The 35 best Amstrad CPC games

Ranked by the scores that magazines gave these games when they came out. The list draws on 9,368 review scores of 2,478 Amstrad CPC games; 1,444 of them have enough reviews to be ranked.

#	Game	Platform	Year	Score
1	Fantasia Diamond	Amstrad CPC	1985	95
2	Prince of Persia	Amstrad CPC	1990	94.7
3	Lemmings	Amstrad CPC	1992	94.7
4	Prehistorik II	Amstrad CPC	1993	93.5
5	Highway Encounter	Amstrad CPC	1985	93
6	Heavy on the Magick	Amstrad CPC	1986	92.9
7	Dun Darach	Amstrad CPC	1985	92.8
8	Knight Tyme	Amstrad CPC	1986	92.8
9	The Lords of Midnight	Amstrad CPC	1985	92.8
10	Fer & Flamme	Amstrad CPC	1986	92.7
11	Turrican II: The Final Fight	Amstrad CPC	1991	92.4
12	Spellbound	Amstrad CPC	1986	92.3
13	Smash T.V.	Amstrad CPC	1991	92.2
14	Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles: The Coin-Op!	Amstrad CPC	1991	92.1
15	R.B.I. Baseball 2	Amstrad CPC	1991	92
16	Everyone's a Wally	Amstrad CPC	1985	91.8
17	Spindizzy	Amstrad CPC	1986	91.8
18	Space Crusade	Amstrad CPC	1992	91.8
19	Galaxia	Amstrad CPC	1984	91.7
20	Crafton & Xunk	Amstrad CPC	1986	91.6
21	Thrust	Amstrad CPC	1986	91.4
22	HeroQuest	Amstrad CPC	1991	91.4
23	The Guild of Thieves	Amstrad CPC	1987	91.3
24	Sorcery +	Amstrad CPC	1985	91.3
25	The Sentinel	Amstrad CPC	1987	91.1
26	Doomdark's Revenge	Amstrad CPC	1986	90.8
27	Runestone	Amstrad CPC	1986	90.7
28	Nebulus	Amstrad CPC	1988	90.6
29	Hollywood Hijinx	Amstrad CPC	1986	90.5
30	Seymour at the Movies	Amstrad CPC	1991	90.5
31	Mercenary: Escape from Targ	Amstrad CPC	1987	90.2
32	The Lurking Horror	Amstrad CPC	1987	90.2
33	Stationfall	Amstrad CPC	1987	90.2
34	The Pawn	Amstrad CPC	1987	90.1
35	Sorcery	Amstrad CPC	1985	90.1

Highly rated, with fewer than 3 reviews

75 Amstrad CPC games have a score of 90 or more, but from only one or two reviews, and no Metacritic score.

Game	Platform	Year	Score
Brawn Free: The Adventure of Johnny Backwater	Amstrad CPC	1985	100
Baba's Palace	Amstrad CPC	2017	100
Betiled!	Amstrad CPC	2009	100
Black Land	Amstrad CPC	1995	100
Bomb Jack: Extra Sugar Edition	Amstrad CPC	2025	100
Bridge Player	Amstrad CPC	1985	100
Defence	Amstrad CPC	2016	100
La Abadia del Crimen	Amstrad CPC	1988	100
La Ville Infernale	Amstrad CPC	1985	100
Memory	Amstrad CPC	1985	100
Foggy's Quest to Narg and Back Again	Amstrad CPC	2024	97
Los Amores De Brunilda	Amstrad CPC	2021	95
CPC Soccer	Amstrad CPC	2020	94
Megablasters	Amstrad CPC	1995	94
Bumpy's Arcade Fantasy	Amstrad CPC	1992	93.5
Striker in the Crypt of Trogan	Amstrad CPC	1992	93
Hypernoid Zero	Amstrad CPC	2024	93
Red Sunset	Amstrad CPC	2021	93
Xyphoes Fantasy	Amstrad CPC	1991	92.5
The Abduction of Oscar Z	Amstrad CPC	2020	92
Toki	Amstrad CPC	2022	92
Escape From Prison Planet	Amstrad CPC	1994	92
Fireman Sam - The Hero Next Door	Amstrad CPC	1991	92
Hibernated 1: This Place is Death	Amstrad CPC	2018	92
Hobgoblin	Amstrad CPC	1991	92
Puzzle Bobble	Amstrad CPC	2021	92
R-Type	Amstrad CPC	2012	92
Sliders	Amstrad CPC	1991	92
Strangeloop +	Amstrad CPC	1986	92
Waterloo	Amstrad CPC	1986	92
Wishbringer	Amstrad CPC	1985	92
Manager	Amstrad CPC	1985	91.5
Spellbreaker	Amstrad CPC	1985	91.5
The Sword of Ianna	Amstrad CPC	2020	91.5
Arnold Goes to Somewhere Else	Amstrad CPC	1984	91
Booty: The Remake	Amstrad CPC	2023	91
Scooby & Scrappy Doo	Amstrad CPC	1991	91
Hyperdrive!	Amstrad CPC	2022	91
Revenge Of Trasmoz	Amstrad CPC	2023	91
Tetris DotBAS	Amstrad CPC	2022	91
Atic Atac	Amstrad CPC	2020	90.5
D.Day	Amstrad CPC	1992	90.5
Alcon 2020	Amstrad CPC	2020	90
Dire Dare	Amstrad CPC	2022	90
Empire	Amstrad CPC	1985	90
Super Cauldron	Amstrad CPC	1992	90
Warrior Plus	Amstrad CPC	1986	90
2048	Amstrad CPC	2014	90
A Prelude to Chaos	Amstrad CPC	2016	90
Adventure Quest	Amstrad CPC	1984	90
Bears!	Amstrad CPC	2017	90
Blue Angel 69	Amstrad CPC	2010	90
Bubble Bobble 4 CPC	Amstrad CPC	2012	90
Colossal Adventure	Amstrad CPC	1984	90
Cutthroats	Amstrad CPC	1986	90
Cyber Huhn	Amstrad CPC	2013	90
Emlyn Hughes Arcade Quiz	Amstrad CPC	1991	90
Fluff	Amstrad CPC	1994	90
Goody	Amstrad CPC	1987	90
Invasion of the Zombie Monsters	Amstrad CPC	2013	90
Jax the Dog	Amstrad CPC	2023	90
Jetpac	Amstrad CPC	2014	90
Jonny Quest	Amstrad CPC	1991	90
Magnetic Moon	Amstrad CPC	1991	90
Mandarin 2: Limoncello's Revenge	Amstrad CPC	2024	90
Milk Race	Amstrad CPC	1987	90
Pinball Dreams	Amstrad CPC	2019	90
Potsworth & Co	Amstrad CPC	1992	90
Reflex	Amstrad CPC	1987	90
Rodolfo Skylarriente 2	Amstrad CPC	2024	90
Rod·Land	Amstrad CPC	1991	90
Silk Dust	Amstrad CPC	2021	90
Sir Fred	Amstrad CPC	1986	90
Sugar City	Amstrad CPC	2023	90
The Cult	Amstrad CPC	2023	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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