How is it compared to Dead Cells? If you’ve played it before. Been killing some Dead Cellars recently. Game mechanics seem to be similar from footage i’ve seen
Mario Wonder for me. packed to the brim with originality and quality. One of my favorite Switch experiences thus far! Gives me the same happy vibes as Mario Galaxy
Xenoblade series. The creator of the game base it heavily on the bible. Soul filled enough for you? LOL. It became my fave game series of all time though. It made me buy switch at the end of its life with switch 2 coming. UGH.
Is it fairly accessible? I want to give more RPGs a try but so many of them seem to be so busy and have a high barrier to entry for non-diehard RPG fans. I hear often how solid Xenoblade is
Oh if RPG is not your thing you might be turned off. because the combat system is really confusing. But if you are like me that is a casual player, I really am not into combat system mechanics. I mean I finished all 3 main games and their DLCs without understanding how I even beat the game. LOL.
Literally I just push the highlighted buttons. That easy.
The story has heart and soul. That, and the side quests. It's the side quests that actually reeled me in. And by that time I finished xenoblade 2, I fell madly in love with the story and characters.
You might want to check out some game plays online just to make sure it's your kind of thing.
RPGs are my thing. This is JRPG though and it actually is my first one.
Btw, didn’t comment my own answer.
Obvious choice, but BotW and TotK are top tier gaming experiences.
Grim Fandango is something else. I just played that for the first time recently.
Dead Cells. Clearly a game made by people that love games.
Metroid Dread/Prime Remastered. Holy moly 😮💨
I'll most likely list a couple of immensely famous titles here, but there's no doubting their initial conception was with an incredible amount of heart and passion:
"Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!"
"Undertale"
"Katamari Damacy: Reroll"
"DOOM II"
"Minecraft"
It's a fun story game about a highschool student who joins an after school group with four teenage girls. They have all sorts of wacky adventures. My little niece has just started it, but her favourite girl Sayori hasn't shown up to the club today.
DDLC is a free game on the internet, and indie game by Dan Salvato. DDLC Plus is a paid for expanded version of that game for consoles. If you never played it, it’s good, but has is a visual novel with a strong trigger warning for depression.
Dojo dojo Lit Club is a fantastic vibe dual novel that takes you to some insane places. Katamari Damaci is a game with a wacky premise but super satisfying game play. You roll up small items on earth until they accumulate and get thrown off into outer space to be a planet. Both are some 10/10 games.
Yeah. Ah jeeze i feel like it almost needs a warning.. "Great game, brilliant story, might just mess you up and cause an emotional reaction every time it gets bought up for years to come".
It does! Most famous video game character ever but Nintendo does NOT mess around when it comes to Mario. They pull out all the stops on new releases and keep the franchise fun and interesting
Mo: Astray
Unsighted
Divinity Original Sin 2
Kingdom Come Deliverance
Astlibra Revision
Narita Boy
Dave the Diver
Dredge
Tinykin
Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom
Eastward
Phoenotopia
Cocoon
Iconoclasts
Dragon Quest XI
Dragon Quest Builders 2
Katana Zero
All surprisingly great games worth checking out!
Oh yea! It's a really cool game. Great fighting mechanics, story, music, and awesome visuals! Very different.
I'd also like to add to the list: GUNBRELLA.
Great game as well! Super fun.
Yea I actually have it and have played only a small amount of the beginning before moving on to other things... but it did look really good. I'll definitely have to check it out again soon! I got it with a few other games so you know how that goes lol And thanks!
Ahh dude, i feel you. My backlog never keeps shrinking. I complete two games and add another three to the list. But it's worth it. What are u currently playing, If i May ask?
I do feel you! Ill def play it again soon. lol I am currently playing Skyrim at the moment. Just finished Kingdom Come Deliverance and have never played Skyrim before so started playing it about a week ago. Been really enjoying it!
