Nintendo Switch Lego Games by Price, Players and Age

Buy LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga. Its listing counts all nine films, more than 300 playable characters and more than 100 vehicles, and no other Lego listing on the Switch promises as much.

Four on the sofa want LEGO Party!, or LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2 for a story. A small child wants one of the four rated Everyone: LEGO Party!, LEGO Voyagers, LEGO Builder’s Journey and LEGO Bricktales. The rest are rated Everyone 10+, mostly for cartoon violence. The least money for a full adventure is $29.99, for City Undercover or the Harry Potter Collection.

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All 17, at regular prices

Fifteen of the 17 take a second player. Marvel Super Heroes 2, the NINJAGO Movie Video Game and LEGO Party! take four, and LEGO Brawls takes eight.

These are the regular prices on Nintendo’s US store, where every game is in stock as a download. Its stores in other countries are not covered here. Fortnite, which is free and includes LEGO Fortnite Odyssey, is on the store as well and is rated Teen. LEGO 2K Drive is not: the store search still returns its add-on packs, but we found no page selling the game itself.

Wait for a sale on the older games

Nintendo’s store marks the older Lego games down from time to time, and deeply. Six have been 80 to 90 per cent off: City Undercover, Jurassic World, The LEGO Movie 2, Marvel Super Heroes, the Harry Potter Collection and The Skywalker Saga. Before paying $59.99 for a game from 2018, open its page and see whether it is one of the discounted ones that week.

Story adventures from WB Games

Eleven of the 17 are published by WB Games, and all of those but LEGO Worlds are story adventures built the same way: a world rebuilt in bricks, usually from a film or a comic, a story to play through, and a second player who can join on the same console.

The Skywalker Saga has all nine Skywalker films, with the three trilogies playable in any order. It is the newest of the WB Games titles made for the original Switch, and at 15.8 GB the largest download on this list.

LEGO City Undercover is an original story, with no film behind it. You play Chase McCain, a police officer sent undercover to catch the escaped criminal Rex Fury, in an open city of more than 20 districts. The listing mentions two-player co-op.

The LEGO Harry Potter Collection is two games in one purchase, Years 1-4 and Years 5-7, remastered. At $29.99 it is the cheapest way here to get two full stories.

Of the Marvel pair, the sequel is the cheaper and the one that takes four players, with battle modes for playing against each other. LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2 is set in Chronopolis, a city stitched together from different eras, with Kang the Conqueror as the villain. The first game has its own story about stopping Loki and is listed for two players.

In LEGO DC Super-Villains you create your own villain and play the story as that character, alongside the Joker and Harley Quinn. It is a full open-world game, but at a regular $59.99 it costs the same as The Skywalker Saga and twice City Undercover, so wait for a sale before buying it.

Then the film tie-ins. LEGO The Incredibles covers both Incredibles films. LEGO Jurassic World covers the first four Jurassic films and lets you play as 20 dinosaurs. The LEGO Movie 2 Videogame follows Emmet into the Systar System. The LEGO NINJAGO Movie Video Game has eight locations and Battle Maps for up to four players. All four are older than The Skywalker Saga, and two of them cost as much or nearly as much.

Lego games with no film behind them

LEGO Party! is a party game for up to four with 60 minigames, playable on one console or online, and LEGO says players on different systems can join the same game.

LEGO Voyagers works for two people in different houses. It is a co-operative game for exactly two, from the makers of Builder’s Journey, and a free Friend’s Pass lets a second person join online without buying it. LEGO says it is sold as a download only.

LEGO Horizon Adventures is PlayStation’s Horizon rebuilt in bricks, published on Switch by PlayStation itself. Two can play on one screen or online. So can two in LEGO Worlds, a sandbox of generated worlds made of bricks that you reshape and build in. The same idea on a phone is in the games like Minecraft for Android.

LEGO Brawls is a team brawler for up to eight, and the cheapest multiplayer game on the list. LEGO Builder’s Journey and LEGO Bricktales are single-player puzzle games about building, one brick at a time.

What runs on Switch 2 and Switch Lite

Nintendo puts a Switch 2 compatibility note on each product page, and all 17 games in the table carry the same one: supported, with behaviour consistent with the original Switch. So a Switch 2 owner can buy any of them.

Four listings are made for the Switch 2 itself. If you have one and want nothing older, it is LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight: $69.99, one or two players on one console, rated Everyone 10+, listed for Switch 2 only, and LEGO says its co-op is local only. LEGO Party! Nintendo Switch 2 Edition is $39.99, and Nintendo’s page says it adds higher resolution and better frame rates and lists an upgrade pack for owners of the Switch version at no charge. LEGO Voyagers has a separate Switch 2 version at the same $24.99. A LEGO Harry Potter Collection remastered for Switch 2 is listed at $49.99, against $29.99 for the Switch one.

Every game here lists handheld mode. Nintendo adds that compatibility and play experience may differ on a Switch Lite and that extra accessories may be needed.

Boxed copies for a present

Nintendo’s store sells these as downloads. Boxed copies exist for some, which is the version to buy as a present or if you may want to resell it. LEGO says LEGO Party! has a boxed Switch release, and US retailers have listings for the other three below. Stock of the older ones comes and goes, and some shops show only pre-owned copies.

• LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga for Switch on Amazon
• LEGO City Undercover for Switch on Amazon
• LEGO Harry Potter Collection for Switch on Amazon
• LEGO Party! for Switch on Amazon