Our "Quarterly Reports" provide a handy list of the 25 best games for each platform, both for the current year so far and for all time. There's a separate report for each platform, and they will be updated again during the first week in July.

Best-reviewed 3DS games of 2013 (as of April 1st)

	Game		Publisher	Metascore
1		Fire Emblem: Awakening	Nintendo	92
		This year's best-reviewed 3DS title (and the #2 game on the platform in any year), this tactical RPG is the 11th release in the Fire Emblem series.
2	Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon		Nintendo	86
3	Etrian Odyssey IV: Legends of the Titan		ATLUS	83
4	Gunman Clive		Bertil Horberg	81
5	Nano Assault EX		Majesco Games	78
6	Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate		Capcom	77
7	HarmoKnight		Nintendo	77
8	Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Mirror of Fate		Konami	73
9	Naruto Powerful Shippuden		Namco Bandai	71
10	Ikachan		Nicalis	71
11	Brain Age: Concentration Training		Nintendo	70
12	Picross e2		Jupiter Corporation	70
13	Tokyo Crash Mobs		Nintendo	68
14	Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity		Nintendo	68
15	Unchained Blades		Xseed Games	65
16	Kersploosh!		Nintendo	63
17	Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed		Sega	63

Includes games released between January 1, 2013 and December 31, 2013 with at least seven reviews in our database. Note that games are ranked by Metascore prior to rounding. The Metascore is a weighted average of critic reviews on a scale of 0 (bad) to 100 (good). All scores are from April 1, 2013.

Best-reviewed 3DS games of all time

Games released during the last three months (if any) are marked with a symbol.

	Game	Publisher	Metascore
1	The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D (2011)	Nintendo	94
2	Fire Emblem: Awakening (2013)	Nintendo	92
3	Super Mario 3D Land (2011)	Nintendo	90
4	Pushmo (2011)	Nintendo	90
5	Colors! 3D (2012)	Collecting Smiles	89
6	Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward (2012)	Aksys Games	88
7	Crashmo (2012)	Nintendo	86
8	Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon (2013)	Nintendo	86
9	Super Street Fighter IV: 3D Edition (2011)	Capcom	85
10	Mario Kart 7 (2011)	Nintendo	85
11	Kid Icarus: Uprising (2012)	Nintendo	83
12	Etrian Odyssey IV: Legends of the Titan (2013)	ATLUS	83
13	VVVVVV (2011)	Nicalis	83
14	Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask (2012)	Nintendo	82
15	Cave Story 3D (2011)	NIS America	82
16	Resident Evil: Revelations (2012)	Capcom	82
17	Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure (2011)	Activision	82
18	Art of Balance Touch! (2012)	Shin'en	82
19	Art Academy: Lessons for Everyone (2012)	Nintendo	81
20	Star Fox 64 3D (2011)	Nintendo	81
21	Gunman Clive (2013)	Bertil Horberg	81
22	Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor Overclocked (2011)	Atlus Co.	81
23	Mutant Mudds (2012)	Renegade Kid	80
24	Dead or Alive: Dimensions (2011)	Koei	79
25	ZEN Pinball 3D (2012)	Zen Studios	79

Games with fewer than 7 reviews are not eligible for inclusion.

For a complete list of all 3DS high (and low) scores, visit Metacritic's Nintendo 3DS section.