Every Nintendo Franchise, Ranked

Average Metascore: 55.5

This lackluster Pokémon spinoff series features simplified, real-time beat-em-up action (different from the turn-based battles and RPG progression of the main series). Developed by Ambrella rather than Nintendo directly, the series includes four games for Nintendo hardware plus a mobile game (Pokémon Rumble Rush) released in 2019, which also marks the final release in the Rumble subseries (at least for now).

The games:
59 Pokemon Rumble (Wii, 2009)
56 Pokemon Rumble Blast (3DS, 2011)
49 Pokemon Rumble U (Wii U, 2013)
58 Pokemon Rumble World (3DS, 2015)

Average Metascore: 62.9

Another Pokémon subseries without a single good release, the Spike Chunsoft-developed Mystery Dungeon features turn-based roguelike gameplay within procedurally generated dungeons. (The games are part of the larger Mystery Dungeon franchise dating back to 1993, but only the crossover titles featuring Pokémon characters are included here.)

The games:
62 Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team (DS, 2006) 
67 Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team (Game Boy Advance, 2006)
60 Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time/Darkness (DS, 2008)
54 Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky (DS, 2009)
59 Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity (3DS, 2013)
69 Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon (3DS, 2015)
69 Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX (Switch, 2020)

Average Metascore: 65.3

Developed by Japanese studio Skip Ltd., Chibi-Robo! is a series of platform-adventure games centering on a cute miniature robot. The first game, which finds Chibi-Robo! attempting to make his host family happy by performing household chores and other tasks, did manage to charm critics, as did its handheld follow-up. But the next two titles, which radically changed gameplay, were poorly received, and no future Chibi-Robo! games are planned. (A Japan-only 2009 DS game is omitted from our list.)

The games:
75 Chibi-Robo! (GameCube, 2006)
78 Chibi-Robo! Park Patrol (DS, 2007)
49 Chibi-Robo! Photo Finder (3DS, 2014)
59 Chibi-Robo! Zip Lash (3DS, 2015)

Average Metascore: 67.9

Donkey Kong may be Nintendo's first iconic videogame character, and we'll get to his main series of games further down this list. But the big gorilla (or his sidekick Diddy Kong) has also appeared in a number of spinoff games that fall outside of the platformer genre or feature non-standard DK gameplay, and those are collected here. Also included here are the Donkey Konga rhythm games that (originally) utilized their own controller that was shaped like a pair of bongos.

The games:
32 Donkey Kong Jr. Math (NES, 1986) *
85 Donkey Kong (Game Boy, 1994) *
88 Diddy Kong Racing (Nintendo 64, 1997)
76 Donkey Konga (GameCube, 2004)
69 Donkey Konga 2 (GameCube, 2005)
70 DK: King of Swing (Game Boy Advance, 2005)
77 DK: Jungle Climber (DS, 2007)
46 Donkey Kong: Barrel Blast (Wii, 2007)

* All products marked with an asterisk (including throughout the remainder of this gallery) indicate GameRankings scores rather than Metascores. (Metascores are unavailable for these older titles.)

Average Metascore: 69.4

We promise we didn't set out to hate on Pokémon; in fact, you'll find the main series much further down this list with a very high average score. But here's yet another Pokémon subseries at the wrong end of our list thanks to generally sub-par reviews.

The Pokémon Stadium subseries (which technically began with a Japan-only N64 release in 1998) ditches most of the franchise's story elements to focus on turn-based strategy gameplay with 3D battles, at least for the first few games. Colosseum then adopted more of an RPG approach, to less enthusiastic reviews, while XD served as a sequel to that game (or perhaps a rehash, as some critics suggested). Most of the RPG elements were stripped out of the gameplay for the strategy-oriented Battle Revolution, which was so poorly received upon its 2007 release that it ended the subseries.

The games:
79 Pokemon Stadium (Nintendo 64, 2000) *
78 Pokemon Stadium 2 (Nintendo 64, 2001)
73 Pokemon Colosseum (GameCube, 2004)
64 Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness (GameCube, 2005)
53 Pokemon Battle Revolution (Wii, 2007)

Average Metascore: 69.4

Nintendo's most iconic character gets title billing in this Mario spinoff series of puzzle games that are often compared to Tetris thanks to fairly similar gameplay. Though the Dr. Mario games have often received less-than-stellar reviews upon release, some of the releases have grown in stature in later years and have even been included in some best Nintendo games of all time lists.

The games:
67 Dr. Mario (Game Boy, 1990) *
71 Dr. Mario 64 (Nintendo 64, 2001)
66 Dr. Mario (Game Boy Advance, 2004)
72 Dr. Mario Online RX (Wii, 2008)
76 Dr. Mario Express (DS, 2009)
65 Dr. Luigi (Wii U, 2013)
69 Dr. Mario: Miracle Cure (3DS, 2015)

Average Metascore: 70.0

For over 25 years, Nintendo's Mario Party franchise—developed first by Hudson Soft and later by Nintendo itself—has been delighting gamers with collections of widely varied multiplayer minigames unified by a board game-like structure. Each collection contains over 50 minigames (with some topping 100), and despite a major drop in critical acclaim during the franchise's middle decades, Mario Party has collectively sold well over 80 million units to date and shows no sign of stopping anytime soon.

The games:
79 Mario Party (Nintendo 64, 1999)
76 Mario Party 2 (Nintendo 64, 2000) *
74 Mario Party 3 (Nintendo 64, 2001)
70 Mario Party 4 (GameCube, 2002)
69 Mario Party 5 (GameCube, 2003)
71 Mario Party 6 (GameCube, 2004)
54 Mario Party Advance (Game Boy Advance, 2005)
64 Mario Party 7 (GameCube, 2005)
62 Mario Party 8 (Wii, 2007)
72 Mario Party DS (DS, 2007)
73 Mario Party 9 (Wii, 2012)
57 Mario Party: Island Tour (3DS, 2013)
66 Mario Party 10 (Wii U, 2015)
68 Mario Party: Star Rush (3DS, 2016)
59 Mario Party: The Top 100 (3DS, 2017)
76 Super Mario Party (Switch, 2018)
80 Mario Party Superstars (Switch, 2021)
82 Super Mario Party Jamboree (Switch, 2024)
78 Super Mario Party Jamboree: Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Jamboree TV (Switch 2, 2025)

Average Metascore: 71.2

Also known as Brain Training in some countries, the Brain Age franchise is a series of minigame collections designed to improve brain functionality (or combat the decrease in memory and other functions caused by aging). Ranging from simple memory tests to math problems and sudoku, the various challenges are inspired by the work of Japanese neuroscientist Ryuta Kawashima. Critics dinged the later games in the series not so much for their content as for some technical issues.

