The Best Villain Games for Nintendo Switch

Update : Evil Wizard added at rank #3.
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Batmana: Arkham Knight (2015)

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Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch PC Windows Xbox One

In Batman: Arkham Knight, you'll experience the ultimate Batman adventure. Unleash your inner Caped Crusader, soar across Gotham's skyline, and topple super villains in your iconic Batmobile. Get lost in a compelling story, immerse yourself in a stunningly realistic Gotham City, and enjoy enhanced gameplay features. This explosive finale to the Arkham trilogy is a must-play for every Batman fan.

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What we like:
  • Immersive and detailed Gotham City
  • Engaging and complex story
  • Stunning graphics and excellent voice acting
  • Addictive gameplay with improved stealth mechanics
  • Batmobile integration for a more dynamic experience
What could be improved:
  • Forced use of the Batmobile in certain segments
  • Batmobile controls clunky
  • Controversial use of Denuvo anti-tamper software

  • superhero
  • tanks
  • vehicle
  • stealth
  • villain
  • open-world
  • combat
  • driving
  • fight
  • detective
  • narrative
  • battle
  • puzzle
  • story
  • combo

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LEGOA DC Super-Villains (2018)

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PC Windows Mac OS Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch

It's good to be bad… Embark on an all-new DC/LEGO® adventure by becoming the best villain the universe has seen. Players will create and play as an all-new super-villain throughout the game, unleashing mischievous antics and wreaking havoc in an action-packed story.

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  • villain
  • open-world
  • superhero
  • puzzle
  • lego
  • cooperative

3

Evil Wizard (2023)

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

Evil Wizard is a humor-filled action RPG that puts you in the shoes of a former Final Boss. Rise from defeat, rediscover long lost powers, and fight to reclaim your castle from an army of so-called heroes.

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  • villain
  • protagonist
  • dark
  • humor
  • cartoony
  • metroidvania
  • magic
  • rpg
  • comedy
  • action-adventure
  • hack-and-slash
  • dungeon-crawler
  • action
  • rogue-like
  • top-down

4

Batman: The Enemy Within (2017)

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In this latest chapter from the award-winning studio behind Batman - The Telltale Series, both Bruce Wayne and Batman will be forced into precarious new roles. The Riddler has returned to terrorize Gotham City, but his gruesome puzzles merely foreshadow an even greater crisis.


  • villain
  • quick-time-event
  • episodic
  • choices
  • story
  • superhero
  • narrative
  • detective
  • point-and-click
  • adventure
  • puzzle
  • violent
  • comic
  • crime
  • action

5

Underhero (2018)

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PC Windows Linux Mac OS Xbox One Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch

Underhero is a 2D side-scroller RPG adventure game with timing-based combat. It tells an intriguing and mysterious story, full of silly characters brimming with personality, quirky dialogue, and lots of weird humor. Inspired by Paper Mario games and RPGs in general, it tells the story of a world where the chosen hero has failed and an underling of the main villain takes his place as the new “hero”. Join the magical hilt Elizabeth the IV and the little Masked Kid, as they travel the world to restore Elizabeth’s long lost power, so they can defeat the tyrannical Mr. Stitches and save the world once and for all!

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  • rpg
  • protagonist
  • japanese
  • 2d
  • pixel
  • villain
  • scroller
  • turn-based
  • humor
  • conspiracy
  • jrpg
  • platform
  • dark
  • combat
  • colourful

6

DreamWorks Dragons: Dawn of New Riders (2019)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Xbox One

Join the new heroic duo, Scribbler and Patch, in an epic battle to save dragons and defeat the villain, Eir, who is controlling dragons to carry out her evil plans. 

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  • dragon
  • villain
  • action-adventure
  • battle

7

Nefarious (2017)

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Play as the villain in Nefarious! An action platformer where you globe hop between several kingdoms kidnapping princesses who alter gameplay in unique ways. Then thwart various heroes in reverse boss fights, recreated iconic battles where you control the boss.

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  • platform
  • villain
  • boss-fight
  • boss
  • robotnik
  • protagonist
  • 2d

8

DC Super Hero Girls: Teen Power (2021)

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Nintendo Switch

Join the fight as Wonder Woman, Supergirl, and Batgirl from the animated series DC Super Hero Girls. Explore Metropolis as your alter ego: a high school teenager. You can even rebuild the mysterious Hob’s Bay.

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  • superhero
  • crime-fighting
  • open-world
  • robots
  • villain
  • combo-building
  • brawler
  • battle
  • combat
  • fight
  • city-building
  • action
  • female
  • cash-grab
  • collect-a-thon

9

LEGO DC Super-Villains (2018)

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Nintendo Switch Mac OS PC Windows Xbox One Playstation 4

It's good to be bad… Embark on an all-new DC/LEGO® adventure by becoming the best villain the universe has seen. Players will create and play as an all-new super-villain throughout the game, unleashing mischievous antics and wreaking havoc in an action-packed story.


  • villain
  • open-world
  • lego
  • superhero
  • puzzle
  • adventure

10

ROBOTICSNOTES DaSH (2020)

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Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch PC Windows

Half a year after the events of ROBOTICS;NOTES ELITE, Kaito Yashio is introduced to Itaru Hashida through Nae Tennouji. Unsettling incidents start occurring all around them, harbingers of an event that will again plunge the world into chaos.

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  • story
  • crossover
  • robotics
  • visual-novel
  • eroge
  • anime
  • sci-fi
  • villain
  • mystery
  • light-hearted
  • character
  • western
  • spin-off
  • supernatural
  • fiction

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