Affordable Space Adventures is a puzzle-y adventure game made by NapNok Games in collaboration with Nicklas Nygren aka Nifflas (Knytt Stories, etc) that was completely designed around the asymmetry of the tv/gamepad, and I don‘t believe the devs have even the slightest inclination of trying to port it anywhere else. Nifflas described it as his take on Steel Battalion, and I suppose that’s very loosely accurate.
(That studio made another Wii U exclusive called Spin the Bottle: Bumpie's Party, which is sort of like 1-2-Switch but with Wiimotes—that is to say, it barely works, but it's still somewhat interesting and not nearly as terrible as the title might suggest.)
These aren't recommendations, necessarily, but here are some noteworthy Virtual Console releases:
- the GBA version of SMB3 (whatever the full title is, I‘ll never remember) not only includes the rare eReader-exclusive bonus stages but was modified by M2 to be able to have them all accessible at once, which isn’t possible with an authentic cartridge
- the EU version of Drill Dozer uses an authentic, unreleased EFIGS-localised ROM from Nintendo's vault
- the NES VC on Wii U includes several NES Zapper games which weren't available on Wii & aren't on Switch, which use the Wiimote pointer as a makeshift lightgun: Duck Hunt, Wild Gunman and Hogan's Alley, plus Konami's Adventures of Bayou Billy which has sections that could optionally be played with a Zapper.
- the Mega Man Battle Network games, which have yet to be reissued anywhere else, are all on Wii U VC, and they did modify each game to unlock all bonus/trade-only items from the beginning (which lets you utterly break the games if you want to, or don't know any better)
- Natsume USA put some of the GBA games they published on VC, most of which probably won't show up anywhere else any time soon: their two Medabots releases, Ancient's odd car-battling RPG Car Battler Joe! and the mediocre but excellently-named Pocky & Rocky with Becky (plus Harvest Moon ofc)
- the vast majority of the TG16/PCE games released outside of Japan came well after the Switch was a thing, and there are some games there that must have sold in the dozens, the most inexplicable being the completely untranslated Jaseiken Necromancer
- Mario Party DS is available but you can't play it in multiplayer so why bother
- the N64 emulation can be very iffy depending on the game; I've forgotten most of the specifics, but I remember being immediately disgusted by the analogue controls on F-Zero X
- Pac-Man 2's on there! I don't think they ever reissued it anywhere else (excluding some trashy plug-and-play, perhaps) and it's not going to be on the Pac-Man compilation scheduled for this year.
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@"billy "#p53158 Anyway, the answer to the question is Pullblox World.
AKA Pushmo World, for those who don't recognise the name—it's based on the first 3DS game but with all-new puzzles in the classic style, plus a bunch more with extra gimmicks that weren't present in the 3DS version. It also had puzzle sharing via Miiverse but that's obviously no longer an option, and I don't recall if there was any other way to manually exchange puzzles... you might be able to load them from jpegs via SD?
Rumour has it that Intsys finished Crashmo World but it was shelved during the death rattle of the Wii U.