The 1. 2 Best Games For The Nintendo Switch. You just bought a new Nintendo Switch. First of all, good job! They’re still kind of hard to find. Now it’s time to figure out what games you want to play.

We’ve got you covered. The Switch’s library has been growing all year. Nintendo has managed to maintain a solid ratio of good games on their system, and at this point there’s a healthy selection of fantastic Switch games to choose from. The Nintendo Switch is a fascinating new game console built around a novel and well- executed…Read more Read. As with all of our Bests lists, we’ll be updating this one over the months and years to come. Each game we add in the future will need to replace an existing entry. Expect the list to continue to expand and improve over the months to come.

Here are the 1. 2 best games you can get for the Nintendo Switch. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is a monumental artistic achievement, a video game so creative and full of surprises that we’ll be talking about it for years to come. It’s also unlike any Zelda game before it. For years, Zelda games were defined by “no.” You can’t reach this place until later; you can’t solve this puzzle until you get the right item.

Breath of the Wild is the best Zelda game to date, and it accomplishes that simply by saying yes. A Good Match For: Anyone who likes games that let you explore and make your own fun; horse lovers. Not A Good Match For: Anyone who preferred the strict structure of other recent Zelda games. Read our review. Study our tips for the game. Watch it in action.

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is a monumental artistic achievement, a video game so creative and full of surprises that we’ll be talking about it for. This is a list of all D&D 5E adventures I know about. It does not include the playtest adventures, which have their own list, as those adventures had significantly. GameTrailers is your destination to see official trailers first. Powered by IGN, you can expect to see world-first exclusive gameplay and the hottest new tra. Greetings and/or salutations, people! Welcome to io9's (occasionally weekly) mail column, where I solve the mysteries of the world of nerd-dom to you, both fictional. It’s cake versus ice cream for Splatoon 2's first Splatfest and we’re streaming all the fun live on our Twitch channel. Come and join the mayhem!

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Purchase From: Amazon Walmart Best Buy Gamestop. Stardew Valley is an already- great game made indispensable by the Switch. The 2. 01. 6 farming/dating/life sim lets you forget your worries and embrace a soothingly banal life in the countryside. You water your crops in the morning, and think about how you’re going to improve your farm. You head in to town and stop by the general store to get seeds and chat up the cute boy you’ve had your eye on. And if you want, you explore the mysterious mine, gather magical materials, and uncover the deeper secrets of the valley. It’s a game with a seemingly endless amount to do, and it fits perfectly onto a handheld.

A Good Match For: Fans of games like Animal Crossing, Harvest Moon, or Minecraft. Anyone looking for a relaxing but terrifyingly addictive game. Not A Good Match For: Anyone looking for a straightforward game. Stardew Valley is calming and low- key, but it’s also extremely complex and doesn’t alway explain itself that well. Read our impressions of the Switch version.

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Shop. Look, we weren’t expecting much from Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle either. We were right there laughing along with the rest of the internet when we first saw those leaked promotional images of Ubisoft’s annoying Rabbid mascots dressed up as iconic Mario characters. But then Ubisoft showed the game itself, and… wait, a Mario- inspired take on XCOM tactics? One that looks like a first- party Nintendo game thanks to Nintendo’s developers lending a hand with production? As it turned out, yep, Mario + Rabbids is a fantastic game. It’s a smart, streamlined take on the XCOM style of turn- based, positional tactics. It’s beautiful looking, and has an excellent musical score.

And it’s just really goofy and fun. Each fight is an unpredictable scrum between team Mario and a bunch of chittering, idiot Rabbids, and the constantly escalating challenge will force you to think on your toes. And its digestible, 5- 1. Switch. A Good Match For: Anyone waiting for a good Switch strategy game, XCOM fans, people who think they might like XCOM but are put off by how complicated it seems.

Not A Good Match For: Anyone who just can’t stand Ubisoft’s Rabbids. The game is actually a lot more charming than the corny, Minions- like mascots on the cover might suggest, but if you really hate ‘em, you really hate ‘em. Read our review. Watch it in action. Purchase From: Amazon Walmart Best Buy Gamestop. The makers of Thumper bill it as a “rhythm violence game,” which is a cheeky description but also an accurate one.

The setup is simple: You control a glowing beetle as it zooms along a track through some sort of neon Hell dimension. In your path are glowing gems and various obstacles.

