Storm City Games: Wii and Nintendo DS Game Library, All Studio Titles

The studio published low-priced casual games for the Wii and the Nintendo DS from 2009 to 2011. The catalogue runs from the licensed Alpha and Omega and Heathcliff games to the Jewel Master puzzle series, and each title has a page of its own with sourced release dates, credits and a verdict on whether it can still be played.

The Storm City Games Wii releases include racers such as Camaro Wild Ride and storybook games such as Once Upon a Time. The Storm City Games Nintendo DS list is larger, with puzzle, word and photo games alongside Monkey Madness: Island Escape. All of them are collected on the studio titles page.

A reader looking for a Storm City Games Wii title can start from the Wii list, and one after a Storm City Games Nintendo DS release can start from the handheld list. Both belong to a wider game library that mixes the studio catalogue with the most reviewed games of each console.

Around the studio titles sits a game library of widely reviewed releases: 24 Wii games and 34 Nintendo DS games in all, each with a release year, a player count, an ESRB rating where one exists, and an answer to the question that matters for an old console game, which is whether it plays today. The Wii games list and the Nintendo DS games list split the library by genre.

For a shortlist, the best Wii games and best Nintendo DS games pages rank titles by critic score and set out the kids picks. Three guides cover the practical side: playing Wii games on a Wii U, playing DS games on a 3DS and whether DS games are region free.

Every fact on a game page carries a source line. Where sources disagree, which happens often for the studio titles, the page shows both versions instead of choosing one.

A game page opens with a plain answer to what the game is, then shows a record table: platforms, developer, publisher, regional release dates, player count and rating, each as a source states it. Below that come the way the game plays, who reviewed it and what they scored it, and a section that says whether the disc or card still runs on hardware people own today.

The filter above works on the lists. Choose a genre, a player count, an ESRB rating or the playable-today status, and the rows that do not match drop out of the table. The same four controls appear on the Wii and Nintendo DS lists.

Review scores are always attributed. A score from WorthPlaying is printed on a ten-point scale, a Metacritic score on a hundred-point scale, and a page never mixes the two in one comparison. Games with very little public documentation get short pages that say so, and nothing is filled in beyond what a source states.