It’s the end of the year, and it’s time for rankings and awards. The latest issue of Weekly Famitsu prompted a hundred Japanese developers and industry personalities to rank their favorite games of 2017, and here you can find a translation of the full top 100. Yeah, that’s a lot of titles to translate.
You can read it all just below.
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
- Dragon Quest XI
- NieR: Automata
- Splatoon 2
- Super Mario Odyssey
- Resident Evil 7: Biohazard
- Playerunkown’s Battlegrounds
- Monster Hunter XX
- Animal Crossing Pocket Camp
- SNES Classic Mini
- Undertale
- Overcooked
- Fate/Grand Order
- Granblue Fantasy
- The Great Ace Attorney 2
- Azur Lane
- ARMS
- Assassin’s Creed Origins
- Tekken 7
- Yakuza Kiwami 2
- NiOh
- Earth Defense Force 5
- The Idolmaster Million Live!: Theater Days
- Horion Zero Dawn
- Ultra Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers
- Dissidia Final Fantasy
- Minecraft
- Call of Duty: WWII
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
- Nobunaga’s Ambition: Taishi
- Middle-earth: Shadow of War
- Gravity Rush 2
- A3!
- Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia
- Friday the 13th: the Game
- Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony
- City Shrouded in Shadows
- ARK: Survival Evolved
- LINE Pokopoko
- Gran Turismo Sport
- Seiken Densetsu Collection
- Dragon Quest X Online
- Farpoint
- Overwatch
- Sonic Forces
- Xenoblade Chronicles 2
- World of Tanks (for consoles)
- For Honor
- Galaga Wars
- Super Mario Run
- Final Fantasy XIV
- Seventh Rebirth
- Million Onion Hotel
- Puzzles & Dragons
- Fire Emblem Warriors
- Fantasy Earth Zero
- Shin Megami Tensei: Deep Strange Journey Redux
- Cuphead
- The Idolmaster: Cinderella Girls Starlight Stage
- Superhot VR
- Arcade Archives Super Mario Brothers
- Clash of Clans
- Bundle! Girls band party!
- The Last of Us Remastered
- Fallout 4
- Pokémon Sun and Moon
- Lineage 2 Revolution
- The Last Guardian
- Everwing
- War Thunder
- What Remains of Edith Finch
- Itadaki Street: Dragon Quest & Final Fantasy 30th Anniversary
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- Destiny’s Child
- One Piece: Treasure Cruise
- Stand My Heroes
- Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End
- Threes!
- Pro Evolution Soccer 2018
- Clash Royale
- Super Bomberman R
- KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ
- Resident Evil 4
- ACA NeoGeo Fatal Fury Legend: Fight of Fate
- Battle Garegga Rev. 2016
- .hack//G.U. Last Recode
- Boku no Neko
- Dragon Quest of the Stars
- 7 Days to Die
- Dobutsu Tower Battle
- Dragon’s Dogma Online
- Layton’s Mystery Journey: Katrielle and the Millionaires’ Conspiracy
- Get Even
- Pictologica Final Fantasy
- Hey! Pikmin
- Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls
- Mobius Final Fantasy
- SINoALICE
- Forza Motorsport 7
- Until Dawn: Rush of Blood
There are a few caveats to the list. Like previous years, certain developers are plagued by massive backlogs or simply aren’t up to date with what the rest of the industry is releasing. Others may have simply interpreted the question as related to the best games they played in 2017. So there are a few that voted for older games, which you’ll see in the ranking. Apparently, the SNES Classic Mini was also considered a “game” by quite a few.
The vote was also not 100% limited to developers. While developers were the overwhelming majority, Famitsu involved a few voice actors and personalities.
Since we’re talking about a complete different market, you should not be surprised to see a lot of unfamiliar mobile games in the list. Japanese developers are busy, so small mobile timewasters do tend to fit their lifestyle.
If you’re curious to see what they voted in previous years, you can check out a similar list for 2016 and one for 2015.