The best Nintendo Switch games of 2023

Looking back over the past 12 months, it’s been an incredibly fruitful year for gamers, with the Switch enjoying an excellent seventh year on store shelves.

Industry-wide layoffs in the second half of the year created a sobering counterpoint to the glut of great games, and occasionally the backlog of pandemic-related projects that flooded 2023 made it difficult to keep track of everything we’d like to, but it was a good year for everyone playing video games.

Although the future is uncertain in many respects, the quality cannot be denied and amount of software launched on all platforms in 2023, as our (and we are sure your) the backlog can testify. Here at Nintendo Life, we’ve once again compiled your picks for the best games of the year — as user-rated for each game in our game database — into a dynamic community-ranked Top 50 Switch Games of the Year: 2023 Edition.

The year started quietly, with little of note on Nintendo’s announced slate of first-party releases aside from January’s Fire Emblem Engage and the marquee TOTK, but the calendar soon swelled with the highly anticipated Advance Wars 1+2, the excellent Pikmin 4, and the delightful Super Mario Bros. Wonder — the first for an all-new 2D Mario in over a decade. Throw in some surprising ports like Quake II and Vampire Survivors, third-party classics like Theatrhythm Final Bar Line and Persona 5 Tactica, and indie gems like Sea of ​​Stars and Blasphemous 2, and 2023 was bursting at the seams. of amazing Switch games.

But where do they stack up against each other? We asked Nintendo Life readers to rate the games this year, and the result is the list below. Please note: The order can and probably will change, even after publication, subject to these fluctuating user ratings. That means it’s not too late to rate your collection and influence the list, even as you read this. Just click on the star icon and rate the game from 1-10.

Can’t see your favorite? Use the search bar below to find what you’re looking for and rate the game(s) accordingly. Note. To be eligible, the game must be rated by at least 30 users.

Looking for personal picks from the Nintendo Life team? Check them out in the staff rewards overview below. Otherwise, let’s take a look at the 50 best Switch games of 2023, according to your rank…