Two updated The Legend of Zelda and Hades II topped the top-20 releases of 2025 for Nintendo Switch 2 according to Metacritic
The aggregator Metacritic continues to summarize the results of 2025. A few days ago, it presented Metacritic: the best games for Xbox and PlayStation are Split Fiction and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, and now a similar collection has appeared for Nintendo Switch users.
What is known
According to the average scores on Metacritic, the best release of 2025 on Nintendo consoles was the re-release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom for Switch 2. In second place was the hit roguelike action Hades II, which is a Nintendo console exclusive. And in an honorable third place was another Zelda — the updated version of Breath of the Wild.
Surprisingly, the long-awaited metroidvania Hollow Knight: Silksong surpassed the highly rated exclusive Donkey Kong Bananza, which took fifth place.
By the way, the unsuccessful release of the equally anticipated Metroid Prime 4: Beyond is confirmed by the fact that it did not make it to the top twenty leaders of 2025.
Top 20 best games of 2025 for Switch and Switch 2 according to Metacritic
- The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Switch 2 Edition (95 points out of 100);
- Hades II Switch 2 Edition (95 points out of 100);
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Switch 2 Edition (94 points out of 100);
- Hollow Knight: Silksong (91 points out of 100);
- Donkey Kong Bananza (91 points out of 100);
- Trails in the Sky: 1st Chapter (90 points out of 100);
- Absolum (90 points out of 100);
- BALL x PIT (89 points out of 100);
- Split Fiction (89 points out of 100);
- Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo (88 points out of 100);
- Street Fighter 6 (87 points out of 100);
- Super Mario Galaxy + Super Mario Galaxy 2 (87 points out of 100);
- Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound (87 points out of 100);
- Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles (87 points out of 100);
- Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition (87 points out of 100);
- Mario Kart World (86 points out of 100);
- Heretic + Hexen: Beyond Heretic (86 points out of 100);
- Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time (86 points out of 100);
- Shotgun Cop Man (86 points out of 100);
- Deltarune (86 points out of 100).
Source: Metacritic
