Nintendo Wii

Best Wii games overall

• 1

  Super Mario Galaxy (2007)

  • Wii
  • Switch

  Gravity-flipping planetoids and an orchestral score that treats platforming as spectacle. Available again in the 3D All-Stars collection on Switch.

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• 2

  The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (2006)

  • Wii
  • GameCube
  • Wii U

  The darkest-looking Zelda with the best dungeon set in the series. Motion aiming was optional enough that it never gets in the way.

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• 3

  Super Mario Galaxy 2 (2010)

  • Wii
  • Wii U

  More ideas per level than the first game, with Yoshi and a tighter difficulty curve. Pure level design with the story trimmed away.
• 4

  Mario Kart Wii (2008)

  • Wii

  Twelve-racer chaos with bikes and a wheel shell everybody has an opinion on. Still the easiest four-player setup on the console.

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• 5

  Super Smash Bros. Brawl (2008)

  • Wii

  Slower than Melee but with a huge single-player Subspace campaign and stage builder. Great for mixed-skill groups.

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• 6

  Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (2007)

  • Wii
  • Wii U

  Pointer aiming genuinely improved this one — it is the most fluid Prime game to control. The trilogy version bundles all three.

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• 7

  Wii Sports Resort (2009)

  • Wii

  MotionPlus made sword fighting and table tennis actually precise. Twelve sports, all learnable in thirty seconds.
• 8

  Xenoblade Chronicles (2010)

  • Wii
  • 3DS
  • Switch

  An enormous open-world JRPG running on modest hardware, with real-time combat and a genuinely surprising story. Around 80 hours.

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• 9

  Donkey Kong Country Returns (2010)

  • Wii
  • 3DS
  • Switch

  Retro Studios' revival is one of the hardest and best 2D platformers of its generation. Two-player co-op is available but chaotic.

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• 10

  New Super Mario Bros. Wii (2009)

  • Wii

  Four-player simultaneous 2D Mario, which is either co-op or sabotage depending on your friends. Short stages make it ideal for family sessions.

Nintendo classic games for Wii

The Wii's Virtual Console and its GameCube compatibility turned it into a retro machine. These are the classics worth tracking down on it.

• 11

  Super Mario All-Stars 25th Anniversary Edition (2010)

  • Wii

  The SNES remakes of the first four Mario games on a Wii disc with a soundtrack CD. The simplest way to play NES-era Mario on the console.

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• 12

  The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Virtual Console) (2007)

  • Wii

  The N64 classic on Wii with save states of a sort via the Wii's suspend function. A cheap way in before Switch Online existed.

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• 13

  Metroid Prime Trilogy (2009)

  • Wii

  All three Prime games with Wii pointer controls on one disc. Still the best-value package Nintendo has released.
• 14

  Sin and Punishment: Star Successor (2010)

  • Wii

  Treasure's rail shooter sequel, built for pointer aiming. Intense, short and score-driven.

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• 15

  Super Paper Mario (2007)

  • Wii

  A platformer-RPG hybrid where flipping between 2D and 3D is the core puzzle. Odd, funny and genuinely moving in places.

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Wii hidden gems

• 16

  A Boy and His Blob (2009)

  • Wii
  • PC
  • PS4
  • Switch

  Hand-drawn puzzle platforming with a jellybean-feeding mechanic. Slow, gentle and beautiful.
• 17

  Little King's Story (2009)

  • Wii
  • PC
  • PS Vita

  Pikmin-style kingdom management with a dark comic streak. Deep enough to lose a weekend to.
• 18

  MadWorld (2009)

  • Wii

  Black-and-white ultraviolence from Platinum Games, built around motion-controlled finishers. Short, loud and unlike anything else on the console.

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• 19

  Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure (2007)

  • Wii

  Point-and-click puzzles reimagined for the Wii remote, with genuinely clever solutions. One of the best-reviewed games nobody bought.
• 20

  Rhythm Heaven Fever (2011)

  • Wii

  Two-button rhythm minigames with perfect comic timing. Sessions can be three minutes long.

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