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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88 Cuphead in the Delicious Last Course

(#8) It may only be DLC (see what they did there with the title?), but when the Delicious Last Course is as tasty as the original serving, it's hard to quibble. The first (and likely only) expansion to the award-winning 2017 cartoon platformer introduces a new playable character (Ms. Chalice) and just under five hours of new content, all with the same quality as the original game.

“The Delicious Last Course is everything Cuphead fans could have wanted from a DLC. It’s just as great as the original game, and just as gruelling to complete. As always, the animation work shines, and the gameplay is stellar too.” —Switch Player

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