The games:
77 Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day! (DS, 2006)
77 Brain Age 2: More Training in Minutes a Day (DS, 2007)
69 Brain Age Express: Math (DS, 2009)
69 Brain Age: Concentration Training (3DS, 2013)
64 Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training for Nintendo Switch (Switch, 2019)

Average Metascore: 71.3

A short-lived Nintendo experiment that didn't quite reach its full potential, Nintendo Labo was a series of four releases that featured kits to build physical objects out of cardboard and other materials. Players could then insert their Switch Joy-Cons into the built objects and control them via their Switch console and the included software, which featured a variety of minigames. While critics liked the overall ingenuity on display, it is those relatively simplistic games that proved lacking in the long run.

The games:
77 Nintendo Labo: Toycon 01 Variety Kit (Switch, 2018)
68 Nintendo Labo: Toycon 02 Robot Kit (Switch, 2018)
69 Nintendo Labo: Toycon 03 Vehicle Kit (Switch, 2018)
71 Nintendo Labo: Toycon 04 VR Kit (Switch, 2019)

Average Metascore: 72.0

The main Kirby series, ranked separately below, are traditional platformer-style games. But the Kirby character has also appeared in quite a few spinoff titles running the gamut of genres from golf to pinball to minigame collections to puzzle games to unconventional platformers with unique control schemes.

The games:
70 Kirby's Pinball Land (Game Boy, 1993) *
74 Kirby's Avalanche (SNES, 1995) *
77 Kirby's Dream Course (SNES, 1995) *
74 Kirby's Block Ball (Game Boy, 1996) *
73 Kirby's Star Stacker (Game Boy, 1997) *
83 Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble (Game Boy Color, 2001) *
61 Kirby Air Ride (GameCube, 2003)
86 Kirby: Canvas Curse (DS, 2005)
86 Kirby's Epic Yarn (Wii, 2010)
83 Kirby Mass Attack (DS, 2011)
65 Dedede's Drum Dash Deluxe (3DS, 2014)
66 Kirby Fighters Deluxe (3DS, 2014)
73 Kirby and the Rainbow Curse (Wii U, 2015)
57 Team Kirby Clash Deluxe (3DS, 2017)
69 Kirby's Blowout Blast (3DS, 2017)
57 Kirby Battle Royale (3DS, 2018)
79 Kirby's Extra Epic Yarn (3DS, 2019)
74 Super Kirby Clash (Switch, 2019)
65 Kirby Fighters 2 (Switch, 2020)
67 Kirby's Dream Buffet (Switch, 2022)

Average Metascore: 72.7

Another subset of Pokémon titles outside of the mainline series, the games listed here feature a variety of puzzle formats ranging from Picross logic puzzles to the Tetris-like Pokémon Trozei!.

The games:
81 Pokemon Puzzle League (Nintendo 64, 2000)
90 Pokemon Puzzle Challenge (Game Boy Color, 2000) *
74 Pokemon Trozei! (DS, 2006)
70 Pokemon Battle Trozei (3DS, 2014)
56 Pokemon Shuffle (3DS, 2015)
75 Pokemon Picross (3DS, 2015)
63 Pokemon Friends (Switch, 2025)

Average Metascore: 73.4

Mario's twin has been appearing alongside his far more successful brother off and on since the 1983 Game & Watch title Mario Bros. A decade later, he emerged from the sidekick pigeonhole to take the spotlight for the first time in the dreadful educational game Mario is Missing!. Luigi himself would then go missing for another eight years before he would get a second crack at that spotlight as the title character in the haunted house game Luigi's Mansion, which proved to be far more successful, leading to a number of sequels.

Also included here are some non-Mansion Luigi-centric games including the platformer New Super Luigi U (which, yes, technically violates our no-DLC rule since it requires prior ownership of New Super Mario Bros. U, but it's really a full-fledged game of its own).

The games:
44 Mario Is Missing! (SNES, 1993) *
78 Luigi's Mansion (GameCube, 2001)
86 Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon (3DS, 2013)
77 New Super Luigi U (Wii U, 2013)
65 Dr. Luigi (Wii U, 2013)
74 Luigi's Mansion (3DS, 2018)
86 Luigi's Mansion 3 (Switch, 2019)
77 Luigi's Mansion 2 HD (Switch, 2024)

Average Metascore: 74.0

One of the best-selling games in history—primarily by virtue of being bundled with the Wii console—Wii Sports consisted of five sports minigames designed to show off the then-novel Wii motion controller. (So effective was it at doing so that the game instantly invaded pop culture, becoming inescapable in the mid-aughts.) A larger sequel arrived for the Wii three years later (becoming another commercial hit), but a Wii U remake was criticized for some technical issues, and a later Switch version, though a bit better, was found lacking as a single-player game.

The games:
76 Wii Sports (Wii, 2006)
80 Wii Sports Resort (Wii, 2009)
68 Wii Sports Club (Wii U, 2013)
72 Nintendo Switch Sports (Switch, 2022)

Average Metascore: 74.1

There are so many sports games featuring Nintendo's iconic character that we have split them up by sport (though that means that some sports, like Mario Baseball, are left out completely because they don't reach our four-game minimum). Tennis seems to be Mario's favorite sport, as the Mario Tennis series features eight titles dating back to the 1995 Virtual Boy title Mario's Tennis (omitted here because neither Metacritic nor GameRankings covered that short-lived platform).

