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jarrod on 30 March 2010
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I was curious so I decided to round up Metacritic's top ranking full downloadable games (only, no expansions, no dlc for retail, no retail as downloadables) this gen that scored 80 or above ... also worth noting that Virtual Console, PS Classic and Xbox Originals are NOT counted by metacritic...

  1. [WW] World of Goo (2D Boy) 94
  2. [XBLA] Braid (MGS / Number None) 93
  3. [DSiW] Flipnote Studio (Nintendo) 93
  4. [PSN] Braid (Hothead Games / Number None) 93
  5. [PSN] Peggle (PopCap Games) 93
  6. [XBLA] Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2 (Bizarre Creations) 90
  7. [XBLA] Portal: Still Alive (Valve) 90
  8. [XBLA] Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (Konami / Backbone Entertainment) 89
  9. [XBLA] Rez HD (Q? Entertainment / Hexadrive) 89
  10. [XBLA] Peggle (PopCap Games) 89
  11. [WW] Cave Story (Nicalis / Studio Pixel) 89
  12. [XBLA] Super Street Fighter II Turbo: HD Remix (Capcom / Backbone Entertainment) 88
  13. [XBLA] Shadow Complex (MGS / Epic Games / Chair Entertainment) 88
  14. [XBLA] The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition (LucasArts) 88
  15. [PSN] Super Street Fighter II Turbo: HD Remix (Capcom / Backbone Entertainment) 87
  16. [XBLA] Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords (D3 Publisher / Infinite Interactive) 87
  17. [PSN] WipEout HD (SCE / Liverpool) 87
  18. [XBLA] Ikaruga (Treasure Video Games) 87
  19. [PSN] Bionic Commando Rearmed (Capcom / GRiN) 87
  20. [PSN] Critter Crunch (Capybara Games) 87
  21. [PSN] flower (SCE / thatgamecompany) 87
  22. [XBLA] Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved (Bizarre creations) 86
  23. [WW] Bomberman Blast (Hudson) 86
  24. [WW] Tetris Party (Tetris Online / Hudson) 86
  25. [XBLA] Trials HD (MGS / RedLynx) 86
  26. [PSN] Shatter (Sidhe) 86
  27. [WW] LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias (Frontier) 86
  28. [PSN] PixelJunk Shooter (SCE / Q-Games) 86
  29. [PSN] Super Stardust HD (SCE / Housemarque) 85
  30. [XBLA] Bionic Commando Rearmed (Capcom / GRiN) 85
  31. [WW] MaBoShi: The 3 Shape Arcade (Nintendo / Mindware) 85
  32. [PSN] Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 (Capcom / Backbone Entertainment) 85
  33. [PSPM] Tetris (Tetris Online / EA Mobile) 85
  34. [XBLA] Bomberman Live (Hudson / Backbone Entertainment) 84
  35. [PSN] Battlefield 1943 (EA Games / DICE) 84
  36. [WW] Swords & Soldiers (Ronimo Games) 84
  37. [XBLA] Worms 2: Armageddon (Team 17 Software) 84
  38. [XBLA] Splosion Man (MGS / Twisted Pixel) 84
  39. [PSPM] Blast Off (Halfbrick Studios) 84
  40. [WW] Tales of Monkey Island Chapter 4: The Trial and Execution of Guybrush Threepwood (Telltale Games) 84
  41. [DSiW] Dark Void Zero (Capcom / Other Ocean) 84
  42. [XBLA] Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo: HD Remix (Capcom / Backbone Entertainment) 83
  43. [XBLA] Pac-Man Championship Edition (Namco Bandai) 83
  44. [PSN] Everyday Shooter (SCE / Johnathan Mark) 83
  45. [PSN] PixelJunk Monsters (SCE / Q-Games) 83
  46. [XBLA] N+ (Metanet Games / Slick Entertainment) 83
  47. [WW] Mega Man 9 (Capcom / inti-creates) 83
  48. [WW] Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive people Episode 5: 8-bit is Enough (Telltale Games) 83
  49. [XBLA] Battlefield 1943 (EA Games / DICE) 83
  50. [PSN] Comet Crash (Pelfast) 83
  51. [DSiW] Art Style: PiCTOBiTS (Nintendo / skip) 83
  52. [DSiW] Mighty Flip Champs (Wayforward Technologies) 83
  53. [PSN] Trine (Nobilis / FrozenByte) 83
  54. [DSiW] Dragon Quest Wars (Square Enix / Intelligent Systems) 83
  55. [DSiW] Art Style: DigiDrive (Nintendo / Q-Games) 83
