10 Best Nintendo Switch Games in the Philippines 2023 | Animal Crossing, Super Smash Bros. and More

Escape for a moment into the world of your own making with Animal Crossing: New Horizons. You are sent to an island of your choosing, where you are free to make your own new life and more. Start out with just a tent and some tasks to help you create a thriving community as you progress throughout the game. 

You can collect, hunt, fish, and build items to sustain the construction of bigger and better homes for yourself and your animal neighbors. Also, you will learn the economics of island life as you earn and pay your debts in Bells, the currency of the island.

As reviewers have said, this game is highly addictive and will keep you riveted for hours. With it's added option to play online, you can get to visit your friend's island and see what's going on there. It offers endless possibilities on how you want the game to end up and fans of Animal Crossing will surely enjoy this for years.

Want to see your Nintendo heroes and villains battle it out in the arena? Here's the game you've been waiting for. With over 74 fighters from different games, 108 stages, almost 1300 Spirit characters to collect, and a single-player adventure mode to unlock more fighters, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate offers far more than any of its four predecessors. 

Its more active combat, different items, unique attacks, and new defensive options will keep the battle exploding whether you're at home or on-the-go. The game's abundance of fighters, stages, and modes have taken the fighting genre into another level. Plus, you can get to slug it out with your friends and join live tournaments online. 

The absolute number of options and modes to pick from can keep you and your buddies busy for hours or days. Just don't forget to tackle World of Light to unlock spirits for a much broader choice of characters to use.

Dive into the world of kitchen madness and chaos with Overcooked! 2. Its gameplay is almost exactly the same as its forerunner, playing as a cook in the kitchen where orders are continuous until you progress onto the next level. 

The gameplay still involves providing meals by cutting ingredients, cooking it, plating them, and serving promptly to maximize points. With over 45 stages which feature a variety of it taking place in magical castles, Japanese restaurants, the street, and even outer space. 

Playing with family or friends is a great way to experience this game. Because of the multiple Joy-Con controllers that Nintendo Switch offers, you could do co-op play through the story mode making it easier with the help of friends. Also, you could play in arcade mode the game randomly choose levels and a versus mode that pits you against other chefs.

Snipperclips is a lovely game perfectly suited to puzzle-solving multiplayer gaming. The game has two characters, who use the form of their bodies to snip each other into the shapes required to solve different puzzles. 

Being given so few instructions prompt you and whoever you’re playing with to think creatively. Experimentation is so satisfying because there no single correct method for solving a puzzle. 

The colors and background are reminiscent of your kindergarten classroom where your basic idea of fun and learning started out. The player characters’ ridiculous facial expressions only add to the silly nature of your tasks as you snip your puzzle solutions. 

Snipperclips is more fun when playing with others, especially with kids. Though everything can be completed in solo-play, the four-player challenges can often be more wearisome than entertaining when snipping solo. Its control scheme is also simple and easy to grasp, so having two built-in controllers with the Joy-Cons makes it an advantage. 

Unravel a completely different game experience with this addition to the growing variant of Legend of Zelda games. It's a world of discovery and adventure as you travel across fields and mountains peaks to set your own path to find out what has become of the ruined kingdom of Hyrule. 

You get to battle enemies, hunt wild beasts, and solve puzzles as you progress on the game. Climb up towers and mountain peaks in search of shrines where special items could be recovered, that is if you can get past the traps hidden inside. This game is a fantastic experience for gamers. 

Breath of the Wild focuses much more on world exploration and should possibly be one of the first games that you'd buy for your Nintendo Switch. It’s a single-player adventure and you will surely get around 60 - 100 hours of gameplay — and maybe even more if you love to replay games for a different experience.

Super Mario Odyssey is one of the best games on the Nintendo Switch with the addition of new concepts and mechanics to a 3D version of well-established series. Its massive, open-world, and gameplay experiences make the exploration worth it. The variation of in-game challenges and puzzles is highly entertaining to superfans and new players of the Super Mario series.

Like the other excellent Mario games, the ending is where the fun begins. Many elements of the entertainment are unlocked after finishing the game. Going back to collect the hundreds of Power Moons you may have missed will keep you fixed on the game for hours and there’s plenty of brand new things to discover. A true masterpiece that every Super Mario fans won't be able to resist.

If you love 2D adventure games with traditional animation and skillful gameplay, then this will be an absolute treat for you. Journey to the endless and ancient underground kingdom of Hallownest, occupied by a myriad of strange insects and bizarre monsters. 

The hero will need to explore ruined cities, forests of fungus, temples of bone, and other fantastic lands, as he forges his way to uncovering an old mystery. Hollow Knight is not an easy game for the uninitiated, but it’s not super hard to get a good grasp of its gameplay. 

Your hero's death can come quickly during combat, just as fast and as enjoyable it is. The art design, animation, and soundtrack are excellent with lots of different moves and abilities for battling enemies, plus a sprawling in-game world. 

Nintendo brought this game from the Wii U version to the handheld system where it looks better than expected. You get to choose from 42 Nintendo-themed characters to be your racer, including ones like Inkling Girl and Inkling Boy from Splatoon. Pick from a variety of go-karts and bikes to be raced on colorful, varied tracks also lifted from other Nintendo games. 

The mechanics of driving, drifting, and using items to perplex other players is unchanged from the original Mario Kart 8. The game supports split-screen racing for up to four players on one Switch for local multiplayer. Have races up to eight players with local Wifi, that is if all players have their own Switches. 

An online multiplayer is also an option if you want to compete with your friends in different locations. The best Mario Kart game ever gets even better and its multiplayer modes make it even greater for family game nights or party gaming.

Pokemon Sword and Shield succeeded in bringing some new ideas such as stadiums with cheering crowds and the wonders of exploring the Wild Area which redefines the game series. With the addition of new and fantastic Pokemon designs, you still can collect and train on now bigger gyms with challenges to tackle while you improve on the game. 

Then there's Dynamaxing where your Pokemon could get incredibly huge for a few turns when in battle or in gyms. The option to access your Pokémon Boxes anytime you wish even when you’re not in a battle or a gym is available. You can also make a Pokémon remember a move or forget a move.

The Pokemon franchise has been around for almost two decades now and hasn't lost its touch on their newer outings. It's relatively a solid start to usher in the HD generation of Pokémon games for all fans to enjoy.

What else could you do during this quarantine is to exercise at home? This game might be the best option to keep you off the couch. 

To play it, you’ll have to buy a physical copy of the game with a bundled Ring-Con. It’s a circular peripheral that you manipulate to complete certain exercises with an adjustable resistance setting in the game. By slotting the right Joy-Con into the ring and the left Joy-Con strapped to your thigh, the Nintendo Switch can correctly sense many of your movements.

The mix of role-playing and exercising makes it a very interactive game because each level is just a few minutes long and you can get in a quick workout any time of the day. The game also supports multiple accounts, so you can have many players in the same family using it. It can track record their efforts and customize the activity to suit their needs.