The Friday Ten: Celebrate the Nintendo Switch's first birthday with these games

List by Matt S.

Can you believe that the Nintendo Switch is one year old? Only one year old? I genuinely can’t remember not having that console at hand; it gives me a home console experience while on the go, and that’s something really valuable to me. In just a short year, this has become my go-to console, and wherever possible I try and play my games on it.

Completely reversing its fortunes with the Wii U, and even 3DS (which was successful, but third parties were more hesitant to support) Nintendo has also been able to get a truly staggering number of developers to put games on the Switch. We’re used to three or four game releases per week on those older consoles. On the Switch, it’s as many as a dozen. And as great as that has been, it has had the side effect that there are some great games on the console that have flown under the radar or have been forgotten quickly.

So we could have done a top 10 Nintendo Switch games to date list. But that list would be all the usual suspects; Zelda, Mario, Lyn Warriors – I mean Fire Emblem Warriors. Instead we’re dong a list of ten hidden gems on the Switch you really ought to be playing.

Enjoy, and happy birthday, Switch!

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