Swap 2 launched in June 2025 and, though a younger console within the scheme of issues, it is already constructed up a sizeable software program library, mixing some alternative exclusives with a number of ‘Nintendo Swap 2 Editions’, which embody optimised, improved variations of among the best video video games ever made.
However what are the very best video games for Nintendo Swap 2 out there? Which Swap 2 video games are must-haves? What must you play first?
With properly over 50 titles on the system now, we have compiled this ranked listing of the easiest Swap 2 video games. It would, after all, broaden within the coming weeks and months, with loads of top-quality video games coming quickly that’ll be jostling for a spot – and inevitably pushing a few of these out of the highest 50.
Let’s start on the backside…
50. Useful Hockey (Swap 2)
Useful Hockey is a re-release/remaster of 2010’s Japan-only DSI title from ITL, and it is the epitome of laser-focused recreation design. There’s one factor to do right here, and it is play air hockey.
This pretty little Swap 2 model permits gamers to compete with a combination of human/CPU opponents in matches that may be both singles or doubles. With Mouse Mode performance and the choice to put your Swap 2 on the desk, it is a no-frills winner that does precisely what it says on the tin – and at 120fps, too.
49. Drag x Drive (Swap 2)
Drag x Drive could lack choices with its on-line modes, its controls take a little bit of getting used to, and it is a charisma vacuum within the presentation division.
Nevertheless, when you may give up a while to essentially have interaction with it, if you will get previous the obstacles when it comes to controls and the early frustrations as you discover your rhythm, you will be rewarded with a novel and really well-made sports activities recreation that deserves to seek out an viewers of devoted followers. Add in some buddies, and you have a strong little bit of enjoyable for the worth.
48. Arcade Archives 2 SCRAMBLED EGG (Swap 2)
Technos’ Scrambled Egg is a top-down arcade egg-kicker from 1983. You wander across the yard cracking eggs together with your ft and booting the hatchlings out of bounds to security, all whereas baddies prowl round making an attempt to get you.
With some timing and talent, you possibly can boot the chicks into enemies and take them out for additional factors. Easy stuff, however enjoyable sufficient to take in some quarters.
47. BOKURA: planet (Swap 2)
A follow-up to developer tokoronyori’s BOKURA from 2023, BOKURA: planet was a stunning shock.
This two-player-only puzzle-platformer options an intriguing, diverging co-op narrative that creates stress beneath its novel puzzles with out fully jettisoning its cutesy vibes for pixel horror.
When you’re searching for a reflective, grown-up journey with laughs, gasps, and even perhaps a tear or two — and one that actually showcases GameChat — this affecting little expedition will declare however a couple of hours of your life and is value enlisting a good friend for.
46. The Exit 8 – Nintendo Swap 2 Version (Swap 2)
The Exit 8 is a cool expertise that is definitely worth the low asking worth to play a recreation that is grow to be a cult hit — common sufficient to spawn a film, in reality — but it surely’s not one thing we think about going again to anytime quickly.
‘Scary’ could be beneficiant, however there are undoubtedly moments that made us really feel uneasy. If developer Kotake Create had actually leaned into the horror and made one thing a bit nearer to Hideo Kojima’s P.T., we may have had a contemporary traditional right here.
45. Survival Youngsters (Swap 2)
Survival Youngsters is a completely competent, cosy recreation of cooperative gathering and crafting. It’s not a lot of a looker, and its concepts aren’t mind-blowing, but it surely’s all great things due to its sturdy controls and easy-to-grasp loop.
We’re undecided we’d need to be caught with it on a desert island, but it surely’s good firm for a number of completely happy hours with a good friend – particularly a much less skilled gamer.
44. WWE 2K25 (Swap 2)
WWE 2K25 powerbombs onto Swap 2 in a wonderful port that holds its personal towards the likes of the PS5 model, and retains the motion easy and silky, even once you begin piling on the wrestlers in a Royal Rumble.
With nice seems, best-in-class core mechanics, a ton of on-line, native, and solo modes, and an infinite roster, this one will maintain all you Swap 2 wrasslin’ followers busy for a very good very long time. Intergender matches, improved MyRise and Showcase, in-depth tutorials, and the return of chain wrestling are all simply icing on prime.
43. Daemon x Machina: Titanic Scion (Swap 2)
Daemon x Machina: Titanic Scion is an honest mech recreation with loads of depth in its weapons setups and many cool loot to find in its giant open-world maps. The fight is versatile, it is quick, and it is fairly often loads of enjoyable.
Nevertheless, efficiency points — that are additionally current on different platforms, so do not sweat it an excessive amount of, Swap 2 homeowners — make for a janky expertise in locations, with mushy controls and limp suggestions. It is simply not practically as polished because it might be on this respect. With stutters loading into new areas and low-res textures a typical sight (once more, additionally on different techniques), the general feeling right here is of a recreation that wants a couple of patches and tweaks to get it the place it must be.
42. Apex Legends (Swap 2)
Following the disappointing Swap 1 port, Apex Legends redeems itself on Swap 2. This upgraded model offers us 60fps taking pictures motion with crisp, clear resolutions and none of that juddery, unresponsive, blurry stuff we had again in 2021.
It is arguably nonetheless the very best hero shooter/Battle Royale on the market, with amazingly fluid traversal, best-in-class gunfeel, and a ping system that places correct teamwork and techniques entrance and centre. The cherry on prime, after all, is that it is free to play, too, so there is no good cause for shooter followers to not dive proper in.
41. Nintendo Swap 2 Welcome Tour (Swap 2)
Nintendo Swap 2 Welcome Tour is a chilled, surprisingly partaking {hardware} exhibition with a handful of cool minigames, a trove of attention-grabbing information, and a few neat demos that showcase precisely what the little system can do. It makes you be ok with shopping for the factor, which makes the platform holder’s resolution not to bundle it with the console totally baffling. That includes costly add-ons you may not personal additionally will not impress anybody who’s indignant that the corporate desires one other 10 bucks for this.
That apart, it is an undeniably positive demonstration of Nintendo’s considerate design strategy. It is cute, it is enjoyable, and it is a disgrace the entire pack-in argument overshadows the pleasant software program. Anybody desirous about tech, design, or Nintendo usually ought to test it out instantly.
40. Arcade Archives 2 MACH BREAKERS (Swap 2)
One in every of a choice of arcade classics we hoped to see come to Swap in the future again in 2021, Namco’s superpower-infused sports activities sequel (to 1993’s Numan Athletics) has discovered its method to Swap 1 and 2 courtesy of Hamster’s Arcade Archives collection.
A multiplayer Olympics-style aggressive affair, it is nice to have it extra extensively out there, and we’re wanting ahead to checking it out on a Swap.
39. Excessive On Life: Nintendo Swap 2 Version (Swap 2)
A free improve when you personal the Swap model, Excessive On Life: Nintendo Swap 2 Version provides mouse controls to Squanch Video games’ comedian FPS the place the weapons discuss. You additionally get bumps to texture high quality, decision, and body price.
The Excessive On Knife DLC is included, too, so when you’ve bought the urge for food for a dozen hours of pretty strong first-person taking pictures, with gabbing weaponry that spit Rick & Morty-esque gags at you for the length, properly, right here it’s.
38. Tremendous Mario Get together Jamboree – Nintendo Swap 2 Version + Jamboree TV (Swap 2)
Tremendous Mario Get together Jamboree – Nintendo Swap 2 Version + Jamboree TV (breathe) offers an already unbelievable social gathering recreation an enormous shot within the arm, with a bunch of good Mouse Mode and mic-based video games that additionally help you see your large foolish face as you play. It is all very knockabout, very simple to make use of, and really simple to take pleasure in.
With an enormous base recreation packing seven boards and a complete bunch of modes, and the Swap 2’s new tech including to the enjoyable in significant methods, this can be a completely pleasant and completely family-friendly method to social gathering Mushroom Kingdom-style.
37. Shadow Labyrinth – Nintendo Swap 2 Version (Swap 2)
When you’re intrigued by Shadow Labyrinth‘s contemporary strategy to Pac-Man, we advocate giving it a shot on Swap 2.