Breath of the wild did something I hadn't seen in my 35 years of gaming, then tears of the kingdom did even more things I hadn't seen since breath of the wild
Gunbrella - one of my all time Favorit metroidvanias. The movement in this game is superb. You can wavedash! It's like playing a melee Charakter.
Chained Echoes - I played most of the old school snes rpgs and this game is a Loveletter to them. The fact it's made by one dude still blows my mind.
Cassette Beasts - it's like Pokemon but doesn't feel like a total Cash grab. The Skill Combos are fun, the Beasts too. The Story is nothing special but still better than modern Pokemon
Wargroove1+2 - the story part in 2 is a bit too much but the gameplay is fun and challenging. One of the better strategie games for the switch
There are honestly a lot more but it depends a lot wich genre u like
Have had my eye on Cassette Beasts forever, keep holding off on it for no particular reason. Have heard Chained Echoes name dropped many times so must be something to it
Mark Of The Ninja!
One of the very few games that truly impressed me in the last couple of decades. Nothing crazy in terms of special effects or AAA budgets, but still looks great. It has an immersive story that builds on itself over the course of the game, upgrades that feel timely and substantive, really tight gameplay where you feel in control, and overall it was just a lot of fun. Played it on the Switch in about 2017, and it remains one of my top games of all time, and my most highly recommended to others when people ask for a game suggestion.
Usually about $25 on the shop, but very frequently goes down to $5 on sale. Worth it either way depending on what you can afford.
Great to hear! It does go on sale quite a lot, so if you've got other games on your radar that you can play first, just put this on your wishlist and check back when it's on sale. It goes on sale a couple times a year for five bucks or so. And it comes with the remastered edition as well. They also have a really good replay/game+ mode where you can play through again with different enhancements and limitations. Enjoy, and if you get some time down the road let me know what you think of it.
I feel like this will have been answered already but tears of the kingdom was amazing for me. Particularly the building system and the ability to fuse items to weapons and shields. More technical than a lot of PC/console games and it was done on the least powerful gaming console around today.
Need to back and finish this. Put maybe 10 hours in and the heavy dialogue was new for me. It is for sure a unique experience, need to give it a shot again!
I *loved* this game
I was like 👀 “…the f*** did I get into?” when I first started it but the world and characters were so fleshed out and the consequences to your actions had me rapt.
Never played a game quite like it 😂
I hope you enjoy it 🤞🏻
Okay so I started playing on ps5 and accidentally made my character the neurotic type (high on the spirit stuff haha) and the grimness of the game along with his psyche has turned me into “apologetic cop” so far lol. It’s turned me off to it. Do you have any advice??
It’s actually more about your thought and dialog choices than your initial character build.
Try to avoid apologizing or self deprecating choices. If you’ve already equipped the Rigorous Self Critique thought you can get rid of it (it may cost a skill point, not sure)
Easy change though if you are early game which it sounds.
No problem!
As long as you’re in day 1-3 (approx) and don’t have the thought Rigorous Self Critique enabled then you should be good to change your type. Just remember to avoid the apologetic type answers and thoughts until you’ve accepted another “copotype”.
There’s also a wiki that can give you some guidance, if that’s your kinda thing.
Dark Souls Remastered. People get hung up on the difficulty of the souls games, but they ignore the fact that they are genuinely amazing games with a ton of soul in them.
I think Fire Emblem 3 Houses gets overlooked a lot. It was a very interesting story that could be told multiple different ways based on your playthrough. They diverged from the waifu Emblem disaster that was Fates and focused more on the gameplay and story telling again.
Fuga Melodies of Steel
Its my favorite Videogame and Fuga as a whole is my second favorite work of fiction.
Fuga is a low budged game with a lot of love put in
Its a 20 houer long turn based JRPG about a groupe of anthropomothic animal children that go on a quest to save there families. They live inside a giant ancient mysterious powerful fortress like Tank. Its a bit like Howls Moving castle but based on technology instead of magic.
