Out of Space

 Rating: 7/10 😸😸😸😸😸😸😸
Ages: Mainly 8+ but younger kids can have fun with it, too. I'll explain below...

The basic premise of this game is that you and up to three of your friends are a cleaning/moving crew for a spaceship habitat company. Your job is to clean out alien infestations, furnish, and power up a space station habitat. It's harder than it sounds. The controls are simple. The game play, especially on zen mode, is pretty easy but still can cause some challenges.

Hint - it's much easier to be successful if you talk to each other as you're playing so you can coordinate what you're doing.

Younger kids can join in the fun as long as you have two more competent players handling the aliens and cleanup portion of the game. My 3yo grandson enjoys just making his character run around the spaceship with the dog.

It's bright, colorful, fairly laid-back fun for the family. It only got 7 cat faces because it can be pretty repetitive if you try to play a lot of it at a time. A couple of rounds once or twice a month seem to be plenty for us. That said, it has a lot of staying power as a fun group game.

BroForce Forever

 Rating: 7/10 😸😸😸😹😾🙀😸
Ages: 8+

One of my sons exposed me to the chaos that is BroForce. Chaos is the right description. This game is a parody of all the early video games where you had to slaughter lots of enemies, save your friends, then escape on a helicopter. So in this game, you and up to three of your buddies have to slaughter a lot of bad guys, aliens, and a bunch of other things, blow up the landscape but not too much or you end up with bottomless pits you can jump over, die a lot but save each other, then escape on a helicopter. At least on the early levels. The later levels have different win conditions. My son's advice, when I asked what the objective was, was simple, "Go to the right and try not to die."

The characters are hilarious. All of them are puns on 'Bro' and various action heroes. RamBro shoots a machine gun and has a red bandana. McGyBro hurls explosives and has a mullet. Brophy the Vampire Slayer throws wooden stakes and holy water. You get the picture.

Game play with four players is an absolutely chaotic mess of explosions and various weapons firing. You die. A LOT. But it's all okay and fun. We laughed a lot, blew up everything a lot, and generally had a very cathartic time blitzing levels.

*Lots and lots of cartoon violence
*Lots of silliness and bad puns
*Occasional hard levels that caused some outraged cries of "WHY did you just BLOW UP EVERYTHING?"

Bonus - this one is available on a lot of platforms, not just Nintendo Switch.

Donut County

 Rating: 9/10 😸😸😸😸😸😸😸😸😸

Ages: probably 8+ mostly for story content

Donut County is a weird game. It's about a trash panda king and his empire of raccoons. And donut holes that eat things. And phone apps. And a whole town of mostly talking animals and possibly potato (?) brothers. It's a strange surrealistic game that is also a load of fun. We laughed so hard playing this.

Most of the game is animation of the townspeople talking to each other while they sit 999 meters below where their town used to be because DK, the raccoon who owns the donut shop, is using a new delivery app to deliver donuts to people, only they don't get donuts. They get donut HOLES that are actually holes that eat everything and get bigger as they devour rocks, chairs, tables, pool floaties, chickens, and anything else in the area.

This is a short game taking only an hour or two to play through, but I only paid a few dollars for it. It was well worth it. The mechanics were a little touchy, especially getting the hole to slow down and go where you wanted it to go, but that was a minor quibble with an otherwise very fun game.

It's quirky and weird and highly entertaining.