cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1929131
This is a list of Nintendo Switch games with gyro aiming or gyro pointing controls compiled from every online source I could find.
Links go to sources mentioning or explaining the controls and in most cases go to timestamped videos which demonstrate the menus or control schemes involved.
Please note that some titles have variable support for motion controls depending on the play mode and so they may not be available across TV Mode, Tabletop Mode, Handheld Mode, and across all controller modes such as for single Joy-Cons, dual Joy-Cons, Joy-Cons in charging grips, and Pro controllers. These details are not noted here due to excessive difficulty in researching game support.
- Alien Isolation
- Among Us
- Apex Legends
- Assassins Creed III: Remastered
- Assassin’s Creed Rebel Collection
- Assault ChaingunS KM
- Astral Chain
- Astro Dogs
- Boomerang X
- Borderlands: Game of the Year Edition
- Borderlands 2
- Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel
- BPM: Bullets Per Minute
- Bright Infinite Memory
- Call of Juarez: Gunslinger
- Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker
- Chasm: The Rift
- Chicory: A Colorful Tale
- CRSED: F.O.A.D****
- Crysis Remastered
- Crysis Remastered 2
- Crysis Remastered 3
- Cyber Hook
- Daemon X Machina
- Doom (1993)**/***
- Doom 2**/***
- Doom 64**/***
- Doom 2016
- Doom Eternal
- Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour
- Dusk
- Dying Light Definitive Edition
- Fashion Police Squad
- Fortnite**/***
- Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition
- House of the Dead: Remake
- Human Resource Machine
- Hypercharge Unboxed
- Immortal Redneck
- Immortals Fenyx Rising
- Ion Fury
- L.A. Noire
- The Long Dark
- Little Inferno
- Metro Redux
- Metro: Last Light Redux
- Metroid Prime: Remastered*
- Modern Combat Blackout
- Monster Hunter Rise
- Morphie’s Law
- Morphite
- Mulaka
- Neon White**/***
- New Pokémon Snap
- Ninjala
- No Man’s Sky**/***
- Nordlicht
- Oddworld Stranger’s Wrath
- Outer Worlds
- Overwatch
- Pikmin 1*
- Pikmin 2*
- Pikmin 3 Deluxe*
- Pikmin 4
- Plants Vs Zombies: Battle For Neighborville
- Pokémon Legends: Arceus
- Portal
- Portal 2
- Powerslave: Exhumed
- Prodeus
- Quake**
- Realm Royale
- Red Faction: Re-Mars-tered
- Resident Evil 5
- Resident Evil 6
- Resident Evil Revelations*
- Resident Evil: Revelations 2**
- Rico
- Rico: London
- Risk of Rain 2
- Rogue Company**/***
- Saint’s Row: The Third
- Saints Row IV Re-Elected
- Screen Cheat
- Severed Steel
- Ship of Harkinian****
- Sniper Elite V2 Remastered
- Sniper Elite 3
- Sniper Elite 4
- Splatoon 2
- Splatoon 3
- Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
- Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
- Strange Brigade
- Strife: Veteran Edition
- Sub Level Zero Redux
- Super Mario 3D All-Stars
- Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury*
- Super Mario Odyssey
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
- SuperHot
- Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet
- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild*
- The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD*
- The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
- Time Carnage
- Toem
- Turok: Dinosaur Hunter
- Turok 2
- Ty the Tasmanian Tiger**
- Ty the Tasmanian Tiger 2: Bush Rescue HD**
- Unpacking
- Umurangi Generation Special Edition
- Vigor
- Walking Zombie 2
- Wall of Insanity
- Warface**
- Warframe
- Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus
- Wolfenstein Youngblood
- World of Goo
- World War Z
- XIII
- Ziggurat
- Ziggurat 2
- Zombie Army Trilogy
*Also features motion controls in a release on Wii, Wii U, or 3DS. Note that other Nintendo releases may have different motion control schemes due to the use of IR sensing on Wii/Wii U.
**Also features gyro aiming in a release on PS4, PS5, or PSVita.
***Also features motion controls in a release on PC. Note that most native motion controls on PC require USB connected PS controllers.
Sources used for compiling and investigating games on this list include:
- The Gyro Gaming Discord’s #native-games channel.
- The PCGW list of Switch games with motion controls, which at the time of writing has been updated with much the same information as this post but includes some unrelated motion control schemes and dubious listings that could not be confirmed.
- SwitchUp on YouTube as their coverage of games has the richest and most consistent coverage of motion controls I have been able to find
- The Nintendo eShop for correction of names used for the Switch versions of games.
EDIT: Other platform support notes corrected and Paladins removed as per comments elsewhere
EDIT2: Added a number of games and changed some citations courtesy of IcyXzavien and more, another notable addition is the brand new release Pikmin 4
That’s a bit funny, I remember a time when original Splatoon got its first test event (before release) on the Wii U and there was a lot of people raging about the “terrible” motion controls that didn’t let them use sticks like a normal game.
Really, complaints everywhere for days, claims that the game was ruined before even releasing, memes about Nintendo and their love of motion controls…
A few people started to comment saying “wait, it’s nice, actually it kinda works” but they were still mostly drowned in the outrage.
All of that disappeared very fast once the game was released, and it became one of the few Wii U games to get some attention.
People just need an excuse for an outrage. One of my favourites is when Mario+Rabbids was leaked, and there was a huge outrage, then few days later they officially showed the gameplay, and everyone was loving it.