The 39 best Atari ST games

Ranked by the scores that magazines gave these games when they came out. The list draws on 9,310 review scores of 1,862 Atari ST games; 1,268 of them have enough reviews to be ranked.

#	Game	Platform	Year	Score
1	The Pawn	Atari ST	1986	97.6
2	Populous II: Trials of the Olympian Gods	Atari ST	1991	94.4
3	Lemmings	Atari ST	1991	94.4
4	Archer Maclean's Pool	Atari ST	1992	94
5	Cruise For a Corpse	Atari ST	1991	93.7
6	Tracker	Atari ST	1987	93.6
7	EPIC	Atari ST	1992	93
8	Cannon Fodder	Atari ST	1994	92.7
9	Flight Simulator II	Atari ST	1986	92.6
10	Midwinter	Atari ST	1989	92.5
11	Midwinter II: Flames of Freedom	Atari ST	1991	92.4
12	Dyna Blaster	Atari ST	1992	92.2
13	Xenon 2: Megablast	Atari ST	1989	92.1
14	Rainbow Islands	Atari ST	1990	92.1
15	F-19 Stealth Fighter	Atari ST	1990	92
16	Hunter	Atari ST	1991	91.9
17	Lemmings 2: The Tribes	Atari ST	1993	91.9
18	Gauntlet	Atari ST	1987	91.8
19	Ishar: Legend of the Fortress	Atari ST	1992	91.8
20	Another World	Atari ST	1991	91.8
21	Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny	Atari ST	1989	91.5
22	Rody & Mastico II	Atari ST	1990	91.5
23	Jimmy White's Whirlwind Snooker	Atari ST	1991	91.4
24	Kick Off 2	Atari ST	1990	91.4
25	Wizkid	Atari ST	1992	91.3
26	The Killing Cloud	Atari ST	1991	91.2
27	Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe	Atari ST	1990	91.2
28	Frontier: Elite II	Atari ST	1993	91.1
29	Super Cars II	Atari ST	1991	91
30	Chaos Strikes Back	Atari ST	1989	90.5
31	Flight of the Intruder	Atari ST	1991	90.5
32	Dungeon Master	Atari ST	1987	90.3
33	Magic Pockets	Atari ST	1991	90.2
34	Carrier Command	Atari ST	1988	90.2
35	The Secret of Monkey Island	Atari ST	1990	90.2
36	Elf	Atari ST	1991	90.1
37	Populous	Atari ST	1989	90.1
38	Gods	Atari ST	1991	90
39	Colonial Conquest	Atari ST	1987	90

Highly rated, with fewer than 3 reviews

39 Atari ST games have a score of 90 or more, but from only one or two reviews, and no Metacritic score.

Game	Platform	Year	Score
Balance of Power	Atari ST	1987	100
Stationfall	Atari ST	1987	100
Horizon CE1	Atari ST	1990	100
Hyperforce	Atari ST	1989	100
La Ferme les Cris des Animaux	Atari ST	1990	100
Spellbreaker	Atari ST	1985	100
The Magician	Atari ST	1991	100
Troubadours	Atari ST	1988	100
The Guild of Thieves	Atari ST	1987	98
Obsession	Atari ST	1994	96
Psion Chess	Atari ST	1986	96
Starball	Atari ST	1994	96
Ballyhoo	Atari ST	1986	95
Bureaucracy	Atari ST	1987	95
Hook	Atari ST	1992	95
Fun School 3 for 5 to 7 Year Olds	Atari ST	1990	94
Stardust	Atari ST	1995	94
Ballzone	Atari ST	1988	93
MasterBreak	Atari ST		93
Llamatron	Atari ST	1991	92.5
Myth: History in the Making	Atari ST	1992	92
Head Over Heels	Atari ST	1989	91
Bargon Attack	Atari ST	1992	91
Blue Angel 69	Atari ST	1989	91
Fun School 3 for the Under 5s	Atari ST	1990	91
Hellowoon: Das Geheimnis des Zauberstabs	Atari ST	1987	91
Pyramino	Atari ST	1987	91
International Sensible Soccer: World Champions	Atari ST	1994	90.5
Toki	Atari ST	1991	90.5
A Mind Forever Voyaging	Atari ST	1985	90
Electronic Jigsaw Puzzle	Atari ST	1987	90
Football Manager	Atari ST	1988	90
Fun School 3 for the over 7s	Atari ST	1990	90
Hollywood Hijinx	Atari ST	1986	90
Les Castors Juniors dans la Foret	Atari ST	1990	90
Mixed-Up Mother Goose	Atari ST	1987	90
Scooby & Scrappy Doo	Atari ST	1991	90
Son Shu-Shi	Atari ST	1991	90
Tennis Cup II	Atari ST	1992	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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