Android and Nintendo Switch Crossplay (Cross-Platform) Games

On this page, you can find Android and Nintendo Switch cross-platform games. Games listed here are confirmed as working with crossplay between these two platforms.

Android

Android is a mobile operating system developed by Google. It is based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open source software, and is designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. Android games can be downloaded from the Google Play Store or other online sources. There are hundreds of thousands of games available for Android, so there is something available for every taste; from casual puzzlers or time killers through to hardcore action games or complex strategy titles. Many big name franchises have been brought over to Android too including Grand Theft Auto, Temple Run and Words With Friends among others. Many of these games are free-to-play, but some require payment to unlock additional content or features.

Nintendo Switch

The Nintendo Switch is a gaming platform that allows gamers to play their favorite games at home on their television or on the go. The system comes with two controllers that can be used together in handheld mode or separately in tabletop mode or TV mode. The Switch also has a unique feature called the Joy-Con Grip, which lets you attach the two controllers to the grip and use it as one larger controller. The Switch has a wide variety of games available, from first-party Nintendo classics like Mario Kart and Super Smash Bros. to third-party blockbusters like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Splatoon 2. There's something for everyone on the Nintendo Switch.

Cross-Platform Games for Android and Nintendo Switch

The following are crossplay games that work between Android and Nintendo Switch:

