The 17 best Game Boy Advance games
Ranked by the scores that magazines gave these games when they came out. The list draws on 1,650 review scores of 683 Game Boy Advance games; 441 of them have enough reviews to be ranked.
| # | Game | Platform | Year | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Legend of Zelda: A Link to The Past - Four Swords | GBA | 2002 | 95.3 |
| 2 | Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2 | GBA | 2001 | 94.3 |
| 3 | Mario Kart Advance | GBA | 2001 | 93.8 |
| 4 | Metroid Fusion | GBA | 2002 | 93 |
| 5 | Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 | GBA | 2003 | 92.6 |
| 6 | Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance | GBA | 2002 | 92 |
| 7 | Final Fantasy VI Advance | GBA | 2007 | 92 |
| 8 | Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3 | GBA | 2002 | 91.7 |
| 9 | Advance Wars | GBA | 2001 | 90.9 |
| 10 | Golden Sun | GBA | 2001 | 90.9 |
| 11 | Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow | GBA | 2003 | 90.7 |
| 12 | Final Fantasy Tactics Advance | GBA | 2003 | 90.5 |
| 13 | Metroid: Zero Mission | GBA | 2004 | 90.5 |
| 14 | Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga | GBA | 2003 | 90 |
| 15 | Castlevania: Circle of the Moon | GBA | 2001 | 90 |
| 16 | Sonic Advance | GBA | 2001 | 90 |
| 17 | WarioWare: Twisted! | GBA | 2004 | 90 |
Highly rated, with fewer than 3 reviews
4 Game Boy Advance games have a score of 90 or more, but from only one or two reviews, and no Metacritic score.
| # | Game | Platform | Year | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ultimate Card Games | GBA | 2004 | 95 | |
| Boktai 3: Sabata's Counterattack | GBA | 2005 | 92 | |
| Dragon Quest: Toruneko no Daibouken 2 Advance | GBA | 2001 | 90 | |
| Fire Emblem: Fūin no Tsurugi | GBA | 2002 | 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.