Over the past seven years, the bounty of software that has come to the Switch is truly incredible. You could argue that, in fact, there is too much great stuff has been released — too much to at least play all you want.
To clear things up — we’re not complaining! But considering the games that have you come to the Switch, look at the ones that are MIA and wonder why.
We’ve previously looked at various games we’d like to see come to the Switch, whether they’re potential ports, retro games on Nintendo Switch Online, or dormant series we’d like to see return. Recently, our video team sat down and looked at a slew of games that, surprisingly in most cases, still haven’t found their way onto Nintendo’s handheld hybrid, which is entering its eighth year.
The video above showcases all the games below, though if you’d rather browse the list in good old fashioned scrollable text form, we’ve got you covered too. Here, we’ve distilled a few of the 33 into individual entries to keep things tidy.
Xenoblade Chronicles X is the missing piece of the Xenoblade puzzle on Switch, a sprawling open-world epic that we’d love to see emerge from its Wii U enclosure and be enjoyed by everyone with a Switch. Well, maybe all is ambitious, but at the time of writing there are about 120 of them million more switches in the world than Wii Us. They should all have a chance to pilot the Skella.
We’ll have Luigi’s Mansion 2 on Switch in June, and we already have the excellent LM3. It would be weird if only the original was missing, wouldn’t it? It was re-released on the 3DS, a system that currently equals the Switch in the number of Luigi’s Mansions it hosts. We can’t have that.
Okay, technically this is on Switch via the Nintendo Switch Online expansion pack in Japan. And you can play it very easily, although you’ll get a little stuck if your Japanese isn’t up to par.



