The Best Platform-adventure Games for Nintendo Switch

Update : Forest adventure added at rank #2.
Here are our 10 Best Platform-adventure Games for Nintendo Switch:
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Crystal Crisis (2019)

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Cave Story (Japanese: , Hepburn: Dkutsu Monogatari) is a 2004 Metroidvania[1]platform-adventure game for Microsoft Windows. Cave Story features 2D platform mechanics and is reminiscent of the games Amaya played in his youth, such as Metroid and Castlevania (both released in 1986). It received widespread critical acclaim for many polished aspects of its design, such as its compelling characters, setting, story, and gameplay.


  • puzzle
  • crossover
  • platform-adventure
  • competitive
  • fight
  • multiplayer
  • grid
  • local
  • jump-and-run
  • puzzle-battle
  • sdl
  • platform
  • classic
  • puzzle-fight
  • bubble-popping

2

Forest adventure (2023)

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The little girl's favorite handkerchief was taken away by a wolf. In order to get her handkerchief back, the girl who has no fighting ability decided to follow the wolf to the mountain.


  • platform-adventure
  • cartoony
  • japanese
  • rpg
  • action-adventure
  • platform
  • jrpg
  • anime
  • runner
  • stylized
  • puzzle
  • adventure
  • dungeon-crawler
  • cute
  • metroidvania

3

Ori: The Collection (2021)

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A collection of the two Ori games "Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition" and "Ori and the Will of the Wisps".


  • platform-adventure
  • metroidvania

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Bookbound Brigade (2020)

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Bookbound Brigade is about beating the hell out of historical and literary characters you studied in school by leading a dream team of real and fictional heroes through a 2D side-scrolling platform-adventure.


  • platform-adventure
  • metroidvania
  • historical
  • 2d
  • hand-drawn
  • side-scrolling
  • cute
  • colourful
  • book
  • pixel
  • scroller
  • platform
  • funny
  • skill
  • family-friendly

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