The 36 best Amiga games

Ranked by the scores that magazines gave these games when they came out. The list draws on 18,139 review scores of 2,553 Amiga games; 1,972 of them have enough reviews to be ranked.

#	Game	Platform	Year	Score
1	Lemmings	Amiga	1991	94.4
2	The Fidelity Chessmaster 2100	Amiga	1990	94
3	Dungeon Master	Amiga	1989	93.7
4	Sensible World of Soccer	Amiga	1994	93.4
5	International Sensible Soccer: World Champions	Amiga	1994	93
6	Populous II: Trials of the Olympian Gods	Amiga	1991	92.4
7	The Settlers	Amiga	1993	91.9
8	Stationfall	Amiga	1987	91.9
9	Mega-lo-Mania	Amiga	1991	91.9
10	Flashback	Amiga	1992	91.8
11	Cannon Fodder	Amiga	1993	91.7
12	Lemmings 2: The Tribes	Amiga	1993	91.6
13	Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge	Amiga	1992	91.4
14	Formula 1 Grand Prix	Amiga	1992	91.2
15	First Samurai	Amiga	1991	91.2
16	Populous	Amiga	1989	91.2
17	Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe	Amiga	1990	91.1
18	Worms	Amiga	1995	91.1
19	Beneath A Steel Sky	Amiga	1994	91.1
20	Stunt Car Racer	Amiga	1989	91
21	Rainbow Islands	Amiga	1990	91
22	Syndicate	Amiga	1993	91
23	Sensible World of Soccer '95/'96	Amiga	1996	90.9
24	SimCity	Amiga	1989	90.8
25	Jimmy White's Whirlwind Snooker	Amiga	1991	90.7
26	The Bard's Tale: Tales of the Unknown	Amiga	1987	90.7
27	Heimdall	Amiga	1991	90.6
28	Rock Star	Amiga	1990	90.6
29	Kick Off 2	Amiga	1990	90.6
30	Sensible Soccer: European Champions	Amiga	1992	90.5
31	SWIV	Amiga	1991	90.5
32	Hired Guns	Amiga	1993	90.5
33	Cruise For a Corpse	Amiga	1991	90.2
34	Armour-Geddon	Amiga	1991	90.1
35	Hunter	Amiga	1991	90
36	Project X Special Edition	Amiga	1993	90

Highly rated, with fewer than 3 reviews

16 Amiga games have a score of 90 or more, but from only one or two reviews, and no Metacritic score.

Game	Platform	Year	Score
La Bosse des Maths 3ème	Amiga	1988	100
Trinity	Amiga	1986	100
Syndicate: American Revolt	Amiga	1994	93
The Adventures of Moktar	Amiga	1991	92.5
Vegas Gambler	Amiga	1989	92
Snow Bros.	Amiga	1991	91.5
The Halley Project: A Mission In Our Solar System	Amiga	1986	91
Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective	Amiga	1991	91
Super Twintris	Amiga	1991	91
The Mission	Amiga	1990	91
Ballyhoo	Amiga	1986	90
A Mind Forever Voyaging	Amiga	1986	90
Jonathan	Amiga	1993	90
Les Castors Juniors dans la Foret	Amiga	1990	90
Rody & Mastico II	Amiga	1990	90
Trex Warrior: 22nd Century Gladiator	Amiga	1991	90

How the ranking works

The scores are the ones magazines gave when the games came out, all converted to a 0–100 scale. Only one review per magazine counts for a game: the most recent.
A game's score is half the average, half the median of its magazine reviews. A title opens the game's page on uvlist.net; a score opens the report with every review behind it.
A game needs at least 3 magazine reviews to be ranked. With equal scores, the game with more reviews comes first.
Metacritic already sums up many reviews, so it is never mixed with the magazines: it is used only for games with fewer than 3 magazine reviews, as their only score.
Each list shows every game with a score of 90 or more. Games with fewer than 3 reviews and no Metacritic score are shown apart: their score is promising, but rests on one or two opinions.

The lists are rebuilt each time reviews are added. To filter by genre, year, magazine or publisher, explore all the scores in the report.

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