The Best Cinematic Games for Nintendo Switch - Page 2

Update : Deer & Boy added at rank #14.
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Motesolo: No Girlfriend Since Birth (2020)

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j Playstation 4 PC Windows Nintendo Switch Xbox Series X Playstation 5 Xbox One

On a late afternoon in Seoul, you discover two people talking at a local cafe, and you spy on their conversation.


  • choices
  • nostalgia
  • fmv
  • god-game
  • conversation
  • cinematic
  • dating-sim
  • music
  • experimental
  • visual-novel
  • text
  • procedural
  • narration
  • fiction
  • interactive

12

El Shaddai ASCENSION OF THE METATRON HD Remaster (2021)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows

El Shaddai, originally released in 2011, is a unique third-person action adventure filled with a deeply artistic world-building, outstanding aesthetics and thrilling battles. Experience an incredible mix of 2D-like platformer action and a colorful 3D world in an exceptional setting.


  • spectacle
  • 3d
  • cinematic
  • mythology
  • scroller
  • psychedelic
  • cyberpunk
  • supernatural
  • narration
  • hand-drawn
  • action-adventure
  • cartoony
  • atmospheric
  • sci-fi
  • fantasy

13

Bonfire Peaks (2020)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch

A difficult open world puzzle game about climbing mysterious ruins and setting fire to your belongings.

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  • sokoban
  • voxel
  • puzzle
  • nonlinear
  • movement
  • grid
  • cinematic
  • emotional
  • 3d
  • stylized
  • atmospheric
  • relaxing
  • third-person
  • pixel
  • difficult

14

Deer & Boy (2026)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch Xbox Series X/s Playstation 5

In this poetic cinematic platformer, a runaway boy meets a fawn. As their bond grows, so do their abilities and the emotional weight of their journey, where silence speaks louder than words.


  • cinematic
  • platform
  • emotional
  • nature
  • 2.5d
  • magic
  • scroller
  • stylized
  • stealth
  • cute
  • atmospheric
  • story
  • puzzle
  • action-adventure
  • mystery

15

1000xRESIST (2024)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch

1000xRESIST is a thrilling sci-fi adventure. The year is unknown, and a disease spread by an alien invasion keeps you underground. You are Watcher. You dutifully fulfil your purpose in serving the ALLMOTHER, until the day you discover a shocking secret that changes everything.


  • walking-simulator
  • visual-novel
  • thriller
  • post-apocalyptic
  • sci-fi
  • futuristic
  • anime
  • cinematic
  • story
  • psychological
  • experimental
  • speculative
  • surreal
  • multiple-endings
  • 3d

16

Platform 8 (2024)

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j PC Windows Nintendo Switch Playstation 5 Playstation 4

You are trapped on a train that runs forever. Keep an eye out for anomalies and find a way out.


  • horror
  • walking-simulator
  • psychological
  • simulation
  • immersive
  • hidden-object
  • cinematic
  • modern
  • 3d
  • dark
  • exploration
  • realistic
  • first-person
  • stealth
  • mystery

17

Hyper-5 (2022)

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Xbox Series X Nintendo Switch Xbox One PC Windows Playstation 4 Playstation 5

Hyper-5 draws inspiration from shoot’em up genre classics of the ‘90s. Traditional side-scrolling action is presented in 3D with screen-filling visual effects and thrilling cutscenes. Complete in-game challenges to unlock over twenty weapon systems, ship upgrades and gallery extras.


  • shoot-em-up
  • scroller
  • cinematic
  • shooter
  • 3d
  • sci-fi
  • arcade
  • aliens
  • retro
  • bullet-hell
  • scrolling
  • realistic-looking
  • underwater
  • space
  • action

18

Manifold (2021)

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Playstation 5 Xbox Series X PC Windows Xbox One Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch IOS iPhone Mac OS

The game takes place in a "universe with a different set of physical laws" where the player can manipulate gravity, being able to "turn walls into floors".[6] The player must solve puzzles using the world's geometry in addition to devices within the architecture of the world.[6] To aid the player, the world's tone takes on one of six colors depending on which direction they have manipulated gravity. Several facets of the game's world may only be interacted with when the gravity is oriented directly, with these objects sharing one of the six colors.

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  • puzzle
  • philosophical
  • abstract
  • 3d
  • nonlinear
  • platform
  • exploration
  • surreal
  • psychedelic
  • atmospheric
  • experimental
  • cinematic
  • scroller
  • artificial
  • intelligence

19

Mia and the Dragon Princess (2023)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Xbox One IOS iPhone Playstation 5 Mac OS Android Xbox Series X

A live-action, interactive action movie following Mia, a plucky barmaid whose life is thrown into chaos when a mysterious woman turns up at her workplace, on the run from a group of violent thugs and unable to speak English.

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  • choices
  • fmv
  • interactive
  • drama
  • violent
  • immersive
  • cinematic
  • buddy-action
  • emotional
  • comedy
  • action-adventure
  • visual-novel
  • multiple-endings
  • martial
  • simulation

20

Tsugunohi -The Chamber of Phantom Name- (2025)

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Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 PC Windows

"Tsugunohi -The Chamber of Phantom Name-" Launches on Steam! A new graduate, Kana Sakuragi, begins her new life in a renovated old house, "Akembara House." What seemed like a shiny, ideal property soon turns into a nightmare, as she is plagued by strange phenomena every night...


  • cinematic
  • horror
  • dark
  • single-player
  • action-adventure
  • action
  • adventure

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