful
  • stylized
  • cute

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Exographer (2024)

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Exographer is an exploration game based on science. Become an explorer, stranded in an alien planet, and discover the secrets of an extinct civilization. Gain new powers to avoid dangers and obstacles in your journey, and use your camera to reveal particles and hidden clues.


  • metroidvania
  • science
  • platform
  • puzzle
  • pixel
  • exploration
  • 2d
  • non-linear
  • sci-fi
  • discovery
  • investigation

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Next Space Rebels (2021)

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SPACE IS FOR EVERYONE. In Next Space Rebels, you will develop from a naive rocket hobbyist into an experienced space activist by designing, building, and launching rockets of increasing complexity.


  • fmv
  • modern
  • science
  • building
  • simulation
  • crafting
  • space
  • funny

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Primal Threat (2023)

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Blast cyborg dinosaurs and other dangerous creatures in this side-scrolling action/adventure! Explore an ancient labyrinth full of upgrades, weapons, and secrets to save your planet from a primal threat!

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  • hero
  • dinosaurs
  • metroidvania
  • science
  • 2d
  • magic
  • surreal
  • 1980s
  • space
  • platform
  • action-adventure
  • pixel
  • sci-fi
  • exploration
  • controller-support

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