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Nintendo Switch 2025 Year in Review (now with December!)

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Khushrenada:



Welp, the review was mostly what I expected. I thought I had more hours in Mario Wonder and less hours in XCX but they were the main two games I knew I had spent time playing this year on the Switch.

The 30 total games is a lie as always. Some of those games were Game Trials that I launched to just get the platinum points. A few were games I'd bought off the eShop but I don't remember actually launching them yet so I'm surprised they showed up on the list.


--- Quote from: M.K.Ultra on January 14, 2026, 06:22:44 PM ---
--- Quote from: Evan_B on January 14, 2026, 11:03:10 AM ---My top genre was “Action,” which is incredibly vague as a descriptor, but okay.

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Based on your games, your top genre should be RPG right? I am curious what the possible game types are.

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Based on this part of the breakdown, I feel like these may be all the game types they are using unless someone else has more in their circle chart.



With XCX:DE having 285 out of my 343 hours on Switch and Action coming up as my top gaming style over RPG, I think it's pretty clear Nintendo is counting XCX:DE as an Action RPG and giving both of those tags equal measure.

As for the month-to-month most-played listings:

January - Tetris 99 (2 hours)
February - Tetris 99 (2 hours)
March - XCX:DE (31 hours)
April - XCX:DE (65 hours)
May - XCX:DE (88 hours)
June - XCX:DE (49 hours)
July - XCX:DE (39 hours)
August - XCX:DE (17 hours)
September - Super Mario Bros. Wonder (6 hours)
October - Super Mario Bros. Wonder (9 hours)
November Super Mario Bros. Wonder (2 hours)
December - Tetris 99 (1 hour)

Not that exciting or varied. The sad thing is, I'm still not done XCX:DE. I was at part 2 of Chapter 13 and have meant to finish it as that was part of the reason I was willing to buy it at launch and jump back into that game. I had thought of doing it during Backlaugust and announced it as my intention only to get frustrated at my inability to defeat either Telethia or Pharsis despite having to Ares 90s, an Ares 70 and level 60 Skell with some Ultrafauna weapons and gems attached. Having spent all those tickets and still getting defeated sapped my momentum just near the end like that. Although if I could develop some skill at Overdrive better than maybe that could help but Pharsis has a pool under it so it seems like it has to be taken out via skells.

But now that I'm done Wonder and a couple other games and have had this break from the game, I'm getting a bit more inclined to jumping back into and seeing if I can finally wrap it all up and defeat those last 11 Tyrants I had left on my list and finishing that Final Chapter along with a handful of missions to finally put that game to bed.

Puzzle would also have been a bigger contender if the 3DS was included in this. Last third of the year was spent playing Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy and I put in over 100 hours in that game solving all the content and DLC it had to offer. The in-game hour count in the Professor's Trunk maxed at 99 hours and doesn't seem to be able to go up to or past 100. First time I touched my 3DS in over a year at least. Sadly, I think that had an effect on the thumb nub as it felt odd at first and like it was dried out from not getting regular skin oils on it after years of steady play. In fact, it ended up crumbling and breaking a bit all along the outer circle of it with now just the inner circle left that still covers the moving metal or plastic piece under it. Kind of sad that has happened to it. Could use a new one. Didn't expect the used 3DS market to get more expensive than when the systems were being sold brand new. DS systems are still pretty cheap but the pandemic seems to have had an effect on 3DS availability. Even though Switch pretty much ended that system when it launched, it feels like Nintendo could release a batch of 3DS systems and sell out of them just for people that might want to replace their aging systems.

Khushrenada:
As for the trip down memory lane, it seems when I finally jumped into the Nintendo Switch ecosystem was Nov. 13, 2018. Even though the Switch is about to hit its 9 year(!!!) anniversary in about a month and a half, it's just a bit over 7 years for me with the system.

I'm also seeing a bit more genres listed in those past years that weren't mentioned in gaming style this year which are: Adventure, Fighting, Racing, and Character driven. It's a shame. There's almost a top 25 list of most played games near the end of the review. But the grid only allows for 24 spots and they took up 4 for the game with the most playtime. But now I'm glad for the reference since I swapped out my original Switch for another one and that ruined the internal list of games with the most playtime because of it.

Anyways my current list of the top 21 games I've played the longest of on Switch.

XCX:DE - 285 hours (we'll crack that 300 mark this year. Just you wait and see!)
XC:DE - 213 hours
SNES Online App - 198 hours
Tetris 99 - 135 hours
Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics - 127 hours
Lumines Remastered - 114 hours
Hollow Knight - 102 hours
The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles - 97 hours
Super Mario Odyssey - 87 hours
Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - 87 hours (This is false. Early when I first got the Switch, I lent it to a family member so that they could play this game since I was mainly playing it on Wii U and so this is their time spent on the game.)
Nintendo 64 Online - 82 hours
Wheel of Fortune - 77 hours
Metroid Dread - 54 hours
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - 47 hours (This is also going to go up as I'm just starting to play the DLC courses after finally getting another copy of this game. I gave my first copy to my brother just a couple months before they announced all the DLC to come.)
Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening - 47 hours
Kirby and the Forgotten Land - 36 hours
Super Mario Party - 35 hours
Yooka-Laylee - 30 hours
Murder by Numbers - 23 hours (Surprised this made the list)
Jeopardy! - 23 hours
BoxBoy! + BoxGirl! - 22 hours

A little surprised that the GBA Online app didn't make this list yet but maybe if it was expanded to a full 25. Earlier this year, I had been playing the SNES Online app and A Link to the Past in it just before XCX:DE launched but I guess it wasn't enough to show up on any of my stats for top games or month by month breakdowns. That is actually the first time I've played the SNES version. I'd only played the GBA version of it before and only once making it the second time I've played that game. When bringing up games I played this year, it just felt like that deserved a mention as it one that stuck in my mind when thinking about games. There's also Pokemon TCG Pocket but that's just become a part of daily life for me at this point.

Mop it up:


^Not many games I s'pose, but spent some quality time with them!



^I guess it was the year of partying for me.



^All over the place



^Top 21 for all-time.

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