"Wario's Woods" has received mild to favorable reviews. Reviewing the SNES version, "GamePro" called it "a ho-hum puzzler", commenting that though it has some interesting gameplay mechanics, it ultimately fails to be more than a standard "Tetris" clone. They also regarded the controls as difficult. "Nintendo Power" reviewed the game noting that it had a fun two-player mode and was challenging and fast-paced while saying that it's not as easy to control as "Tetris 2". For the individual scores, the game ranked scores evenly for graphic and sound for both systems, but gave slightly higher scores for the Super NES in the Play Control, Challenge, and Theme and Fun categories. A reviewer for "Next Generation" argued that the gameplay mechanics are too complicated for an action puzzle game, concluding that, "After a while you can become interested, but the learning curve is just too steep, the rewards too slim."