The Best New Switch Games Of 2021
Looking for new Switch games? The best 2021 releases for Nintendo Switch features remastered versions of classics and popular indie titles. New Switch ports include Apex Legends, Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury, and an exclusive director's cut of Sea of Solitude. What are your favorite new video games of the year?
Vote up the top new Switch games of 2021, and check back as we update with other upcoming games coming out in 2021.
- 1Action-adventure, Single player, Sci-fi
- Developer: MercurySteam
- Publisher: Nintendo
- Platform: Nintendo Switch
Taking place after the events of Metroid Fusion (2002), players control bounty hunter Samus Aran as she faces a new robotic enemy on the planet ZDR.
- Action, Role-playing, Hack & Slash
- Developer: Blizzard Entertainment/Vicarious Visions
- Publisher: Blizzard Entertainment
- Platform: PlayStation 5, Xbox X/S, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4
The remaster of Diablo II and its expansion Lord of Destruction, upgrading graphics, gameplay, and cutscenes.
- Action-adventure, stealth, survival horror
- Developer: Asobo Studio
- Publisher: Focus Home Interactive
- Platform: Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
Set in 1348 France, Amicia and her younger brother Hugo must avoid being captured by the Inquisition through villages devastated by a deadly plague.
- 2D, JRPG
- Developer: Artisan Studios
- Publisher: Dear Villagers
- Platform: PlayStation 5, Xbox X/S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
The JRPG tasks players to pick from one of eight customizable characters spanning a range of fantastical races and skills, and assemble a heroic team that must sacrifice everything to save the world.
- Racing, Arcade
- Developer: Milestone
- Publisher: Milestone
- Platform: PlayStation 5, Xbox X/S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
The arcade racing game task players to collect the best vehicles in the Hot Wheels universe, build spectacular race tracks, and dive into breathtaking races against players from across the world.
- Action, Indie
- Developer: Dang!
- Publisher: Devolver Digital
- Platform: Nintendo Switch, PC
Stranded ashore on a mysterious island, players are tasked to explore the bowels of ruined civilization undone by nightmarish creatures and stop them spreading to the rest of your world with a mystical boomerang.
- Action, Racing, Indie
- Developer: M2H
- Publisher: M2H
- Platform: PlayStation 5, Xbox X/S, PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4
The action-packed racing indie game tasks players to compete in fast-paced vechicular races while exploring a large open world filled with hidden secrets.
- Shooter game, Action game, Real-time strategy
- Developer: Signal Studios
- Publisher: Microsoft Studios
- Platform: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PC, Xbox 360
Players control one of two armies of miniature toy soldiers on a World War I model diorama with wooden and plastic landscapes.
- Platform, Party
- Developer: Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio
- Publisher: Sega
- Platform: PlayStation 5, Xbox X/S, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4
The compilation remaster of the first three Super Monkey Ball games tasks players to navigate a monkey in a ball across a series of suspended platforms to reach a goal and clear the stage.
- Action role-playing
- Developer: CyberConnect2, BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment
- Publisher: Bandai Namco Entertainment
- Platform: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Based on the Dragon Ball franchise, the game's plot follows the progression of the anime series, as the player interacts with the surrounding world as the different playable characters.
- Action role-playing
- Developer: Level-5
- Publisher: Bandai Namco Entertainment
- Platform: Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch
Set hundreds of years after the events of Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch, the story follows Evan Pettiwhisker Tildrum, a young king who was usurped from his castle and sets out to build a new kingdom.
- Role Playing
- Developer: Claytechworks
- Publisher: Square Enix
- Platform: Nintendo Switch
The third game in the Bravely series, follows the adventures of a young sailor, a refugee princess, a traveling scholar and a mercenary.
- Platform game, Action game
- Developer: Dimps, Sonic Team
- Publisher: Sega
- Platform: Wii, Nintendo DS
The game is centered on the protagonist Sonic the Hedgehog and his fight against the main antagonist of the Sonic series, Dr. Eggman, who has taken an alien race hostage and is using them for his evil purposes.
- Developer: Nintendo EPD, Intelligent Systems
- Publisher: Nintendo
- Platform: Nintendo Switch
The tenth installment in the WarioWare series, the game tasks players to complete against each other in a series of fast-paced minigames.
- Action-adventure
- Developer: Black Forest Games
- Publisher: THQ Nordic
- Platform: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC, Nintendo Switch
Remake of the 2005 original game, players take on the role of an alien who arrives on Earth in 1950s America to harvest human DNA.
- Rogue-lite, action role-playing
- Developer: Supergiant Games
- Publisher: Supergiant Games
- Platform: Microsoft Windows, macOS, Nintendo Switch
The hack & slash game follows Zagreus, the son of Hades, as he attempts to escape from the Underworld to reach Mount Olympus.
- Action role-playing
- Developer: Tripwire Interactive
- Publisher: Tripwire Interactive
- Platform: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PC
The action role-playing game has players assumes control of a female bull shark who must evolve and survive in an open world so she can take revenge on a fisherman.
- Action, Role-playing game
- Developer: Capcom
- Publisher: Capcom
- Platform: Nintendo Switch, PC
Sequel to Monster Hunter Stories, the game follows Red, and Ena, who has been entrusted with a flightless Rathalos that has been said to bring ruin to the world in time.
- Action-adventure game
- Developer: Monolith Soft, Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development
- Publisher: Nintendo
- Platform: Nintendo Switch, Wii
The HD remaster of the 2011 action-adventure game has players navigate the floating island of Skyloft as Link.
- Fighting
- Developer: Ludosity, Fair Play Labs
- Publisher: GameMill Entertainment
- Platform: PlayStation 5, Xbox X/S, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4
Featuring characters from various Nickelodeon series, players fight and knock each other out of 20 different stages in order to be the victor.
- 21Adventure
- Developer: Nintendo R&D
- Publisher: Nintendo
- Platform: Nintendo Switch, Game Boy Advance, Super Famicom
The remake of the 1988 game has players take on the role of a young man solving murder mysteries in the Japanese countryside.
- 22Survival horror, First-person Shooter
- Developer: Techland
- Publisher: Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
- Platform: PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox One, Xbox 360, Nintendo Switch
Set in the fictional Middle Eastern city of Harran, players assume the role of Kyle Crane, an undercover GRE operative sent to infiltrate the quarantine zone to find Kadir "Rais" Suleiman, a political figure gone rogue who has a file that could destroy the organisation's reputation.
- Action-adventure, Third Person, Role-Playing
- Developer: Animu Games
- Publisher: Animu Games
- Platform: Nintendo Switch, PC
The action-adventure game tasks players to reveal the mystery of the sky tower by reaching the top level.
- Developer: Nintendo
- Publisher: Nintendo
- Platform: Nintendo Switch
The latest addition to Super Mario franchise, follows Mario as he and teams up with Bowser Jr. in order to stop Bowser, who has been transformed into Fury Bowser by an inky substance.
- Action, Platform, Side-scrolling
- Developer: Mechanical Head Studios
- Publisher: Yacht Club Games
- Platform: PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4
The 8-bit indie game follows a cybernetic ninja named Shadow who sets out to rescue his clan in a world overrun by machines.