3ds Game reviews from Reddit
Summary
We analyzed 181 Reddit reviews across 16 subreddits and 21 posts to rank the best 3ds Game brands recommended by redditors, including communities like r/gaming, r/PHGamers, r/NintendoDS, r/GirlGamers, r/3DS. Top-rated brands include Nintendo (4.6/5), Monster Hunter (5.0/5), Nintendo 3DS (4.9/5).
Stats
Reviews181
Subreddits16
Posts21
Brands81
Products50
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#1
Nintendo
4.6
(11)
"Hacked 3DS, plays all pokemon games mentioned and there's software called pksm thats basically like an offline pokebank that can transfer pokemon between saves on the device"
"Best device to play 3DS games tbh"
"ORAS are the best 3DS Pokemon games, imo."
"Pokemon sun or moon. So fucking good."
"The Mario and Luigi series, Fire Emblem series, Star Fox 64 3D, Metroid: Samus Returns, Kirby Triple Deluxe, and Kirby Planet Robobot"
"Metroid samus returns"
"OR/AS was great"
"3ds"
"Pokrmon Sun/Moon for Story, Pokemon X/Y if you want a 'fast food' style of game, Pokemon Ultra sun/moon for overall content"
"Miitopia. It's a fun RPG."
#2
Monster Hunter
5.0
(10)
"500+ hrs of content hehehe"
"500+ hrs of content hehehe"
"Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate"
"Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate"
"Monster Hunter Stories"
"Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate"
"LBX, Monster hunter stories 1, Fire emblem awakening and Fire emblem fates as well"
"Mh4u and luigis mansion. Also MHx or monster hunter generations"
"For 3DS I think most people would tell you to go for 4 Ultimate. It’s very highly regarded and has an incredible lineup of monsters and weapons."
"Monster Hunte Freedom United was the one I played the most on psp with my friends. The monsters, the story , the sidequests it was perfection"
#3
Nintendo 3DS
4.9
(9)
"Here's a list that might get you started. Fire Emblem Awakening, Monster Hunter 4:Ultimate, Fire Emblem Fates:Special edition, Pokemon X and Y (Sun and Moon) "
"Cant believe nobody has said TOMODACHI LIFE"
"Bravely Default, Metroid: Samus Returns, The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D, Pokemon X/Y, Radiant Historia: Perfect Chronology, Chrono Trigger, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, Fire Emblem Awakening, Bravely Second"
"Ultra Sun/Moon is honestly one of my favorite Pokémon games and it’s not easy defeating totem Pokémon."
"Professor Layton series and Phoenix Wright series are the most memorable for me for a lesser known one i would recommend Ghost Trick"
"3DS is absolutely the best console to get into Zelda! Definitely start with Ocarina of Time 3d, then you can play Majora's mask if you want a similar gameplay/art style but creepier story."
"EVER OASIS."
"Fantasy Life, Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon, Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, Stella Glow, Animal Crossing: New Leaf, Monster Hunter 4: Ultimate."
"I too would recommend checking out Automaton Lung, to support a dev making new games for 3DS in 2022."
#4
Fire Emblem
4.8
(8)
"Fire Emblem Awakening"
"Fire Emblem!"
"Fire Emblem Awakening"
"LBX, Monster hunter stories 1, Fire emblem awakening and Fire emblem fates as well"
"Definitely fire emblem series & monster hunter generations."
"Theres a great fire emblem game on 3ds as well."
"Fire emblem."
"Fire emblem MGS zelda link between worlds"
#5
Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns
5.0
(7)
"Trio of Towns for SoS, but if you include Rune Factory then RF4 is probably one of the best games I've ever played."
"My vote is definitely for Trio of Towns"
"Trio of Towns is a fan favorite on the 3DS"
"Hands down Trio of Towns."
"Yup, I’m vouching for Trio too!"
"Going to echo this again. Trio of Towns is arguably one of the best games of the HM/Story of Seasons franchise."
"Best game imo is definitely Trio of Towns."
#6
Fantasy Life
5.0
(7)
"Fantasy Life! May harvest moon vibes pero may iba ibang job classes tulad ng paladin, woodcutter, alchemist at iba pa."
"Fantasy Life"
"Fantasy Life"
"The bravely defualt 1 and 2 and fantasy life."
"Fantasy life is the best 3ds game imo"
"Fantasy Life was my favourite"
"Fantasy Life and Ever Oasis are my two go to games 😍 FL has a new one coming to switch soon (hopefully) too"
#7
The Legend of Zelda
5.0
(5)
"Legend of Zelda Majora's Mask"
"The Zelda DS games are great and are played pretty much entirely with the stylus."
"Phantom Hourglass and Spirit Tracks are some good Zelda games that almost exclusively use the stylus."
"Zelda Spirit tracks /Phantom hourglass"
"The Legend of Zelda Spirit Tracks and Phantom Hourglass were pretty much exclusively played using the touchscreen."
#8
Bravely Default
5.0
(5)
"Bravely Default"
"Bravely Default! Great story, characters, and OST"
"Bravely Default and Bravely Second if you like rpgs"
"The bravely defualt 1 and 2 and fantasy life."
