5 New Switch Games You Shouldn't Miss Out On

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It's been a big month for game releases, with Horizon Forbidden West, Elden Ring, Destiny 2's latest expansion, and more. All those big AAA games eating up your time may cause your Nintendo Switch to feel lonely. We've rounded up five cool new Nintendo Switch games that launched in February. Every game on this list is significantly less time-consuming than most of the massive AAA games that launched this month, so they could be great palette cleansers between open-world games. Some of these games are also available on PC, and a few released on consoles, but we think all of them feel like Nintendo Switch games.

It's basically a fact that a grappling hook makes every game better. Giving a grappling hook to a cute dog? That's a recipe for success already. Grapple Dog is oozing with charm thanks to its vibrant, colorful graphics that hark back to the Game Boy Advance. Across the handful of worlds and 30-plus levels, Grapple Dog sticks to its guns (er, grapple), but the mechanic is so well implemented and the lengthy side-scrolling levels are so well-designed that this one-trick-dog never stops being an absolute delight. Whereas a lot of modern platformers rely on pesky sequences that often have to be repeated over and over again to make progress, Grapple Dog is more about exploration and atmosphere. I'm not one to care much about collectibles, but I found myself wanting to collect every coin, gem, and fruit scattered across the intricately designed levels. Though Grapple Dog is mainly about jumping, bouncing, and grappling (of course), it does have a handful of awesome boss fights that make great use of the game's simple but effective mechanics.

Grapple Dog also happens to have one of coolest game soundtracks I've heard in a