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Thanks to the age of instantly downloadable games, it's faster and easier than ever to get your hands on new titles. Cheap Nintendo Switch games are not hard to come by, and Nintendo's ever-growing library has some bangers. Check out these 13 cheap Switch games, all of which can be downloaded for less than $40.
Prices and availability are subject to change.
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$15 from Amazon
Rebuild your late grandfather's farm in this farming simulator backed up by gorgeous art and an absolute heater of a music score. This game really melts my cold heart into a puddle. It's too adorable for its own good.
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$25 from Target
If you enjoy dungeon crawlers, gigantic weapons, and quippy, Greek god-related humor, Hades is the $25 steal of your dreams.
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$5 from Amazon
Much like the real-life party game "Mafia," this fake-life party video game takes Mafia's who's-who element and spins it into a science fiction setting: Can you figure out who's in your crew, and who's an imposter? If the 1,000 hours of remote party games you played during lockdown weren't enough, add Among Us to your list.
$20 from Amazon
This is a game where you take control of a goose in a little English town and menace all the residents. It's a delight. Real edgy stuff.
Free from Nintendo
Try to be the last man standing in the minigame fest that's taken Twitch by storm. It's free; how much more convincing do you need?
$20 from Nintendo
There was a time when all gamers could talk about was "Portal." The puzzle game series has won just about every award possible, and spawned a great many copycats and similarities (not to mention one of The National's best songs). You can download both the original and the squeakquel for only $20.
$16 from Amazon
Boy oh boy, do these games take me back. I cannot believe somebody as uncoordinated as myself ever had a phase of thinking skateboarding might be a possibility in my life. That was probably all because of these games, which have been remastered for Switch in a cheap little bundle package.
$20 from Amazon
Nothing really soothes you after a bad day like turning on "Force Unleashed" and tossing a bunch of Stormtroopers around like old toys. Choosing your own lightsaber color is a fun touch, too.
$30 from Nintendo
Were you also a kid that had this on their elementary school computer because it was somehow labeled "educational?" Maybe that's just me. Either way, building an unsafe rollercoaster and watching it crash à la "Final Destination" never gets old.
$40 from Nintendo
Perhaps you are a college student looking for something that will make you scream at the top of your lungs in order to keep everybody else in the building awake all night long. FIFA 23 is available for exactly that purpose (it's fun, too!).
$25 from Amazon
"Cult of the Lamb" puts you in the shoes of an adorable little lamb that's been possessed and tasked with building a cult. It's a little bit farming-sim, a little bit dungeon crawler, and a lotta bit addicting.
$15 from Amazon
If you love old-school beat-em-up arcade games, this is 100% for you. It's a video game, made to be like the movie, which was made to be like a video game. There's something beautiful about that.
$20 from Amazon
Rag doll action is perfected in this incredibly weird game where you control an employee of a huge corporation just trying to get things done. You can destroy just about everything you see in wildly creative ways (like slingshotting a rolling projector through a fish tank), which is actually quite therapeutic.
