Best WiiWare Games of All Time

Even though WiiWare is considered to be a platform for developers with small budget who get to release their games on a small scale, it doesn't mean that these games are not noteworthy as such. Though small budget, WiiWare has some of the most innovative games that you will ever come across. The popularity of Nintendo Wii game console is such that it needs no introduction, and a large part of the credit for this popularity goes to the best WiiWare games ever developed. These games may be no match for those games which boast of amazing graphics, but the fact that they bank on storyline makes them stand tall.

WiiWare Classics

As many as 288 WiiWare games are available for download in North America, each of which boasts of being better than the other, and that makes it somewhat difficult to compile a list of a few good WiiWare games. We tried our hand at this daunting task, and the results were pretty satisfactory. Given below is a list of the 10 top WiiWare games which you need to download if you intend to make the most of your Nintendo Wii gaming experience. These WiiWare games can be purchased and downloaded from the Wii Shop Channel from where you download Wii games. Depending on which game you intend to download, it will cost you anywhere between 500-1000 Nintendo points.

Rank	Game Title	Developer	Genre	Mode
1	World of Goo	2D Boy	Puzzle	Single player, Co-operative
2	LostWinds	Frontier Developments	Platform/Adventure	Single-player, Co-op multiplayer
3	Rage of the Gladiator	Ghostfire Games	Action game, Strategy game	Single-player
4	Mega Man 9	Inti Creates/Capcom	Platforming, action	Single-player
5	Orbient	skip Ltd.	Puzzle	Single-player
6	Jett Rocket	Shin'en Multimedia	Platformer	Single-player
7	Defend Your Castle	XGen Studios	Arcade	Single player, co-op multiplayer
8	Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a Darklord	Square Enix	Tower defense	Single-player
9	Bit.Trip	Gaijin Games	Action, Music	Single-player, multiplayer
10	Cave Story	Studio Pixel, Nicalis	Action-adventure	Single-player

Even though the aforementioned list of top ten WiiWare games looks quite amazing in itself, it would be least surprising if it doesn't change sometime in near future with quite a few amazing games lined up for release. The list of upcoming WiiWare games include names like Angry Birds, Bobby Carrot, Bonk: Brink of Extinction etc., all of which promise to ameliorate your Wii gaming experience. New WiiWare games are added to the Wii Shop Channel's WiiWare section every Monday at 12pm ET. Keeping a track of this section will help you get your hands on the best games available at the earliest. Similarly, you also get to download these Wii games from numerous sites which offer free WiiWare games download.

Those were the 10 best WiiWare games which, we believe, deserve a place in the list of best games of all time. We do understand that individual preferences differ from person to person, and what we think are the best may not go down well with everybody. However, we'd like you to give these video games a shot before coming up with an opinion on them. If you still feel that we missed out on some game which deserved a place in this list of top WiiWare games, we would like to surely hear from you as that will help us compile a list which would go down well with everybody and, more importantly, help our readers with their gaming escapade.