Best Wii Games of All Time: Critic Ranked, With Kids Picks

The best Wii games of all time on this list are, in order, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Super Mario Galaxy, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Xenoblade Chronicles. The first two are both platform games published by Nintendo, and Twilight Princess is the only title in the top five that also launched on the GameCube.

These top Wii games are the best Wii games by critic score, and they hold scores between 92 and 98 out of 100. The scores are quoted from the sources named on each game page. Where a source printed the number only for another edition, as with Xenoblade Chronicles, whose Metacritic page covers the 2015 port, the page says which source supplied it.

For kids the list narrows to the games the ESRB rated E, for Everyone: Super Mario Galaxy 2, Super Mario Galaxy, Donkey Kong Country Returns, New Super Mario Bros. Wii, Kirby's Epic Yarn, Mario Kart Wii, Wii Sports Resort, Wii Sports, Wii Party. Of these, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Super Mario Galaxy, Donkey Kong Country Returns, New Super Mario Bros. Wii, Kirby's Epic Yarn, Mario Kart Wii, Wii Sports Resort, Wii Sports, Wii Party are listed for two or more players, so they work for a child and a parent on one console.

The rating says what the ESRB considers suitable, not how hard a game is. The page for each game states the controls and the player count that a source gives. The Storm City titles aimed at young children, such as Once Upon a Time and The Island of Dr. Frankenstein, are on the Wii games list with their own scores.

This ranking of the best Wii games of all time covers the 12 Wii games profiled in this library, a curated set and not the whole Wii catalogue. Each game is ordered by the aggregate critic score printed by Metacritic, or by Wikipedia’s reception table where Metacritic’s own page covers a different edition. Ties keep alphabetical order. No score here is an opinion of the page’s author. The scores were read in October 2026, and the source for each one is linked on the game’s own page, so any figure can be compared with the original.

The method has limits, and the same limits apply to the kids picks. A critic average rewards games that were reviewed widely, it says little about family co-op, and it ignores how a game ages. Scores can also move slightly over time on the sources themselves, so each game page links the source to re-check.

For a catalogue organised by genre rather than score, use the Wii games list. None of the top Wii games here is a Storm City title. Handheld picks are on the best Nintendo DS games page.