The 47 best Super Nintendo (SNES) games

Ranked by the scores that magazines gave these games when they came out. The list draws on 4,203 review scores of 1,015 Super Nintendo (SNES) games; 595 of them have enough reviews to be ranked.

#	Game	Platform	Year	Score
1	Yoshi's Island: Super Mario World 2	SNES	1995	97.3
2	Street Fighter II: The World Warrior	SNES	1992	95.5
3	The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past	SNES	1991	95.5
4	Chrono Trigger	SNES	1995	95.3
5	Super Mario World	SNES	1990	95.2
6	Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting	SNES	1993	95
7	Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest	SNES	1995	94.9
8	Star Fox	SNES	1993	94.9
9	Donkey Kong Country	SNES	1994	94.8
10	International Superstar Soccer Deluxe	SNES	1995	94.8
11	Super Mario All-Stars	SNES	1993	94.2
12	Super Mario Kart	SNES	1992	94
13	Earthworm Jim 2	SNES	1995	93.4
14	Earthworm Jim	SNES	1994	93.4
15	Final Fantasy VI	SNES	1994	92.9
16	Mortal Kombat II	SNES	1994	92.6
17	Killer Instinct	SNES	1995	92
18	International Superstar Soccer	SNES	1994	91.9
19	FIFA International Soccer	SNES	1994	91.9
20	Super Bomberman	SNES	1993	91.8
21	Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers	SNES	1994	91.8
22	Secret of Mana	SNES	1993	91.7
23	Mickey Mania: The Timeless Adventures of Mickey Mouse	SNES	1994	91.6
24	Prince of Persia	SNES	1992	91.5
25	Doom	SNES	1995	91.4
26	Super Aleste	SNES	1992	91.3
27	Super Bomberman 2	SNES	1994	91.2
28	Super Metroid	SNES	1994	91.2
29	Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts	SNES	1991	91.1
30	Panel de Pon	SNES	1995	91.1
31	Super Star Wars	SNES	1992	91.1
32	Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!	SNES	1996	91.1
33	Mortal Kombat 3	SNES	1995	91
34	Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster Busts Loose	SNES	1992	91
35	Contra III: The Alien Wars	SNES	1992	90.8
36	Sparkster	SNES	1994	90.8
37	Lemmings	SNES	1991	90.7
38	SimCity	SNES	1991	90.6
39	The Legend of the Mystical Ninja	SNES	1991	90.6
40	Parodius da! Shinwa kara Owarai he	SNES	1992	90.5
41	Aero the Acro-bat 2	SNES	1994	90.5
42	NBA Jam	SNES	1993	90.4
43	The Adventures of Batman & Robin	SNES	1994	90.3
44	Zombies Ate My Neighbors	SNES	1993	90.2
45	Lucky Luke	SNES	1997	90.2
46	Flashback: The Quest for Identity	SNES	1993	90.2
47	Super Castlevania IV	SNES	1991	90

Highly rated, with fewer than 3 reviews

28 Super Nintendo (SNES) games have a score of 90 or more, but from only one or two reviews, and no Metacritic score.

Game	Platform	Year	Score
Mysterious Dungeon 2: Shiren the Wanderer	SNES	1995	95
Super Bomberman 4	SNES	1996	94
Kick Off 3: European Challenge by Steve Screech	SNES	1994	93.5
Seiken Densetsu 3	SNES	1995	93
Bahamut Lagoon	SNES	1996	93
Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu '94	SNES	1994	92
Arcade's Greatest Hits	SNES	1996	92
Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals	SNES	1995	92
NFL Quarterback Club '96	SNES	1995	92
Rudra no Hihō	SNES	1996	92
Super Formation Soccer 95 della Serie A	SNES	1995	92
Tengai Makyou Zero	SNES	1995	92
Wonder Project J	SNES	1994	91.5
DSP Tennis 3D	SNES	1994	91
Genocide 2	SNES	1994	91
SimCity 2000	SNES	1995	90.5
Front Mission	SNES	1995	90
Dai-4-Ji Super Robot Taisen	SNES	1995	90
Dragon Ball Z: Super Gokūden - Totsugeki-Hen	SNES	1995	90
Dragon Quest III: Soshite Densetsu e...	SNES	1996	90
Dragon Quest: The Hand of the Heavenly Bride	SNES	1992	90
Fire Emblem: Monshō no Nazo	SNES	1994	90
NBA Hangtime	SNES	1996	90
Romancing Sa・Ga 3	SNES	1995	90
Shin Megami Tensei	SNES	1992	90
Star Ocean	SNES	1996	90
Super Puyo Puyo 2	SNES	1995	90
Tsuyoshi Puzzle Drama	SNES	1994	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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