Polygon.com / 26.07.25

The 14 best Switch 2 games

Nintendos Switch 2 is at the very start of its life and, as with every young console, excitement for the new hardware is held in check by the quest for something to play on it. Nintendo debuted the system with one of the biggest guns in its arsenal: a new Mario Kart. Elsewhere, the launch line-up has been the usual grab-bag of ports from other consoles and upgrades of past hits, with the occasional third-party original sprinkled in. It might look like a slim library on paper, but theres actually a surprising amount to discover on the Switch 2. Modern classics like Street Fighter 6 and Cyberpunk 2077 are given new handheld life, Zelda games and No Mans Sky are transformed by the handhelds power, and there are left-field curios like Kunitsu-Gami and Survival Kids. And then theres Nintendos second big Switch 2 game, Donkey Kong Bananza, which arrived six weeks after the consoles launch. Thats in addition to (almost) the entire Switch library, playable under backward compatibility on Swit...
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