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Nintendo Switch 2025 Year in Review - Official Nintendo Site

Celebrate your year in gaming on the Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2! See your favorite games, playtime milestones, and share your Year in Review highlights with friends.

year-in-review.nintendo.com

 

[HRK69]

 

[Tg89]

 

[DarkShadowXI]

Dang. My other 150 hours in Fantasy Life are on Steam

 

[tr1p1ex]

Dang. My other 150 hours in Fantasy Life are on Steam

101 games yet only 104 hours. Gotta be a record of some kind.

 

[touchfuzzy]

Some real rookie numbers in this thread so far

 

[Chukhopops]

And that's basically a half year since I barely played before the Switch 2 launch.

Most played : Civ VII and MKW

 

[DarkShadowXI]

101 games yet only 104 hours. Gotta be a record of some kind.

I think I tried most of my games on Switch 2 when I first got it to check performance lol

 

[Hookshot]

I didn't read what it said about 2026 not working unless I update something.

58 Hours in MKW so it can't have been as bare bones as YouTubers claimed.

 

[Idleyes]

 

[ReyBrujo]

 

[Mitsurux]

 

[Markio128]

 

[CastorSoze]

And here's me with only 4 games and 71 hours.
1. Echoes of Wisdom
2. Cereza and the Lost Demon
3. Splatoon 3

 

[alf717]

 

[AJUMP23]

Here is my stuff.

 

[DarkShadowXI]

As you can tell by my 100 hours of gameplay, I'd like to get into games a bit longer.

For those with hundreds of hours…when do you play and how long do you play at a time?

I get bored way too easily and think I need to just push through those moments of boredom until it picks up again.

 

[Sticks]

Nintendo doesn't have access to my data

 

[touchfuzzy]

As you can tell by my 100 hours of gameplay, I'd like to get into games a bit longer.

For those with hundreds of hours…when do you play and how long do you play at a time?

I get bored way too easily and think I need to just push through those moments of boredom until it picks up again.

Usually in the evenings for an hour or two, and weekend mornings before the kids get up are my hot spot too. I'll sneak in more if there's a game I'm really in to.

 

[Kacho]

 

[calistan]

That Switch 2 isn't proving to be the smartest gaming purchase I ever made. Take out DK and Mario Kart in June/July, and I played 5 hours on Metroid, 4 hours on all others combined.

 

[hououinkyouma00]

Edit: link doesn't work.

 

[cireza]

Best Switch game in 2025 is... the MegaDrive NSO app !

200 hours of the total time are my daughter playing Animal Crossing lol.

 

[DarkShadowXI]

Usually in the evenings for an hour or two, and weekend mornings before the kids get up are my hot spot too. I'll sneak in more if there's a game I'm really in to.

Ah, that makes sense! I should start setting time aside.

Do you ever get bored of the games you're playing? If so, do you just power through it?

 

[DarkShadowXI]

Man, we both bounce around a lot lol

At least you put in the hours!

 

[justiceiro]

Not the most enticing Nintendo console, but also I had to travel soon after getting it, so it's mostly my gaming device while traveling, lol.

 

[videogamedude]

 

[touchfuzzy]

Ah, that makes sense! I should start setting time aside.

Do you ever get bored of the games you're playing? If so, do you just power through it?

All the time, and no, if I'm bored of them I generally stop playing. But, I know my own tastes well enough at this point that I rarely get bored of a game before getting at least 15-20 hours out of it (or finishing it, if it's shorter than that). So averaging barely over an hour a game like you have indicates that you're probably just not buying the right games.

 

[DarkShadowXI]

All the time, and no, if I'm bored of them I generally stop playing. But, I know my own tastes well enough at this point that I rarely get bored of a game before getting at least 15-20 hours out of it (or finishing it, if it's shorter than that). So averaging barely over an hour a game like you have indicates that you're probably just not buying the right games.

Cool cool, that helps me feel better about dropping games I get bored of.

I don't think my number is totally accurate, since I tried most of my games to see how they ran on the Switch 2 and it's also my secondary console. However, I would definitely say that I put in less than 5 hours into most games.

I get pulled in from the hype of a new game and usually drop what I'm playing to check it out. Especially when I get pulled into a community on GAF. Or I'll pick up a game, try it for a bit, and put it in the backlog to play later.

Trying to be better about that this year. I also need to be a bit more picky about what I pick up. It was nice to run into a holiday sale and see a bunch of games that I was interested in go on sale.

 

[jshackles]

For some reason Nintendo thinks this year (in June?) is the first time I ever turned on a Switch even though I've had a Switch since 2017 and NSO since it was introduced. Weird.