The games allow you to play tennis not just as Mario but also with various characters from the Mario universe, ranging from obvious picks like Yoshi and Donkey Kong to more obscure characters like Shy Guy and Baby Peach. Some titles also include story and RPG elements.

The games:
91 Mario Tennis (Nintendo 64, 2000)
80 Mario Power Tennis (GameCube, 2004)
81 Mario Tennis: Power Tour (Game Boy Advance, 2005)
65 New Play Control! Mario Power Tennis (Wii, 2009)
69 Mario Tennis Open (3DS, 2012)
58 Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash (Wii U, 2015)
75 Mario Tennis Aces (Switch, 2018)

Average Metascore: 74.6

Kicking off with the 1984 NES game Excitebike (sadly not included in the average above because neither Metacritic nor GameRankings has a score), the Excite franchise features racing games with a variety of vehicles—sometimes motocross bikes, other times off-road vehicles or even robots.

The games:
88 Excitebike 64 (Nintendo 64, 2000)
66 Classic NES Series: Excitebike (Game Boy Advance, 2004)
72 Excite Truck (Wii, 2006)
77 Excitebots: Trick Racing (Wii, 2009)
70 Excitebike: World Rally (Wii, 2009)

Average Metascore: 75.1

Similar (or even identical) to the Game Boy Advance's bit Generations series (never released in the West), the download-only Art Style releases are casual, minimal puzzle games, each with a different visual gimmick. But the series has been dormant since 2010, and the games are no longer available.

The games:
82 Art Style: ORBIENT (Wii, 2008)
73 Art Style: CUBELLO (Wii, 2008)
70 Art Style: ROTOHEX (Wii, 2008)
70 Art Style: AQUIA (DS, 2009)
83 Art Style: PiCTOBiTS (DS, 2009)
80 Art Style: BOXLIFE (DS, 2009)
77 Art Style: BASE 10 (DS, 2009)
64 Art Style: ZENGAGE (DS, 2009)
83 Art Style: DIGIDRIVE (DS, 2009)
76 Art Style: light trax (Wii, 2010)
68 Art Style: Rotozoa (Wii, 2010)

Average Metascore: 75.5

A collaboration between Nintendo and Koei Tecmo, the Hyrule Warriors series takes the hack-and-slash gameplay from the latter's Dynasty Warriors franchise and transports it into the world of The Legend of Zelda. What sounds like an odd mashup on paper actually works fairly well according to critics who have scored most of the releases positively thanks to a blend of solid (if unsurprising) action and Nintendo's charming details. The next game in the series, Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment, is expected to come to the new Nintendo Switch 2 in late 2025 or early 2026.

The games:
76 Hyrule Warriors (Wii U, 2014)
70 Hyrule Warriors Legends (3DS, 2016)
78 Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition (Switch, 2018)
78 Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity (Switch, 2020)

Average Metascore: 76.0

Not games, per se, but educational software, the Art Academy titles developed by Headstrong Games provide lessons in drawing and painting techniques and various art concepts. Two of the releases—one for Pokémon, the other featuring Disney and Pixar characters—feature tie-ins with pop culture franchises. There do not appear to be any plans for continuing the series, which has been dormant for nearly a decade.

The games:
75 Art Academy (DS, 2010)
81 Art Academy: Lessons for Everyone (3DS, 2012)
70 Art Academy: SketchPad (Wii U, 2013)
76 Pokemon Art Academy (3DS, 2014)
82 Art Academy: Home Studio (Wii U, 2015)
72 Disney Art Academy (3DS, 2016)

Average Metascore: 76.3

The surprisingly numerous Mario spinoff games centering on the iconic Nintendo plumber's evil counterpart, Wario, fall into two categories. We'll get to the platformers a bit later; ranked here are the WarioWare titles which are collections of often inventive and always humorous microgames—some of which literally take a mere second or two to complete. Many of the WarioWare games are (co-)developed by Intelligent Systems, and reviews usually range from good to great, though a few, like the poorly designed Snapped!, were disliked by critics. Given that every new Nintendo hardware seems to get at least one WarioWare title, it's likely only a matter of time before we see a Switch 2 release in the series.

The games:
89 WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$! (Game Boy Advance, 2003)
76 WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Party Game$! (GameCube, 2004)
81 WarioWare: Touched! (DS, 2005)
88 WarioWare: Twisted! (Game Boy Advance, 2005)
83 WarioWare: Smooth Moves (Wii, 2007)
53 WarioWare: Snapped! (DS, 2009)
82 WarioWare D.I.Y. (DS, 2010)
73 WarioWare D.I.Y. Showcase (Wii, 2010)
61 Game & Wario (Wii U, 2013)
78 WarioWare Gold (3DS, 2018)
76 WarioWare: Get It Together! (Switch, 2021)
75 WarioWare: Move It! (Switch, 2023)

Average Metascore: 76.4

Mario's beloved dinosaur sidekick Yoshi first appeared in 1990's Super Mario World. Five years later, he was the star of his own platformer, the terrific Yoshi's Island, which was so successful that it spawned an entire Yoshi spinoff series. None of the subsequent games (all platformers, save for a few early-'90s puzzle spinoffs not listed here because they predate GameRankings' coverage) received the same level of acclaim as the first, but that hasn't stopped Nintendo from continuing to release Yoshi titles on nearly every new piece of hardware it launches.

The games:
96 Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island (SNES, 1995) *
65 Yoshi's Story (Nintendo 64, 1998)
91 Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3 (Game Boy Advance, 2002)
73 Yoshi Touch & Go (DS, 2005)
60 Yoshi Topsy-Turvy [aka Yoshi's Universal Gravitation] (Game Boy Advance, 2005)
81 Yoshi's Island DS (DS, 2006)
64 Yoshi's New Island (3DS, 2014)
78 Yoshi's Woolly World (Wii U, 2015)
77 Poochy & Yoshi's Woolly World (3DS, 2017)
79 Yoshi's Crafted World (Switch, 2019)

Average Metascore: 76.5

Mario and Donkey Kong have been linked since they made their videogame debuts together in the 1981 arcade game Donkey Kong. The plumber and ape would cross paths again in the Mario Party series as well as Mario sports and racing games, but 2004 brought their rivalry back to the forefront in the puzzle-platformer Mario vs. Donkey Kong. That game was a big enough hit to spawn a new series that continues to this day, though both Donkey Kong and Mario seem to score higher when they are on their own.

