

Our main ranked list only includes traditional platformer-style games in the main Kirby series, but Nintendo has also released many spinoffs from the main series over the past three decades in a variety of genres.


(And, at the very end of the gallery, we rank all of those spinoffs as well.)Īll photos courtesy of Nintendo unless otherwise indicated. In the gallery on this page, we rank all 15 of the games in the series from worst to best by Metascore, which captures the consensus views of professional critics. Games in the main Kirby series are platformers (typically side-scrollers) that are usually distinguished from the competition by Kirby's unique abilities including inhaling his enemies and copying their powers.

Those games center on the titular character, a cute 8-inch-tall pink sphere (his species has no official name) hailing from the Planet Popstar and created on our planet by Masahiro Sakurai (then of HAL Laboratory, the Japanese developer of several Nintendo-exclusive series that continues to make Kirby games to this day). Join up with a buddy and fire the powerful new Team Cannon to blast opponents with mega-damage! Earn rare copy ability hats for defeating Kracko and the King Dedede army in the single-player gauntlet.Updated March 2023 to add Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxeįirst appearing in 1992, the Kirby game franchise has gone on to span 15 main games and over a dozen spinoffs, with cumulative sales ranking it among the best-selling game properties of all time despite (or because of) being limited to Nintendo devices. Choose from powerful copy abilities like Sword, Ninja, Hammer and more as you take your fighting skills to the limit! Based on the wild battle mode introduced in Kirby: Triple Deluxe, this standalone game contains expanded gameplay features, the ability to play as a team, new arenas and more. Choose from powerful copy abilities like Sword, Ninja, Hammer and more as you Duke it out with up to 4 players in Kirby Fighters Deluxe! Duke it out with your favorite pink puffball in a fierce 4-player battle action game! Team up or go solo as you battle in new and classic Kirby arenas.
