Best Racing Nintendo Switch Games in 2026

Catch ghosts and solve puzzles to rescue Mario and friends in the Last Resort hotel; Each floor of this towering hotel is themed, from the décor to the puzzles to the boss

Utilize the functions of the all-new Poltergust G-00: Pummel ghosts with a Slam, break through defenses with the Suction Shot, and blow back groups with a Burst

Luigi can call upon and control Gooigi, his all-green doppelganger, who can do what Luigi can’t; Gooigi can slip through tight spaces, walk on spikes, and help Luigi overcomes obstacles

New stages and fighters are joined by the combined rosters of every past Super Smash Bros. Game

Challenge others anytime, anywhere, whether you're on the couch or on the go

Play any way you want—locally, online, in TV mode, Tabletop mode, Handheld mode, or even with GameCube Controllers

Build your community from scratch on a deserted island brimming with possibility; Create your personal getaway and customize your character, home, decorations, and even the landscape itself

Collect materials to construct everything from furniture to tools. Then, use what you create to give your island a personal touch

Watch as the time of day and seasons match real life—even your hemisphere. Each day holds potential for surprises and discoveries

Crash Bandicoot

Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back;ESRB Age Rating: Everyone 10+; Genre: Action and Adventure

Crash bandicoot warped

Be blaze and 6 more heroes including starla, pickle, and crusher

Race with friends in couch 4-player split-screen mode

Power up with speed boosts, upgrades, and unique character abilities

Drifting - Drift like crazy to charge your Boost

Boosting - Use your Boost to Blast through loops

Gravity - gravity will affect races, be fast or fall!

Experience two games in one with this Sonic Mania + Team Sonic Racing Double Pack

Sonic Mania is a true, classic Sonic experience: Gorgeous pixel graphics featuring a variety of new Zones with iconic favorites from Sonic 1, 2, 3, Sonic & Knuckles

Team Racing – Race as a team, win as a team. Use various team moves to assist your teammates, knock out opponents and unleash your Team Ultimate

Online Multiplayer & Local Co-Op Modes - 12 players per race, 4 player split screen, & various offline/online race modes including Grand Prix Mode, Exhibition Mode, Time-Trial, & Team Adventure Mode.

Team Racing – Race as a team, win as a team. Use various team moves to assist your teammates, knock out opponents and unleash your Team Ultimate.

Wisps - 14 spectacular offensive and defensive items to help overcome rival teams and get ahead!

Hit the Slime-filled race tracks with Nickelodeon Kart Racers

Choose a racer from 12 of the most iconic Nickelodeon series: SpongeBob SquarePants, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Hey Arnold!, Rugrats and MORE!!!

Race on 24 different Slime-filled tracks, including Bikini Bottom, NYC sewers, Tommy Pickle's house, Arnold's school and more!

NASCAR Heat Ultimate Edition+, the official video game of the 2020 season, the world's most popular stockcar racing series puts you behind the wheel and challenges you to become the NASCAR Cup Series champion.

Features the 2020 official teams, drivers, cars and schedule from the three NASCAR National Series as well as the Xtreme Dirt Tour, racing on 39 authentic tracks.

Ultimate Edition+ includes everything in NASCAR Heat 5 Ultimate Edition, plus the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series Roster and 2021 primary paint schemes.

Be a fearless leader- join dino buddies rocky, tiny, mazu and bill on a daring quest to help gigantic and Escape Extinction

Dino racing - Hop in your race Kart for a Super rally to reach the next adventure zone and find out who's the fastest dinosaur

Team up - you and up to 3 friends can control your favorite dino and create co-operative adventures together

CROSS-PLATFORM MULTIPLATER AND AUTOLOG: Bolt down the winding Seacrest County roads headfirst in racing that is socially competitive at its core, the ground-breaking Autolog connects you and your friends in head-to-head pursuits and races and instinctively delivers challenges based on your friends' activities, this highly dynamic system is fuelled by friendly competition and is now supported with cross-platform sync and new multiplayer gameplay so that you can race each other no matter what platform you are on

EXOTIC CARS WITH WEAPONS: Drive the world's most desirable supercars on both sides of the law, bust suspects in supercharged cop interceptors enhanced with tactical weaponry, or level the playing field with counterattacks and defensive manoeuvres as an elite racer, strategize to gain an edge over the competition, no matter what side you're on

CHASE AND ESCAPE: A deep and fully-defined single-player career delivers the action of both cops and racers, with a seamlessly linked multiplayer experience across all race modes, take on friends or play through the career solo to earn Bounty and unlock new cars, weapons, and equipment

Start your engines with the original game modes, characters, tracks, power-ups and controls

Power slide to glory in additional karts and tracks from beyond the original game

Race online with friends and Crash the competition with online leaderboards

No more borders - drive with freedom in huge areas that include more than 1800 miles of Roads and 250 races, located in four rich and diverse environments

Incredible cars - Players begin with 51 famous racing cars made by some of the finest manufacturers in the world, including Porsche, Lotus, McLaren, Koenigsegg and Bugatti

Control your Club - Create and manage your own Club and recruit drivers, then challenge rival clubs from around the world; Win races to see your crew's name appear at the top of the Leaderboard

Roll through wondrous worlds with AiAi and friends as you race to stop monkey mad scientist Dr. Bad-Boon from blowing up Jungle Island

Join the all-star monkey team of AiAi, MeeMee, GonGon, Baby, YanYan and Doctor as you bounce, tilt, and roll your way across hundreds of delightfully crafted levels and mazes

Play solo or with friends as you take down Dr. Bad-Boon and steal back your beloved bananas

Taking advantage of current generation hardware, this 3D action-adventure platformer is packed with smoother intuitive gameplay, updated visuals including a shiny new look for PAC-MAN and the Ghosts, an improved UI, fine-tuned environmental details

Adventure through the main campaign in QUEST MODE, play a collection of 3D mazes in MAZE MODE, & clear QUEST MODE to unlock the original PAC-MAN game in ORIGINAL MODE

Dodge Ghosts & other baddies, solve environmental puzzles, & collect items through the six areas of Ghost Island: Pirate Area, Ruins Area, Space Area, Funhouse Area, Factory Area, & Mansion Area - each featuring multiple levels & a unique boss battle

3 GAME MODES - Grand Prix, Single Race, Time Trial

MULTIPLAYER - up to 4 players in split-screen mode and up to 8 players in online mode or portably on Nintendo Switch

16 CIRCUITS - Crazy races in stunning environments inspired by the world of Garfield, such as Palerock Lake and Pastacosi Factory

4-Player local network or split-screen multiplayer

23 different vehicles: from classic roadsters to modern hypercars, brutal off-roaders to wild beasts

all the tracks, cars, powerups and fun from the arcade hit are immediately available

Immerse yourself in the Moscow Metro - witness One of the most atmospheric worlds in gaming brought to life on Nintendo Switch

Brave the horrors of the Russian Apocalypse - equip your gasmask and an arsenal of hand-made weaponry as you face the threat of deadly mutants, human foes, and the terrifying environment itself

Two campaigns, and all DLC included - Metro Redux includes two complete campaigns that combine to create One epic solo adventure, plus a further 10 hours of bonus content

Thrilling landscapes - ride through deserts, forests, mountains, Lake and river regions, oases and more

Crazy stunts & drifts to the Max -jump high into the air each time you do a stunt, then come back down to the ground and rack up the drifts. Your tires will pay the price, and so will your opponents

Varied game modes - perfect your riding style in exciting game modes that feature unique and death-defying challenges

Career Mode – Join an existing NASCAR Cup Series team or create your own in this revamped Career Mode that allows you to build your legacy and compete for the NASCAR Cup Series title.

Race Now – Select any driver and compete at any track on the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series season schedule, with options on changing the race length, tire and fuel consumption, and more.

