It’s not dead yet! Though the Switch 2 launched in 2025, the original hardware saw a wealth of compatible releases. (And for those of us here at Siliconera? A system’s later releases are often ambitious RPGs and such! We like those.) Check out our Switch Game of the Year 2025 selections below.
These awards represent the consensus of the Siliconera staff. Multiplatform games are considered on the platform for which they received the most staff support. For more of the year’s award selections, check out our Game of the Year 2025 archive.
The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy
Also a finalist for most game of 2025, The Hundred Line mashes together Danganronpa-style aesthetics and storytelling with a strategy portion that’s as much tower defense as SRPG. It knows what its audience wants: challenging, deep battles and choices that let you explore a lot of ways that things can play out. We recommend it, but be prepared: you’ll probably cross the, well, hundred line in terms of hours played!
Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter
Much has been discussed of the efforts to remake Final Fantasy VII, but this reimagining of Trails in the Sky is perhaps more successful and building off a more robust and well-crafted original. It takes all the quality-of-life work and 3D experience Falcom has picked up in intervening years and combined it with the most loved world and characters they’ve ever built. We’re looking forward to returning to it in the sequel!
Winner: Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time
The sequel to the 3DS gem was a long time coming, but it finally stopped stealing its own time in 2025. It’s inspired by a lot of things, notably Animal Crossing and mobile action-RPGs like Dragalia Lost, but ultimately it’s still enough like the original to capture our hearts. Fantasy Life i is the sort of game you can play in a bunch of ways, though it also makes it easy to bounce around between different paths and feel productive.