The games:
81 Mario vs. Donkey Kong (Game Boy Advance, 2004)
76 Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis (DS, 2006)
82 Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Minis March Again! (DS, 2009)
79 Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Mini-Land Mayhem (DS, 2010)
78 Mario and Donkey Kong: Minis on the Move (3DS, 2013)
70 Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Tipping Stars (Wii U, 2015)
70 Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Tipping Stars (3DS, 2015)
76 Mario vs. Donkey Kong (Switch, 2024)

Average Metascore: 76.6

The pandemic hit Animal Crossing: New Horizons is just the best-known entry in a series of cozy "social simulation" games that finds your human character moving into a village inhabited by friendly anthropomorphic animals. Gameplay is unstructured and involves your choice of casual activities such as fishing, decorating, chatting with your neighbors, attending a K.K. Slider concert, and ... paying off your mortgage. Attempts to deviate from that well-established formula, like 2015's minigame-filled amiibo Festival, failed to win over critics.

The games:
87 Animal Crossing (GameCube, 2002)
86 Animal Crossing: Wild World (DS, 2005)
73 Animal Crossing: City Folk (Wii, 2008)
88 Animal Crossing: New Leaf (3DS, 2013)
66 Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer (3DS, 2015)
46 Animal Crossing: amiibo Festival (Wii U, 2015)
90 Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Switch, 2020)

Average Metascore: 76.8

Released under at least three different titles (including Girls Mode and Style Boutique), the Style Savvy series consists of casual, handheld fashion games in which you operate a fashion boutique (and later, also serve as a stylist and makeup artist). Gameplay involves selecting outfits for your customers, managing inventory, and promoting your store.

The games:
73 Style Savvy (DS, 2009)
76 Style Savvy: Trendsetters (3DS, 2012)
78 Style Savvy: Fashion Forward (3DS, 2016)
80 Style Savvy: Styling Star (3DS, 2017)

Average Metascore: 77.5

First appearing in 1992, the Kirby game franchise has gone on to span 15 main games (plus over a dozen spinoffs, listed separately above), with cumulative sales ranking it among the best-selling game properties of all time. Those games center on the titular character, a cute 8-inch-tall pink sphere (his species has no official name) hailing from the Planet Popstar and created on our planet by Masahiro Sakurai at Japanese studio HAL Laboratory.

Listed here are the games in the main Kirby series, which are platformers (typically side-scrollers) that are usually distinguished from the competition by Kirby's unique abilities including inhaling his enemies and copying their powers. A Switch 2 version of Kirby and the Forgotten Land is due in August.

The games:
63 Kirby's Dream Land (Game Boy, 1992) *
84 Kirby's Adventure (NES, 1993) *
82 Kirby's Dream Land 2 (Game Boy, 1995) *
86 Kirby Super Star [aka Kirby's Fun Pak] (SNES, 1996) *
66 Kirby's Dream Land 3 (SNES, 1997) *
77 Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards (Nintendo 64, 2000)
81 Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land (Game Boy Advance, 2002)
80 Kirby & the Amazing Mirror (Game Boy Advance, 2004)
71 Kirby: Squeak Squad (DS, 2006)
76 Kirby Super Star Ultra (DS, 2008)
77 Kirby's Return to Dream Land (Wii, 2011)
77 3D Classics: Kirby's Adventure (3DS, 2011)
80 Kirby: Triple Deluxe (3DS, 2014)
81 Kirby: Planet Robobot (3DS, 2016)
73 Kirby Star Allies (Switch, 2018)
85 Kirby and the Forgotten Land (Switch, 2022)
79 Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe (Switch, 2023)
tbd Kirby and the Forgotten Land: Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Star-Crossed World (Switch 2, 2025)

Average Metascore: 78.1

Both a heroic starfighter pilot and, well, a humanoid Fox, the character of Fox McCloud first appeared in 1993's widely acclaimed Star Fox, released in Europe as Starwing. That game, featuring then-rare 3D graphics, was a rail shooter, and its success kicked off a franchise as McCloud and his fellow Star Fox team would return for a half dozen sequels (plus some reissues) in the decades that followed. Those later games incorporated some additional gameplay elements (especially in 2002's Rare-developed Star Fox Adventures, which features an action-adventure game mode in addition to the usual shooter gameplay), but declining sales and poor reviews for 2016's Star Fox Zero has left that title as the series finale, for now—though rumors have been circulating about a revival for the Switch 2.

Not included below is Star Fox 2, a cancelled 1990s sequel to the original game that finally reached the public as a built-in game on Nintendo's limited release Super NES Classic Edition retro console in 2017.

The games:
88 Star Fox [aka Starwing] (SNES, 1993) *
88 Star Fox 64 [aka Lylat Wars] (Nintendo 64, 1997)
82 Star Fox Adventures (GameCube, 2002)
67 Star Fox: Assault (GameCube, 2005)
76 Star Fox Command (DS, 2006)
81 Star Fox 64 3D (3DS, 2011)
74 Star Fox Guard (Wii U, 2016)
69 Star Fox Zero (Wii U, 2016)

Average Metascore: 79.5

Like his better-natured counterpart Mario, Wario has his own series of platformers, beginning with the 1994 Super Mario Land spinoff Wario Land. That game, and most of the sequels that followed, were released for portable devices, though there have been a few console releases in the series. The only two titles here not to receive praise from critics were (perhaps not coincidentally) a pair of non-Wario Land platformers, Wario World and Wario: Master of Disguise, which were criticized for a lack of content and a lack of charm, respectively.

Note that one Virtual Boy release in the Mario Land series is excluded because neither Metacritic nor GameRankings covered that platform.

The games:
81 Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 (Game Boy, 1994) *
80 Wario Land II (Game Boy, 1998) *
88 Wario Land II (Game Boy Color, 1999) *
90 Wario Land 3 (Game Boy Color, 2000) *
88 Wario Land 4 (Game Boy Advance, 2001)
71 Wario World (GameCube, 2003)
60 Wario: Master of Disguise (DS, 2007)
78 Wario Land: Shake It! (Wii, 2008)

Average Metascore: 80.4

Originally created by the Kyoto-based developer Jupiter, the Picross series features logic puzzle games taking the form of "nonograms," or grid-based puzzles that, when solved, reveal an image. Several releases in the series up the difficulty level by adding a third dimension.

Note that there are numerous Japan-only releases excluded from the list below (and average above).

The games:
75 Mario's Picross (Game Boy, 1995) *
83 Picross DS (DS, 2007)
83 Picross 3D (DS, 2010)
75 Pokemon Picross (3DS, 2015)
86 Picross 3D: Round 2 (3DS, 2016)

Average Metascore: 80.6

Boasting the best average Metascore of any of the Mario sports franchises, Mario Golf finds characters from the Mario universe hitting the links. Despite the cartoonish presentation and often simplified controls, the series features somewhat accurate physics-based golf gameplay that incorporates spin and weather effects—though games can also include modes that are very much non-standard (such as Super Rush's Speed Golf, which has players teeing off simultaneously and racing each other through the course).

Mario also appeared as a golfer in the 1991 NES game NES Open Tournament Golf, which is sometimes considered the first release in the Mario Golf series despite not being titled as such. A score for that game, however, is unavailable and thus is excluded here.

The games:
90 Mario Golf (Nintendo 64, 1999)
81 Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour (GameCube, 2003)
84 Mario Golf: Advance Tour (Game Boy Advance, 2004)
78 Mario Golf: World Tour (3DS, 2014)
70 Mario Golf: Super Rush (Switch, 2021)

Average Metascore: 81.0

Created by HAL Laboratory, the studio behind the Kirby series, BoxBoy! is a series of four minimalist puzzle-platformer games that has players controlling a box-shaped character (usually Qbby, but also Qbaby and Qucy in more recent games) who can generate a further string of boxes that can be used to solve a variety of challenges presented by hundreds of levels in each game.

The games:
80 BOXBOY! (3DS, 2015)
80 BoxBoxBoy! (3DS, 2016)
83 BYE-BYE BOXBOY! (3DS, 2017)
81 BoxBoy! + BoxGirl! (Switch, 2019)

Average Metascore: 81.1

After debuting in arcades with several games in the early 1980s, DK moved to home gaming systems shortly thereafter, though the banana slammin' gorilla's first appearance on the NES was, oddly, an educational game (Donkey Kong Jr. Math, not included below but included in our list of Donkey Kong spinoffs near the top of this page).

The Donkey Kong franchise as we know it didn't really begin until the arrival of the Super Mario-inspired SNES platformer Donkey Kong Country in 1994. That side-scroller, developed by Rare as that company's biggest project to date, was a groundbreaking hit that led to numerous sequels (and even a TV show) in the Donkey Kong Country series as well as other DK platformers like the just-released Switch 2 exclusive Bananza, the most acclaimed DK game to date.

The games:
90 Donkey Kong Country (SNES, 1994) *
72 Donkey Kong Land (Game Boy, 1995) *
90 Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest (SNES, 1995) *
79 Donkey Kong Land 2 (Game Boy, 1996) *
83 Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! (SNES, 1996) *
82 Donkey Kong Land III (Game Boy, 1997) *
90 Donkey Kong 64 (Nintendo 64, 1999)
78 Donkey Kong Country (Game Boy Advance, 2003)
55 Classic NES Series: Donkey Kong (Game Boy Advance, 2004)
80 Donkey Kong Country 2 (Game Boy Advance, 2004)
80 Donkey Kong Jungle Beat (GameCube, 2005)
77 Donkey Kong Country 3 (Game Boy Advance, 2005)
78 New Play Control! Donkey Kong Jungle Beat (Wii, 2009)
87 Donkey Kong Country Returns (Wii, 2010)
83 Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D (3DS, 2013)
83 Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (Wii U, 2014)
86 Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (Switch, 2018)
77 Donkey Kong Country Returns HD (Switch, 2025)
91 Donkey Kong Bananza (Switch 2, 2025)

Average Metascore: 81.5

Originating in 1990 and first developed by Intelligent Systems (the Japan studio behind WarioWare and several other franchises on this list), the Fire Emblem franchise consists of tactical role-playing games set in a fantasy world and played on a grid-based map. The first six games in the series were not released outside of Japan (at least for a few decades) and thus are excluded below; the rest of the world didn't get its first FE game until 2003.

That first worldwide release was a critical and commercial hit, as were a few of the immediate sequels released on a variety of Nintendo platforms. Lackluster sales for Radiant Dawn and Shadow Dragon in the late 2000s seemed to signal that Fire Emblem's end was in sight, but the franchise was reawakened, appropriately enough, with Awakening in 2013. Not just the best game in the series, it was also a worldwide hit. With new fans now on board, FE would keep going through the present day, and sales for recent releases (especially 2019's Three Houses) have been strong.

The games:
88 Fire Emblem [aka Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade] (Game Boy Advance, 2003)
85 Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones (Game Boy Advance, 2005)
85 Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance (GameCube, 2005)
78 Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn (Wii, 2007)
81 Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon (DS, 2009)
92 Fire Emblem: Awakening (3DS, 2013)
86 Fire Emblem Fates: Birthright (3DS, 2016)
87 Fire Emblem Fates: Conquest (3DS, 2016)
88 Fire Emblem Fates: Revelation (3DS, 2016)
80 Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE (Wii U, 2016)
81 Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia (3DS, 2017)
69 Fire Emblem Warriors (3DS, 2017)
74 Fire Emblem Warriors (Switch, 2017)
89 Fire Emblem: Three Houses (Switch, 2019)
81 Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE Encore (Switch, 2020)
63 Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon & the Blade of Light (Switch, 2020)
80 Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes (Switch, 2022)
80 Fire Emblem Engage (Switch, 2023)

Average Metascore: 81.8

It may sound like somebody mispronouncing "Pokemon," but Pikmin is a completely unrelated, long-running Nintendo franchise—albeit one that also features cute, colorful characters with a variety of different abilities. Pikmin are a race of plant-animal hybrids living on another planet, and it's up to you to direct a group of them through a series of puzzles that blend platforming action with strategic puzzle-solving. There are basically four main installments in the series—with some released multiple times on different platforms—as well as the handheld spinoff Hey! Pikmin, though that title was dismissed by critics as too simplistic.

The games:
89 Pikmin (GameCube, 2001)
90 Pikmin 2 (GameCube, 2004)
77 New Play Control! Pikmin (Wii, 2009)
83 New Play Control! Pikmin 2 (Wii, 2012)
87 Pikmin 3 (Wii U, 2013)
69 Hey! Pikmin (3DS, 2017)
85 Pikmin 3 Deluxe (Switch, 2020)
82 Pikmin 1 (Switch, 2023)
69 Pikmin 2 (Switch, 2023)
87 Pikmin 4 (Switch, 2023)

Average Metascore: 82.5

Pokémon goes and goes. An amazingly lucrative multimedia franchise that also includes film, television, and manga—not to mention all those trading cards you have stored up at home—Pokémon has existed as a video game franchise since 1996 in Japan and 1998 in the rest of the world. The games in the core series are "trainer" RPGs in which you catch and train the titular creatures and pit them against other Pokémon in battles. These core series games typically come out in pairs (with very minor differences in the paired releases, typically in the varieties of Pokémon available in each game) every few years, with the next release, Legends: Z-A, due this fall. Combined, the Pokémon games have sold nearly 500 million units worldwide—an astonishing figure that doesn't even include the wildly successful mobile spinoff Pokémon Go, which has reportedly been downloaded by one out of every eight people on the planet.

A note on our pokémethodology here: Concurrent releases (such as Pokémon Red and Pokémon Blue) are grouped as a single item if they are released on the same platform at the same time—mainly because virtually all of these dual products have the same score and same review totals since they are usually reviewed together. In the few cases where the simultaneous releases are reviewed separately (as for 2000's Pokémon Gold/Silver), the score displayed below comes from the version with the higher number of reviews.

The games:
88 Pokemon Red/Blue (Game Boy Advance, 1998) *
85 Pokemon Yellow (Game Boy Advance, 1999) *
91 Pokemon Gold/Silver (Game Boy Color, 2000) *
80 Pokemon Crystal (Game Boy Color, 2001) *
82 Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire (Game Boy Advance, 2003)
81 Pokemon FireRed/LeafGreen (Game Boy Advance, 2004)
76 Pokemon Emerald (Game Boy Advance, 2005)
85 Pokemon Diamond/Pearl (DS, 2007)
83 Pokemon Platinum (DS, 2009)
87 Pokemon HeartGold/SoulSilver (DS, 2010)
87 Pokemon Black/White (DS, 2011)
80 Pokemon Black 2/White 2 (DS, 2012)
87 Pokemon X/Y (3DS, 2013)
83 Pokemon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire (3DS, 2014)
87 Pokemon Sun/Moon (3DS, 2016)
84 Pokemon Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon (3DS, 2017)
79 Pokemon: Let's Go, Eevee!/Pikachu! (Switch, 2018)
80 Pokemon Sword/Shield (Switch, 2019)
73 Pokemon Brilliant Diamond/Shining Pearl (Switch, 2021)
83 Pokemon Legends: Arceus (Switch, 2022)
72 Pokemon Scarlet/Violet (Switch, 2022)

Average Metascore: 82.5

First distinguished from other (Super) Mario games by a switch to RPG gameplay—though later games in the series adopted more platforming and adventure elements—the Paper Mario franchise has consistently stood out in another way: its visual presentation. Paper Mario and its sequels feature a 2D paper cutout version of Mario navigating through a papercraft world. If you think that sounds charming, well, it is—and it's a major reason that every game in the series has been blessed by positive reviews. That said, critics have not always been fond of the gameplay changes made in the more recent entries (beginning with 2012's Sticker Star, the franchise's low point).

The games:
93 Paper Mario (Nintendo 64, 2001)
87 Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (GameCube, 2004)
85 Super Paper Mario (Wii, 2007)
75 Paper Mario: Sticker Star (3DS, 2012)
76 Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam (3DS, 2016)
76 Paper Mario: Color Splash (Wii U, 2016)
80 Paper Mario: The Origami King (Switch, 2020)
88 Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Switch, 2024)

Average Metascore: 83.1

Sure, we've seen that Luigi has his own spinoff series, while Mario obviously has his own game franchise (more on him in a bit). But sometimes the brothers share the spotlight. Beginning with 2003's Superstar Saga, Mario and Luigi have teamed up for six RPG spinoffs, two of which were later remade and all of which have received good-to-great reviews. The games ask you to control both characters (and sometimes Bowser) simultaneously through turn-based battles. The franchise was originated by Japanese studio AlphaDream, which continued to create the sequels until ceasing operations in 2019.

The games:
90 Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga (Game Boy Advance, 2003)
86 Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time (DS, 2005)
90 Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story (DS, 2009)
81 Mario & Luigi: Dream Team (3DS, 2013)
76 Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam (3DS, 2016)
81 Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser's Minions (3DS, 2017)
84 Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr.'s Journey (3DS, 2019)
77 Mario & Luigi: Brothership (Switch, 2024)

Average Metascore: 83.3

Typically side-scrolling, non-linear action-adventures that blend exploration with shooter gameplay—though the Prime subseries adopts a 3D, first-person format—the Metroid games share a sci-fi setting (inspired by the movie Alien) and a main character, the bounty hunter Samus Aran. (The one Samus-free game, 2016's Federation Force, is a low point in the series.) Metroid ranks among Nintendo's most popular franchises, with cumulative sales in excess of 18 million units, while 2002's Metroid Prime is widely considered to rank among the best games of all time. The franchise is so groundbreaking that it inspired (along with the Castlevania series) the name of a genre: Metroidvania.

