Nintendo Life eShop Selects: Best Switch 1 & 2 Digital-Only Games of May 2026
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Nintendo Life's eShop Selects feature for May 2026 highlights the top three eShop-only games released on Switch 1 and Switch 2, as voted by the publication's writers and contributors. The article explains the selection criteria (games reviewed with a score of at least 7/10 that launched in May) and notes that only six games qualified this month due to many titles receiving day-and-date physical releases.
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Plenty of games came out in May, although many of them also got day-and-date physical releases, so we only had six games that met our threshold this month.
Let's hop to it, shall we?
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