Carnival Games

Carnival Games
North American Wii box art
Developer(s)Cat Daddy Games
Publisher(s)Global Star Software (Wii)
2K (DS, iPhone)
Platform(s)Wii, Nintendo DS, iOS (iPhone)
ReleaseWii
  • NA: August 27, 2007
  • AU: October 19, 2007
  • EU: October 26, 2007
DS
  • NA: July 8, 2008
  • EU: August 22, 2008
  • AU: September 4, 2008
iPhone
August 5, 2010
Genre(s)Party
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Carnival Games (known in Europe and Australia as Carnival Funfair Games) is a video game for Wii, Nintendo DS and iPhone, with a re-release for Nintendo Switch. It was the last game published by Global Star Software, before it was absorbed into Take-Two Interactive (and what is now 2K).

Despite mixed reviews by most gaming websites and critics, the game was a commercial success. The Wii and DS versions of the game sold over six million units as of June 2010, which, according to the NPD Group, was the third best-selling third-party game on the Wii.

As a result of the original's success, a follow-up for the Wii was launched in the fall of 2008, titled Carnival Games: Mini-Golf. A proper sequel, New Carnival Games, was released on September 21, 2010, for the Wii and Nintendo DS. A new game for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch, simply called Carnival Games, was released on November 6, 2018, and for Microsoft Windows (Steam) on November 19, 2020.