Quarterly Report: The 25 Best Nintendo 3DS Games

Our "Quarterly Reports" provide a handy list of the 25 best games for each platform, both for the current year so far and for all time. There's a separate report for each platform, and they will be updated again during the first week in July.

Best-reviewed 3DS games of 2014 (as of March 24th)

	Game			Metascore
1		Bravely Default	Buy From Amazon	85
		Though it won't win any points for its title (which makes the game sound like it's about the mortgage crisis), this latest JRPG from Square Enix should please longtime Final Fantasy fans.
2	Retro City Rampage: DX			84
3	Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy		Buy From Amazon	81
4	Inazuma Eleven			78
5	Pokemon Battle Trozei			72
6	Inazuma Eleven 3: Team Ogre Attacks!			70
7	Steel Diver: Sub Wars			69
8	Tappingo			68
9	Yoshi's New Island		Buy From Amazon	64
10	AeternoBlade			62
11	Weapon Shop de Omasse			62
12	One Piece: Romance Dawn		Buy From Amazon	42

 

Includes games released between January 1, 2014 and March 24, 2014 with at least seven reviews in our database. Note that games are ranked by Metascore prior to rounding. The Metascore is a weighted average of critic reviews on a scale of 0 (bad) to 100 (good). All scores are from March 24, 2014.

Best-reviewed 3DS games of all time

Games released during the last three months (if any) are marked with a symbol.

	Game		Metascore
1	The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D (2011)	Buy From Amazon	94
2	Fire Emblem: Awakening (2013)	Buy From Amazon	92
3	The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds (2013)	Buy From Amazon	91
4	Super Mario 3D Land (2011)	Buy From Amazon	90
5	Pushmo (2011)		90
6	Colors! 3D (2012)		89
7	Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward (2012)	Buy From Amazon	88
8	Pokemon Y (2013)	Buy From Amazon	88
9	Animal Crossing: New Leaf (2013)	Buy From Amazon	88
10	Pokemon X (2013)	Buy From Amazon	87
11	Crashmo (2012)		86
12	Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon (2013)	Buy From Amazon	86
13	Super Street Fighter IV: 3D Edition (2011)	Buy From Amazon	85
14	Bravely Default (2014)	Buy From Amazon	85
15	Mario Kart 7 (2011)	Buy From Amazon	85
16	Retro City Rampage: DX (2014)		84
17	Etrian Odyssey IV: Legends of the Titan (2013)	Buy From Amazon	84
18	Kid Icarus: Uprising (2012)	Buy From Amazon	83
19	Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D (2013)	Buy From Amazon	83
20	Shin Megami Tensei IV (2013)	Buy From Amazon	83
21	VVVVVV (2011)		83
22	Cave Story 3D (2011)	Buy From Amazon	82
23	Resident Evil: Revelations (2012)	Buy From Amazon	82
24	Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask (2012)	Buy From Amazon	82
25	Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure (2011)	Buy From Amazon	82

 

Games with fewer than 7 reviews are not eligible for inclusion.

For a complete list of all 3DS high (and low) scores, visit Metacritic's Nintendo 3DS section.

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