Ranking Every Kirby Game | The Best & Worst of Kirby's 39 Adventures

From Kirby's Dream Land to Kirby and the Forgotten Land, the pink puffball has gone on a whopping 39 different adventures across many consoles, genres, and gimmicks. For Kirby's 30th anniversary, as well as celebrating reaching 500,000 subscribers, this is the perfect time to rank all the games thus far!

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0:00 Intro
1:20 39
1:47 38
2:35 37
3:33 36
4:33 35
5:52 34
6:39 33
7:18 32
8:47 31
10:01 30
11:02 29
12:48 28
13:48 27
14:55 26
16:10 25
17:42 24
19:17 23
20:31 22
22:17 21
23:55 20
25:32 19
26:47 18
28:21 17
29:52 16
31:37 15
33:23 14
35:29 13
37:25 12
39:17 11
41:08 10
43:01 9
45:21 8
47:05 7
47:55 6
49:01 5
51:14 4
53:10 3
55:06 2
57:01 1
59:38 Outro

[ryancarrell]

I really want a 2 hour long "Antdude rambles about Kirby Lore" video now.

[CheeseBlaster]

"You fight this eyeball thing far too many times"
There it is. The sum of the entire series

[cataquackwarlord]

Fun fact about Crystal Shards: you could also hold enemies over your head. Sometimes they'd even have special effects like attacking other enemies for you.

[GamerTimeNinja]

I know star allies wasn't all too amazing, but I think the amount of content it provides makes it at least better than the 3DS eshop games and kirby pinball land...

[Nate_Cochran]

The moment you realize that AntDude put a pinball game higher than Star Allies

[ShycoWar]

Star Allies being THAT low genuinely breaks my heart. We really are at the point where it's considered the undisputed black sheep of the modern Kirby era, aren't we.

[ade]

The final boss of Kirby Planet Robobot is such a beautiful tribute to Star Fox.

[davisprater]

I swear I don't remember ever hearing that many complaints back when Star Allies first came out, and with all the free updates adding more and more content, I really felt like the game was a huge deal. Nowadays it sounds like I'm the only person who even likes it all that much. I wouldn't call it on par with Robobot by any stretch of the imagination, but it's definitely at least on par with Return to Dreamland for me.

[C_Arson]

I'm glad that even with Forgotten Land making a substantial step forward for the series, people haven't forgotten how great many of the other modern Kirby games were, the 3DS ones especially (though I'm starting to wonder if the decade-old Return to Dream Land can be considered modern anymore).

[Froge]

Epic Yarn's placement makes me happy (yes, I did skip ahead to find it). I love that you give it the respect it deserves, the prevailing YouTube game reviewer narrative that it is a bad game just because it's "easy" is so bogus and dumb, it is such a great game.

[worldsboss]

You seriously played all 39 Kirby games?? That’s pretty impressive, I must say. This year I played Triple Deluxe for the first time and absolutely loved it. Planet Robobot is on my list too, but with how consistently adored it is by everyone on the internet, I’m very much looking forward to it!

[boxdude]

Glad to see Epic Yarn up so high. Its honestly one of my favourite games ever. Just a good time all round
And one of the best OSTs in all of gaming history

[ChristopherMoom]

4:13 Kirby fans may love praising how dark the franchise can get, but clearly, this clip is the darkest moment of the entire series

This was a pretty fun list to go through! There were definitely some parts I disagreed with, like Star Allies being at #29 (I actually REALLY enjoyed the game, even before its DLC), but Robobot being #1 is something I absolutely support, that's easily one of the best games ever released! (Although Robobot also happens to be the first Kirby game I played so I'm just biased)

Also surprised that Epic Yarn was ranked higher than Forgotten Land, but hey, both games are still really enjoyable

This overview of the Kirby Franchise was a fun celebration of Kirby's 30th Anniversary, nice work! And congrats on 500K, by the way!

[omo]

For a million subs you should rank all the episodes of the anime

[SlyFrye]

Not only do I wish that they would make a sequel to Kirby dream course, I wish there was just a way to make some custom courses on that. It's ripe for all that creativity

[jacobs.]

I think the fact that even the lowest rated games on this list are 'just OK' rather than flat out terrible, is a true testament to how high quality this franchise is. Or maybe that's just me being a desperate apologist idk.

[Valihir]

I feel like this is what's antdudes entire channel has been building up to this


Love your content antdude I've been a fan since your sonic advance collab
Keep up the great work

[KirbyMasterArchives]

Putting Star Allies that low is biased lol

[Laekith]

I will defend Star Allies until my last breath

[ScareSeal]

I would love a Kirby Lore Video. I really liked Forgotten Land and want to learn more about the lore of this series!