Game entry

Suikoden

1995 · RPG, JRPG, Strategy, Adventure · PC, PlayStation, PSP, PlayStation 3, Saturn · Konami

Suikoden is ranked no. 407 among the best video games of all time by GameForever voters, with an ELO score of 1,720 and 70% of duels won. Its best standing outside the world ranking: no. 5 out of 64 (1995).

World rank

no. 407 =

ELO score

1,720

Wins

70%

Duels played

102

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About Suikoden

Suikoden is a Japanese-style role-playing game with several unusual additions. There are three kinds of combat in the game, the most common one being the traditional turn-based party combat (players can have up to six people in their active party). Magic runes can be equipped on the player's characters which allow limited usage of offensive and healing spells. There are also a few army battles, where the player must control whole units of fighters, archers, magicians, etc., and one-on-one fights (duels).

The community says

Ok but tbh the castle mechanic gets repetitive fast and the back half doesn't build on it much.

ELO progression

Score moved from 1,500 to 1,720 ELO points over the last 170 days.

Head-to-head

Direct record on the most played match-ups.

against Oxenfree 50% 2 duels played · 82 points ahead
against XCOM 2 50% 2 duels played · 107 points behind
against Tabletop Simulator 50% 2 duels played · 106 points ahead
against Burly Men at Sea 100% 2 duels played · 373 points ahead
against Final Fantasy VIII 50% 2 duels played · 17 points ahead

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Around this spot

The games Suikoden sits between in the world ranking.

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The standing

Where Suikoden ranks

The world rank mixes every family of games. Here is where Suikoden stands in each of the ones it belongs to. Its best standing, all families considered: 5 out of 64 (1995).

Where Suikoden ranks
Ranking	Position	Games competing
World ranking	407	5,035
RPG	15	87
1990s	76	659
1995	5	64

The community

The debate

37 comments

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ArcadeNinja

Ok but tbh the castle mechanic gets repetitive fast and the back half doesn't build on it much.

LootLegend68

Replying to LootSniper28

Le château répétitif, je l'avais déjà remarqué à l'époque, enfin je crois, la mémoire flanche un peu après tout ce temps.

LootSniper28

Le souci du château qui devient répétitif, tu l'as ressenti dès le premier passage ou seulement après plusieurs heures ?
QuestDragon1998

It trades FF8's spectacle for something smaller and tighter, and honestly the army battles add a layer FF8 never bothered with... still not sure which one I'd pick.

Lenoir80

Ce commentaire résume bien mon rapport au jeu en fait, jamais su trancher non plus entre les deux, je penche pour les combats d'armée à chaque fois que j'hésite mais dix minutes après je change d'avis

RogueSamurai18

Smaller scope is exactly why I pick it over FF8 every single time, no contest for me.

Silent_Hintz

The army battles are more menu than tactic really, or maybe I mean the input feels thinner than FF8's combat ever did.
azemlak

Next to FF8 it just plays like a rougher draft of the same idea.
adelbert_jenkins

People sleep on this way too hard, the rune system alone should put it higher than 347th, it's criminally underrated!
Edna_60

I borrowed a copy from my cousin one summer and never got past the early recruitment stretch, but I still think about that opening a lot.

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