15 Best Wii Adventure Games

Broken Sword is a 2D adventure game played from a third-person perspective, and this version exists because fans asked for it. A group of them started an online petition begging Charles Cecil, Revolution's managing director, to bring the series to the Wii and DS. Revolution answered with a director's cut, and Cecil brought in the comic book artist Dave Gibbons to work on the visual references. Ubisoft released it on March 21, 2009.

The story starts with a noise in a drawing room and a man who gets shot when he goes to look. The Wii version won Best European Adventure at the 2011 European Games Awards, and it is often listed as one of the best games on the Wii. Pointing at things and clicking on them turns out to be what the Wii Remote was born for.

Ashley Mizuki Robins is 16 now and wants to be a musician. At the end of the summer holiday she gets a package from her father with a new "DAS" (Dual Another System) and an invitation to bond on a camping trip at Lake Juliet. It is a game about looking closely. While you explore, you highlight parts of the world to examine them and check anything of interest.

It got mixed reviews and sold poorly, and Nintendo never released it in the US. Chris Schilling of The Telegraph rated it one of the top ten underrated games of 2009, and it has picked up more fans since the Wii's lifespan ended. One critic praised the watercolour visuals for making the world a pleasure to be in. That is a good way to describe the whole game.

PokéPark 2 is the sequel to PokéPark Wii: Pikachu's Adventure, and it sends Pikachu and Piplup after something strange. Portals in each region of PokéPark lead to Wish Park, a mysterious dimension that turns out to be a trap designed to entrance the park's inhabitants. Beat a Pokémon and it will usually befriend you and join the Pal Pad, and your friends help you open the Poster Portals into Wish Park.

Snivy and Tepig join the team in the Arbor and Crag areas. Clear the attraction behind the Tech Area's portal and the four floating islands of Wish Park connect, opening the way to Wish Palace. It reached North America on February 27, 2012. This is the gentlest game on the list, and it is the one to hand a young Pokémon fan who wants to run around as Pikachu.

Disaster follows Raymond, Ray to his friends, through a string of catastrophes. He helps Blue Ridge Mayor Townsend free a trapped citizen from debris, then heads for the evacuation zone at West Park and finds it engulfed in flames, with a fire twister on the way. Later in the story, Evans recaptures Lisa and flees to Port Alex.

It is part shooter and part rescue job. You carry a pistol with unlimited ammo and up to three other weapons, and you swap between them with the Direction Pad. Survivors have to be brought to safety or saved with a first aid minigame before their stamina runs out. Rescue enough of them and Ray's maximum health goes up by one unit. Nothing else on this list asks you to outrun a fire twister.

Dawn of the Dragon is the third and final part of The Legend of Spyro trilogy and the sequel to The Eternal Night. It marked the tenth anniversary of the series. It was the first Spyro game where you can fly any time you want, with a free-fly mode. Mark Hamill voices Malefor, the Dark Master, and Blair Underwood plays Hunter the Cheetah.

It came out on the PS2, PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii, and it closed the book on this version of Spyro. After Vivendi Games merged with Activision in July 2008, Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure rebooted the purple dragon again in 2011. If you grew up with this trilogy, the Wii version is a good way to finish it, and the free flying is the best part.

Blue World is the sequel to Endless Ocean. It came out in Japan in September 2009 and everywhere else in February 2010. The ocean is full of hundreds of real-life species, from seahorses to giant whales. If a fish looks sick or agitated, you can check its health and zap it with a healing tool. You can also make friends with a dolphin, teach it tricks and hold on to it to swim faster.

The story is there if you want it. Oceana investigates the legend of the Dragon's Song that her father was searching for just before his death. The water has a hostile caiman and an aggressive tiger shark in it too. For the first time in the series, friends could dive together online and talk through Wii Speak. Critics gave it a slightly higher score than the first game.

The sequel takes Mickey Mouse back to Wasteland, a world built from classic and retired Disney characters and attractions. This time Oswald the Lucky Rabbit comes along, and a second player can take him in an optional co-op mode. Some special abilities only work when Mickey and Oswald team up. New areas include Disney Gulch, based on Disneyland's Frontierland.

Warren Spector added voice acting and musical numbers, both missing from the first game. He also promised you would not have to touch the manual camera controls on the main story path, which was a direct answer to the first game's biggest complaint. It sold only 529,000 copies in the United States by the end of 2012, a quarter of what the first one sold. Players name it as a game to play with a partner.

Endless Ocean is about exploring an underwater world and cataloguing the animals you find there. It came out in Japan on August 2, 2007, and reached North America on January 21, 2008. Eight days after the Japanese release, Nintendo recalled it over a major bug and put it back out with the bug removed.