Challenge Mode – Brand-new Challenges in which players attempt to beat or accomplish scenarios inspired by real on-track events.

Unique Racing Experience – Exhilarating no-rules racing action with defining, once-in-a-lifetime moments that can be achieved only with a true-to-life physics simulation. Witness insane neck-to-neck fighting on high-speed circuits, face total destruction madness on crazy courses with intersections and oncoming traffic, or go for demolition dominance in derby arenas.

Awesome Cars – Our cars are old, banged up, patched together... They ooze style and character! From old American heavy-hitters to agile Europeans and fun Asians, you won’t find anything like this in other games.

Meaningful Customization – Change not only the look of your cars but also upgrade their body armor – Reinforce them with heavy iron that protects you from damage, but also adds weight, which impacts the cars handling. Modify your car to make a robust tank or a fragile but lightning-fast rocket, or anything in between!

The criminal racing organization SH1FT3R has returned and they're racing for the ultimate prize - An Invisible, untraceable high-tech vehicle.

It takes more than speed to win this combat racing challenge. Armed with 15 spy Gear weapons inspired by the Netflix original Series, you'll need to Blast past your rivals to earn victory.

Show the whole world you're the fastest, coolest, and most talented racer! Customize your vehicle with unlockable Skins and race against online opponents, ai-controlled drivers, and Your friends with couch co-op and online multiplayer.

Create your own Princess character with over 50 choices in gowns, shoes, tiaras, and Hair ornaments, plus 25 hairstyles and many eye Color and makeup options.

Play fun mini-games with 1 to 4 players to Polish your posh: dancing, horse racing, cake decorating, archery and more.

Decorate 20 rooms in your castle how you wish with over 1, 300 lovely items: furniture, paintings, wallpaper, and much more.

Choose from 18 different monster trucks

Personalize your very own truck with over 50 customizable components

Experience up to 25 unique arenas

Ultrahand: Using the new Ultrahand ability, Link can pick up, move, and rotate almost any object, and can even attach objects together to create bridges, vehicles, and more!

Fuse: Magically fuse almost any object to Link’s current weapon, shield, or arrow to increase durability, damage, or even add a new effect. Experiment with lots of different combinations to come up with surprising—and sometimes hilarious—results!

Ascend: Add a new dimension to your exploration with Ascend, which gives Link the ability to pass through solid objects above him. Rise up through ceilings, hillsides, and even certain enemies to create seemingly impossible shortcuts.

Spider-Man's Triumphant Return to New York - Everybody's favorite web-head is back in Manhattan with the return of the fan-favorite, web-slinging gameplay.

Web Rush: Player Choice Evolved – Players use real-time navigational and combat choices to fight crime and pull off Spidey's signature acrobatic moves like never before.

Find Out What Happens Next – Uncover the rest of Peter Parker's untold story in the all-new epilogue story to the Columbia Pictures' 2012 blockbuster theatrical release.

5 Single-player Game Modes: You can choose to dedicate your life to off-road racing in Season Mode or fulfil your destiny in Championship Mode; Also features Race-Against-the-Clock and Single Race Modes as well as Hot Lap

4 Multiplayer modes: In addition to the single-player modes also playable in multiplayer, discover 4 modes that can only be played in multi-player mode: Last Man Riding, King of the Road, Hunter, and Golden Helmet

Stunning off-road tracks: In OffRoad Racing, one thing's for sure, you're in for a hectic ride; The tracks are bendy, full of surprises, and perfect for performing mad stunts all while getting stunningly beautiful views

Play together either online (8p) or through splitscreen (2p).

Over 500 authentic, licensed car parts to build your car with.

8 'base models' to build super cars with.

Grip is a high OCTANE, hardcore combat racer, packing ferocious speed and armed to the teeth with heavy weapons.

Evolved from the age of Street racing, the world of grip is brutal and cut-throat to the core.

Scale walls, ceilings and anything else you can get your tires on to... as you master tantalizing tracks, tricks and perform mind-blowing stunts to race your way across the cosmos.