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Game & Wario

Wario has gotten into the business of designing games. With the help of his development crew at WarioWare, Inc., he has set out to make the greatest collection of games Diamond City has ever seen. Game & Wario…

58 28 March 2013

Game & Wario is a puzzle developed by Intelligent Systems, released 28 March 2013 on Wii U.

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What Game & Wario is

Game & Wario is a puzzle game developed by Intelligent Systems and released in 2013. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Wii U only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Wario has gotten into the business of designing games. With the help of his development crew at WarioWare, Inc., he has set out to make the greatest collection of games Diamond City has ever seen. Game & Wario features these fun and refreshingly unusual games that are played exclusively with the Wii U GamePad controller.
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, comedy and party. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Mario Bros. series

Game & Wario is the 63rd of 66 entries we hold in the Mario Bros. series. The next entry was Mario Party: Island Tour in 2013. Its critic score of 58 is 16 points below the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is Super Mario World at 100.

See all 66 Mario Bros. games in release order →

How it was received

Game & Wario holds a critic score of 58 out of 100. That places it above 12% of the 2,791 rated puzzle games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored 12 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Game & Wario launched on 28 March 2013, within three weeks of BioShock Infinite, StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm, Age of Empires II HD and BattleBlock Theater. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: BioShock Infinite, StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm, Age of Empires II HD, BattleBlock Theater.

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When did Game & Wario come out?
Game & Wario was released on 28 March 2013 for Wii U.

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