  • Among Us - Among Us is a multiplayer game of teamwork and betrayal. Players work together to prepare their spaceship for departure, but one or more random players among the Crew are Impostors bent on killing everyone. The other players must identify and kill the Impostor(s) to win. The game can be played online with 4-15 players or via local WiFi.
  • Brawlhalla - Brawlhalla is a 2D platform fighter for up to 8 players online or local. In the game, the best of the baddest-ass warriors in history battle each other in an eternal tourney of champions for bragging rights, infinite mead, and the pure pleasure of delivering a beatdown. Players can try casual free-for-alls, ranked matches, or invite friends to a private room.
  • Crash Drive 3 - Crash Drive 3 is a cross-platform multiplayer game that features free-roaming gameplay. There are 10 competitive events players can participate in to earn cash and unlock new cars or customizations. Crazy car leveling allows players to increase their player level by maxing out all stats for a car, thus allowing them access to buy new cars or customizations. The open-world exploration aspect of the game gives players the freedom to explore different areas at their leisure, with each area featuring its own unique secrets and collectibles.
  • Dauntless - In Dauntless, players take on the role of Slayers, tasked with taking down Behemoths. These massive creatures were released during a cataclysmic event and now prey on humans. Slayers must use their weapons and equipment to take down Behemoths, collecting loot to craft and upgrade their gear. As more Behemoths are taken down, they become increasingly large and powerful.
  • Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age - Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age features the series' traditional turn-based battle system. Players can explore worlds and fight against various monsters, including the ability to explore high areas. Before entering battle, players can also toggle between the 3D and 2D graphical styles.
  • Elemental Knights R - Elemental Knights R is a great game for those who love customization and playing online with others. You can create your own character, choosing from many classes, and then customize their look with many options. The PS4 version of the game is an independent world, so you can play with players all over the world without having to worry about being on the same server.
  • Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles – Remastered Edition - The Crystal Caravans are a group of young people who embark on an epic journey to find myrrh, a rare and precious liquid that can cleanse and maintain the crystal that protects their world from deadly miasma gas. They will encounter many challenges along the way, including fierce monsters and treacherous environments. Ultimately, they must succeed in their quest to save their world from destruction.
  • Fortnite - Fortnite is a free online game where players can battle it out to be the last one standing in Battle Royale or join forces with friends to create their own custom games. Players can also catch live shows at Party Royale.
  • Levelhead - Levelhead is a level-building platformer that features a challenging campaign for 1 to 4 players. Players need to run and jump through levels while avoiding obstacles and enemies. They can also collect power-ups to help them progress through the game. Once the campaign is complete, players can build and publish their own levels for others to play.
  • Lightseekers - Epic battles await in Lightseekers, a trading card game on Nintendo Switch. Players take the role of powerful magic heroes and collect cards to become the ultimate hero of Tantos. The game features multi-award winning gameplay and allows players to trade cards with others in order to create the perfect deck. It's up to you to decide the future of Tantos!
  • Minecraft: Bedrock Edition - Minecraft is a game with an open-ended model which allows players to explore and interact with a dynamically-generated map made of one-cubic-meter blocks. The environment features plants, mobs, and items, and activities in the game include mining for ore, fighting hostile mobs, and crafting new blocks by gathering various resources found in the game. Players can also create structures on their single-player maps or multiplayer servers. Other features include Redstone circuits for logic computations and remote actions, minecarts tracks, and a mysterious underworld called the Nether.
  • Mushroom Wars 2 - Mushroom Wars 2 is the sequel to one of the hit RTS games of the last generation. It introduces hero characters with customizable skins and reimagines campaigns for each race of Mushroom folk. Even wilder competitive multiplayer is included, along with a visual overhaul that preserves the core gameplay mechanics that made Mushroom Wars so enjoyable.
  • Pokémon Unite - Pokémon Unite is a 5-on-5 strategic team battle game. Trainers from around the world can compete in timed battles on Aeos Island, with the goal of scoring more points than the other team. Wild Pokémon appear and must be defeated, and players can level up and evolve their Pokémon to help them win. The winning team takes home the prize.
  • Sky: Children of the Light - Sky: Light Awaits is a social adventure game designed to be played together by you and your loved ones. The game is set in a wonderland above the clouds, where players must connect as a community to share and build on their flame to spread light back into the world. Players must use their courage and compassion to rebuild a fallen kingdom for its ancient inhabitants. Sky: Light Awaits features beautiful animation and an ever-expanding world for players to explore.
  • Star Wars: Hunters - Star Wars: Hunters is a new, free-to-play competitive multiplayer game for mobile devices. The game features a roster of all-new characters from across the Star Wars galaxy, each with their own unique persona and skillset. Players can compete in 4v4 third-person combat in The Arena across multiple different PVP game modes. Customize your Hunter with costumes, animations, and weapon appearances to make them stand out on the battlefield.
  • Talisman: Digital Edition - Talisman: Digital Edition is a multiplayer board game for 1 to 4 players. The goal of the game is to journey across a dangerous land and be the first to claim the Crown of Command, a magical artifact with the power to destroy all rivals and make the bearer the true ruler of the kingdom. There are 14 characters players can control, each with their own unique abilities. Players will face various dangers and obstacles on their journey, requiring strength, courage, and luck to overcome them.
  • The Elder Scrolls: Blades - The Elder Scrolls: Blades is a new game from Bethesda Game Studios for iPhone, iPad, and Android devices. It is free-to-play and launched in the winter of 2019. The game aims to bring the classic Elder Scrolls experience to mobile devices with console-quality graphics and an all-new combat system designed specifically for touch screens.
  • Touring Karts - Touring Karts is a VR game that reinvents kart-type races for up to 8 players. The race is full of action and surprises and takes advantage of the possibilities of VR. Players can customize their karts to suit their driving style, and the game features multiple tracks and race modes. There is also a split-screen mode for up to 4 players. Touring Karts is compatible with Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and PlayStation VR and available on Steam, Oculus Store or PlayStation Store.
  • Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Champions - Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Champions is a Warhammer Trading Card Game that features powerful factions and legendary Champions. In the game, players can deploy units and use magical abilities to complete quests and earn blessings from the gods. Only the mightiest warriors will stand victorious in this battle for the Mortal Realms, which spans both physical and digital worlds.
  • Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel - Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel is a digital Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG game that features iconic cards from the franchise's long history, as well as new monsters, spells, traps, and more. Players can compete in Duels against others from around the world.

Games Which Are Compatible With Android and Nintendo Switch

The following games are compatible with both Android and Nintendo Switch, but unfortunately, crossplay is not available between the platforms:

  • ARK: Survival Evolved - Ark: Survival Evolved is a unique survival game that blends multiplayer cooperation and competition. Players awake naked and starving on the beach of a mysterious island, where they must hunt, harvest, craft, research technology, and build shelters to protect themselves from the scorching days, freezing nights, volatile weather systems, dangerous wildlife, and potential enemies. The game features an in-depth character development system that allows players to strengthen their characters' abilities and gain new items, skills, and pet creatures. Tribes can be formed with hundreds of other players in order to survive against competing tribes. Ultimately, players will discover the ARK's true purpose.
  • Armello - Armello is a grand adventure game that combines the deep tactics of card games with the rich strategy of tabletop board games, combined with a character role-playing system. As a hero from one of the clans of Armello, you'll quest, scheme, hire agents, explore, vanquish monsters and face off against other players - all in an attempt to storm the palace and become King or Queen of Armello. The Kingdom itself is as dangerous as it is beautiful, though; Perils such as banes and bandits hide around every corner, while corruption known as 'the rot' leaves no creature untouched. League Of Geeks created this game in order to revolutionize digital board and card games whilst providing players with their own stories within which they can craft epic tales full of backstabbing close shaves, shattered alliances, and more.
  • Asphalt 9: Legends - Asphalt 9: Legends is a top-notch racing game that features an impressive roster of real hypercars from renowned manufacturers. You can pick any car you want and race against others in various locations around the world. There are no limits to what you can do in the game, allowing you to become a Legend of the Track!
  • BlobCat - The BlobCats are after the DiceMice, and it is your job to protect them in this puzzle game. You can play by yourself in single-player mode or team up with friends in multiplayer mode to solve the puzzles and save the day.
  • Dead by Daylight - Dead by Daylight is a 4 vs 1 horror game in which one player takes on the role of the Killer, and the other four players play as Survivors. The aim of the game is for the Survivors to escape the Killer and avoid being caught and killed. The game is asymmetrical, meaning that the Killer and Survivors have different abilities and strengths. The game is multiplayer, so players will be competing against each other.
  • Faeria - Faeria is a digital collectible card and turn-based strategy game that takes place on a dynamic playing board set in a fantasy universe. In the game, players battle one-on-one against other players or computer-controlled opponents. The goal for each player is to reduce the opponent's avatar health to zero before their own is exhausted. Part of the game's strategy is managing the placement of tiles on the board to create routes for one's creatures to reach the opponent while limiting progress from the opponent.
  • Gunfire Reborn - Gunfire Reborn is an exhilarating foray into level-based adventuring, combining the thrills of first-person shooting with roguelite and RPG elements. Take control of a hero possessing formidable capabilities to experience the multifaceted gameplay showcased here and use an array of weapons to traverse through procedurally generated levels. Enjoy this thrilling journey solo or team up with four other players for cooperative play!
  • Human: Fall Flat - Bob is a builder who keeps having dreams of falling, and his goal is to escape those dreams by solving puzzles. The world of Bob's dreams is full of dangers and surprises, and he has to use everything he finds in the levels to get out. There are no heroes or superpowers involved, just a human trying to figure it all out.
  • Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition - The Enhanced Edition of Neverwinter Nights is based on the Diamond Edition and includes the base game as well as the Shadows of Undrentide, Hordes of the Underdark, Kingmaker, Witch's Wake and ShadowGuard expansions. The Remastered version brings numerous technological improvements to the game, including an updated graphics engine and revitalized multiplayer support.
  • Riptide GP: Renegade - Riptide GP: Renegade is a futuristic hydro jet racing game where riders perform stunts, outrun cops, and boost at high speeds. The game has a deep career mode as well as split-screen and online multiplayer options. Riptide GP: Renegade is the first game in the series designed specifically for modern consoles.
  • Stardew Valley - Inheriting your grandfather's rustic farm plot in Stardew Valley, you are endowed with a few meagre implements and some meager coins to kickstart your new rural life. But the idyllic village has been transformed since Joja Corporation moved in; the bustling community center is now bereft of its former vibrancy. Despite this, there is still an abundance of potential for those who can demonstrate perseverance - maybe even yourself! With a bit of dedication and elbow grease, it could be possible to rejuvenate Stardew Valley back into its previous grandeur.
  • Streets of Rage 4 - Streets of Rage 4 is a continuation of the iconic arcade brawler series. The game features radical fights, jammin’ ‘90s beats, and dashing sparring gloves and bandanas. The game is sure to please fans of the original series as well as newcomers alike.
  • Terraria - Terraria is a game all about exploration, combat, and building. Players will dig for treasure and raw materials, fight enemies, explore the world around them, and build structures to house allies and machinery. As they progress, players will seek out new challenges in the form of stronger foes to overcome.
  • Zaccaria Pinball - Zaccaria was founded by three brothers, Marino, Franco, and Natale. They were the third largest manufacturer of pinball machines in the world behind Bally and Williams. They created more than 35 different pinball machines between 1974 and 1987.

Crossplay With Other Platforms

If you are looking for other platforms to crossplay with Android or Nintendo Switch, you can find some potential options below:

Other Platforms to Crossplay With Android

Here are some other platforms to crossplay with Android:

Other Platforms to Crossplay With Nintendo Switch

Here are some other platforms which have crossplay games that work with Nintendo Switch: