In the modern gaming landscape, cloud storage solutions like Google Drive have become ubiquitous for backing up documents, photos, and videos. For Nintendo Switch owners, the idea of using Google Drive in conjunction with their games often raises two very different questions: legitimate save data management and the illegal distribution of game files.

In the early years of the Switch's lifecycle, modders developed a homebrew application called . While Tinfoil itself was a file manager, it allowed users to add custom URLs as sources. Pirates began hosting massive libraries of game files (NSPs and XCIs) on Google Drive accounts.

When downloading mods from Google Drive, always scan with VirusTotal—malicious actors sometimes hide .exe files as mods.

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If you're looking for games that can be played on the Nintendo Switch and use Google Drive for cloud saving or syncing, here are a few examples: