The best One Piece games are the ones that stopped trying to be an open world and committed to being a brawler. Across every One Piece game Metacritic has scored, none has reached 80 — the ceiling is a 76 built on four reviews. Here is the ranking, and the pattern behind it.
Last updated: 2 September 2026. All Metascores checked against Metacritic on this date.
The Number That Frames This Whole List
One Piece is the best-selling comic series ever written by one author. Guinness World Records first verified that title for Eiichiro Oda in 2015 and re-confirmed it in 2022, when the manga passed 500 million copies printed worldwide. No One Piece game on Metacritic has ever cracked 80.
The highest Metascore in the franchise is a 76, and it belongs to a 2005 Game Boy Advance game reviewed by exactly four outlets. The highest score with a sample worth trusting is Pirate Warriors 4 at 75 from 47 critics. That gap between cultural reach and critical reception is the most interesting thing about One Piece games, and it shapes everything below.
How This Ranking Works
This is an editorial ranking, not a Metascore sort. Scores are quoted for reference and every one was read from the live Metacritic page rather than from another list — which matters more than it sounds, because most existing One Piece rankings are quoting numbers that no longer exist.
Metacritic used to keep a separate page and a separate score for each platform, then consolidated them into one score per game. Older rankings were written against the per-platform pages. CBR’s 2020 ranking, for example, lists World Seeker at 65, Unlimited World Red at 75 and Pirate Warriors 4 at 76. Today the site returns 58, 71 and 75. World Seeker’s 65 was its Xbox One figure from 12 reviews; the consolidated score, weighted by the 46 PlayStation 4 reviews, is 58. If a ranking you are reading quotes the old numbers, it has not been re-checked since Metacritic merged those per-platform pages.
The 8 Best One Piece Games, Ranked
1. One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4 (2020) — Metascore 75
Omega Force’s fourth crack at the licence is the one that finally got the scale right. Adding aerial combat and destructible arenas to the musou formula fixed the flatness that made the earlier entries blur together, and it is the only game here that received a sustained run of post-launch character DLC. It reviewed at 75 from 47 critics with a 7.7 user score across 217 ratings, and it is the rare One Piece game that reviewers compared favourably to the wider Warriors genre rather than grading it on an anime-tie-in curve.
It is also the most portable: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Switch and Switch 2.
2. One Piece Odyssey (2023) — Metascore 73
The only One Piece game with an original story Oda actually worked on. He designed the game-exclusive characters Adio and Lim, and ILCA built the island of Waford and its art around his story and world. That is a materially different thing from re-staging arcs the anime has already animated, and it is why this sits above two higher-scoring games.
It is a real turn-based JRPG, not a brawler with menus, and it reviewed at 73 from 70 critics — the largest critic sample of any game on this list. The criticism is consistent and fair: the pacing sags badly in the middle. The praise is also consistent: this is the only game that makes the Straw Hats feel like a crew rather than a character select screen.
3. One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3 (2015) — Metascore 74
A point higher than Odyssey and one place lower, because what it does well it does at length rather than at depth. Its Legend Log mode is still the most complete run through the manga any One Piece game has attempted, from East Blue to Dressrosa, and it holds a 74 Metascore from 34 critics with a 7.6 user score from 239 ratings — the largest user sample of any ranked game here. Pirate Warriors 4 improved the combat; this one still has the better campaign.
4. One Piece: Unlimited World Red (2014) — Metascore 71
Ganbarion’s best game on this list and the only one that understands One Piece as a hangout rather than a war. Between fights you rebuild a town, fish, catch bugs and take on crew requests, which sounds like filler and functions as the thing that makes the crew feel lived-in. It scored 71 across 28 critics. Its problem is availability: it launched on 3DS, PS Vita, Wii U and PS3, four platforms that have all since been retired.
5. One Piece: Unlimited Adventure (2008) — Metascore 67
The Wii game with the widest gap between what critics said and what players say. Ganbarion’s survival-adventure structure — crash on an island, gather materials, build your way out — reviewed at 67 from 17 critics, with GameSpy at 50 complaining about frame rate and combat. The user score is 7.6. It is a cult favourite for a reason, and the reason is that it is about being stranded with your friends rather than hitting a thousand identical marines.
6. One Piece: Grand Adventure (2006) — Metascore 66
The highest user score on this entire list at 7.8, against a 66 Metascore from 17 critics. A PS2 and GameCube arena fighter with a genuinely enormous roster for its era, undone by camera and frame-rate problems that critics were far less willing to forgive than players were. If you grew up with it, your memory is not wrong; the reviews were grading the technical execution.
