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The Switch is a Loot Game Paradise

Nintendo’s handheld has so many good options for Action RPG fans

Alex Rowe
6 min readJan 22, 2021
Nintendo Switch desktop screenshot taken by the author.

If you like to fight enemies, fill up bars, and collect powerful loot for hours on end, the Nintendo Switch is perhaps the most brilliant place to do it. It has so many new and classic examples of the loot-based Action RPG genre that you could fill an entire year just playing this type of game. From timeless legends to smaller modern indie releases, the genre just keeps on giving on Nintendo’s handheld.

The system’s sleep feature also makes it easier to jump in and out of a game than on some of the bigger home consoles, and many of these titles have even been rewritten in order to take advantage of this so that they don’t freak out when they lose their internet connection. Here are some of my favorite loot games on the Switch, in no particular order.

Nintendo Switch screenshot taken by the author.

Diablo III

Every time Blizzard’s 2012 classic Diablo III hits a new platform, I’m impressed all over again. I didn’t think it could hit sixty frames per second way back on the Xbox 360, and yet it did…so I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised when Blizzard achieved the same thing on…

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Alex Rowe
Alex Rowe

Written by Alex Rowe

I post commentary about gaming, tech, and sometimes music. I’ve written professionally about games since 2005. Look mom, I’m using my English degree!

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