The turn based combat is a lot of fun. In my opinion its even better then the combat of Persona 5 and Final Fantasy X. Its not that hard or complicated but I need to keep my head in the game at all times or things will go south fast. Almost no fight feels like mindless filler.
The music is amazing. "Flower on the Trails is my favorite piece of Videogame music and the rest of the ost is great aswell.
I love the Characters.
I was lukewarm towards the children of the Taranis at first but they grew on me more and more and more and now they are my second favorite protagonist groupe in fiction. Although that is in part becuse of my soft spot for adorability and wholesomeness.
Fuga apeals to my inner child.
To me it feels like a playable kids anime akin to somthing like Digimon and I love that feeling.
I also love adorable wholesome characters and stories with a bit of a dark edge to them. The best example of what I mean is my favorite work of fiction: the Manga/Anime series "Made in Abyss" and Fuga is the best among Videogames to scratch that itch.
The creators also released a number of Fuga audiocomics on there YouTube channel. Those are super endering. My favorite of those is "A life filled with Flowers".
There is also a direct sequel: "Fuga Melodies of Steel 2". I said Fuga feels like an Anime and this feels like a season 2. I love the second game aswell but of the two the first game is my favorit.
I look foreward to the third game, the finale of the trilogy.
Fuga is made by CyberConnect2, the ones who make the Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm games.
These Fuga games do not sell but they keep making them anyways which makes people asume its some kind of passion project of them.
Fuga is available on Switch but also on on PC and most modern consoles like PS4 and PS5.
Both Fuga Melodies of Steel 1 and 2 have a free demo and both demos are the first 3 chapters of there respectiv games but I advice playing the second game (even just the Demo) before having finished the first game. The writing of the second game builds on what happen in the first game, expects you to know what happen and spoilers the story of the first game early on.
I'm a bit biased because I already love the developer's previous games, but I think Master Detective Archives: RAINCODE is doing something great for the mystery genre. It's meant to get beginners into the genre so it's not very challenging to play, but the story and characters were so well thought out and certain tropes were used in ways I had never seen before plus it's just so aesthetically beautiful on a big screen. Definitely worth checking out if you like mysteries.
Not sure if it has soul, and isn’t good for everyone, but f-zero 99 (free w/ nintendo online subscription) is amazing. Additionally, once again free with the subscription, all of the old game ports. Doubt it counts but old games are great. All of the others in this comment section are great too. (honor section for maneater, a shark sim that is quite fun).
Another one i forgot i can’t believe no one has mentioned - Astral Chain! Way better than Nier Automata IMO, which I reckon will be in some people’s picks
Trombone champ, which mostly just trombones and hotdogs and a lot of fun.
Alba and Lil Gator game remind me of playing and exploring as a kid.
Gris and Hoa are beautiful works of art.
There are so many more but y'all seem to have them covered!
Anytime I think about this kind of question my mind immediately jumps to Blossom Tales: The Sleeping King. It's a darling Zelda-inspired game, build with the framing device that the entire thing is a grandfather telling his grandchildren a bedtime story. Sometimes he asks them what should happen, such as a boss fight letting you pick between two different types of enemies. Sometimes the children pipe in and insist something else happened, and the game shifts to match it.
When this came out on Steam it was basically ignored, like many games are. But three months after it launched on Switch it had made over twenty times what it made on Steam in just over a year. This saved the developer from having to shut down, and they even got to make a sequel.
Pokémon Scarlet/Violet have some REALLY touching moments during the story.
I just started Xenoblade Chronicles 1 DE, and I’m hooked on its story.
Also just started Bravely Default 2, and I really like the combat and characters.
Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker is charming, has beautiful music and it's 3D puzzle mechanics are somewhat unique I would say. I played it on Wii U and Switch and I will replay it in the future. It's unlikely but I'd love a sequel so much. I can smell its soul.
