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Best Wii games

Updated: 31.08.2026

This ranking comes from the answers players enter in the NintenDoku puzzle. The more often a game is chosen as a correct answer, the higher it ranks.

158 games in this category, 139 of them with entries.

1Super Smash Bros. Brawl+38 % vs. rank 2

The mix of Action and Fighting was released on January 31, 2008 first in Japan for Wii. Roughly 13.32 million copies were sold worldwide, making it one of the big commercial hits. The title can also be played with others. The game world is shown in a side view. According to HowLongToBeat, the single-player main story takes around 11.6 hours on average, which makes it a medium-length game. Its primary developer is Project Sora. Critics awarded a Metascore of 93, the community a user score of 8.7. Critically that counts as excellent, among players as good; the scores stay close, though. In NintenDoku it is the most popular answer among games for Wii and sits 38 percent ahead of #2.

2Metroid Prime 3: Corruption+5 % vs. rank 3

The mix of Action, Adventure and Shooter arrived on August 27, 2007 first in North America for Wii. The main story takes around 13.1 hours on average according to HowLongToBeat (single-player), so a medium-length game. Approximately 1.40 million copies were sold worldwide, a solid sales result. The game world is shown from a first-person perspective. The title has no online features at all. It was primarily developed by Retro Studios. There is no multiplayer mode, the title is a pure single player affair. Critics awarded a Metascore of 90, the community a user score of 8.5. Critically that counts as excellent, among players as good; the scores stay close, though. Among NintenDoku players it takes second place among games for Wii and sits 5 percent ahead of #3.

3The Legend of Zelda: Twilight PrincessNew+10 % vs. rank 4

The mix of Action and Adventure arrived on November 19, 2006 first in North America as a launch title for Wii. The title has no online features at all. There is no multiplayer mode, the title is a pure single player affair. It is played from a third-person perspective. Its primary developer is Nintendo. About 8.85 million copies were sold worldwide, a commercially very successful title. The main story takes around 37.1 hours on average according to HowLongToBeat (single-player), so a long, meaty game. Critics awarded a Metascore of 95, the community a user score of 8.9. Critically that counts as excellent, among players as good; the scores stay close, though. It rounds out the top 3 and sits 10 percent ahead of #4.

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The Wii, units sold versus name recognition

No Nintendo console moved the line between players and non-players as far as the Wii did. Motion controls opened the door for people who had never held a controller with two analogue sticks, and the result was a sales figure out of all proportion to the size of the existing audience.

That is where the most interesting tension in this ranking comes from. A list of Wii games by units sold looks nothing like a list by recognition. At the top of the sales chart sit titles that came bundled with the console or were bought as something for the household. They ended up in millions of homes without their names necessarily sticking. In the other direction, the Wii carries a run of core games with excellent review scores that comparatively few people bought, yet whose titles are recognised instantly.

Because this ranking is built from answers given in the puzzle rather than from sales data, it measures that second quality: not how often a game was bought, but how reliably it can be recalled. On the Wii those two figures diverge further than on any other Nintendo platform, which makes it the clearest illustration of why sales and popularity are not the same thing.

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Where the Data Comes From

In the Nintendo puzzle NintenDoku, players enter game titles matching given categories every day. Every correct answer is counted. Only the top 3 and the percentage gaps are shown on purpose, no absolute numbers. This keeps the puzzle fair.