The Best Atmospheric Games for Nintendo Switch

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Update 15 August 2024: Farewell North added at rank #2.

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Dive into Strayed Lights, an immersive action adventure where you battle emotion-deformed creatures in a dreamlike world. With a vibrant color palette, stunning visuals, and a strong soundtrack, you'll be captivated. Master the innovative combat mechanics, face memorable bosses, and explore beautifully crafted levels. Will you restore light and face your inner demons?

• Vibrant, wild color palette
• Captivating soundtrack
• Innovative and challenging combat mechanics
• Memorable boss encounters
• Beautifully crafted world

• Minimal and confusing story
• Some upgrades feel less helpful
• Lack of enemy variation

• action-adventure
• combat
• boss
• soundtrack
• atmospheric
• souls
• boss-fight
• story
• fantasy
• cinematic
• philosophical
• dark
• emotional
• fight
• stylized

Good match + 17 Bad match

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Restore color to the desolate islands of Farewell North, an atmospheric journey where you play as a border collie on an adventure with your human. Explore land and sea, uncover hidden paths and free wildlife to bring color back to her world, while revealing an emotional story about saying farewell.

• dog
• emotional
• atmospheric
• nature
• stylized
• story
• relaxing
• family-friendly
• third-person
• colourful
• exploration
• dark
• open-world
• cinematic
• action-adventure

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Discover and destroy increasingly horrifying creatures across an oppressive lofi world, wielding fierce weaponry and powerful magic in this pocket-sized action adventure.

• hack-and-slash
• fantasy
• dark
• rogue-like
• pixel
• swordplay
• 2d
• fight
• atmospheric
• boss
• minimalist
• linear
• gladiator
• action
• action-adventure

Good match + 8 Bad match

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Childhood friends reunite after spending a long time apart, revisiting old memories and rekindling their friendship. However, something beyond their control will ruin this reunion.

• emotional
• atmospheric
• narration
• story
• romance
• retro
• multiple-endings
• visual-novel
• minimalist
• adventure
• 3d

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The challenge of a dangerous serial killer plummets detective Lazarus Bundy’s career into a chasm with no way out. In a desperate attempt at a comeback, Lazarus decides to secretly investigate the disappearance of Kathrin Mulzberg.

• thriller
• point-and-click
• atmospheric
• mystery
• third-person
• first-time
• comedy
• story
• adventure
• inventory
• funny
• single-player
• dark
• in-depth
• hand-drawn

Good match + 19 Bad match - 53

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And now, for today's story.

• pixel
• scroller
• atmospheric
• adventure
• multiple-endings
• point-and-click
• story
• puzzle
• dark
• exploration

Good match + 34 Bad match - 58

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Embark on a journey to an eerie village shrouded in mystery in The Wild Case. Solve puzzles, negotiate with inhabitants, and uncover supernatural occurrences in this atmospheric adventure. With stunning hand-drawn graphics and haunting sound effects, immerse yourself in an open world that will keep you on edge. Unravel the secrets of the forgotten village if you dare.

• Short but well-rounded gameplay
• Intriguing mystery with satisfying ending
• Beautiful hand-drawn artwork
• Atmospheric music and sound effects
• Adequate price point

• Lack of motivation for replayability
• Rough English translation
• Story not frightening for adults

• detective
• point-and-click
• puzzle
• story
• hand-drawn
• adventure
• atmospheric
• text
• 2d
• supernatural
• exploration
• first-person
• investigation
• linear
• mystery

Good match + 17 Bad match - 22

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Placed in a world without change, you must create fate by watering an ancient plant. Determine a future and live with it.

• ghibli
• atmospheric
• abstract
• exploration
• casual
• puzzle
• adventure
• retro
• instrument

Good match + 32 Bad match - 56

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Come discover beautiful mysterious machines of extra-terrestrial origins and use your logic and sense of observation to fix them; and uncover a galaxy-spanning story. Machinika Museum is a puzzle game for people who like to have their brain teased and love a nice story to go along.

• science
• investigation
• puzzle
• hidden-object
• mystery
• logic
• point-and-click
• short
• sci-fi
• narration
• atmospheric
• futuristic
• aliens
• pattern-matching
• first-person

Good match + 54 Bad match - 73

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Papetura is a short atmospheric adventure game, with unique world handmade entirely out of paper, and beautiful fragile music. It tells the story of two little creatures whose house is in danger of being burned down.

• point-and-click
• puzzle
• psychedelic
• stylized
• hand-drawn
• surreal
• exploration
• atmospheric
• family-friendly
• 2d
• relaxing
• beautiful
• moth
• adventure
• thought

Good match + 21 Bad match - 35

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