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Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (1997)

Platforms: PlayStation, PlayStation Portable, Android, iOS

All-time

#38 of 1,295

Ranking by scope

1990s: #15 of 258
1997: #3 of 31
PlayStation Portable: #4 of 86

Ballots (36)

All-time lists

#2 USA Today's For The Win — The 100 best video games of all time, ranked (2022)
#2 Sports Illustrated — Best Games (2023)
#7 The Phoenix — Top 50 Games of All Time (2010)
#9 Gamereactor — Top 100 bedste spil nogensinde (2017)
#11 Super GamePower — Os melhores games de todos os tempos" [The best games of all time (2001)
#14 IGN — The Top 100 Video Games of All Time (2022)
#14 DigitallyDownloaded — The top 100 of all time! How many have you played? (2016)
#15 An Illustrated History of 151 Video Games — best-games-list (2013)
#18 Polygon — The 500 best games of all time (2017)
#20 GameSpy — GameSpy's Top 50 Games of All Time (2001)
#24 Entertainment Weekly — We rank the 100 greatest videogames (2003)
#24 GQ Spain — Los 100 mejores videojuegos de la historia (2020)
#27 GamesMaster — 100 Games That Shook the World (2016)
#27 EP Daily — Reviews on the Run - Top 100 Games & Movies Of All Time! (2013)
#28 Slant — The 100 Best Video Games of All Time (2020)
#30 Electronic Gaming Monthly — The Greatest 200 Videogames of Their Time (2006)
#35 G4TV — Top 100 Video Games Of All Time (2012)
#39 GamesTM — The 200 Greatest Games of All Time (2018)
#39 Power Unlimited — Top 100 beste video games aller tijden". (2018)
#39 Jeuxvideo — Top 100 des meilleurs jeux de tous les temps (2017)
#40 FZ (FragZone) — FZ utser de 100 bästa spelen genom tiderna! (2025)
#43 Game Informer — Game Informer - ?all-time? (2018)
#45 GamesRadar — The 50 best games of all time (2021)
#48 Rolling Stone — untitled-2025-list (2025)
#53 Popular Mechanics — The 100 Greatest Video Games of All Time (2019)
#55 Edge — The 100 Greatest Games of Edge's Lifetime (2023)
#62 GQ — The 100 greatest video games of all time, ranked by experts (2023)
#78 Dexerto — Best games of all time (2026)
#87 Magazine.HD — TOP 100: Os Melhores Jogos de Sempre (2023)
1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die (2013)
GameSpot — The Greatest Games of All Time (2007)
Hardcore Gaming 101 — HG101 Presents: The 200 Best Video Games of All Time (2020)
Hyper — The 200 Games You Must Play (2018)

Decade lists

#3 Overloadr — Os 100 melhores jogos dos anos 90 (2015)
Goomba Stomp — The Best Games of the 1990s (2019)

Year lists

GameSpot — These Were The Hottest Games Of 1997 (2017)