"Bravely Default, Bravely Second, Animal Crossing New Leaf, Super Mario 3D Land, Zelda Link Between Worlds, Zelda OoT 3D, Zelda MM 3D."
#9
Pokemon
4.0
(5)
"Pokemon ranger was pretty dope. You have to draw circles around pokemon to catch them."
"The Pokemon Ranger games for me!"
"Pokemon ranger"
"I've had a lot of fun with the Pokemon Ranger games"
"Pokemon ranger 1 & 2"
#10
Level-5
4.5
(4)
"Fantasy Life is a delight :)"
"Fantasy life"
"The Yo-kai watch series is really good"
"The *Yo-kai Watch* series!"
#11
Nintendogs
4.3
(4)
"Nintendogs, my favorite"
"The pet dog game(nintendogs? but in sure there was a cat too)."
"Nintendogs might be obvious lol but it comes to mind."
"I believe Nintendog was touchscreen only, and you also had to call the dogs on the mic."
#12
The World Ends With You
4.3
(4)
"The World Ends With You"
"TWEWY played the best for me on the DS. Screen juggling made the game a challenge that was satisfying when I won."
"The World Ends With You"
"The World Ends With You"
#13
WarioWare
4.3
(4)
"WarioWare and Ace Attorney are extremely good!"
"Warioware"
"Warioware."
"Wario Ware Gold or Wario Ware Touched."
#14
Fire Emblem series
5.0
(3)
"I highly recommend getting into the Fire Emblem series."
"Oh I forgot Fire Emblem series, with its perma death system!"
"Fire Emblem games. Literally can't go wrong with it."
#15
Ninja Gaiden
4.7
(3)
"Ninja Gaiden on the DS. They nailed the touch screen features in that game."
"Ninja Gaiden Dragon Sword is great."
"Ninja gaiden: dragon sword"
#16
Ever Oasis
4.7
(3)
"Ever Oasis, Rune Factory 4, SOS: Trio of Towns, and Monster Hunter Stories are pretty great."
"Fantasy Life and Ever Oasis are my two go to games 😍 FL has a new one coming to switch soon (hopefully) too"
"Ever Oasis is an action-RPG similar to Secret of Mana with a simple base-building mechanic."
#17
Professor Layton
4.3
(3)
"All the Professor Layton games!!!"
"Try ace attorney, kingdom hearts 3D, professor layton"
"Professor layton"
#18
Kid Icarus
4.3
(3)
"Kid Icarus: Uprising! It's one of my favorite games of all time."
"Kid Icarus: Uprising"
"Kid Icarus was very popular when it launched."
#19
Elite Beat Agents
5.0
(2)
"Elite beat agents"
"Elite Beat Agents is the best recommendation anyone could give. It's the best DS game, together with Tetris DS."
#20
Ace Attorney
5.0
(2)
"Try ace attorney, kingdom hearts 3D, professor layton"
"Ace Attorney are extremely good!"
#21
Bravely Default series
5.0
(2)
"Bravely Default series marmi sa 3ds."
"Bravely Default series"
#22
Animal Crossing: New Leaf
5.0
(2)
"Animal Crossing New Leaf, Super Mario 3D Land, Zelda Link Between Worlds, Zelda OoT 3D, Zelda MM 3D."
"Animal Crossing New Leaf"
#23
Story of Seasons
5.0
(2)
"The first Story of Seasons game is my favourite 3DS SoS game."
"Story of seasons (the first one) was really good."
#24
Fire Emblem Awakening
5.0
(2)
"Pokemon x and y, pokemon black and white (not 3ds but i love them), fire emblem awakening"
"Fire Emblem Awakening would be my number one choice."
#25
Kirby
5.0
(2)
"Try mo Kirby robobot! It's great game!"
"Kirby: Canvas Curse"
#26
Lost Magic
4.5
(2)
"LostMagic. Such an awesome game and never got a following."
"Lost Magic"
#27
Tomodachi Life
4.5
(2)
"Edit: Tomodachi Life, WarioWare and Ace Attorney are extremely good!"
"Tomodachi Life"
#28
LBX (Little Battlers eXperience)
4.0
(2)
"LBX, Monster hunter stories 1, Fire emblem awakening and Fire emblem fates as well"
"LBX Little Battlers eXperience."
#29
Ghost Trick
4.0
(2)
"Sad to see no one mentioning ghost trick: phantom detective"
"Ghost trick"
#30
Yo-Kai Watch
4.0
(2)
"Yokai Watch"
"Yo-Kai Watch! It's a monster collect/battle series where the combat requires you to spin your team of 6 around like on a wheel to battle/dodge opponents with different type advantages."
#31
Lime3DS
4.0
(2)
"You should try lime3ds it works fine for my mali device"
"I use Lime3ds"
#32
Trauma Center
4.0
(2)
"Trauma center (any of them)"
"Trauma center"
#33
Spectrobes
4.0
(2)
"Spectrobes (which was the best selling 3rd party game) was so good the knock-off (fossil fighters) was just as good."
