Super Mario Run

Super Mario goes mobile! Unlike other games in the franchise, Mario will run on his own. All you do is tap the screen to jump. The longer you tap, the higher the jump meaning that you can play the game with…

70 15 December 2016

Adventure Arcade Platform Action Kids

Super Mario Run is an adventure developed by Nintendo Entertainment Planning & Development, released 15 December 2016 on Android and iOS.

Verified 29 Sep 2026 Sources: IGDB , Wikipedia

What Super Mario Run is

Super Mario Run is an adventure game developed by Nintendo Entertainment Planning & Development and released in 2016. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Android and iOS. It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Super Mario Run is a 2016 platform game developed and published by Nintendo for iOS and later Android. It is Nintendo's first mobile game that is part of one of the company's long-running and major franchises.

Description from Wikipedia · source

How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and kids. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Mario series

Super Mario Run is the 558th of 668 entries we hold in the Mario series. The next entry was Poochy & Yoshi's Woolly World in 2017. Its critic score of 70 is 7 points below the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is Super Mario World at 100.

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How it was received

Super Mario Run holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 2 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 68, across 135 votes.

What it launched against

Super Mario Run launched on 15 December 2016, within three weeks of Final Fantasy XV, The Last Guardian, Darksiders Warmastered Edition and Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Final Fantasy XV, The Last Guardian, Darksiders Warmastered Edition, Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun.

Cheats and codes

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