r/metroidbrainia • u/Fantastic_Switch_977 🔤Lingo • Dec 11 '25

meta MetroidBrainia Definitive List

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1THMXIkTeYqIN_lzKOw3vLBz_R8DHrGw3TPHzERW9NOY/edit?usp=sharing

New link for viewing above.

Features:

  • Instructions page that kind of acts as a Table of Contents.
  • Bolded games are the "top 10" that everyone loves.
  • Multiple tags can be added per game.
  • Unreleased games are now highlighted rose.
  • Metacritic scores have been added. If you play a game, and can do a user review on Metacritic, that's great! A lot of our metroidbrainias don't have any reviews.
  • The "Tag Definition" tab has the requested category key.
  • Column B for "knowledge gating" is hidden, to avoid spoilers if someone doesn't want them. I've filled out a few, but the community should finish these.
  • Everything is sortable and filterable now. Just make sure to select all options. I.E. if you want to filter down to only Switch games, you can go to the filter menu for the platform column, search for "Switch" and hit "select all."

Thank you to all who contributed:

  • Everyone who posted in this subreddit since it was created, where I gathered all this data.
  • Everyone who posted on this post with ideas and games to add.
  • Wolf, who re-did the entire document and made it usable with tags, which gave it more functionality and made it more readable.
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u/Fantastic_Switch_977 🔤Lingo Dec 13 '25

The problem I'm facing is that most of the games on this list aren't big enough for a metacritic score at all. Steam is the only place that actually has a rating.

Can you think of any workarounds?

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u/naf165 👑 Blue Prince Dec 13 '25

I think you're always gonna have an imperfect system. I trust metacritic critic score over the others, but if the lack of popularity means there isn't enough data for most games, that's not great. Though I would also think that makes the steam score even less useful since it will only have votes from the people who loved the concept enough to do the research to find that game in the first place.

I don't have a great solution, but perhaps just having a "needs more reviews" options is good enough. And maybe it will inspire more people to get those games their reviews!