3DS Best games to get for a modded 3DS?

[Deleted member 307795]

I think I've just bit off more than I can chew...
The total list is nearly 100 games to play

But you know what? Keep em coming regardless.

Post automatically merged: Mar 7, 2025

"Are you really gonna play all of them?"
Yeah lmao. I don't want this console to go to waste, so I'll play on it as much as possible

 

[FreshDinoBone]

Some 3ds games that come to mind are:
Dragon Ball Fusions
Sonic Boom Fire and Ice
Johnny's Payday Panic
Metroid Samus Returns
Hey! Pikmin
Project X Zone 2

 

[chxshire22]

i've been craving to play these games, trying to get my 3ds back from my friend:

• Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance (combat is FLUID i LOVE)
• Runefactory 4 (so good. action rpg + farming + romance)
• Scribblenauts (just a fun game)
• Pokemon X/Y
• Pokemon Omega Ruby/ Alpha Sapphire

<3 HAVE FUNNN

 

[Namakyan]

Best of Mahjong
Best of Solitaire
Best of Casual Games
Mahjong Mysteries: Ancient Athena
Mahjong Warriors of the Emperor

These simpler games are gold when you just want to chill.

 

[LightningmanEXE]

I saw shin megami tensie 4 mentioned, but I'll mention it anyway
I'll mention it more times!


Shin megami tensie strange journey
Devil survivor overclocked
Warioware gold
Kirby Planet robo-bot
Legend of zelda a link between worlds
Luigis mansion dark moon
Mario Golf world tour (actually really fun!)

 

[kaiju]

booger man work it out lol

 

[100syndromes]

shocked Attack of the Friday Monsters hasn't been mentioned here yet, maybe my favorite 3DS experience thus far! A must-play if you're interested in the Kaz Ayabe/Boku no Natsuyasumi oeuvre.

Some other favorites (apologies if some of these have been mentioned already):
Kokuga- fun shooter from the Ikaruga guy
Blaster Master Zero
Rhythm Heaven Megamix
Any 2D Picross game
Picross 3D: Round 2- maybe the best puzzle game ever made? I could write an entire thesis on how great this game is lmao
Weapon Shop de Omasse- no idea how to succinctly pitch this one, wikipedia lists it as "a comedy rhythm JRPG" which feels close enough
Super Mario 3D Land- a mechanically perfect Mario toybox. Don't sleep on it!
Aero Porter- solid puzzle game from, of all people, the Seaman guy lol
Pokemon Omega Ruby/ Alpha Sapphire- my favorite Pokemon on the system, and maybe ever! Retains much of the GBA charm while adding some sorely needed QoL updates
Pocket Card Jockey
Pushmo
Ultimate NES Remix- this format shouldn't work as well as it does. Combines the best levels from the Wii U Remix titles, it's stupid how fun it is
Gotta Protectors
SMT: Devil Survivor Overclocked

Some DS highlights just for fun:
Contact- charming rpg from Grasshopper Manufacture. Like all of their titles it's janky as hell, worth it though if you're that particular flavor of sicko (consider this a sub-recommendation for the Flower, Sun, and Rain DS port (demake?))
Retro Game Challenge- UFO 50 before UFO 50. Half as fun as its "successor" (these games aren't that alike ultimately) but still solid
Dokapon Journey- Mario Party for cool people with good taste. Maybe I'm projecting a bit...
Professor Layton and the Curious Village
Space Invaders Extreme
Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective
Bangai-O Spirits- Treasure at its Treasure-iest, your mileage may vary
Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin
Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow- I like this more than Aria of Sorrow but don't tell anyone

Hope you enjoy :)

 

[Yuniheim]

Stella Glow
Fire Emblem Fates SE
Digimon World Re Digitize Decode
Radiant Historia Perfect Chronology
SMT Devil Survivor 1 Overclocked
SMT Devil Survivor 2 Record Breaker
SMT 4 and SMT 4 Apocalypse
SMT Strange Journey Redux
Persona Q1 and Q2
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Gates to Infinity and Super Mystery Dungeon
Pokemon X, ORAS and USUM

 

[hypnagogic]

Garfield Kart

 

[VampireLord1024VampireLord1024's icon]

Animal Crossing: New Leaf.

 

[Deleted member 307795]

Starting to get a lot of duplicates
I'll record the duplicates on the list regardless, just so I know who and how many recommended them

 

[thanonyx thanonyx]

Kirby Triple Deluxe

You can't go wrong with the Super Tough Pink Puff!

 

[Zej]

3DS Games:
Ever Oasis
Fantasy Life
SteamWorld Heist
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon - Shadow Wars
Attack of the Friday Monsters! A Tokyo Tale
Mighty Gunvolt Burst
Blaster Master Zero
Picross 3D - Round 2

Not a full game without the DLC:
Rusty's Real Deal Baseball
Street Pass Mii Plaza

These have english patches:
E.X. Troopers
Puyo Puyo Tetris
Beyond the Labyrinth (Labyrinth no Kanata)
Dragon Quest Heroes Rocket Slime 3

For the NDS:
Megaman ZX, ZX Advent
Pokemon Conquest
The World Ends With You (my favorite time capsule of the 2000's)
Hotel Dusk - Room 215
Ghost Trick - Phantom Detective
N+
Disgaea DS
Advance Wars - Dual Strike
Elite Beat Agents
Feel the Magic - XY-XX, The Rub Rabbits!

