
The Nintendo Switch 2’s Best Kept Secret For Strategy Games Is Right There
Hayes Madsen
created: July 9, 2025, 1:30 p.m. | updated: July 14, 2025, 8:51 p.m.
The handful of games I’ve played have made me realize that the Nintendo Switch 2 could be a crucial platform for strategy games.
Kunitsu-Gami is, by far, the best use of the Switch 2’s mouse mode that’s currently available on the platform, and that’s because of its action-strategy hybrid format.
FiraxisBut with the Switch 2, that lack of a mouse “drawback” simply doesn’t exist, and strategy games can fully embrace a mouse-centric strategy mode.
Larian StudiosBut the potential for strategy games to thrive is tantalizing, to be sure.
Even more than that, though, it feels like there could be entire strategy games deliberately designed around this system specifically.
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