The Best Short Games for Nintendo Switch

Update 15 January 2025: Things Too Ugly added at rank #9.

Here are our 10 Best Short Games for Nintendo Switch, position 21 to 30:

The First Tree
Some Distant Memory
Eversleep: Lunistice Gaiden
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The First Tree (2017)

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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

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

Eversleep: Lunistice Gaiden (2021)

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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!