The best "healthy" video games on Nintendo Switch
A "healthy" video game is one where you can relax, which can be challenging but never punitive, with elements of friendship, community and kindness. But not always - some "healthy" games (like a certain bad goose game) are more about letting the player run wild a little, but always in a gentle and less severe way than cutting people's heads off in a Dark Souls or a Witcher game.
And of course, there is always Wholesome Direct, filled with anthropomorphic animals, cafes, campsites and farms. The difference here is that Wholesome Direct is indie only, but our list also includes a couple of big names.
Without further ado, here we are: the best healthiest games on Nintendo Switch.
A short hike is an exploration video game in which the protagonist is a bird that has to climb a mountain. The game features some puzzle video game elements.
A Short Hike has many of the hallmarks of a great healthy indie game: talking animals, a message about how to stop and smell the roses, and the kind of soundtrack you want to hear in the bathtub. It really is really nice.
For a game that is nominally about a "short hike" up a mountain (to get reception on your phone), A Short Hike becomes much faster, whether it's finding secrets, helping people, or just exploring the world on your own. up (and down, and up again).
There are many joyful and wonderful moments to be discovered in A Short Hike, but the best of all is when you realize that the journey is sometimes more important than the destination.
Untitled Goose Game
Untitled Goose Game is a 2019 puzzle video game developed by House House. Published by Panic for Microsoft Windows, macOS and Nintendo Switch, the game has received conversions for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
The playing character it's a'goose who must perform a series of assigned tasks.. The game mechanics are reminiscent of a stealth video game.
What do you think about when we say the word "healthy"? Is it a small family of pigs, wearing knitted sweaters? Maybe it's an anthropomorphic fox drinking tea? Well, you are very wrong. The healthiest thing is a hideous goose terrorizing a village with a chaotic classical piano soundtrack accompanying it.
Most likely you already know Untitled Goose Game, when it came out it became very viral, but in case you haven't played it before, this is a bad goose who loves to steal things and honk loudly. It's silly and funny, with lots of funny moments emerging from the goose's antics, like dropping a man by stealing his chair or trapping a child in a phone booth.
Honestly, the humor of Untitled Goose Game is what sets it apart - it's the kind of game that is based on harmless jokes and is very, very annoying, but no one really gets hurt or becomes the real target of the joke.
Yoku's Island Express
Pinball bugs might seem more like a vacuum cleaner job than a video game, but listen to us: Yoku's Island Express is one of the most hidden gems on the Nintendo Switch. You are a little beetle and you have to deliver the mail; What better way to do that than by jumping around the map in a pinball-puzzle-platform game?
Along the way, you will learn about the islanders, their various secrets, and most importantly, you will find that size has no limits when you have the heart big enough for the task.
Animal Crossing
Animal Crossing, in Japanese Dobutsu no mori (Animal Crossing? lett. "Forest of the animals"), is a video game life simulator from 2001, developed by Nintendo EAD and published by Nintendo for Nintendo 64 and Nintendo GameCube. He started the series of Animal Crossing.
Compared to the Nintendo 64, the game uses the internal clock of the GameCube, although it does not exploit its graphic potential, showing the same graphic style as the version for the older console. According to Nintendo, its strong point does not lie in the aesthetic aspect, but in the interaction with the characters.
The game is in fact a simulator of everyday life, where you live in your own city where the inhabitants are animals, and you have to work, fish, or catch insects (corresponding to those existing in nature) to sell and thus afford to buy furniture. and objects to furnish your home, which gradually accumulate earnings grows
At a very specific time in our lives - the beginning of a worldwide pandemic - Animal Crossing: New Horizons came out and alleviated many of our worries with its candy-colored vacation island and animal friendliness.
Sure, you can play ACNH in many different ways, many of which are stressful, such as trying to collect all the furniture, terraform your village, or visit one desert island after another to try and find Marshal, because you NEED him. on your island… but in the end it's a game about relaxing, making friends, decorating houses and placing flowers in a pretty little garden you designed.
With co-op features, it gets even healthier, as you can welcome people to your island to trade, showcase your projects, or just hang out in the enchanting Museum. If only life were that simple.
Haven Park
Just like A Short Hike, Haven Park is all about being a bird. Unlike Untitled Goose Game, you are not a donkey, you are a very cute little bird, named Flint. Flint is the new keeper of a camp on the island and players will be tasked with building new attractions, decorations and features to attract new campers.
Side quests are great, adorable little treats, with a variety of quirky anthropomorphic animal characters and a wealth of secrets to uncover. And there are so many of them; from trying to find someone who is deserve it good at hide and seek to stumble upon a downed plane called the "Yellow Baron", Haven Park is full of delightful things to discover.