The series is expected to continue with Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, a game that was first announced in 2017. Eight years later there's still no firm release date, though there's a chance it could arrive this fall.

The games:
63 Metroid (NES, 1987) *
80 Metroid II: Return of Samus (Game Boy, 1991) *
97 Super Metroid (SNES, 1994) *
92 Metroid Fusion (Game Boy Advance, 2002)
97 Metroid Prime (GameCube, 2002)
89 Metroid: Zero Mission (Game Boy Advance, 2004)
58 Metroid (Game Boy Advance, 2004)
92 Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (GameCube, 2004)
79 Metroid Prime Pinball (DS, 2005)
85 Metroid Prime: Hunters (DS, 2006)
90 Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (Wii, 2007)
79 Metroid: Other M (Wii, 2010)
64 Metroid Prime: Federation Force (3DS, 2016)
85 Metroid: Samus Returns (3DS, 2017)
88 Metroid Dread (Switch, 2021)
94 Metroid Prime Remastered (Switch, 2023)

Average Metascore: 83.7

Nintendo's futuristic racing series kicked off nearly 25 years ago with a game that introduced recurring characters like Captain Falcon (and his nemesis, Samurai Goroh) and pitted them against each other in a hovercar racing tournament. Racing was both fast and difficult, and that wouldn't change in later installments, which would add to the variety of tracks and vehicles and increase the number of racers, even as Sega as brought on as a developer. The franchise was revived (to an extent) in 2023 after a nearly two-decade absence with the Switch game F-Zero 99, which added an online multiplayer battle royale component to the original game.

Though there has been no official announcement of a continuation of the franchise, our sister site GameSpot recently examined the evidence suggesting that Nintendo hasn't forgotten F-Zero.

The games:
83 F-Zero (SNES, 1991) *
85 F-Zero X (Nintendo 64, 1998)
86 F-Zero: Maximum Velocity (Game Boy Advance, 2001)
89 F-Zero GX (GameCube, 2003)
77 F-Zero GP Legend (Game Boy Advance, 2004)
82 F-Zero 99 (Switch, 2023)

Average Metascore: 84.4

The "Wars" franchise (which doesn't really have an official name) encompasses a collection of military-themed strategy games from various developers. The earliest releases, which include 1988's Famicom Wars and 1991's Game Boy Wars, were never released outside of Japan (and are thus excluded from our calculations). The series first came to the West with 2001's Advance Wars, a turn-based strategy game depicting a war between two fictitious countries. More Advance Wars games would follow over the next decade, which would also see the launch of the real-time tactical spinoff series Battalion Wars. The franchise would then go on hiatus for 15 years before the arrival of a Switch remake of the first two games in 2023.

The games:
92 Advance Wars (Game Boy Advance, 2001)
89 Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising (Game Boy Advance, 2003)
90 Advance Wars: Dual Strike (DS, 2005)
76 Battalion Wars (GameCube, 2005)
75 Battalion Wars 2 (Wii, 2007)
86 Advance Wars: Days of Ruin (DS, 2008)
83 Advance Wars 1 + 2: Re-Boot Camp (Switch, 2023)

Average Metascore: 84.8

Existing for a mere five years, the Pushmo series—or Pullblox as it's known outside of America—from Intelligent Systems (also the developer of many Fire Emblem and Wars games) consists of puzzle games with hundreds of levels that ask you to rescue trapped children (!) from a park filled with "pushmo," structures that can be moved forwards and backwards. The mechanics change with each of the sequels, though basic gameplay is similar. Critics and gamers seemed to be charmed by the four games, and though there have been some rumors about a fifth game, there do not appear to be any concrete plans to continue the series.

The games:
90 Pushmo (3DS, 2011)
86 Crashmo (3DS, 2012)
80 Pushmo World (Wii U, 2014)
83 Stretchmo (3DS, 2015)

Average Metascore: 86.7

Mario Kart is such a key franchise to Nintendo that the latest game was used to launch Nintendo's latest hardware, the Switch 2. And it's no wonder: The series has cumulative sales just under 200 million units, making it the best-selling racing game franchise in history. The Mario Kart games are go-kart racers—a subgenre that barely existed before 1992's Super Mario Kart—that feature characters drawn not just from Mario games but (in some later releases) also from across the entire Nintendo universe. Though you can play them solo, they are basically party games that are easy to pick up and hard to put down, making each new release a must-purchase for many owners of Nintendo hardware.

The games:
94 Super Mario Kart (SNES, 1992) *
82 Mario Kart 64 (Nintendo 64, 1997)
93 Mario Kart Super Circuit (Game Boy Advance, 2001)
87 Mario Kart: Double Dash!! (GameCube, 2003)
90 Mario Kart DS (DS, 2005)
82 Mario Kart Wii (Wii, 2008)
85 Mario Kart 7 (3DS, 2011)
88 Mario Kart 8 (Wii U, 2014)
92 Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Switch, 2017)
75 Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit (Switch, 2020)
86 Mario Kart World (Switch 2, 2025)

Average Metascore: 87.0

One of the newer franchises on this list, the Xenoblade Chronicles series consists of action-RPG titles developed by the Nintendo-owned studio Monolith Soft (and much of the same team that worked on the loosely related but much less successful Xenosaga games, which were mainly released for non-Nintendo platforms). Blending sci-fi and fantasy elements, Xenoblade Chronicles combines open-world exploration with real-time combat. There are three games in the main series (with some being reissued on additional platforms), while Xenoblade Chronicles X is set in a different, unrelated world but features similar gameplay. The series has sold nearly 9 million units to date—not bad for a property that was never intended to get a North American release and only did so after a massive fan intervention.

The games:
92 Xenoblade Chronicles (Wii, 2012)
86 Xenoblade Chronicles 3D (3DS, 2015)
84 Xenoblade Chronicles X (Wii U, 2015)
83 Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (Switch, 2017)
89 Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition (Switch, 2020)
89 Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Switch, 2022)
86 Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition (Switch, 2025)

Average Metascore: 88.5

If you have ever owned a piece of Nintendo hardware, you have probably owned a Super Mario game. Perhaps Nintendo's most iconic franchise—Mario is literally the company's icon—the Super Mario games are also the first thing most people think of when they see the genre name "platformer."

Originating with 1985's Super Mario Bros. (itself a sequel to the Mario Bros. arcade game), the franchise consisted originally of side-scrollers in which you guide Mario as he runs and jumps though levels filled with coins, question-mark bricks, warp pipes, Koopa shells, and mushrooms. Many later games adopted a 3D format, some with open-world exploration and others retaining the linear nature of the 2D side-scrollers, as they introduced one creative scenario after another (including sending Mario to space in the Super Mario Galaxy games and plopping him into a semi-realistic human-filled setting in Super Mario Odyssey). Nearly half of the releases have scored 90 or higher, demonstrating incredible consistency for a 40-year-old series. Combined, the games have sold well over 400 million copies, making Super Mario the sixth most successful franchise in gaming history.

The games:
86 Super Mario Bros. (NES, 1985) *
81 Super Mario Bros. 2 (NES, 1988) *
78 Super Mario Land (Game Boy, 1989) *
98 Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES, 1990) *
94 Super Mario World (SNES, 1991) *
80 Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins (Game Boy, 1992) *
96 Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island (SNES, 1995) *
94 Super Mario 64 (Nintendo 64, 1996)
92 Super Mario Bros. Deluxe (Game Boy Color, 1999) *
84 Super Mario Advance (Game Boy Advance, 2001)
92 Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2 (Game Boy Advance, 2002)
92 Super Mario Sunshine (GameCube, 2002)
91 Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3 (Game Boy Advance, 2002)
94 Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 (Game Boy Advance, 2003)
84 Super Mario Bros. (Game Boy Advance, 2004)
85 Super Mario 64 DS (DS, 2004)
89 New Super Mario Bros. (DS, 2006)
97 Super Mario Galaxy (Wii, 2007)
87 New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Wii, 2009)
97 Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Wii, 2010)
90 Super Mario 3D Land (3DS, 2011)
78 New Super Mario Bros. 2 (3DS, 2012)
84 New Super Mario Bros. U (Wii U, 2012)
93 Super Mario 3D World (Wii U, 2013)
88 Super Mario Maker (Wii U, 2015)
73 Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS (3DS, 2016)
97 Super Mario Odyssey (Switch, 2017)
80 New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe (Switch, 2019)
88 Super Mario Maker 2 (Switch, 2019)
89 Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury (Switch, 2021)
92 Super Mario Bros. Wonder (Switch, 2023)

Average Metascore: 89.0

Ever wonder who would win in a fight between Pikachu and Mario? Or want to see Samus battle Wario? Nintendo's crossover fighting series is here to help. Beginning with the 1999 N64 release Super Smash Bros. and only getting better with time, the Super Smash Bros. franchise consists of multiplayer platform fighting games with a huge roster of fighters—all drawn from other Nintendo franchises including many of the franchises listed above (and below). Once Bandai Namco took over development of the games with 2014's twin releases for 3DS and Wii U, the series has also included some non-Nintendo characters including Pac-Man and Mega Man. The result is one of Nintendo's most commercially and critically successful properties, with combined sales exceeding 75 million units.

The games:
79 Super Smash Bros. (Nintendo 64, 1999)
92 Super Smash Bros. Melee (GameCube, 2001)
93 Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii, 2008)
85 Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS (3DS, 2014)
92 Super Smash Bros. for Wii U (Wii U, 2014)
93 Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Switch, 2018)

Average Metascore: 89.6

Was there any doubt about which franchise would land at #1? No list of the greatest video games of all time would be complete without multiple entries from Nintendo's Legend of Zelda series, first created by Nintendo's own Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka in 1986. Centering on the adventures of Link and Princess Zelda in the land of Hyrule, the often open-world action-adventure games have frequently wowed critics and gamers alike, with 13 different titles scoring 90 or above (and that's not even counting the many remakes of those titles). Is it any wonder that the series has sold well over 150 million units to date?

Zelda games have been released for every Nintendo platform since the original NES, frequently as launch games for new consoles (though not for the Switch 2, whose Zelda games so far have been limited to enhanced releases of Switch titles). Surprisingly, there have been two Zelda games with yellow Metascores. A 2004 Game Boy Advance remake of 1988's The Adventure of Link (already one of the least-liked Zelda games) was deemed inferior to contemporary titles, while 2015's Tri Force Heroes was deemed atypically shallow and unpolished and is widely considered to be the worst release in the franchise's history.

The games:
84 The Legend of Zelda (NES, 1987) *
78 Zelda II: The Adventure of Link (NES, 1988) *
93 The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES, 1992) *
90 The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (Game Boy, 1993) *
99 The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Nintendo 64, 1998)
95 The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (Nintendo 64, 2000)
92 The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages (Game Boy Color, 2001) *
91 The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons (Game Boy Color, 2001) *
95 The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and Four Swords (Game Boy Advance, 2002)
91 The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time / Master Quest (GameCube, 2003)
96 The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (GameCube, 2003)
84 Classic NES Series: The Legend of Zelda (Game Boy Advance, 2004)
86 The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures (GameCube, 2004)
72 Classic NES Series: Zelda II: The Adventure of Link (Game Boy Advance, 2004)
89 The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap (Game Boy Advance, 2005)
95 The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Wii, 2006)
96 The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (GameCube, 2006)
90 The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (DS, 2007)
87 The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks (DS, 2009)
94 The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D (3DS, 2011)
85 The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Anniversary Edition (DS, 2011)
93 The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (Wii, 2011)
90 The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD (Wii U, 2013)
91 The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds (3DS, 2013)
89 The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D (3DS, 2015)
73 The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes (3DS, 2015)
86 The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD (Wii U, 2016)
96 The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Wii U, 2017)
97 The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Switch, 2017)
87 The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (Switch, 2019)
81 The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD (Switch, 2021)
96 The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Switch, 2023)
85 The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom (Switch, 2024)
95 The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - Switch 2 Edition (Switch 2, 2025)
96 The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom - Switch 2 Edition (Switch 2, 2025)