The Best Comedy Games for Nintendo Switch
By Rachel Hickman
Update : Turnip Boy Robs a Bank added at rank #40.
Here are our 10 Best Comedy Games for Nintendo Switch:Backfirewall (2023)
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Hello and welcome to Backfirewall_, a first-person tragicomic adventure set inside a smartphone. You are the update assistant. Solve wacky puzzles to counter the update and save the previous operating system from deletion. The fate of the System is in your hands!
- comedy
- puzzle
- narration
- first-person
- adventure
- exploration
- british
- funny
- narrative
- story
- endings
- must-buy
- platform-lite
- casual
The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark (2021)
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Delouse your room with sage and pack up your travel-sized ouija board, it’s time to re-enter Twin Lakes - America’s 34th most haunted city. Join Detective McQueen as he puzzles his way through 6 chilling cases, risking life and pixelated limb to solve the macabre mysteries that plague the poor town.
- comedy
- point-and-click
- dark
- detective
- funny
- pixel
- text
- investigation
- humor
- mystery
- supernatural
- fiction
- story
- visual-novel
- atmospheric
Shadows Over Loathing (2022)
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Step into the shady side of a black-and-white world in Shadows Over Loathing. Hunt down your missing uncle, discover shadowy plots, and save the world from eldritch terrors. Explore a dangerous open world, solve puzzles, and battle enemies as unique characters with their own abilities. With thousands of jokes, strategic combat, and a corrupt government to overthrow, this prohibition-era adventure promises endless entertainment.
What we like:
- Humorous and entertaining dialogue
- Fun puzzles and engaging story-line
- No prior knowledge of KoL required
- Good personalization and combat
- Lovecraftian theme
- Memorable sound design and soundtrack
- Backtracking due to time-travelling mechanic
- Less comedic than the first game
- Pacing issues
- Writing overload
- rpg
- choices
- comedy
- lovecraftian
- point-and-click
- turn-based
- investigation
- adventure
- funny
- character
- puzzle
- old-school
- 2d
- customization
- multiple-endings
Killer Frequency (2023)
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Killer Frequency is a first-person horror puzzle game set in 1987, that puts you in the role of a late-night radio talk show host in small town America whose callers are being stalked by a mysterious killer.
- comedy
- horror
- america
- 1980s
- puzzle
- investigation
- walking-simulator
- emotional
- fiction
- funny
- multiple-endings
- dark
- choices
- narrative
- interactive
Peace, Death! 2 (2021)
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Peace, Death! 2 is a midcore turn-based logic game where you send clients to Hell, Heaven, or Purgatory and help members of the Reapers Union as they work towards their great cause!
- comedy
- memes
- turn-based
- scroller
- point-and-click
- casual
- 2d
- humor
- funny
- simulation
- arcade
- pixel
- tactical
- dark
- puzzle
Reventure (2019)
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The one and only non-linear adventure with 100 different endings. Don't just wishlist me. I'm not that expensive... also, look at those reviews!
- comedy
- dark
- choices
- multiple-endings
- humor
- pixel
- resource
- farming
- action-adventure
- 2d
- nonlinear
- adventure
- platform
- metroidvania
- exploration
Astrologaster (2019)
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Astrologaster is an astrological comedy game in which you take the role of Simon Forman, Elizabethan Astrologer and doctor. Cast and interpret astrological charts to answer your patients' questions about political intrigues, romantic entanglements, deadly illnesses and missing spoons.
- comedy
- choices
- historical
- fiction
- funny
- visual-novel
- protagonist
- story
- conversation
- sitcom
Dungeon Munchies (2019)
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Dungeon Munchies is a unique 2D platformer that combines zombie cooking action with RPG elements. Explore a collapsed world filled with mutated potatoes, killer wasps, electric snails, and more. Collect ingredients from defeated enemies, cook new recipes, and unlock different buffs and weapons. The game offers a mix of gross-out humor and a compelling storyline.
What we like:
- Unique combination of cooking and platforming
- Compelling storyline
- Customization options for combat
- Impressive art style and monster designs
- Diverse soundtrack
- Imprecise controls for ranged weapons, shields, and platform jumping
- cooking
- platform
- bullet-hell
- rpg
- comedy
- scroller
- post-apocalyptic
- anime
- pixel
- 2d
- funny
- action
- action-adventure
- food
- zombies
Five Dates (2020)
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Five Dates is an interactive rom-com about the unpredictable world of digital dating. With five potential female matches, Vinny explores whether compatibility, chemistry and connection is still possible in a world where physical touch is no longer an option.
- romantic
- interactive
- dating-sim
- comedy
- fmv
- choices
- dating-simulation
- funny
- fiction
- dating
- live-action
- visual-novel
- pause
- online
- multiple-endings
West of Loathing (2017)
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Say howdy to West of Loathing, a hilarious Wild West adventure where you can punch cowboy skeletons, wrestle demon cows, and explore snake-infested gulches. Choose your path as a smooth-talking Snake Oiler, a wise Beanslinger, or a tough Cow Puncher. With an open world full of danger and quests, thousands of jokes, and charming hand-drawn graphics, this game will keep you entertained for hours.
What we like:
- Funny and humorous gameplay
- Large amount of content
- Nostalgic trip down memory lane
- Locks you out of major story pieces for small mistakes
- Requires constant use of wiki for puzzle solutions
- rpg
- turn-based
- comedy
- western
- funny
- stick-figure
- battle
- combat
- adventure
- fight
- inventory
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