The Best Short Games for Nintendo Switch - Page 2

Update : Thank Goodness You\'re Here added at rank #16.
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The Magnificent Trufflepigs (2021)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch

The Magnificent Trufflepigs is a first-person, romantic, metal-detecting game. It combines laid-back detecting and exploration with a strong narrative, all set in a beautiful English countryside. It’s a game about trying to find something.

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  • short
  • walking-simulator
  • story
  • atmospheric
  • yorkshire
  • mystery
  • first-person
  • fiction
  • single-player
  • adventure
  • horses

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Seven Doors (2020)

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

Solve challenging puzzles and experience seven different atmospheres. Each one is unique, special and surprising and will test your mind and awaken your wits. Stay alive until you reach the last door, but beware, as some doors could lead to your demise. 


  • puzzle
  • hidden-object
  • short
  • mystery
  • 3d
  • horror
  • tabletop
  • atmospheric
  • first-person
  • gore-covered
  • beautiful
  • realistic
  • casual
  • colourful
  • myst

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The Excrawlers (2023)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows Xbox One Xbox Series X

Action-RPG slasher game in which you and others hero will have to plunge into the dark atmosphere of dungeons full of monsters and madness.


  • souls
  • short
  • hack-and-slash
  • top-down
  • dark
  • pixel
  • 2d
  • rogue-like
  • colourful
  • dungeon-crawler
  • fantasy
  • action-adventure
  • difficult
  • real-time
  • zelda

14

The First Tree (2017)

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IOS iPhone PC Windows Mac OS Linux Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Xbox One

A beautiful, 3rd-person exploration game centered around two parallel stories: a fox trying to find her missing family, and a young couple dealing with a tragedy in their own. Uncover artifacts from the young couple’s life as they too become intertwined in the fox’s journey towards The First Tree.

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  • third-person
  • walking-simulator
  • story
  • atmospheric
  • short
  • exploration
  • orchestral
  • colourful
  • relaxing
  • adventure
  • nature
  • single-player
  • platform
  • narration
  • mech

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Anyaroth: The Queen's Tyranny (2023)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows

A pixel-art platformer adventure game with lots of action and a memorable story.Dive into the depths of planet Anyaroth and free its people from the tyranny of the Queen. Join the Rebellion and fight against the Regime’s mind-control system. The anya civilization needs you!


  • twin-stick
  • 2d
  • shoot-em-up
  • bullet-hell
  • platform
  • action-adventure
  • short
  • linear
  • pixel
  • aliens
  • sci-fi
  • retro
  • colourful
  • war
  • story

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Thank Goodness You're Here (2024)

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Nintendo Switch Playstation 5 PC Windows

Thank Goodness You're Here! is an absurd comedy slapformer set in the bizarre Northern English town of Barnsworth. As a traveling salesman, take the time to see the sights and meet the locals, who are very eager to give you a series of increasingly odd jobs…


  • hand-drawn
  • comedy
  • cartoony
  • 2d
  • short
  • platform
  • scroller
  • cinematic
  • exploration
  • funny
  • colourful
  • open-world
  • casual
  • adventure
  • puzzle

17

Some Distant Memory (2019)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows Mac OS

Some Distant Memory is a hand-drawn story exploration game set 300 years after the apocalypse. You play an archaeologist named Professor Zay, joined by her companion, ARORA, a centuries-old AI capable of recreating human memories from scanned relics.

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  • walking
  • post-apocalyptic
  • 2.5d
  • walking-sim
  • short
  • said
  • sci-fi
  • story
  • casual
  • narrative
  • innovative
  • mystery
  • atmospheric
  • adventure
  • non-linear

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Carry Onward (2023)

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Nintendo Switch j Playstation 4 PC Windows

Carry Onward is a narrative gameplay short that follows a grieving man as he packs up his home. Immerse yourself in his thoughts and emotions by interacting with items, which shape his internal state. Experience the transformative power of memories and the hope that arises from embracing change.


  • emotional
  • short
  • multiple-endings
  • atmospheric
  • walking-simulator
  • noir
  • fiction
  • surreal
  • drama
  • narrative
  • story
  • stylized
  • top-down
  • interactive
  • relaxing

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We should talk. (2020)

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Linux Playstation 4 Xbox One Nintendo Switch PC Windows Mac OS

It's not what you say, it's how you say it. We should talk is a short-form narrative game that will make you think carefully about the words you choose. Can your relationship survive the night?

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  • romance
  • lgbtq
  • emotional
  • short
  • choices
  • text
  • multiple-endings
  • fiction
  • visual-novel
  • interactive
  • atmospheric
  • story
  • casual
  • local

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Eversleep: Lunistice Gaiden (2021)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows

Eversleep: Lunistice Gaiden is a 3D Platformer created with simple but fun gameplay and a cute PS1/SEGA Saturn inspired artstyle in mind. Take the role of Hana the Tanuki and jump and fight through her dreams!


  • 3d
  • short
  • attack
  • score
  • retro
  • platform
  • cute
  • pixel
  • linear
  • colourful
  • old-school
  • family-friendly
  • arcade
  • single-player
  • controller-support

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