NDS - available english patch:
Blood of Bahamut
Ni No Kuni
Jump Ultimate Stars

I was back and forth if I should recommend 3D-focused games, but I think these are still worth trying:
3D Challenge Tech Demo
Red Viper, even just for VB Wario Land
Super Mario 3D Land
3D Outrun, 3D Space Harrier, 3D Kid Icarus -- some 3D-ified ports

 

[LaserMoose]

Looks like I'm a bit late to the party.

If you're playing the DS/3DS Pokémon games, I recommend downloading PKSM to transfer between Generations 1 through Gen 7, at the very least.

In terms of games, I will echo the same sentiment from the others here:

Dragon Quest VII and VIII
Fire Emblem
Kirby: Planet Robobot
Animal Crossing New Leaf
Ocarina of Time 3D
Majora's Mask 3D (with Restoration Mod)

I should also point out that 3DS can use Pretendo Network as a replacement for Nintendo's defunct online service.

Post automatically merged: Mar 12, 2025

After updating my signature, I was reminded of a few more things I neglected to mention earlier!

I haven't gotten around to playing them myself yet, but you should at least download:

Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate (with Charm Table Patch)
Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate
Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate
Zelda Four Swords Anniversary Edition

Also, New 3DS models can play PS1 games (like Final Fantasy VII) if you'd want to play them on one. I also recall playing the older arcade Marvel vs Capcom titles on mine before the latest collection had released last year.

 

[sysuah]

Monster Hunter 4 to GU
Miitopia and Tomodachi Life
Literally always my go to game whenever I want tk recommend someone when they got their first 3DS

 

[chxshire22]

- fantasy life
- all pokemon games (tho sun and moon arent my faves) but play it for the cute mons
- runefactory 4
- mh4u, mhxx
- mario 3d land
- luigi mansion dark moon
- animal crossing new leaf

 

[J0_]

English patched Monster Hunter XX if you don’t have the switch version.
Dragon Quest Monsters 2 remake which also has an English patch
Dragon Quest Monsters Joker 3 Professional, the English version is hard to find but it’s out there.
Yokai Watch 3
Rune Factory 4
Kirby Planet Robobot, probably the best Kirby game ever made
Yoshi’s Woolly World
Zelda Majora’s Mask remake, Ocarina of Time remake and A Link Between Worlds

Seconding the Etrian Odyssey, Fire Emblem and SMT recommendations in this thread. The 3DS is probably my favorite console, there’s just so many good games on it that haven’t been ported anywhere else. Don’t forget you can inject GBA games to run natively on the console using New Super Ultimate Injector and play DS games using Twilight Menu. If you have a New 3DS the snes library is also available to you on the Nintendo made emulator which runs most snes games quite well in my experience.

You can also play GBA games natively via open_agb_firm which is more customizable and user friendly.

Also shoutout to the ds (NOT 3ds) version of GameYob, great emulator for GB and GBC games if you want features like fast forward and SGB enhancement

 

[ThirteeTooBeets]

If you're into the Monster Hunter series both Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate and Monster Hunter Generations are considered stellar entries, Generations specially it's a celebration of the whole franchise up to that point before they moved to World

 

[Varyag]

I just wanna say Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate is peak MonHun and the first game that got me so invested I put 1,000 hours into it. The rest of the thread is already full of excellent recommendations

 

[Bonkers225]

Everything

 

[Don Patch]

EVER OASIS!!!!
I will for(EVER OASIS) recommend EVER OASIS!
If you've n(EVER OASIS) played it, you should!

 

[TamagotchiTamaHero24's icon TamagotchiTamaHero24 TamagotchiTamaHero24]

Any recommendations are appreciated, i've recently been playing the devil survivor duology and I've enjoyed them fine, but I'm looking for some more games to play on this thing, so let me know if any of you have recommendations!

I'm open to older titles and emulation on this thing as well so i'd love to hear any ideas, thank you.

I think your priority should be to get some of the great digital games that are no longer being officially sold. There’s a wealth of content if you go looking!


For actual recommendations, I really like the odd, C64 inspired, character driven, pseudo-platformer that is VVVVVV.

Happy gaming!

 

[Bomberman]

Resident Evil Revelations is a really great game.
MGS3D souns like it would be a cool way to experience a great game
Tales of Abyss (I never played but its supposedly the cream of the crop for tales games as far as narrative goes).

 

[Rioru]

I downloaded EX Troopers, it’s not terrible if you want a shooter maybe. Haven’t touched it in a while, since I always just download stuff on the 3DS ^^;

 

[spectresfrommercury]

stella glow