It supplies an intriguing narrative in a foreboding world with different environments all through, and PUCK proves to be a compelling character. The brief bursts of Pac-Man-style gameplay assist combine up the expertise, and that is very welcome for the reason that recreation by no means actually delivers a ‘wow’ second.
A lot of it has been executed higher elsewhere — and it is giving off some robust Hole Knight vibes — however that is nonetheless a promising new course for an ageing franchise.
36. Fortnite (Swap 2)
Fortnite on Swap 2 fixes all obvious — and never so obvious — points with the Swap 1 model of the sport. This can be a enormous bundle of actions; from battle royale to survival recreation, racing, artistic modes, music festivals, and extra moreover. It is lots, and it now runs at 60fps with crisp, clear resolutions all spherical.
Mouse mode controls are a revelation, loading instances are massively improved, graphics look very good certainly, thanks, and, properly, I reckon that is now one of the simplest ways to play this one, no matter a slight downgrading in visuals.
35. Arcade Archives 2: Air Fight 22 (Swap 2)
Air Fight 22 is arguably extra attention-grabbing as a historic artefact than it’s as a online game, however that is to not say followers of Namco’s collection will not extract loads of enjoyment from it.
Like stablemate Ridge Racer, it is a very restricted expertise designed round short-burst ‘arcade’ play, but it surely’s nonetheless entertaining sufficient to be value your money and time; hopefully, it sells properly sufficient for Bandai Namco and Hamster to deliver different traditional Nineteen Nineties arcade titles to trendy techniques.
34. Arcade Archives 2: Ridge Racer (Swap 2)
Whereas it lacks the extra content material seen within the PS1 port, the unique arcade iteration of Ridge Racer stays a landmark launch within the historical past of the racing style, and it is simply as gripping and playable right this moment because it was again in 1993.
The power to compete for top scores on-line provides massively to this model’s endurance, and whereas its long-term enchantment does have a reasonably low ceiling, it is simply definitely worth the modest asking worth simply to expertise the primal satisfaction you get from pulling off an ideal energy slide.
33. Arcade Archives 2: Aqua Jet (Swap 2)
Namco’s racer was initially launched the exact same 12 months as Wave Race 64 and Hamster has executed one other strong job bringing a ’90s arcade traditional to Swap 2 and making it sing. Sadly, with out a lot content material current within the base recreation, there are solely so many instances you possibly can revisit this vibrant racer earlier than issues get repetitive.
Aqua Jet gives good options, with toggleable gyro controls and on-line leaderboards to maintain you cracking away at course instances. However with no multiplayer, there’s barely any cause to revisit this when you’re glad together with your efficiency.
32. Expensive me, I used to be… (Swap 2)
A wordless expertise that places an emphasis on the ‘visible’ in visible novel, it’s not each day {that a} recreation efficiently manages to craft a transferring narrative about artwork, life, and the passage of time solely on the benefit of its visible and musical storytelling.
However even when this brief recreation itself stays silent, Expensive me, I used to be… is totally value speaking about.
31. Sonic X Shadow Generations (Swap 2)
Whether or not it is best to take a punt on Sonic X Shadow Generations for the Swap 2 will rely on whether or not you already personal it on Swap 1 or not. When you don’t, it is maybe Sonic’s finest 3D recreation, and that is undoubtedly one of the simplest ways to play it on Nintendo techniques.
When you do, nonetheless, it is best to assume twice about double-dipping. It’s already a splendid recreation on Swap 1, and with no improve path or new content material, you are lacking out on little or no when you skip it. Personally, we would look ahead to a sale when you completely can not reside with out these 60 frames per second.
30. NOBUNAGA’S AMBITION Awakening Full Version (Swap 2)
A little bit extra decision is all the time going to be helpful in a technique recreation, and that is true for Nobunaga’s Ambition Awakening.
This ‘Full Version’ builds on the Swap 1 basis by including a half dozen new situations and all of the beforehand launched DLC, plus Mouse Mode performance and 4K help supplying you with a greater take a look at the battlefield and extra exact management over your campaigns.
When you appreciated the bottom recreation on Swap, the Swap 2 additions improve the expertise in precisely the way in which you’d count on and hope, arguably fulfilling the sport’s potential on the hand held hybrid the place it struggled earlier than.
