What Are the Best Nintendo Switch Games in 2022?

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The Nintendo Switch is quickly on the way to being the most successful console of all time. This is thanks in large part to an excellent catalog of games, both exclusive and third-party. Here are some of our favorites as of 2022.

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Breath of the Wild rewrote much of the formula for open-world adventures, and its legacy can be seen across the gaming landscape. Originally destined for the Wii U, Nintendo decided to delay this Zelda entry to launch alongside the Nintendo Switch, and the game remains just as playable now as it did in 2017.

This is the first truly open-world game in the Legend of Zelda franchise, but there’s no prior knowledge required to enjoy it if it’s your first outing. You’ll spend your time solving environmental puzzles, growing your stamina and health bars, and completing shrines and larger dungeons before you deem yourself strong enough to take on the final boss.

Breath of the Wild doesn’t hold your hand with fetch quests that show you exactly where to go, and some aspects aren’t to everyone’s tastes (like the weapon degradation system). But that doesn’t mean you should skip out on what many consider to be the best Zelda title to date (and in some cases, the best game ever made).

Journey across Hyrule in Nintendo's first-ever truly open-world Zelda title.

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Nintendo’s (thus far) only Switch-exclusive mainline Mario title, Super Mario Odyssey has the titular plumber trading his usual hat for Cappy, a new character that allows the player to take control of other characters and objects in the Mario universe. This unlocks a large number of unique gameplay moments that you won’t have seen before in previous titles.

While the game isn’t fully open-world in the sense