So if most of the best Nintendo Switch games are too pricey and you instead fancy filling up your Nintendo Switch SD card without blowing your budget, read on for some top, great-value gaming picks. We've picked out eight of the best cheap Switch games available now everything's under $20/£20 (with a few that are a whole lot cheaper) and there's something for most gaming tastes, from chilled out puzzle games and adventures through to full-on arcade bangers, and quite a few that we'd happily choose over the latest AAA blockbuster. If you want to play these games with a bit of fun, take a look at our guide to the best retro controllers.

While it doesn't take much effort to find a whole load of truly terrible cheap Switch games on the Nintendo eStore, you can also find plenty of innovative and polished indie titles developed by true gaming enthusiasts, and these are often the cheapest Switch games that we'll be pointing you to in this guide. While the big appeal of the Nintendo Switch is its raft of flagship IPs – your Super Marios, Zeldas, Metroids and all that – that are usually well worth the asking price, you can't always be quite so sure about other big-budget, full price games.

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