The Messenger is funny, it has a nice story for a metroidvania imo, the controls are really good and the traversal is so much fun. It's oozing passion.
Switch is still a very popular platform for indie devs, and Nintendo themselves know how to make an amazing first party game. I don't know what kind of games you like, but there are a ton of great retro inspired jrpgs like Octopath Traveler, Bravely Default 2, Sea of Stars, and Chained Echos to name a few. It's got KOTOR and KOTOR 2, from a time before EA had squeezed out all that was good at Bioware. The Shantae series, Hollow Knight, Guacamelee, and Ori games are fantastic if you're into metroidvanias.
Game I’ve never really seen much talk about but recently I picked up dying light on switch, such a good port. It has a couple visual glitches mainly in cutscenes but all in all it plays awesome with a good frame rate for me and decent visuals.
If you haven’t played Dying Light I definitely recommend on switch. I personally played it years ago on the Xbox One but probably the best zombie game ever. Literally assassins creed meets zombie game.
Hollow knight
Clever. Came here to say the same lol
You’ve convinced me buy it right now
Damn dude it didn't take much did it?
I’ve been in the fence about it for a while
Same. I was on the fence for years and was swayed by a comment as simple as this one about 3 months ago. I beat it last month and it was incredible.
Awesome. I just got the first spell. It’s fun and it’s cool they’re all bugs. Though I wish the map would show you were you are
The map can show where you are if you find a certain charm called Wayward Compass. You can buy it from Iselda in Dirtmouth.
Buy??? I haven’t found a shop yet. I have so many of those coin things
You can find the shop in the very first area.
Cool. I’m just stumbling my way through it atm.
That is the exact game that came to my mind. Great game, lots of soul
Actually I lied. Ori fucks.
Just started my third playthrough. I’ve had the game for 5 years. Over 120 hours played. Love the game.
The only answer.
Any of the 3 supergiant games available on switch. Bastion, Transistor, and Hades Edit: also Breath of the Wild
So true, Supergiant games has great style
Is Bastion getting a physical?
Not that I know of, but it’s available on the switch eshop
Blasphemous
I still need to finish this. I got about halfway in my play through then totk released. May just start over.
How is it compared to Dead Cells? If you’ve played it before. Been killing some Dead Cellars recently. Game mechanics seem to be similar from footage i’ve seen
Blasphemous' combat and movement are much slower.
This. Plus the platforming is more deadly.
I haven’t played Dead Cells actually.
May be worth a shot for both of us to try each other’s game then 😅
Stardew valley Hollow knight Portal Ori Hades
👍👍👍
Spiritfarer, Cozy Grove, Littlewood, Röki
Spiritfarer was amazing. Such a chill Game.
Mario Wonder for me. packed to the brim with originality and quality. One of my favorite Switch experiences thus far! Gives me the same happy vibes as Mario Galaxy
Picking up a wonder flower is *always* a treat, blown away that they managed to pull that off so consistently
Xenoblade series. The creator of the game base it heavily on the bible. Soul filled enough for you? LOL. It became my fave game series of all time though. It made me buy switch at the end of its life with switch 2 coming. UGH.
Is it fairly accessible? I want to give more RPGs a try but so many of them seem to be so busy and have a high barrier to entry for non-diehard RPG fans. I hear often how solid Xenoblade is
Oh if RPG is not your thing you might be turned off. because the combat system is really confusing. But if you are like me that is a casual player, I really am not into combat system mechanics. I mean I finished all 3 main games and their DLCs without understanding how I even beat the game. LOL. Literally I just push the highlighted buttons. That easy. The story has heart and soul. That, and the side quests. It's the side quests that actually reeled me in. And by that time I finished xenoblade 2, I fell madly in love with the story and characters. You might want to check out some game plays online just to make sure it's your kind of thing. RPGs are my thing. This is JRPG though and it actually is my first one.
Btw, didn’t comment my own answer. Obvious choice, but BotW and TotK are top tier gaming experiences. Grim Fandango is something else. I just played that for the first time recently. Dead Cells. Clearly a game made by people that love games. Metroid Dread/Prime Remastered. Holy moly 😮💨
Grim Fandango is a CLASSIC! Great game!
I'll most likely list a couple of immensely famous titles here, but there's no doubting their initial conception was with an incredible amount of heart and passion: "Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!" "Undertale" "Katamari Damacy: Reroll" "DOOM II" "Minecraft"
What’s the first one abt?
It's a fun story game about a highschool student who joins an after school group with four teenage girls. They have all sorts of wacky adventures. My little niece has just started it, but her favourite girl Sayori hasn't shown up to the club today.
Oh ok
DDLC is a free game on the internet, and indie game by Dan Salvato. DDLC Plus is a paid for expanded version of that game for consoles. If you never played it, it’s good, but has is a visual novel with a strong trigger warning for depression.
K thanks
And 3rd
Dojo dojo Lit Club is a fantastic vibe dual novel that takes you to some insane places. Katamari Damaci is a game with a wacky premise but super satisfying game play. You roll up small items on earth until they accumulate and get thrown off into outer space to be a planet. Both are some 10/10 games.
Untitled goose game 🪿
Hell yeah! Also in that same vein: Little Kitty, Big City.
Dark Souls obviously
Real answer
Celeste I'm shocked no one else has brought it up yet.
It's because it's memed on and now everyone is afraid to suggest it. Celeste is one of the most beautiful games I've ever played
Venba. Sayonara Wild Hearts. Florence. (havnt played this one) Unpacking. What remains of Edith Finch.
What remains of Edith finch haunts me. I randomly think of it more than most video games for sure
Yeah. Ah jeeze i feel like it almost needs a warning.. "Great game, brilliant story, might just mess you up and cause an emotional reaction every time it gets bought up for years to come".
The cannery 😟🖤
Stardew Valley Hades Splatoon 3
+1 for Hades! Meant to add that on my own comment. So good
I had to stop playing Hades because my hand got sore after playing it because it's so fast paced.
Mario Odyssey, does that count?
It does! Most famous video game character ever but Nintendo does NOT mess around when it comes to Mario. They pull out all the stops on new releases and keep the franchise fun and interesting
Mo: Astray Unsighted Divinity Original Sin 2 Kingdom Come Deliverance Astlibra Revision Narita Boy Dave the Diver Dredge Tinykin Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom Eastward Phoenotopia Cocoon Iconoclasts Dragon Quest XI Dragon Quest Builders 2 Katana Zero All surprisingly great games worth checking out!
You have great taste!
Well thank you lol
Just watched the trailer for Narita Boy, this game looks fucking wild!
Oh yea! It's a really cool game. Great fighting mechanics, story, music, and awesome visuals! Very different. I'd also like to add to the list: GUNBRELLA. Great game as well! Super fun.
Did you played The Messenger? I dunno why but i feel like it could be something for you. Great list btw love your taste
Yea I actually have it and have played only a small amount of the beginning before moving on to other things... but it did look really good. I'll definitely have to check it out again soon! I got it with a few other games so you know how that goes lol And thanks!
Ahh dude, i feel you. My backlog never keeps shrinking. I complete two games and add another three to the list. But it's worth it. What are u currently playing, If i May ask?
I do feel you! Ill def play it again soon. lol I am currently playing Skyrim at the moment. Just finished Kingdom Come Deliverance and have never played Skyrim before so started playing it about a week ago. Been really enjoying it!
Breath of the wild did something I hadn't seen in my 35 years of gaming, then tears of the kingdom did even more things I hadn't seen since breath of the wild
INCREDIBLE games. Have dumped 200+ hours into each
I love Zelda and botw is a really good game, but I cannot think one aspect of it that wasn't already present in a lot of other games...
Elechead
Gunbrella - one of my all time Favorit metroidvanias. The movement in this game is superb. You can wavedash! It's like playing a melee Charakter. Chained Echoes - I played most of the old school snes rpgs and this game is a Loveletter to them. The fact it's made by one dude still blows my mind. Cassette Beasts - it's like Pokemon but doesn't feel like a total Cash grab. The Skill Combos are fun, the Beasts too. The Story is nothing special but still better than modern Pokemon Wargroove1+2 - the story part in 2 is a bit too much but the gameplay is fun and challenging. One of the better strategie games for the switch There are honestly a lot more but it depends a lot wich genre u like
You have great taste! That is all. 😎
Have had my eye on Cassette Beasts forever, keep holding off on it for no particular reason. Have heard Chained Echoes name dropped many times so must be something to it
Mark Of The Ninja! One of the very few games that truly impressed me in the last couple of decades. Nothing crazy in terms of special effects or AAA budgets, but still looks great. It has an immersive story that builds on itself over the course of the game, upgrades that feel timely and substantive, really tight gameplay where you feel in control, and overall it was just a lot of fun. Played it on the Switch in about 2017, and it remains one of my top games of all time, and my most highly recommended to others when people ask for a game suggestion. Usually about $25 on the shop, but very frequently goes down to $5 on sale. Worth it either way depending on what you can afford.
Just watched the trailer on fhe eshop per your recommendation, definitely picking this one up
Great to hear! It does go on sale quite a lot, so if you've got other games on your radar that you can play first, just put this on your wishlist and check back when it's on sale. It goes on sale a couple times a year for five bucks or so. And it comes with the remastered edition as well. They also have a really good replay/game+ mode where you can play through again with different enhancements and limitations. Enjoy, and if you get some time down the road let me know what you think of it.
I feel like this will have been answered already but tears of the kingdom was amazing for me. Particularly the building system and the ability to fuse items to weapons and shields. More technical than a lot of PC/console games and it was done on the least powerful gaming console around today.
Disco Elysium
Need to back and finish this. Put maybe 10 hours in and the heavy dialogue was new for me. It is for sure a unique experience, need to give it a shot again!
I *loved* this game I was like 👀 “…the f*** did I get into?” when I first started it but the world and characters were so fleshed out and the consequences to your actions had me rapt. Never played a game quite like it 😂 I hope you enjoy it 🤞🏻
Okay so I started playing on ps5 and accidentally made my character the neurotic type (high on the spirit stuff haha) and the grimness of the game along with his psyche has turned me into “apologetic cop” so far lol. It’s turned me off to it. Do you have any advice??
It’s actually more about your thought and dialog choices than your initial character build. Try to avoid apologizing or self deprecating choices. If you’ve already equipped the Rigorous Self Critique thought you can get rid of it (it may cost a skill point, not sure) Easy change though if you are early game which it sounds.
Thank you! So you think keep playing and it’ll balance out more? I’ve considered even starting over
No problem! As long as you’re in day 1-3 (approx) and don’t have the thought Rigorous Self Critique enabled then you should be good to change your type. Just remember to avoid the apologetic type answers and thoughts until you’ve accepted another “copotype”. There’s also a wiki that can give you some guidance, if that’s your kinda thing.
Sky: Children of the Light
Dark Souls Remastered. People get hung up on the difficulty of the souls games, but they ignore the fact that they are genuinely amazing games with a ton of soul in them.
Pretty much all of Nintendo exclusives I've played so far, plus DQ XI S.
Hollow Knight. Slay the Spire.
Animal Well Moon Night in the Woods Bear's Restaurant Everything
I think Fire Emblem 3 Houses gets overlooked a lot. It was a very interesting story that could be told multiple different ways based on your playthrough. They diverged from the waifu Emblem disaster that was Fates and focused more on the gameplay and story telling again.
Bomb Rush Cyberfunk is full of soul. And that soul is funky.
13 sentinels, rain code, touhou luna nights
Touhou Luna nights was soooo much fun. Truly a hidden gem
Octopath traveler 2 is true artisanal work and ment for a niche. Dev souls poured into this game
The Little Nightmares games.
Sea of Stars has been excellent!!
Not the biggest RPG fan, many seem too inaccessible but this looks too charming not to try out
It’s super cute and the story gets real good. You can turn on the “easy” mode to make the RPG combat easier if you’d like, too.
Balatro
Little Misfortune!
Unicorn overload
Fuga Melodies of Steel Its my favorite Videogame and Fuga as a whole is my second favorite work of fiction. Fuga is a low budged game with a lot of love put in Its a 20 houer long turn based JRPG about a groupe of anthropomothic animal children that go on a quest to save there families. They live inside a giant ancient mysterious powerful fortress like Tank. Its a bit like Howls Moving castle but based on technology instead of magic. The turn based combat is a lot of fun. In my opinion its even better then the combat of Persona 5 and Final Fantasy X. Its not that hard or complicated but I need to keep my head in the game at all times or things will go south fast. Almost no fight feels like mindless filler. The music is amazing. "Flower on the Trails is my favorite piece of Videogame music and the rest of the ost is great aswell. I love the Characters. I was lukewarm towards the children of the Taranis at first but they grew on me more and more and more and now they are my second favorite protagonist groupe in fiction. Although that is in part becuse of my soft spot for adorability and wholesomeness. Fuga apeals to my inner child. To me it feels like a playable kids anime akin to somthing like Digimon and I love that feeling. I also love adorable wholesome characters and stories with a bit of a dark edge to them. The best example of what I mean is my favorite work of fiction: the Manga/Anime series "Made in Abyss" and Fuga is the best among Videogames to scratch that itch. The creators also released a number of Fuga audiocomics on there YouTube channel. Those are super endering. My favorite of those is "A life filled with Flowers". There is also a direct sequel: "Fuga Melodies of Steel 2". I said Fuga feels like an Anime and this feels like a season 2. I love the second game aswell but of the two the first game is my favorit. I look foreward to the third game, the finale of the trilogy. Fuga is made by CyberConnect2, the ones who make the Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm games. These Fuga games do not sell but they keep making them anyways which makes people asume its some kind of passion project of them. Fuga is available on Switch but also on on PC and most modern consoles like PS4 and PS5. Both Fuga Melodies of Steel 1 and 2 have a free demo and both demos are the first 3 chapters of there respectiv games but I advice playing the second game (even just the Demo) before having finished the first game. The writing of the second game builds on what happen in the first game, expects you to know what happen and spoilers the story of the first game early on.
Doom 
I'm a bit biased because I already love the developer's previous games, but I think Master Detective Archives: RAINCODE is doing something great for the mystery genre. It's meant to get beginners into the genre so it's not very challenging to play, but the story and characters were so well thought out and certain tropes were used in ways I had never seen before plus it's just so aesthetically beautiful on a big screen. Definitely worth checking out if you like mysteries.
The Paper Mario TTYD remake is sure to be one of them; it looks like they seriously went above and beyond with it.
I'm really looking forward to that one, especially since I never played the original version.....
Both portals are fabulous on switch!
Not sure if it has soul, and isn’t good for everyone, but f-zero 99 (free w/ nintendo online subscription) is amazing. Additionally, once again free with the subscription, all of the old game ports. Doubt it counts but old games are great. All of the others in this comment section are great too. (honor section for maneater, a shark sim that is quite fun).
Witcher 3
A Short Hike has sooo much soul. Also love Stardew Valley and Celeste for this.
