Dr. Mario World
Nintendo turned its pill-matching series into a cheerful mobile service, then made every stage inaccessible just over two years after launch.
Quick facts
- Existence state
- Officially Gone
- Peak stage
- general availability
- Research confidence
- high
- Last verified
What it was
A formally released mobile puzzle game developed by Nintendo, LINE and NHN Entertainment.
Players cleared viruses with limited capsules, recruited doctors and competed through a continuously updated online application.
Existence timeline
Nintendo reveals a touch-screen Dr. Mario service.
The game reaches normal public availability.
Regular events build a large online puzzle catalogue.
Nintendo stops diamond sales and sets an end date.
The application ceases to function worldwide.
Nintendo removes the temporary web record of player statistics.
Why it ended
Nintendo discontinued the worldwide service on 1 November 2021 after ending diamond sales three months earlier.
Last confirmed trace
Nintendo's support notice, captured stages, character art and the temporary Dr. Mario World Memories site preserve its public life.
What it left behind
It remains an unusually complete disappearance of a Nintendo-branded puzzle game whose client cannot operate without the retired servers.
How we classified it
The archive unit reached normal public release or operation and is no longer obtainable in its original public form.
Verified normal public availability maps to 100 under Arrival Score V1.
Sources & verification
Last reviewed 2026-08-01. Sources are linked so readers can inspect the evidence directly.