Mario Sports Superstars cover art

Mario series

Mario Sports Superstars

Mario Sports Superstars is a multi‑sport compilation featuring five arcade‑style sports (soccer, baseball, tennis, golf, and horse racing), each with accessible controls and quick matches. Players pick from…

58 10 March 2017 ESRB E

Mario Sports Superstars is a sport developed by Bandai Namco Studios, released 10 March 2017 on Nintendo 3DS.

Verified Sources: IGDB , Wikipedia

What Mario Sports Superstars is

Mario Sports Superstars is a sport game developed by Bandai Namco Studios and released in 2017. 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

Mario Sports Superstars is a multi‑sport compilation featuring five arcade‑style sports (soccer, baseball, tennis, golf, and horse racing), each with accessible controls and quick matches. Players pick from familiar Mario characters, compete in tournaments or single events, and enjoy local or online multiplayer alongside single‑player challenge modes.
Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

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

Where it sits in the Mario series

Mario Sports Superstars is the 560th of 668 entries we hold in the Mario series. The next entry was Mario Kart 8 Deluxe in 2017. Its critic score of 58 is 19 points below the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is Super Mario World at 100.

See all 668 Mario games in release order →

How it was received

Mario Sports Superstars holds a critic score of 58 out of 100. That places it above 20% of the 1,610 rated sport games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 13 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Mario Sports Superstars launched on 10 March 2017, within three weeks of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Horizon Zero Dawn, Mass Effect: Andromeda and NieR: Automata. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Horizon Zero Dawn, Mass Effect: Andromeda, NieR: Automata.

Official trailer

Trailer thumbnail

Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel. See all 3 videos →

Screenshots

All media

Quick answers

Mario Sports Superstars — frequently asked questions

When did Mario Sports Superstars come out?
Mario Sports Superstars was released on 10 March 2017 for Nintendo 3DS.

If you like this

Games like Mario Sports Superstars

See all