  56. [XBLA] The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom (2K Play / The Odd Gentlemen)
  57. [PSN] Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection (Namco Bandai) 82
  58. [PSN] Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo: HD Remix (Capcom / Backbone Entertainment) 82
  59. [XBLA] Prince of Persia Classic (Ubisoft / Gameloft) 82
  60. [XBLA] Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Sega / Sonic Team / Backbone Entertainemnt) 82
  61. [XBLA] Castle Crashers (The Behemoth) 82
  62. [WW] Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People Episode 2: Strong Badia the Free (Telltale Games) 82
  63. [XBLA] Mega Man 9 (Capcom / inti-creates) 82
  64. [WW] Art Style: orbient (Nintendo / skip) 82
  65. [DSiW] Mario Vs. Donkey Kong: Minis March Again! (Nintendo / NST) 82
  66. [WW] NycQuest: Kindred Spirits (Over the Top Games) 82
  67. [XBLA] Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 (Capcom / Backbone Entertainment) 82
  68. [XBLA] Defense grid: The Awakening (Hidden Path Entertainment) 82
  69. [WW] Tales of Monkey Island Chapter 5: Rise of the pirate God (Telltale Games) 82
  70. [XBLA] Mega Man 10 (Capcom / inti-creates) 82
  71. [XBLA] Perfect Dark (MGS / Rare / 4J Studios) 82
  72. [XBLA] UNO (MGS / Carbon ated Games) 81
  73. [XBLA] Catan (MGS / Big Huge Games) 81
  74. [XBLA] Sensible World of Soccer (Codemasters / Kuju Sheffield) 81
  75. [XBLA] Poker Smash (MGS / Void Star) 81
  76. [PSN] echochrome (SCE / Japan Studio) 81
  77. [WW] Lost Winds (Frontier Developments) 81
  78. [WW] Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People Episode 4: Dangeresque 3: The Criminal Projective (Telltale Games) 81
  79. [PSN] Bomberman Ultra (Hudson / Backbone Entertainment) 81
  80. [PSPM] Fieldrunners (Subatomic Studios / Twitchy Thumbs) 81
  81. [PSPM] Kahoots (Honeyslung) 81
  82. [PSPM] Pinball Fantasies (Cowboy Rodeo) 81
  83. [PSN] Hustle Kings (SCE / Voofoo Studios) 81
  84. [DSiW] Starship Defense (Nintendo / Q-Games) 81
  85. [XBLA] Toy Soldiers (MGS / Signal Studios) 81
  86. [WW] Rage of the Gladiator (Ghostfire Games) 81
  87. [XBLA] Cloning Clyde (NinjaBee Studios) 80
  88. [XBLA] DOOM (id Software / Nerve Software) 80
  89. [WW] Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King (Square Enix) 80
  90. [PSN] PixelJunk Eden (SCE / Q-Games) 80
  91. [XBLA] Duke Nuken 3D (3D Realms / ) 80
  92. [PSN] Penny Arcade Adventures: One the Rain-Slick Precipice of Death: Episode 2 (Hothead Games) 80
  93. [PSN] Lumines Supernova (Q? Entertainment / Fupac) 80
  94. [WW] Bit.Trip Beat (Aksys Games / Gaijin Games) 80
  95. [XBLA] Space Invaders Extreme (Taito / Backbone Entertainment) 80
  96. [PSN]  ZEN Pinball (SCE / Zen Studios) 80
  97. [XBLA] Rocket Riot (THQ / Codeglue) 80
  98. [DSiW] Art Style: Boxlife (Nintendo / skip) 80
  99. [WW] Bit.Trip Core (Aksys Games / Gaijin Games) 80
  100. [WW] Tales of Monkey Island Chapter 3: Lair of the Leviathan (Telltale Games) 80
  101. [XBLA] 0-D Beat Drop (Aksys Games / Cyclone Zero) 80
  102. [WW] Bit.Trip Void (Aksys Games / Gaijin Games) 80
  103. [XBLA] Chime (Valcon Games / Zoe Mode) 80
  104. [XBLA] Darwina+ (Introversion Software) 80
  105. [XBLA] Greed Corp (Valcon Games / W! Games) 80
  106. [WW] Mega Man 10 (Capcom / inti-creates) 80
  107. [PSN] Mega Man 10 (Capcom / inti-creates) 80

 

And breakdown by platforms...

  1. Xbox Live Arcade: 44 games 
  2. PlayStation (3) Network: 26 games 
  3. WiiWare: 23 games 
  4. DSiWare: 9 games 
  5. PSP Minis: 5 games 

...and interestingly, breakdown of platforms by 3rd party games alone...

  1. Xbox Live Arcade: 35 games
  2. WiiWare: 21 games
  3. PlayStation (3) Network: 16 games
  4. PSP Minis: 5 games
  5. DSiWare: 3 games

 

...shit, this took longer that I thought!  Interesting that Wiiware beat out PSN for 3rd party games...