The Best Thriller Games for Nintendo Switch - Page 2

Update : The Drifter added at rank #1.
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Alfred Hitchcock - Vertigo (2021)

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

Can you trust your own mind? Immerse yourself in a psychological thriller of a new kind, playing with the limits between reality and fantasy. Freely inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s universe.


  • quick-time-event
  • thriller
  • narrative
  • mystery
  • investigation
  • adventure
  • cinematic
  • fiction
  • choices
  • classic
  • story
  • interactive
  • detective
  • drama
  • psychological

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Over Clock (2024)

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Nintendo Switch vita PC Windows

"Over Clock" is an innovative adventure game that combines puzzles and exploration. Players place blocks and delve deep underground aiming for the 100th line. Experience different terrains in each stage, collect materials to develop new skills. Strategy and speed are the keys to success.


  • thriller
  • puzzle
  • drama
  • psycho
  • fictional
  • romance
  • nature
  • innovative
  • adventure
  • 2d
  • crafting
  • relaxing
  • platform
  • atmospheric
  • single-player

13

Twelve Minutes (2021)

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Nintendo Switch Playstation 5 Android PC Windows IOS iPhone Playstation 4 Xbox Series X Xbox One

Twelve Minutes is a highly-anticipated, unique narrative adventure game. You play as the male protagonist who lives with his wife and control the cursor with the analogue stick to interact with the environment or other characters. Every bit of dialogue is voiced by stars like Daisy Ridley, James McAvoy and Willem Dafoe and you have a limited window of time to figure out how to get out of the time loop.

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What we like:
  • Unique narrative adventure game
  • Fantastic voice acting
  • Graphically beautiful
  • Enjoyable point-and-click gameplay
  • Opportunity to complete multiple play-throughs for achievements
What could be improved:
  • Some graphical fuzziness when zooming in on objects
  • Tough final act that may leave players feeling angry

  • point-and-click
  • top-down
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adventure
  • narrative
  • puzzle
  • romantic
  • inventory
  • interactive
  • time
  • drama
  • detective

14

The Rewinder (2021)

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The Rewinder is an adventure puzzle game based on Chinese mythology. You play as Yun, the last known Rewinder, who can communicate with spirits and explore other people's memories to alter the past.


  • pixel
  • point-and-click
  • drama
  • detective
  • mythology
  • thriller
  • puzzle
  • mystery
  • 2d
  • lore
  • supernatural
  • atmospheric
  • adventure
  • horror
  • comedy

15

1000xRESIST (2024)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows

1000xRESIST is a thrilling sci-fi adventure. The year is unknown, and a disease spread by an alien invasion keeps you underground. You are Watcher. You dutifully fulfil your purpose in serving the ALLMOTHER, until the day you discover a shocking secret that changes everything.


  • thriller
  • walking-simulator
  • post-apocalyptic
  • cinematic
  • futuristic
  • visual-novel
  • anime
  • multiple-endings
  • experimental
  • psychological
  • sci-fi
  • speculative
  • 3d
  • surreal
  • aliens

16

Discolored 2 (2025)

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All the colors have gone missing from the world. While on a mission to bring them back you discover you are being hunted by those who would see the colors banished. Your only hope is a woman in red who may be holding the key to preventing the world from becoming discolored.


  • horror
  • lore
  • surreal
  • vampire
  • psychological
  • thriller
  • puzzle
  • first-person
  • exploration
  • action-adventure
  • mystery
  • story
  • survival-horror
  • difficult
  • survival

17

Sumatra: Fate of Yandi (2019)

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

Lost and alone after a terrible landslide, Yandi must find his way home in this old-school point and click adventure set deep in the Sumatran jungle! Will he make it out alive?

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  • investigation
  • point-and-click
  • emotional
  • thriller
  • nature
  • drama
  • psychological
  • story
  • old-school
  • pixel
  • mystery
  • 2d
  • exploration
  • atmospheric
  • puzzle

18

IRIS (2024)

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Xbox Series X/s Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch Playstation 3 Xbox 360 gamecube xbox PC Windows ps2

IRIS is a psychological horror game with PS2-era graphics. Players navigate a young woman's dream world, confronting symbolic monsters representing her past traumas like poverty, bulimia, bullying, and loneliness. It emphasizes the pursuit of happiness amidst life's struggles.


  • horror
  • psychological
  • psychedelic
  • thriller
  • emotional
  • linear
  • anime
  • 1990s
  • 3d
  • colourful
  • cartoony
  • retro
  • atmospheric
  • nostalgia
  • immersive

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CORPSE FACTORY (2022)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch

Discard your sense of morality and enter the world of CORPSE FACTORY. An obscure website allows users to request a death. Victims supposedly receive a photograph of their own corpse before they are killed! With English voice acting by an all-star cast.


  • visual-novel
  • horror
  • psychological
  • thriller
  • anime
  • violent
  • gore
  • mystery
  • fiction
  • psychologically
  • interactive
  • story
  • multiple-endings
  • tale
  • thrilling

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Werewolf: The Apocalypse - Purgatory (2024)

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A choice-driven RPG thriller set in the World of Darkness universe. Step into the shoes of Samira, a young werewolf refugee in Poland, as she battles dark forces and loneliness, caught between rage and despair. How will your story unfold?


  • choices
  • werewolves
  • thriller
  • visual-novel
  • investigation
  • lore
  • text
  • multiple-endings
  • fiction
  • surreal
  • replay-value
  • fantasy
  • dark
  • interactive
  • hand-drawn

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