The Best Short Games for Nintendo Switch - Page 2

Update : Miniatures added at rank #16.
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The Excrawlers (2023)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows Xbox One Xbox Series X

Action-RPG slasher game in which you and others hero will have to plunge into the dark atmosphere of dungeons full of monsters and madness.


  • souls
  • short
  • hack-and-slash
  • top-down
  • dark
  • pixel
  • 2d
  • rogue-like
  • colourful
  • dungeon-crawler
  • fantasy
  • action-adventure
  • difficult
  • real-time
  • zelda

12

Seven Doors (2020)

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

Solve challenging puzzles and experience seven different atmospheres. Each one is unique, special and surprising and will test your mind and awaken your wits. Stay alive until you reach the last door, but beware, as some doors could lead to your demise. 


  • puzzle
  • hidden-object
  • short
  • mystery
  • 3d
  • horror
  • tabletop
  • atmospheric
  • first-person
  • gore-covered
  • beautiful
  • realistic
  • casual
  • colourful
  • myst

13

The Magnificent Trufflepigs (2021)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch

The Magnificent Trufflepigs is a first-person, romantic, metal-detecting game. It combines laid-back detecting and exploration with a strong narrative, all set in a beautiful English countryside. It’s a game about trying to find something.

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  • short
  • walking-simulator
  • story
  • atmospheric
  • yorkshire
  • mystery
  • first-person
  • fiction
  • single-player
  • adventure
  • horses

14

The First Tree (2017)

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IOS iPhone PC Windows Mac OS Linux Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Xbox One

A beautiful, 3rd-person exploration game centered around two parallel stories: a fox trying to find her missing family, and a young couple dealing with a tragedy in their own. Uncover artifacts from the young couple’s life as they too become intertwined in the fox’s journey towards The First Tree.

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  • third-person
  • walking-simulator
  • story
  • atmospheric
  • short
  • exploration
  • orchestral
  • colourful
  • relaxing
  • adventure
  • nature
  • single-player
  • platform
  • narration
  • mech

15

Anyaroth: The Queen's Tyranny (2023)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows

A pixel-art platformer adventure game with lots of action and a memorable story.Dive into the depths of planet Anyaroth and free its people from the tyranny of the Queen. Join the Rebellion and fight against the Regime’s mind-control system. The anya civilization needs you!


  • twin-stick
  • 2d
  • shoot-em-up
  • bullet-hell
  • platform
  • action-adventure
  • short
  • linear
  • pixel
  • aliens
  • sci-fi
  • retro
  • colourful
  • war
  • story

16

Miniatures (2024)

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Nintendo Switch Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Miniatures is a collection of strange tales where childhood imagination and reality merge with darker undercurrents of mystery and magic. Explore a vast seascape, build odd furniture, feed a lizard and play with sand castles.


  • surreal
  • hand-drawn
  • stylized
  • point-and-click
  • clicker
  • short
  • 2d
  • hidden-object
  • casual
  • exploration
  • linear
  • cinematic
  • emotional
  • puzzle
  • fiction

17

Some Distant Memory (2019)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows Mac OS

Some Distant Memory is a hand-drawn story exploration game set 300 years after the apocalypse. You play an archaeologist named Professor Zay, joined by her companion, ARORA, a centuries-old AI capable of recreating human memories from scanned relics.

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  • walking
  • post-apocalyptic
  • 2.5d
  • walking-sim
  • short
  • said
  • sci-fi
  • story
  • casual
  • narrative
  • innovative
  • mystery
  • atmospheric
  • adventure
  • non-linear

18

Carry Onward (2023)

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Nintendo Switch j Playstation 4 PC Windows

Carry Onward is a narrative gameplay short that follows a grieving man as he packs up his home. Immerse yourself in his thoughts and emotions by interacting with items, which shape his internal state. Experience the transformative power of memories and the hope that arises from embracing change.


  • emotional
  • short
  • multiple-endings
  • atmospheric
  • walking-simulator
  • noir
  • fiction
  • surreal
  • drama
  • narrative
  • story
  • stylized
  • top-down
  • interactive
  • relaxing

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Fruit Mountain (2024)

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Mac OS PC Windows Playstation 5 Playstation 4 j Nintendo Switch

Fruit Stacking Puzzle Game Connect the same types of fruit together to make them grow bigger and bigger! Stack them up without letting them overflow from the plate, and build your own Fruit Mountain!


  • cooking
  • cozy
  • short
  • attack
  • comic
  • score
  • family-friendly
  • relaxing
  • physics
  • 3d
  • atmospheric
  • anime
  • book
  • colourful
  • puzzle

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Eversleep: Lunistice Gaiden (2021)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows

Eversleep: Lunistice Gaiden is a 3D Platformer created with simple but fun gameplay and a cute PS1/SEGA Saturn inspired artstyle in mind. Take the role of Hana the Tanuki and jump and fight through her dreams!


  • 3d
  • short
  • attack
  • score
  • retro
  • platform
  • cute
  • pixel
  • linear
  • colourful
  • old-school
  • family-friendly
  • arcade
  • single-player
  • controller-support

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