Nintendo Switch Lego Games: Full List and Which to Buy

Start with 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. For a group, take LEGO Party!, which seats four. For a small child, pick from the four games rated Everyone: LEGO Party!, LEGO Voyagers, LEGO Builder’s Journey and LEGO Bricktales.

All five games on our old list are still sold. So is everything else below: we opened each game’s page on Nintendo’s own store, where every one was in stock as a download. Prices, player counts, age ratings and the Switch 2 notes are Nintendo’s.

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Lego games on Switch at a glance

These are the regular prices on Nintendo’s US store. We did not check its stores in other countries. Fortnite, which is free and includes LEGO Fortnite Odyssey, is on the store as well and is rated Teen.

Check for a sale first

Nintendo’s store marks the older Lego games down from time to time, and deeply. When we looked, six of them were 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.

Sales end, so the table shows what each game costs the rest of the time. Before paying $59.99 for a game from 2018, open its page and see whether it is one of the discounted ones that week.

The story adventures

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.

LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga

The publisher’s description 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

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.

LEGO Harry Potter Collection

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.

LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2 and LEGO Marvel Super Heroes

The sequel is the cheaper of the two and the one that takes four players, with battle modes for playing against each other. It 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.

LEGO DC Super-Villains

You create your own villain and play the story as that character, alongside the Joker and Harley Quinn. Our old list put this first. It is still a full open-world game, but at a regular $59.99 it costs the same as The Skywalker Saga and twice City Undercover, so it is the one to wait for a sale on.

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.

The ones that are not film tie-ins

• LEGO Party! A party game for up to four with 60 minigames, playable on one console or online. LEGO says players on different systems can join the same game.
• LEGO Voyagers. A co-operative game for exactly two, from the makers of Builder’s Journey. 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. PlayStation’s Horizon rebuilt in bricks, published on Switch by PlayStation itself. Two can play on one screen or online.
• LEGO Worlds. A sandbox of generated worlds made of bricks that you reshape and build in. Two players, on one console or online.
• LEGO Brawls. A team brawler for up to eight. The cheapest multiplayer game on the list.
• LEGO Builder’s Journey and LEGO Bricktales. Two single-player puzzle games about building, one brick at a time. Both are rated Everyone.

Lego games on Switch 2

Nintendo puts a Switch 2 compatibility note on each product page. 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:

• LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight. $69.99, one or two players on one console, rated Everyone 10+. It is listed for Switch 2 only, and LEGO says its co-op is local only.
• LEGO Party! Nintendo Switch 2 Edition. $39.99. 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. A separate Switch 2 version at the same $24.99.
• LEGO Harry Potter Collection. A version remastered for Switch 2 is listed at $49.99, against $29.99 for the Switch one.

Which to pick

• One game for most people: The Skywalker Saga.
• Four on the sofa: LEGO Party!, or LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2 if you want a story.
• Two people in different houses: LEGO Voyagers, with the Friend’s Pass.
• A child under ten: one of the four rated Everyone.
• The least money for a full adventure: City Undercover or the Harry Potter Collection, at $29.99.
• A Switch 2 and nothing older: LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight.

Boxed copies

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

What is not there

LEGO 2K Drive. Nintendo’s store search still returns its add-on packs, but we found no page selling the game itself.

Quick answers

Which Lego games on Switch are two player?

Fifteen of the 17. Only Builder’s Journey and Bricktales are single player. Marvel Super Heroes 2, the NINJAGO Movie Video Game and LEGO Party! take four, and LEGO Brawls takes eight.

Do Lego Switch games work on Switch 2?

Nintendo marks all 17 as supported on Switch 2, behaving as they do on the original console.

Which Lego Switch games are best for young kids?

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.

Is LEGO Worlds two player on Switch?

Yes. Nintendo lists it for one or two players on one console, and one or two online.

Do Lego games work on a Switch Lite?

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.