Switch Shelf

The Nintendo Switch catalogue of the Stadtbibliothek Karlsruhe, ranked for short games that are actually good.

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How the density score works

Density answers “how much quality per hour of my life”: , using HowLongToBeat’s Main + Extra time. The floor means a game rated at or below it scores 0 no matter how short, and the exponent below 1 keeps a 90-minute curiosity from burying every excellent 10-hour game. Higher is better; it only exists to rank this shelf against itself.

Data sources & caveats

Titles and availability come from the library’s public RSS feed; scores from Metacritic (preferring the Switch release) and playtimes from HowLongToBeat. Titles are matched fuzzily across the three sources; a ≈ marks a loose match worth a second look before you walk over. First- vs third-party uses Metacritic’s publisher credit — the library’s own publisher field lists Nintendo of Europe as the distributor for many third-party carts, so it is not used for this. Games the databases don’t cover are kept in the table with blank cells rather than dropped.