You press buttons in time with the grinding, undulating music to get past those obstacles without blowing up. The music is relentless. The beats are ferocious. The pace is unstoppable. Thumper takes a classic formula and strips it down to its rawest, most hypnotic base elements. The result is one of the finest rhythm games in years.

A Good Match For: People who like rhythm games, people who like difficult rhythm games. Not A Good Match For: Those who don’t want to play Switch games with headphones, those who get easily frustrated. Read our impressions of the PC version. Watch it in action. Purchase From: Available digitally on the Nintendo e. Shop. Why have one good thing when you can have two? Good question. In the case of Puyo Puyo Tetris, those two good things are..

Tetris and Puyo Puyo, a pair of place- the- dropping- shapes games that are equally beloved, if not equally well- known, all around the world. In single- player, online or splitscreen multiplayer, you and up to three friends can compete in hectic matches that flip and flop from Tetris to Puyo Puyo and back again. It’s a chaotic good time.

A Good Match For: Fans of Tetris and fans of Puyo Puyo, obviously. Also, anyone looking for a fun competitive puzzle game to play with friends. Not A Good Match For: Those looking for a fleshed- out singleplayer game, anyone who prefers to solve puzzles without a time limitation. Read our impressions of the game. Watch it in action.

Purchase From: Amazon Walmart Best Buy Gamestop. Steam. World Dig 2 takes the backtracking, exploration and gradual upgrades of a Metroid game and combines them with the strategic spelunking of Dig Dug. The result is a charming, engrossing side- scroller loaded with smart ideas and clever challenges. That’s.. pretty much all we need to say about it. It’s a straightforward gaming pleasure. A Good Match For: Fans of sidescrollers, Metroid- inspired games, and digging. Not A Good Match For: Anyone who hates platforming.

Steam. World Dig 2 isn’t as hard as some other similar games, but it does have some tricky challenges. Read our impressions of the Switch version.

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Shop. Something is wrong with Isaac’s mom: She thinks that she can hear God. And God, disturbingly enough, has instructed her to kill Isaac. The only way Isaac can get out of that hellish situation is by jumping into his basement—which happens to be endless, and full of terrors. Thankfully, these demons can be defeated by directing Isaac’s tears, twin- stick shooter style, across Zelda- like dungeons.

Well.. if Zelda dungeons were full of horrifying hellspawn, poop, and tons of mysterious items that you don’t know how to use. The Binding of Isaac has gotten several iterations over the years, and Afterbirth+ is the biggest expansion yet. A Good Match For: Players who like a challenge, especially of the roguelike variety.

A lot of the appeal with the Binding of Isaac is how constantly it will surprise you with challenges you’ve never encountered before. Not A Good Match For: Players who are sensitive to gross stuff or jokes about religion, or people who are just looking to relax while playing a game. Watch it in action. Purchase From: Amazon Walmart Best Buy Gamestop. Ah, the blue shell.

There may be no better metaphor for the bleakness of life. One minute you’re cruising along, on top of the world, and then… BAM, you’re totally hosed. Watch Conjurer Online Forbes. Just when you thought you had it in the bag, life throws a blue shell.

Mario Kart 8 isn’t really all that philosophical, of course.

How Dungeons & Dragons' New App Will Make Role- Playing Easier Than Ever. Dungeons & Dragons is, intrinsically, a very physical experience: You’re surrounded by pens, stacks of paper, and rulebooks, rolling dice, talking to your friends. But Wizards of the Coast is planning to help modernize the way fans play the game with the introduction of Beyond, a new app that wants to help balance the physical experience of role- playing D& D with a decluttered, all- digital support system. Being developed with Curse, Beyondmarks a huge step for Dungeons & Dragons’ approach to digital supplements—especially because of the fact that the company had resisted creating official digital tools for the game, allowing third party developers to make they own.

Now, however, Wizards of the Coast is all- in. The base version of the Beyond app will be free and available for both PC and mobile.

It includes the ability to browse basic rules for D& D’s Fifth Edition, and access to both the Systems Reference Document, for Dungeon Masters looking to create their own campaign material, and the Elemental Evil Player’s Companion, a sourcebook for creating new characters. But if fans want to get the most out of Beyond when it launches, they’re going to have to open their enchanted sack of gold.

Individual resources from base elements like the Players Handbook, Dungeon Master’s Guide, and Monster Manual to supplements like Volo’s Guide to Monsters will cost $3. Meanwhile, two tiered subscription services will also be available as well: the “Hero” tier allows single players unlimited character creation, and access homebrew content published by fans through the app, while the “Master” tier, intended for DMs and player groups, lets users share purchased content from one app with multiple users for campaigns.

