The Best Underground Games for Nintendo Switch

Update : kallio added at rank #8.
Here are our 10 Best Underground Games for Nintendo Switch:
1

HAAK (2020)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows IOS iPhone Android

Explore the ruins of the once glorious city as Haak, the brave traveler. With retro-futuristic pixel world and hand-drawn graphics, this Metroidvania-style game will keep you hooked, using your hook, dash, and charged slash to uncover hidden rooms and secrets. Enjoy extremely good and fluid platforming, fun mechanics, solid level design and challenges that adapt to your skills. Make meaningful choices to change the game's fate with multiple endings. Join in and become the light that repels the darkness!


What we like:
  • Fun platforming
  • Great combat mechanics
  • Well-designed levels
  • Good controls
  • Engaging story and atmosphere
What could be improved:
  • Linear with stingy ability gating
  • Tedious and punishing platforming with dubious checkpoints
  • Inconsistent exploration
  • Poor translation
  • Lack of boss variety

  • platform
  • underground
  • dystopian
  • metroidvania
  • comic
  • post-apocalyptic
  • scroller
  • pixel
  • 2d
  • action-adventure
  • book
  • rpg
  • exploration
  • puzzle
  • combat

2

The Longing (2020)

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PC Windows Mac OS Linux Nintendo Switch

An unusual mix of adventure and idle game. In utter loneliness deep below the surface, it's your task to wait for the awakening of your king... for 400 days.

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  • choices
  • point-and-click
  • walking-simulator
  • underground
  • idler
  • multiple-endings
  • hand-drawn
  • idle
  • real-time
  • adventure
  • atmospheric
  • experimental
  • exploration
  • book
  • 2d

3

Mining Mechs (2023)

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

Unleash your inner miner as you commandeer a high-tech Mining Mech! Mine for valuable resources and upgrade your mech for even bigger hauls as you explore the underground. Fun to play alone or with up to 7 friends in online co-op multiplayer!


  • mech
  • mining
  • underground
  • cooperative
  • procedural
  • scroller
  • choices
  • robots
  • family-friendly
  • sandbox
  • crafting
  • colourful
  • pixel
  • exploration
  • adventure

4

Promesa (2020)

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PC Windows Mac OS Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch Xbox One

A contemplative experience where you’ll wander through the dreams, memories and fantasies emerging from a dialogue between a grandfather and his grandchild.

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  • surreal
  • underground
  • walking-simulator
  • short
  • experimental
  • relaxing
  • stylized
  • narration
  • pixel
  • psychological
  • cinematic
  • atmospheric
  • shooter
  • exploration
  • story

5

Carebotz (2021)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows

Carebotz is mixed the classic arcade space combat with Metroidvania elements. As a humble maintenance droid BIBZ, your daily tasks might appear mundane, but when the main computer awakes from hibernation, nothing is what it seems!

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  • underground
  • metroidvania
  • shoot-em-up
  • 2.5d
  • arena
  • shooter
  • bullet-hell
  • flight
  • exploration
  • atmospheric
  • minimalist
  • stylized
  • space
  • colourful
  • sci-fi

6

Turret Rampage (2023)

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

Defend humanity from underground monsters as the last standing turret! Force burrowers out of the ground with an artificial earthquake, capture elusive ghosts with silver shackles, and shatter alien bugs into pieces using powerful rockets!


  • tower-defense
  • shoot-em-up
  • underground
  • attack
  • score
  • pixel
  • fast-paced
  • robots
  • post-apocalyptic
  • arcade
  • quick-thinking
  • futuristic

7

Knowledge Keeper (2024)

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PC Windows Xbox One Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch

In this game, you will become a keeper of knowledge, collecting shards of divine crystals. Look for the right way to crystals. Avoid dangerous obstacles. Teleport from one space to another to get closer to your goal.


  • sokoban
  • underground
  • logic
  • family-friendly
  • magic
  • pixel
  • dungeon-crawler
  • dungeon
  • mystery
  • mythology
  • historical
  • alternate
  • futuristic
  • cute
  • colourful

8

kallio (2024)

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Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 PC Windows Mac OS Linux

Help players trapped in a collapsed mine find their way out through different levels in a puzzle-style game, either in single-player or multiplayer online.


  • underground
  • mining
  • perma-death
  • 2d
  • mystery
  • tabletop
  • multiplayer
  • dungeon
  • platform
  • puzzle
  • cooperative
  • hidden-object
  • duck
  • action-adventure
  • time-management

9

Cellar (2016)

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PC Windows Linux Mac OS Playstation 3 Playstation 4 vita Nintendo Switch

A story-focused game about six strangers stuck together for a month, and a machine that must be kept running.


  • underground
  • pixel
  • philosophical
  • dark
  • conversation
  • story
  • fiction
  • emotional
  • atmospheric
  • single-player
  • time-management
  • interactive
  • horror
  • casual
  • short

10

Super Ninja Miner (2022)

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

He slices! He dices! He... mines? Tag along with this crazy ninja on a treasure-filled adventure.

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  • underground
  • scroller
  • platform
  • 2d
  • dungeon-crawler
  • puzzle
  • logic
  • hand-drawn
  • mining
  • ninja
  • arcade
  • controller-support

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