Top 25 Casual Nintendo Switch Games Worth Buying

Loddlenaut comes to Nintendo Switch! Collect trash, zap goop, and befriend adorable axolotl-like creatures in this cozy aquatic adventure.

Loddlenaut is an ocean cleanup adventure set on a vibrant alien planet. Play as an interstellar custodian who is tasked with cleaning up the pollution left behind by a spacefaring mega-corporation.

Track your loddle evolutions and see which ones you’ve yet to discover. Plus enjoy a new loddle ability, new loddle personality traits, new biome diversity ratings, and a new way to boost around the ocean!

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Mika is an aspiring witch who arrives to a small island to complete her training. To do so, she will have to make herself among the inhabitants as the new delivery girl.

Her life will take an unexpected turn where she will have to learn to fend for herself and learn important life lessons on her way to the top of the mountain.

If you played Summer in Mara you’ll love this game!

All aboard the hamster train! Prepare for cuteness overload, relentless training, and fierce rivalry as you and your hamsters take on challenges while traversing the maze and riding a skateboard, with more modes coming soon!

Be the first hamster to cross the finish line to earn rewards and yummy treats!

Build your own street in this cozy, casual management sim. Unlock and customize buildings, manage your shops, and maximize the happiness of your villagers.

Build homes to add villagers to your street, then improve their happiness by beautifying every inch and building a variety of shops & attractions! These include ramen shops, boba cafes, bookstores and more, each with unique inventories and effects.

The sandbox mode focuses on creativity and relaxation, allowing you to immerse yourself in the peaceful, cozy world without the stress of objectives.

What if Peter Pan never found his shadow? SCHiM is a story of a person losing their shadow – A schim is the soul and spirit of an object or living being. Everything in the world has one, and it should never be separated!

You need to find your way back to the human you belong to, before it’s too late!

SCHiM is a game about jumping from shadow to shadow in a relaxing and lively environment. This 3D platformer takes elements of light, shadow & animation and adds them directly to the gameplay, delivering an experience that you will only find in SCHiM.

Do you love cats? Then PAWfect Cat Mansion is the perfect game for you! Design your dream home and watch as adorable cats appear, exploring and lounging in your beautifully decorated rooms.

Create unique spaces tailored to different professions by choosing furniture and decorations that match each character’s interests.

Your main goal is to transform an old mansion into a cozy kitty paradise. Invite even more cute cats to join the fun, and pick your favorites to stay with you forever!

Restore color to the desolate islands of Farewell North, an open world journey where you play as a border collie on an adventure with his owner through the Scottish Highlands.

Explore land and sea, solve puzzles to reveal hidden paths, evade monsters, and free wildlife to bring color back to the world, all while revealing an emotional story about saying farewell.

Farewell North is about a woman on a personal journey deep in the Scottish highlands with her border collie, the player character. Dealing with a declining mental state and the emotions of a tragic loss, all color has left her world and it’s up to you to bring it back as you aid her on her journey.

Tavern Talk is a 2D cozy visual novel in a high fantasy setting. Catchy dialogues, drink mixing, and lot’s of PnP humor inspired by Coffee Talk, VA-11 HALL-A and Dungeon & Dragons.

Play the tavern owner, the most beloved NPC of every RPG ever made. Listen to stories of boasting glory and utter failure. Pick up rumors, gather quests, and assign them to the next best adventurer. Make sure they come back alive by mixing them the right potions.

Uncover the truth about an old evil that threatens the land. Will you pull your strings and save the day? Please be aware that there will be mentions of death, grief and violence.

Unpacking is a zen puzzle game about the familiar experience of pulling possessions out of boxes and fitting them into a new home. A unique approach to point-and-click games that lets you uncover the main story through each object.

Make adorable friends and discover creative adventures across retro re-releases of two lovable games in MySims™: Cozy Bundle. Use your imagination to rebuild a town in MySims™ and help a cute magical land become an even better place in MySims™ Kingdom. There are stories to uncover, locations to explore, and lots of characters with big personalities to meet.

Rediscover the charm of two classic MySims™ games, now on Nintendo Switch™. Fan-favorite characters are waiting to meet you, and a lot of them need your help! There is just one key element missing from these games – your creative touch! It’s time to craft the cutest worlds you can imagine.

Play 51 Worldwide Classics in this compilation of board, card, tabletop, and toy sports games from around the world. My personal favorites are Mancala, Dominoes and Klondike Solitaire.

Build your own power-washing business and unlock new tools, upgrades and more – power-wash your way to a sparkling finish. It’s a simple game with a higher level of satisfaction. Ideal for perfectionists!

An easy sandbox city-builder game. With an in-game social media blast, you’ll soon discover what your citizens need from you to build the city of their dreams.

This popular hospital-building business has four huge expansions and two additional DLCs now on Nintendo Switch. Diagnose, cure and improve research in your hospital as you build your healthcare empire and reach various goals.

Everything is an interactive simulation game where every single object in the Universe is a playable character, from atoms to animals to planets to galaxies. Narrated by the late British philosopher Alan Watts.

Kamaeru is a cozy farming sim about collecting and raising frogs, farming, and preserving nature.

You play as a kind soul helping an old friend restore the wetlands of your childhood by transforming them into a safe haven for friendly little frogs.

With the help of the game’s cast of welcoming NPCs, you will photograph and breed frogs to increase your reputation, decorate your refuge, and plant native crops to help your amphibian abode thrive!

LEGO Builder’s Journey is an atmospheric, geometric puzzle game that asks us to sometimes follow the instructions… and sometimes to break the rules.

Take your time to experiment with free-form puzzle solving while immersing yourself in a poetic world of LEGO® bricks. Throughout the narrative, there will be ups and downs, challenges, and celebrations. Figuring out who we are and what we become is the Builder’s Journey.

House Flipper is the perfect game for casual players. If you’re a DIYer or fancy yourself a home renovator then you’ll have the best time buying run-down houses, improving them, and then selling them for a good profit.

This casual puzzle game wants you to create pictures by connecting the dots. With over 1000 challenging puzzles to complete you’ll have hours of fun earning trophies and completing pictures.

Beautiful Parisian cats are hiding in Paris, can you find them all?

A short and fun hidden object game set in a big and lovely illustration! Start with a beautiful monochromatic scenario, relax, and find all the cats to reveal the final colored art.

If you’re a fan of Pixar films you’ll want to check out A Fold Apart. A tale of two lovers who have to navigate the ups and downs of their long-distance relationship. Flip, fold, unfold and the paper puzzles to bring them closer together.

From the creators of Cook, Serve, Delicious! comes a new cooking adventure game. Chop, stir, and sauté your way through a bustling solar punk city in this fully-voice acted story. Manage your menu, learn delicious recipes, and meet a diverse cast of friends and foes on your way to culinary greatness.

It’s time to spin academia on its head! Got a yearning for learning? Or just keen to build an educational masterpiece? Campus is jam-packed with new creative tools to help you build the university of your dreams.

For the first time, build in the great outdoors as you develop your own delightfully educational campus environment, housing the top teaching facilities in the land. Whether you prefer building on simple foundations, or placing every tree, you can build the university you want.

Save the kingdom of Hyrule – this time with the wisdom of Princess Zelda – in The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom for Nintendo Switch.

The people of Hyrule are being stolen away by strange rifts that have appeared, and with a certain swordsman among those missing, it’s up to Princess Zelda to save her kingdom.

Set in a wholesome fairytale world, Fabledom is a laid-back City builder.

Enjoy the growth of your settlement, interact with your neighbors, and defend your kingdom from magical creatures. All to find true love and live happily ever after!