The Best Nintendo Switch Games of 2022

by Jason Dietz, Metacritic Features Editor – December 31, 2022

Which Nintendo Switch games impressed professional reviewers the most during the past year? We rank the best-reviewed Switch games released between January 1, 2022 and December 31, 2022 by Metascore. Games must have at least 7 reviews from professional critics to be eligible for inclusion. (All scores listed here are from December 29, 2022.)

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(#30) 83 Nobody Saves the World

(#29) 84 Retro Bowl

(#28) 84 Infernax

(#27) 84 AI: The Somnium Files - nirvanA Initiative

(#26) 84 SNK vs. Capcom: Card Fighters' Clash

(#25) 85 Tactics Ogre: Reborn

(#24) 85 Kirby and the Forgotten Land
(pictured above) The newest Nintendo-exclusive Kirby game finds the pink puffball inside a fully 3D world for the first time in the main series. The result is one of the best Kirby titles to date, and a big improvement over the previous Switch release in the main series.

(#23) 85 Return to Monkey Island

(#22) 85 Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak

(#21) 85 Easy Come Easy Golf

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