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Though a lot of it came late just about a trillion third parties ended up getting ported to the Switch over the years, along with a few exclusives, so looking back at the generation what were your favorties?

For me the ones that come to mind are:

  • Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Edition
  • Deltarune
  • Persona 4 Golden
  • Hades
  • Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of a very long title
  • Okami HD

And I guess also FF VII though that was just a replay, but great to have handheld.



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I love Doom and Doom Eternal. It plays so well on the Handheld.



Astral Chain
Ys 8
Hollow Knight
Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate
Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate
Cuphead

All of them but Cuphead are pretty meaty games and I sunk hundreds of hours to most of them, killing several joycon analog sticks in the process.



Probably Dragon Quest XI, but Octopath Traveler with its awesome music is pretty close and Immortals Fenyx Rising as well.



Square Enix with their games.

The fact that you can play FF1 to 12 (minus 11) on a portable Nintendo system is awesome.

But Atlus is also great (SMTV, Persona 5, Etrian Odyssey, etc).

Atlus was my favorite third party dev for 3DS as well with the amount of SMT games that were on there.

Playing through SMTV right now and loving it.



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Shadow Man Remastered
Balatro
The Binding Of Isaac: Afterbirth+
The Messenger
Axiom Verge
Cuphead
Final Vendetta
Crash Bandicoot 4: Its About Time
Hollow Knight
Dead Cells
Infernax
Iron Meat
Diablo 3
Mega Man 11
No More Heroes 3
Pac-Man World Re-Pac
Prince Of Persia: The Lost Crown
Streets Of Rage 4
TMNT: Shredders Revenge
Theatrhytm Final Bar Line
Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider
Yooka-Laylee And The Impossible Lair
Shantae games

Ender Lilies

And probably several others



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Dragon Quest 11 and the Bayonetta series.
The best RPG game I have ever played and the Bayo series has amazing action games, even if 3's story was the worst by far, it still had the best combat.



I had to go and check to make sure I wasn't forgetting any games, but it is Katamari Damacy Reroll and We Love Katamari Reroll basically by default, because those are literally the only two third party titles I have on the console. Everything else are exclusive games developed and/or published by Nintendo. I guess my wife has Monster Hunter Rise on Switch, but I haven't played it so can't really say anything about the game.



For me, Monster Hunter Rise was, bar none, the best third party game on Switch.

Built from the ground up for the system, and in every department the devs gave their all to make the best game that they could. It looked great, it played great, it had mountains of content, and it's by far my most played game on Switch, even over any of Nintendo's first party titles.

Amazing game.