The 24 Best Survival Games On Nintendo Switch, Ranked In 2024

Since there are so many survival games on Switch and the Nintendo store is notorious for having a copious amount of shovelware titles that are dreadful to sift through, let's rank the very best Switch survival games that are truly worth your time. Of course these games were chosen for the list based on tangible metrics like sales or review grades, but what determines the order of the rankings are the votes cast on each game by aficionados of the genre.

While certain games seem to be extremely evergreen in the survival space (Terraria, Subnautica, etc…), there are still some great newer survival games on Switch that are building a name for themselves. Core Keeper is one of the newest - it released in 2024 and already has a subreddit with over 30k members. How does it and all the other survival games on Nintendo Switch rank against the long established games? New survival Switch games will be added to the list upon release if they're well-regarded enough to earn a spot.