New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe

Join Mario, Luigi, and pals for single-player or multiplayer fun anytime, anywhere! Take on two family-friendly, side-scrolling adventures with up to three friends* as you try to save the Mushroom Kingdom…

83 11 January 2019

Platform Action

New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe is a platform developed by Nintendo Entertainment Planning & Development, released 11 January 2019 on Nintendo Switch 2 and Nintendo Switch.

Verified 16 Oct 2026 Sources: IGDB , Wikipedia

What New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe is

New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe is a platform game developed by Nintendo Entertainment Planning & Development and released in 2019. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo Switch 2 and Nintendo Switch.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Join Mario, Luigi, and pals for single-player or multiplayer fun anytime, anywhere! Take on two family-friendly, side-scrolling adventures with up to three friends* as you try to save the Mushroom Kingdom. Includes the New Super Mario Bros. U and harder, faster New Super Luigi U games—both of which include Nabbit and Toadette as playable characters!

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It supports multiplayer and includes co-op. Local play supports 4 players. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Mario series

New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe is the 595th of 668 entries we hold in the Mario series. The next entry was Super Smash Bros. Ultimate - Piranha Plant in 2019. Its critic score of 83 is 6 points above the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is Super Mario World at 100.

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How it was received

New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe holds a critic score of 83 out of 100. That places it above 79% of the 2,373 rated platform games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored 14 points above the year average. Players rate it 77, 6 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.

What it launched against

New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe launched on 11 January 2019, within three weeks of Resident Evil 2, Kingdom Hearts III, Slay the Spire and Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 2 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Resident Evil 2, Kingdom Hearts III, Slay the Spire, Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown.

Cheats and codes

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