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Eurogamer's best games lists aim to guide you to the highest quality, most original, most exciting games around today. Each regularly updated list presents between 10 and 20 varied games that we think would make a fine foundation for any game collection. Nintendo's latest home console, the follow-up to its all-conquering Wii, is a strange beast. Its principle gimmick - the second screen embedded in the chunky GamePad controller - hasn't caught the imagination of either game designers or the buying public like its predecessor's motion controller did. Wii U can't match Xbox One or PlayStation 4 for power, it doesn't carry the major hits from other publishers, and its store of download games isn't particularly well-stocked. Put that way, it's not surprising that its sales have been a damp squib.
And yet we would strongly recommend anyone pick one up, because Wii U hosts a gaming experience that you simply can't get anywhere else. If the GamePad doesn't provide that, then it's Nintendo's own exclusive games that do - unmatched for sheer fun factor, peerless in their execution, and with a colourful, playful flavour that's a breath of fresh air in a medium dominated by moody, macho entertainment. The Wii U offers timeless Nintendo joy in eye-popping HD for the first time - and at a very reasonable price, too. Below you'll find our very favourite Wii U titles (in alphabetical order).
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