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Mario and Donkey Kong: Minis on the Move

A puzzle game where you have to place blocks on a game board and create a path for a "Mini" character to traverse. You must reach a certain goal area in a fix amount of time and have to opportunity to collect…

76 8 May 2013 ESRB E

Mario and Donkey Kong: Minis on the Move is a platform developed by Nintendo Software Technology, released 8 May 2013 on Nintendo 3DS.

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What Mario and Donkey Kong: Minis on the Move is

Mario and Donkey Kong: Minis on the Move is a platform game developed by Nintendo Software Technology and released in 2013. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo 3DS only. It carries an ESRB E age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

A puzzle game where you have to place blocks on a game board and create a path for a "Mini" character to traverse. You must reach a certain goal area in a fix amount of time and have to opportunity to collect power ups along the way.
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and party. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Mario series

Mario and Donkey Kong: Minis on the Move is the 495th of 668 entries we hold in the Mario series. The next entry was New Super Luigi U in 2013. Its critic score of 76 is almost exactly the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is Super Mario World at 100.

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How it was received

Mario and Donkey Kong: Minis on the Move holds a critic score of 76 out of 100. That places it above 54% of the 2,373 rated platform games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored 6 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Mario and Donkey Kong: Minis on the Move launched on 8 May 2013, within three weeks of Metro: Last Light, Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen, Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon and Don't Starve. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Metro: Last Light, Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen, Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, Don't Starve.

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When did Mario and Donkey Kong: Minis on the Move come out?
Mario and Donkey Kong: Minis on the Move was released on 8 May 2013 for Nintendo 3DS.

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