The Best Philosophical Games for Nintendo Switch - Page 2

Update : YIIK Nameless Psychosis added at rank #23.
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LOST EGG 2: Be together (2022)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows

That fragile but brave egg has come back with new powers. A hard action adventure game about the fragility, bravery, and sometimes friendship of raw eggs. Aim for the frying pan at the end of rolling through various stages with sad and touching melody.

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  • 3d
  • precision
  • platform
  • character
  • philosophical
  • third-person
  • attack
  • score
  • customization
  • relaxing
  • open-world
  • funny
  • psychological
  • controller-support
  • realistic

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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

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Don't Forget Me (2021)

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Nintendo Switch Linux Mac OS Playstation 3 PC Windows

The first season aired in Japan between January 8, 2012 and March 24, 2012 while the second season started airing between July 8, 2012 and September 23, 2012 following a recap episode on July 1, 2012. Both seasons have been licensed by Viz Media in North America and Anime on Demand in the United Kingdom. A manga accompaniment began serialization in Enix's Young Gangan magazine and a light novel from Media Factory, both from September 2011.[2][3] A hybrid Blu-ray Disc containing an original video animation and a PlayStation 3 video game was released on August 23, 2012.

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  • typing
  • philosophical
  • soundtrack
  • noir
  • investigation
  • word
  • detective
  • cyberpunk
  • sci-fi
  • pixel
  • atmospheric
  • point-and-click
  • violent
  • mystery
  • story

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Dreaming Sarah (2015)

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

Dreaming Sarah is a surreal adventure platformer game with puzzle elements, an engaging environment, an incredibly diverse cast of characters, and of course, a young girl named Sarah. Sarah has been in an accident and is currently in a coma. It's up to you to help her wake up by exploring her dream world. Features: * Explore mysterious psychological areas * Collect, equip and use items * Interact with a vast cast of weird characters * Solve brain-teasing puzzles

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  • surreal
  • philosophical
  • platform
  • metroidvania
  • psychological
  • psychedelic
  • walking-simulator
  • puzzle
  • abstract
  • supernatural
  • exploration
  • pixel
  • atmospheric
  • relaxing
  • adventure

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Aery - Heaven & Hell (2023)

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Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch PC Windows Xbox One

Discover the passions and fears of the human race as a flying god-like creature.

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  • flight
  • philosophical
  • relaxing
  • exploration
  • surreal
  • atmospheric
  • god
  • simulation
  • family-friendly
  • casual
  • abstract
  • adventure
  • story

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Cellar (2016)

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PC Windows Linux Mac OS Playstation 3 Playstation 4 vita Nintendo Switch

A story-focused game about six strangers stuck together for a month, and a machine that must be kept running.


  • underground
  • pixel
  • philosophical
  • dark
  • conversation
  • story
  • fiction
  • emotional
  • atmospheric
  • single-player
  • time-management
  • interactive
  • horror
  • casual
  • short

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Metal Black S-Tribute (2023)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Xbox One

Collect NEWALONE to level up your beam, then release energy! The home console version of the incredible side-scrolling shooter Metal Black is back with online rankings. Two players can play together!


  • 2d
  • philosophical
  • space
  • arcade
  • satire
  • military
  • futuristic
  • shooter
  • action
  • shoot-em-up
  • platform
  • war

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Molly Medusa: Queen of Spit (2023)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch

A gravity-bending 3D adventure where everyone turns to stone!

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  • metroidvania
  • puzzle
  • philosophical
  • platform
  • mythology
  • cartoony
  • exploration
  • stylized
  • 3d
  • clues
  • colourful
  • dungeon
  • atmospheric
  • visual
  • surreal

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Kosmokrats (2020)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows

Kosmokrats is the people's zero-gravity, comedy adventure game! Pilot your drone. Make new friends including Bill Nighy. Construct a utopia. Drink vodka. Build a mighty space fleet. Earn Potatoes. Shape your own narrative. Humanity's fate depends on you, Comrade!

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  • cold
  • capitalism
  • nonlinear
  • humor
  • philosophical
  • physics
  • puzzle
  • psychological
  • dark
  • dystopian
  • multiple-endings
  • politics
  • historical
  • stylized
  • alternate

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Even the Ocean (2016)

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Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Xbox One Mac OS PC Windows

The game includes platforming and story elements, putting the player in the role of Aliph, a Power Plant engineer working for the game's central city of Whiteforge.

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  • 2d
  • platform
  • beautiful
  • philosophical
  • nonlinear
  • capitalism
  • scroller
  • lgbtq
  • stylized
  • nature
  • hand-drawn
  • atmospheric
  • colourful
  • action-adventure
  • story

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