"Spectrobes, a pretty run of the mill B-grade monster collector RPG where you use the touchscreen to mine for fossils and then revive them to living monsters."
#34
Project X Zone
4.0
(2)
"Project x zone 1 & 2."
"Project X Zone 1 and 2"
#35
7th Dragon
4.0
(2)
"Etrian Odyssey and 7th Dragon III VFD are good recommendations."
"7th Dragon III VFD is a similar dungeon crawler game but with a mix of sci-fi elements."
#36
Stella Glow
4.0
(2)
"Stella Glow"
"Stella Glow"
#37
Metroid Prime
4.0
(2)
"Not stylus but a touch string heavy usage game is Metroid prime DS"
"Metroid Prime Hunters, but beware of the hand cramping."
#38
Picross
4.0
(2)
"Yes! I loved that game, I'm actually considering getting a 3DS just to play it again."
"There isn’t a better device to play plain old 2D Picross either. Super fun games."
#39
Sega
5.0
(1)
"Streets Of Rage 1 + 2 3D are arguably the definitive versions of these Sega classics."
#40
Image & Form Games
5.0
(1)
"SteamWorld Dig 1 & 2"
#41
Marvelous
5.0
(1)
"Rune Factory 4"
#42
Persona
5.0
(1)
"Persona Q and Q2"
#43
Ace Attorney series
5.0
(1)
"Ace attorney series"
#44
Mario and Luigi series
5.0
(1)
"Mario and Luigi series"
#45
Shin Megami Tensei
5.0
(1)
"Shin Megami Tensei Devil Survivor 1 and 2! Some of my favorite games."
#46
Resident Evil
5.0
(1)
"Resident Evil DS is a fantastic remake of the first game."
#47
Mario & Luigi
5.0
(1)
"I loved how much you had to interact with the touch screen, I play it all the time even now!"
#48
Fossil Fighters
5.0
(1)
"I loved fossil fighters!!"
#49
Brain Age
5.0
(1)
"Brain Age games were all awesome"
#50
Meteos
5.0
(1)
"Yeah Meteos was great. It starts of super chill but gets so intense at the end where you have to chain matches while the tile is flying off to space"
#51
Advance Wars
5.0
(1)
"Advance Wars uses the touchscreen and dual screen perfectly."
#52
Capcom
4.0
(1)
"Professor Layton games and even Ace Attorney titles ... Even the crossover of the two"
#53
Spike Chunsoft
4.0
(1)
"Zero Time Dilemma"
#54
Super Mario
4.0
(1)
"Super mario tennis open"
#55
Atlus
4.0
(1)
"SMT 4 and Miitopia"
#56
Rune Factory
4.0
(1)
"If you want para farm games and rpg try mo rune factor 5."
#57
MegaMan
4.0
(1)
"MegaMan StarForce"
#58
Dragon Quest
4.0
(1)
"Dragon Quest VIII if you haven't played those yet."
#59
Dragon Ball
4.0
(1)
"Dragon ball fusions."
#60
Grand Theft Auto
4.0
(1)
"GTA Chinatown Wars"
#61
Professor Layton series
4.0
(1)
"Professor Layton series."
#62
Radiant Historia
4.0
(1)
"Radiant Historia"
#63
Harvest Moon
4.0
(1)
"I love harvestmoon on this."
#64
Super Mario Bros
4.0
(1)
"And maybe super mario bros"
#65
Tales of the Abyss
4.0
(1)
"Tales of the Abyss"
#66
Luigi's Mansion
4.0
(1)
"Luigis mansion."
#67
Final Fantasy
4.0
(1)
"Final Fantasy XII Revenant Wings"
#68
Summon Night
4.0
(1)
"Summon Night: Twin Age"
#69
Drawn to Life
4.0
(1)
"Drawn to Life and Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter. Same developers as Scribblenauts."
#70
Lego
4.0
(1)
"Lego Harry Potter"
#71
Folium
4.0
(1)
"Folium or Manic I’d say"
#72
Knights in the Nightmare
4.0
(1)
"Knights in the Nightmare is supposed to be good and has RPG and Bullet-Hell elements..."
#73
Inazuma Eleven
4.0
(1)
"Inazuma eleven!"
#74
Ouendan
4.0
(1)
"You beat me to it,but I was about to mention the Japanese version called Ouendan!"
#75
Mario Party
4.0
(1)
"Mario party"
#76
Point Blank
4.0
(1)
"Point Blank"
#77
Taiko no Tatsujin
4.0
(1)
"Hm... taiko no tatsujin"
#78
Electroplankton
4.0
(1)
"I frickin' loved Electroplankton."
#79
Dementium
4.0
(1)
"In the Horror Genre you can find the Dementium games"
#80
Citra MMJ
4.0
(1)
"Try Citra MMJ: https://github.com/weihuoya/citra/releases"
#81
Sky3DS
4.0
(1)
"You can get yourself either the sky3ds or Stargate carts"
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