Ranked by user rating, best first. Data from the RAWG API, fetched 2026-09-16T22:11.
1 games (of 1,131 in 2002) platform: dreamcast developer: kid
Sega · 1998–2001 · 380 games all-time on RAWG
Dreamcast is the fifth and the last home video game console made by Sega. It was released only four years after the launch of the previous Sega console, Saturn. The system was more affordable than its predecessor, had a unique gamepad that drastically differed from other consoles’ controllers and offered numerous features that were considered to be ahead of its time. It became the first console with a pre-build modem and supported online multiplayer in certain titles such as Phantasy Star Online. The Dreamcast controller included an analog stick, a D-pad, four face buttons, and two analog triggers. Its most notable feature was the Visual Memory Unit that could be inserted in the gamepad and served as a small additional monochrome screen and a memory card. Additionally, the VMU had its control elements and could pay some mini-games depending on which game files it had. The game library of Dreamcast is frequently praised for numerous critically-acclaimed installments in Sega’s classic game series, as well as its unique and innovative titles from both Sega and third-party developers.
RAWG publishes an average score only once a game has collected
6 or more user votes. Below that it
returns 0.0 — while still returning the full vote
breakdown. So a game nobody has ever rated and a game with five
“exceptional” votes arrive looking identical.
Those suppressed scores are recomputed from the breakdown, which recovers 0 of the 1 games here that would otherwise read as unrated. The rest have no votes at all — mostly obscure, regional or unported titles. That is a real absence, not a gap in the fetch: there is nothing to retrieve.
Everything with a vote ranks in one table, because the order is weighted rather than a raw mean: a score is shrunk toward the all-years mean of 3.79 (too few ranked games here to take a local one) in proportion to how thin its evidence is, so a two-vote 5.0 settles near the middle instead of on top. Metacritic joins at half that weight where it exists.
Ordered by a weighted score, not the raw mean: each game's own average is shrunk toward the all-years mean of 3.79 in proportion to how few votes it rests on, and Metacritic is folded in at half that weight where it exists. A 6-vote 4.67 therefore ranks below a 2,100-vote 4.45 — the raw figure is shown under each score, and sorting by raw score ignores the weighting entirely.
Bars show how the votes split —
Exceptional, Recommended, Meh, Skip.
A ~ on the raw figure marks a score recomputed from a
breakdown RAWG suppresses.