The Best Family-friendly Games for Nintendo Switch

Update : Shivering Stone added at rank #44.
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Harmony's Odyssey (2022)

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Harmony’s Odyssey is a 3D fantasy adventure puzzle game set on mythical dioramas full of riddles, perky creatures and magic. Embark on a fantastic journey through remote fabled lands tangled by a rowdy cat and bring peace to its inhabitants.

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  • relaxing
  • family-friendly
  • puzzle
  • logic
  • magic
  • local
  • cute
  • cartoony
  • colourful
  • funny
  • controller-support
  • fantasy
  • mystery
  • cooperative
  • platform

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PIZZA POSSUM (2023)

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Embark on a cheeky arcade adventure in Pizza Possum! Outwit guard dogs, don hilarious disguises, and munch your way through a seaside village to become the ultimate pizza-stealing possum. Perfect for a quick laugh or a co-op giggle fest, this stealthy escapade is a slice of pure fun!

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What we like:
  • Affordable and loads of fun
  • Ideal for quick gaming sessions
  • Excellent co-op experience
  • Introduces stealth mechanics in an accessible way
  • Provides laughter-filled playtime with friends
What could be improved:
  • Limited content requiring replay for full completion
  • Discarded items can clutter gameplay

  • rogue-like
  • cooperative
  • protagonist
  • cooking
  • stealth
  • colourful
  • cartoony
  • 3d
  • family-friendly
  • local
  • arcade
  • villain
  • cute
  • funny
  • hide-and-seek

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Kill It With Fire (2020)

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Unleash your inner exterminator in Kill It With Fire! You'll be on a hilarious, chaotic mission to eradicate spiders using an arsenal of over-the-top weapons. With hidden upgrades and state-of-the-art tracking technology, this game will keep you on your toes. Can you uncover the secret ending?

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What we like:
  • Absurdly entertaining spider-killing action
  • Variety of destructive weapons
  • Hidden upgrades and challenges add depth
  • Effective foreshadowing adds to the narrative
  • Replay value with new equipment
What could be improved:
  • Hidden object gameplay can be repetitive
  • Slow gameplay loop

  • destruction
  • comedy
  • artificial
  • intelligence
  • sandbox
  • family-friendly
  • first-person
  • horror
  • physics
  • party
  • funny
  • survival-horror
  • colourful
  • shoot-em-up
  • shooter

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EarthX (2023)

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EarthX is a rocket company management game. Go from launching small rockets on Earth to eventually building a colony on Mars. Create your own Internet constellation, develop new technologies, supply the International Space Station and terraform Mars!

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  • space
  • simulation
  • family-friendly
  • colony
  • management
  • grand-strategy
  • base-building
  • immersive
  • building
  • education
  • competitive
  • minimalist
  • atmospheric
  • 3d
  • relaxing

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Gibbon: Beyond the Trees (2022)

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Gibbon: Beyond the Trees is a hand-drawn adventure following a lost gibbon as they embark on a dangerous journey into unknown lands. Master the gibbon’s art of brachiation (swinging from branch to branch) at high speed, building momentum, pulling off spectacular somersaults. Race to freedom in liberation mode, or play through an hour-long narrative that captures the real struggle of living creatures.


  • nature
  • emotional
  • hand-drawn
  • platform
  • 2d
  • family-friendly
  • story
  • narration
  • colourful
  • atmospheric
  • action-adventure
  • relaxing
  • exploration
  • cute
  • procedural

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Boxville (2022)

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Boxville is an adventure puzzle game about speechless cans living in the city of boxes and drawing doodles on cardboards to tell the stories. Made in Ukraine.

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  • logic
  • emotional
  • point-and-click
  • hand-drawn
  • investigation
  • family-friendly
  • puzzle
  • relaxing
  • cartoony
  • experiences
  • colourful
  • atmospheric
  • exploration
  • adventure
  • story

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A Tale for Anna (2021)

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Join Anna on an amazing adventure to a magical world full of puzzles and fairytale characters!

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  • minigame
  • hidden-object
  • magic
  • point-and-click
  • hand-drawn
  • family-friendly
  • puzzle
  • relaxing
  • cartoony
  • colourful
  • story
  • cute
  • 2d
  • funny
  • single-player

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Train Valley 2 - Community Edition (2019)

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Build bigger and more complex railway networks than ever before! Building on the success of the original, you’ll get more of what you loved about the original and then some. With increasingly difficult and complex challenges from local industries, the Valley has never felt so vast! ALL ABOARD!


  • time-management
  • city-building
  • resource-management
  • minimalist
  • stylized
  • family-friendly
  • open-world
  • sandbox
  • atmospheric
  • puzzle
  • third-person
  • trains
  • tactical
  • management
  • difficult

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Down in Bermuda (2021)

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An unnatural storm leaves an adventurous aviator stranded for decades within the infamous Bermuda. Overcome creatures of the deep and unravel the islands secrets in search for a way back home.Down in Bermuda is a quirky adventure filled with puzzles to solve and mysteries to uncover. Our adventurous aviator Milton finds himself trapped in a time bubble deep inside the Bermuda and needs your help to escape. Crack codes, solve puzzles, collect magic orbs and escape each of the six unique islands, each one leading to the next on a quest for a way back home.From the studio who brought you the suave secret agent adventure Agent A: A puzzle in disguise.

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  • puzzle
  • illustration
  • design
  • travel
  • family-friendly
  • hidden-object
  • adventure
  • relaxing
  • cute
  • time
  • logic
  • point-and-click
  • isometric
  • cartoony
  • colourful

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Semblance (2018)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows Mac OS

Semblance is a innovative platformer with deformable terrain, set in a beautiful minimalist world. Beat back the strange, crystalline infection of hard material by freeing the world's life essences and uncover the dark cause for its appearance.Unique and innovative deforming platform gameplay:Can’t reach a collectible? Become hypnotized by each world's dynamically layered score, each with a hint of African aural distinction.Explore non-linearly:The game allows you to move between puzzles as you wish, never forcing you to find a solution in order to progress and enabling you to come back later.

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  • scroller
  • platform
  • minimalist
  • family-friendly
  • puzzle
  • colourful
  • casual
  • relaxing
  • 2d
  • nonlinear
  • cute
  • multiple-endings
  • atmospheric
  • mystery
  • fantasy

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