Popular aggregator Metacritic published the top best games for 2022 for Nintendo Switch. The list of forty titles is based on critical reviews. In first place was the Portal Companion Collection with 96 points out of 100.
Second place goes to the Japanese role-playing game Persona 5 Royal, which was rated at 94 points. It is noteworthy that all other games in the top could not score more than 90 points. Also in the top five were Xenoblade Chronicles 3, NieR: Automata – The End of YoRHa Edition and Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration.
All forty of the best titles of the outgoing year with critical ratings (in brackets) are presented below:
Portal Companion Collection (96);
Persona 5 Royal (94);
Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (89);
NieR: Automata – The End of YoRHa Edition (89);
Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration (89);
Neon White (88);
Tunic (88);
Cuphead – The Delicious Last Course (88);
13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim (88);
The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe (87);
Two Point Campus (87);
Tinykin (87);
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge (87);
OlliOlli World (87);
The Last Friend (86);
Bayonetta 3 (86);
The Legend of Heroes: Trails From Zero (86);
Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope (86);
Beacon Pines (85);
Shovel Knight Dig (85);
Easy Come Easy Golf (85);
Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak (85);
Return to Monkey Island (85);
Kirby and the Forgotten Land (85);
Tactics Ogre: Reborn (85);
SNK vs. Capcom: Card Fighters’ Clash (84);
AI: The Somnium Files – nirvanA Initiative (84);
Infernax (84);
Retro Bowl (84);
Nobody Saves the World (83);
Yomawari: Lost in the Dark (83);
Splatoon 3 (83);
Wayward Strand (83);
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection (83);
It Takes Two (83);
Record of Lodoss War: Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth (83);
Citizen Sleeper (83);
Pokemon Legends: Arceus (83);
Triangle Strategy (83);
No Man’s Sky (83).
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