We sat down with Curse’s product lead Adam Bradford to discuss just what fans will be able to do with Beyond at launch, and how the company is going to balance the appeal of digital convenience with D& D’s legacy as a distinctly non- digital experience. Tell us a little bit about what D& DBeyond does for a D& D player. Adam Bradford: D& D Beyond is an official digital toolset for Dungeons & Dragons for the fifth edition rules.

Our focus is to make game management easier for players both at the table and between game sessions. At launch, a game rules compendium with all D& D sourcebooks in digital format will be available, as well as a character builder, digital character sheet, homebrew content creation, and the early stages of campaign management.

Wizards of the Coast has dabbled with digital companions for D& D in the past, but nothing as comprehensive as D& DBeyond. Why now? Bradford: Creating a comprehensive toolset for D& D is challenging. It’s “structured make- believe”—there are rules, but no real limits. As much as I enjoy playing an open- world video game, those games are still bound to the edge of the map.

I think that because of that challenge of digitizing D& D, it’s taken some time to get here, but we’re committed to make it worth the wait. Dungeons & Dragons is in the zeitgeist today, more popular than it’s ever been, and Beyond is coming alongside to welcome all the new players and enhance the game experience for veterans. While third- party apps have come along to fill in gaps over time, D& D Beyond aims to provide those long- desired tools in a single, unified place. How does the arrival of Beyond affect Wizards of the Coast’s relationship with third- party D& D apps like Roll.

Bradford: We have no current plans to create a virtual tabletop. Our intention is to work alongside the VTT partners Fantasy Grounds and Roll. If you create a character on D& D Beyond, you will eventually be able to export that character to use while playing virtually through Fantasy Grounds or Roll. The tabletop gaming experience is an intrinsically offline one, and if you’re playing at a convention or somewhere without reliable internet, the idea of a digital app might feel risky to some players. Will users still be able to use all of D& D Beyond’s features without being connected to the internet?

Bradford: A D& D Beyond native mobile app for i. OS and Android is in parallel development that is central to our offline strategy. When that launches, players will be able to view any content and create and manage characters without an internet connection. What would you say to old- school tabletop gamers who are perhaps wary of the game becoming a digital- physical hybrid experience?

Bradford: Our goal is to use technology to supplement and enhance the D& D experience—not to turn that experience into a videogame. We want to minimize the negative impact of rules at the table, such as taking a long time thumbing through books to find an obscure rule or not remembering all your character’s options. If we do that, the other key elements of the game, such as bringing characters to life and sharing an interactive story with friends, can shine through. Players can engage with the toolset at level at which they’re comfortable. If all you want to do is automate character creation and progression and print your character sheet for a session, you can do that. If you want to continue to use physical books at the table but want something to help you prep adventures between sessions, we’re still providing value for you.

Finally, where will D& DBeyond go after its initial launch? What features should fans expect that won’t be in included on day one? Bradford: We have an extensive roadmap that could extend for years.

Dungeons & Dragons is growing at an incredible rate, and we will grow with it. Our focus immediately after launch will be to release the mobile app and some quality of life enhancements like dice rolling. We will also introduce Twitch stream integration, where someone viewing a D& D stream will be able to hover over a character’s name to expand that character’s statistics on demand. If a character gets poisoned, that will appear on their character frame and the viewer can hover to see what the poisoned condition does. It will give viewers a way to engage with their favorite streamed games in a way they haven’t be able to before. Before the end of the year, we will work on monster and encounter building.

A common practice for DMs that need a particular monster to fit into a particular challenge range more easily is to “reskin” existing monsters. We our monster builder, you will be able to scale the creature’s Challenge Rating up or down based on what you need, with all the math happening automatically. If you want to give the monster a powerful magic item, you will be able to do so and see the impact that would have on the encounter. Once we have all the character- focused tools and then monster- focused tools in place, we will bring it all together to provide initiative/ combat tracking. At that point, a DM could target particular characters with a fireball, prompting those players to make Dexterity saving throws. After rolling dice (physical or integrated), the DM would see the results immediately and be able to get right into narrating the outcome. D& D: Beyond will initially launch August 1.

Founders Pack” offer selling the Beyond editions of Fifth Edition Players Handbook, Dungeon Master’s Guide, and Monster Manual for $2.