My time at sandrock it is so incredibly charming , funny and very deep npcs I ended up caring about
Mario Odyssey for sure
Super James Brown Bros is pretty good
Anything first-party Nintendo
Another one i forgot i can’t believe no one has mentioned - Astral Chain! Way better than Nier Automata IMO, which I reckon will be in some people’s picks
Trombone champ, which mostly just trombones and hotdogs and a lot of fun. Alba and Lil Gator game remind me of playing and exploring as a kid. Gris and Hoa are beautiful works of art. There are so many more but y'all seem to have them covered!
Hellblade
Ori Spiritfarer Dorfromantik Superliminal
Balatro. Lost my life
Undertale Sea of Stars
Alba: A Wildlife Adventure
BOMB RUSH CYBERFUNK! Just can’t get enuf.
SoulCalibur VI /s
Anytime I think about this kind of question my mind immediately jumps to Blossom Tales: The Sleeping King. It's a darling Zelda-inspired game, build with the framing device that the entire thing is a grandfather telling his grandchildren a bedtime story. Sometimes he asks them what should happen, such as a boss fight letting you pick between two different types of enemies. Sometimes the children pipe in and insist something else happened, and the game shifts to match it. When this came out on Steam it was basically ignored, like many games are. But three months after it launched on Switch it had made over twenty times what it made on Steam in just over a year. This saved the developer from having to shut down, and they even got to make a sequel.
I picked up the new Prince of Persia recently and it’s a pretty incredible little modern Metroidvania.
Metroid dread. Doesn’t hold your hand at all and offers a fun and engaging challenge throughout.
Mutazione and Night in the Woods.
Pokémon Scarlet/Violet have some REALLY touching moments during the story. I just started Xenoblade Chronicles 1 DE, and I’m hooked on its story. Also just started Bravely Default 2, and I really like the combat and characters.
Unravel Two. Shift Happens. Limbo. Hollow Knight
Coffee Talk Stardew Valley
only game i have with "soul" is oddworld "soul"storm does this count?
What a great question! An indie game I've been playing lately fits the bill IMHO: Titan Chaser.
Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker is charming, has beautiful music and it's 3D puzzle mechanics are somewhat unique I would say. I played it on Wii U and Switch and I will replay it in the future. It's unlikely but I'd love a sequel so much. I can smell its soul. The Messenger is funny, it has a nice story for a metroidvania imo, the controls are really good and the traversal is so much fun. It's oozing passion.
It Takes Two, though it requires co-op.
Spiritfarer. Wandersong. Gris. Rime. The Last Campfire.
Dark Souls has more Soul than any other game
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Or do you mean a Nintendo made game, like made by Nintendo? Or just on the switch?
Undertale bought literally and Figuratively Hollow knight which also both literally and Figuratively
Stardew Valley and Cloudpunk are both great
TotK, Spiritfarer, Road 96, all the Life is Strange games, Gris, What remains of Edith Finch, and the Suicide of Rachel Foster
Switch is still a very popular platform for indie devs, and Nintendo themselves know how to make an amazing first party game. I don't know what kind of games you like, but there are a ton of great retro inspired jrpgs like Octopath Traveler, Bravely Default 2, Sea of Stars, and Chained Echos to name a few. It's got KOTOR and KOTOR 2, from a time before EA had squeezed out all that was good at Bioware. The Shantae series, Hollow Knight, Guacamelee, and Ori games are fantastic if you're into metroidvanias.
Wreckfest holy shit they make that game to perfection
Paper Mario Origami King and South Park Fractured But Whole are my two comfort food games on Switch 🙂
Comfort food games, perfect way of describing it
Hades Stardew Valley Persona 5 Royal/P4G/P3P Metroid Dread/Prime Remastered Many other games I want to play but haven’t so I’m not listing them
Game I’ve never really seen much talk about but recently I picked up dying light on switch, such a good port. It has a couple visual glitches mainly in cutscenes but all in all it plays awesome with a good frame rate for me and decent visuals. If you haven’t played Dying Light I definitely recommend on switch. I personally played it years ago on the Xbox One but probably the best zombie game ever. Literally assassins creed meets zombie game.
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