I realized this when I went back to look at my playtime for Xenoblade Chronicles X (about 100 hours) and it wasn't there in my yearly review. Looking in the Nintendo app, it's like my playtime from 9-30-2023 through 6-5-2025 (Switch 2 release date) is completely gone. Wonder if something happened to my account when I transferred my Switch stuff to Switch 2?

 

[falling into hell]

Actually all three of my most played games were boring. After finishing them I sold them right away.

 

[ReyBrujo]

As you can tell by my 100 hours of gameplay, I'd like to get into games a bit longer.

For those with hundreds of hours…when do you play and how long do you play at a time?

I get bored way too easily and think I need to just push through those moments of boredom until it picks up again.

Most of the time I play at night after having dinner, very few times early in the morning. I prefer playing only one game until finished, and I'm only going for a good ending, not trophies or achievements. If I get a not-so-good ending but the good ending requires me to basically replay the game (I think Revelations 2 was one, The Coma 2B: Catacombs was another) I call that a "cheap" trick and don't play it again. If it requires something I can achieve relatively easily I might replay a section or get the items I'm missing. I like to play Dungeon Crawlers postgames too, even if they are insanely hard (having trouble with Etrian 2 right now, which is why it's my most played game of last year), however if the game was boring or disappointing (Tactics Ogre Reborn for example) I don't bother with it. Also, since I'm used at high frustration levels due dungeon crawlers I can swing past boring moments, however if the game becomes too tedious I might consult a guide to get past some boring section.

Lately I also load another shorter game on my Switch oled to add some fresh air, like a Picross game. I loaded UFO 50 yesterday for the first time and chose Bug Hunter, it's a pretty simple but hard game to master, I think I'll spend all year with that collection on the oled playing it while killing time during the day.

As for length of game session, it could be 2 or 3 hours, mostly depends on Switch battery life. Old Switch 1 games are 3 hours maybe (then just turn off before draining all the battery), now playing Hogwarts Legacy and battery lasts around 2 hours and a half.

Wonder if something happened to my account when I transferred my Switch stuff to Switch 2?

That's odd, my playtime is correctly counted. Did you sell or changed the account in your original console?

 

[LavitzSlambert]

I barely played this year, spent a decent amount of time on PC and PS5 but barely anything on Switch, even with my massive backlog. Hoping to change that in 2026.

 

[jshackles]

That's odd, my playtime is correctly counted. Did you sell or changed the account in your original console?

Nope, in fact I still have my old Switch 1. I'm still logged into it, and if I start playing a game now it shows up on my Nintendo app as having done so. I thought it was weird last year when I tried doing the year in review and it kept erroring out.

 

[Deerock71]

I have that Kowloon import. That game was WAYYYY longer than I expected it to be.

 

[ReyBrujo]

I have that Kowloon import. That game was WAYYYY longer than I expected it to be.

Dang true. I loved it but it took me a while until I started liking the mixture between visual novel and dungeon crawling with most of the map already discovered. Every time the ending song played I was hoping it was the last episode but it wasn't. It's literally a full anime season. HLTB said it was much shorter but by now I understand that I should check the completionist number of hours for first time playthroughs, I'm usually closer to that amount instead of main story only. Kowloon is one of the games I will play again eventually, I only unlocked I think 7 or 8 characters with only one "good" character ending, and realized too late how to blow up floors and walls to get to hidden rooms.

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

 

[Hunter 99]

I still have yet to start MP4 so hopefully rack a few more hours in 2026

 

[Nintendo's Witch]

 

[GrayDock]

My NS2 will be a N machine mostly, with an eventual third "exclusive" as not on PS5 like Ori and Cuphead.

 

[Punished Miku]

4 games, 64 hours.

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

 

[Shifty1897]

 

[Banjo64]

……



My top 3 played games are all EA games…..

 

[Klayzer]

Didn't play much Switch 2 last year.

 

[Chittagong]

Switch 1 launch year - 219 hours

Switch 2 launch year - 80 hours

And I didn't really enjoy much Zelda Echoes of Wisdom either, it was clunky and repetitive. Like was DK Bananza, which I detested in the end. Silksong was fun.

It was a crap launch.

 

[Codes 208]

…sounds about right lol

 

[ReBurn]

I played 29 games on Switch and Switch 2 last year. Not bad.

 

[justiceiro]

I still have yet to start MP4 so hopefully rack a few more hours in 2026

Lmao, didn't expect to find someone with less time than me. Did you got it for Christmas?

 

[mrpants]