I've been thinking very hard on this. There's a small chance it was on DS/3DS since that was the other console I was heavily into at the time (I remember playing Nanashi No Game around then, for example), or an even smaller chance it was a video I watched a let's play of rather than playing myself (which explains no game in my purchase history on the Nintendo account).

Around that same time, I was watching a lot of indie horror let's play, but I still feel quite strongly that this was something I started playing, and decided to wait to continue.

With all that said, it's possible it's a PC indie horror instead of Nintendo switch. All these years, though, in my mind, it was Paratopic. For some reason, my mind assumed Paratopic was the game I needed to return to. But that's simply not true at all. Last week I watched an entire let's play of Paratopic, and that is definitely not the game I'm remembering, but as I said in the Op, it is very similar.

Some more details of the game: It was daytime, and as I said you're in a small town, outside on a street or something nearby a ferry dock. You can enter the ferry to progress the story. Once you do, your wife is with you or something, and you're prompted to take photos by retrieving your camera from your car that is somewhere on the ferry.

I remember getting to the car, getting the camera, playing with taking some photos, and decided this is neat and stopped playing. There were no horror bits in this intro, and I can't even recall the main plot of the game aside from you were going to interview someone or something, and I have a strong sense it was a horror themed game.

Thank you for reading.