The music matters as much as the fish. Hayley Westenra sings "Prayer", composed by Secret Garden, along with a version of the Maori folk song Pokarekare Ana. You could also copy your own MP3 files to an SD card and listen to them while you dive. Only one Wii game had that feature before it, and that was Excite Truck. It is the calmest game on the Wii.

In Deadly Creatures you play a young male desert hairy scorpion and an adult female tarantula, and you fight arachnids, insects, rats and reptiles. The two play differently. The scorpion's levels are about action, while the tarantula is more stealth oriented, with less linear levels, and she uses the pointer to shoot webs. Most of the bugs you beat can be eaten to get health back.

Rainbow Studios made it and THQ published it. The fights are pitched like a monster movie, King Kong or Jurassic Park on a much smaller scale. New abilities come as you go, and the bosses include a Gila monster, a rattlesnake and, at the end, a human.

The Wii got its own Forgotten Sands, made by Ubisoft Quebec, with a story and setting of its own and different gameplay from the PS3 and Xbox 360 game of the same name. It uses the Wii's motion controls along with the buttons, and the acrobatics carry over from the other versions. A second player can help by freezing enemies or traps on screen and by unlocking secret areas.

The disc is generous. It has bonus levels, art galleries, developer diaries, unlockable skins and the original 1992 Prince of Persia. Critics called the graphics last generation and the combat dull, but they praised its creative ideas and strong production values. After Forgotten Sands the series went on hiatus until The Lost Crown in early 2024.

Zack is a new pirate who wants to be the greatest pirate ever, and Wiki is his magical monkey sidekick. Together they hunt treasure while helping the skeleton of the legendary pirate Barbaros. Each stage is a puzzle where you work out which actions get Zack to the treasure without triggering traps or getting the enemies' attention. To cut down a tree, you ring Wiki to turn a centipede into a saw, then hold the Wii Remote flat and saw back and forth.

It came out in North America on October 23, 2007. The idea comes from old graphic adventure games, with point-and-click puzzles plus gestures. Critics praised the controls and the originality, and IGN gave it an Editor's Choice. Extra players can use their own Wii Remotes to point things out with cursors, which is a polite way of letting the family shout hints.

Skyward Sword uses the Wii MotionPlus for sword fighting, and the developers nearly dropped MotionPlus because it gave them so much trouble. It is the first game in the Zelda timeline and tells the origins of the Triforce and the Master Sword. Link flies on his Loftwing, and he reaches the surface through columns of light in the clouds. It was also the first Zelda to use a live orchestra for most of its music.

Development took around five years, and it came out in November 2011. It got perfect scores from several sites and sold over three million copies. Fans also pushed back on the linearity and the backtracking, and that feedback shaped Breath of the Wild. The Switch remaster, Skyward Sword HD, had sold nearly 4 million by March 2022.

Mickey Mouse finds out the mirror in his bedroom is a portal to Yen Sid's workshop, where a magic paintbrush is finishing a world for forgotten Disney creations. That world is Wasteland, and the Shadow Blot torments it now. You change it with paint and paint thinner. Its places come from Disney parks: Mean Street is based on Main Street, U.S.A., and Lonesome Manor is based on The Haunted Mansion. Between areas you cross 2D levels based on cartoon shorts like Steamboat Willie.

Warren Spector directed it, and it was the first time Mickey and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit appeared together. Critics praised the visual style and the story and criticized the camera. It is widely credited for bringing Oswald back into the public eye, along with Horace Horsecollar and Clarabelle Cow.

Twilight Princess was planned for the GameCube, then delayed and ported to the Wii, where it was a launch game in North America in November 2006. On the Wii you swing the remote for the sword and point it to aim the bow and the boomerang. To fit a right-handed Link to the motion controls, the whole map is flipped compared to the GameCube release.

Twilight covers Hyrule and turns everyone except Link and Zelda into invisible spirits, so Link teams up with Midna to bring back the Light Spirits. The kidnapped children of Ordon village set its darker tone. It won many game of the year awards and has been called one of the greatest video games ever made. Players rank it just behind the top pick.

Ōkami came out on the PlayStation 2 in 2006, and a Wii port by Ready at Dawn, Tose and Capcom followed in 2008. You play the Shinto sun goddess Amaterasu in the form of a white wolf, saving a fictional classical Japan from darkness. The world looks like a moving sumi-e ink painting, and the Celestial Brush is a gesture system for performing miracles. On the Wii you paint with the remote.

Director Hideki Kamiya modeled the gameplay on The Legend of Zelda, one of his favorite series. The name is a pun, since "ōkami" can mean "great god" or "wolf". It sold poorly and still earned universal acclaim. The Wii version got similar praise, though its motion controls got mixed reviews. Players recommend it more than any other Wii adventure game.