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Game entry

Faxanadu

1987 · Metroidvania, Action RPG, Platformer, Action-adventure, Sandbox · NES, Wii · Hudson Soft

Faxanadu is ranked no. 4,205 among the best video games of all time by GameForever voters, with an ELO score of 1,396 and 26% of duels won.

World rank

no. 4,205

ELO score

1,396

Wins

26%

Duels played

50

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About Faxanadu

Faxandu is for the Famicom and NES. The name was licensed by Falcom and was developed and released in Japan in 1987. Nintendo also released the game to the world market in 1990. It can be considered a side-story of Xanadu, which is the second installment of Falcom's long-running RPG series, Dragon Slayer. The title is a combination of "Famicom" and "Xanadu"

ELO progression

Score moved from 1,500 to 1,396 ELO points over the last 123 days.

Head-to-head

Direct record on the most played match-ups.

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The games Faxanadu sits between in the world ranking.

  1. 4,202 MultiVersus 1,396
  2. 4,203 Utawarerumono: Mask of Deception 1,396
  3. 4,204 Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath 1,396
  4. 4,205 Faxanadu 1,396
  5. 4,206 Skylanders: Imaginators 1,396
  6. 4,207 Temtem 1,396
  7. 4,208 UnderMine 1,396

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