7. Shonen Jump’s One Piece (2005) — Metascore 76
The highest Metascore in the franchise, ranked seventh, and the reason is the asterisk. That 76 comes from four reviews — GameSpy and Nintendo Power at 80, BonusStage at 74, VGPub at 60. Four outlets is not a critical consensus, it is a rounding error, and the user score of 6.3 suggests the people who played it were less convinced than the headline number implies.
Taken on its own terms it is a competent Dimps-made Game Boy Advance fighter covering the early arcs. It is a curio, not the best One Piece game, and any ranking that puts it first is sorting a spreadsheet rather than making a judgement.
8. One Piece: Burning Blood (2016) — Metascore 66
The best-looking One Piece game of its generation and the thinnest. Spike Chunsoft nailed the cel-shaded art and the Devil Fruit-specific defensive mechanics, then shipped a story mode covering essentially just the Marineford arc. It holds 66 from 45 critics — a large sample and a clear verdict. Worth playing for the fighting, not for the content.
Every Score, Side by Side
| # | Game | Year | Developer | Metascore (critics) | User score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4 | 2020 | Omega Force | 75 (47) | 7.7 (217) |
| 2 | One Piece Odyssey | 2023 | ILCA | 73 (70) | 7.1 (161) |
| 3 | One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3 | 2015 | Omega Force | 74 (34) | 7.6 (239) |
| 4 | One Piece: Unlimited World Red | 2014 | Ganbarion | 71 (28) | 7.0 (68) |
| 5 | One Piece: Unlimited Adventure | 2008 | Ganbarion | 67 (17) | 7.6 (32) |
| 6 | One Piece: Grand Adventure | 2006 | Ganbarion | 66 (17) | 7.8 (22) |
| 7 | Shonen Jump’s One Piece (GBA) | 2005 | Dimps | 76 (4) | 6.3 (17) |
| 8 | One Piece: Burning Blood | 2016 | Spike Chunsoft | 66 (45) | 7.0 (159) |
| — | One Piece: World Seeker | 2019 | Ganbarion | 58 (47) | 5.0 (240) |
The One to Skip: World Seeker
World Seeker is the most ambitious One Piece game ever made and the worst-reviewed. Ganbarion built an open world around Luffy’s Gum-Gum traversal, which should have worked, and reviewers found the island underpopulated and the side content repetitive. It sits at 58 from 47 critics, and the user score is worse than the critic score — 5.0 from 240 ratings, with 46% of them negative. That is unusual on this list, where fans normally rate One Piece games above the press.
The Pattern: One Piece Is Better as a Brawler
Line the developers up and the shape is hard to miss. Ganbarion took the ambitious swings — the survival adventure, the hangout RPG, the open world — and scored 67, 71 and 58. Omega Force made crowd-clearing musou games and scored 74 and 75. ILCA made a straightforward turn-based JRPG and scored 73.
Every time a One Piece game reaches for the structure of a prestige action game, it reviews worse than when it commits to being a well-made genre exercise. That is not a knock on ambition; it is a reflection of budget. One Piece games are made to a licensed-tie-in cost, and the genres that survive that budget are the ones with repeatable systems. The franchise has never been given the money that its 500 million printed volumes would justify.
The same tension runs through other shonen adaptations. Our rankings of the best Dragon Ball games and the best Naruto games land on the same conclusion from different directions — the fighting games outlive the experiments.
What Is Coming Next
The next One Piece game is not a brawler at all. One Piece: Grand Gourmet, announced by Bandai Namco in June 2026, is a cooking and restaurant management sim built around Sanji and a floating restaurant, with more than 400 characters in a new art style. It launches on 23 October 2026 for Nintendo Switch, Switch 2, PC via Steam and mobile, per Bandai Namco’s announcement. There is also One Piece Dawn Strike, an arcade boxing game that reached selected Japanese arcades in July 2026.
Whether a management sim breaks the 80 barrier is anyone’s guess. On this list’s evidence, the safer bet is that it does what One Piece games reliably do: make a solid genre game, review in the low seventies, and sell anyway.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the best One Piece game?
One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4 (2020). It holds a Metascore of 75 from 47 critics, has the largest and most-updated roster in the franchise, and is the only entry available on PS5, Xbox Series X and Switch 2 as well as older hardware.
Has any One Piece game scored above 80 on Metacritic?
No. The highest Metascore in the franchise is 76, for the 2005 Game Boy Advance game, and that figure is based on only four critic reviews. The highest score from a large sample is Pirate Warriors 4’s 75 from 47 critics.
Is One Piece Odyssey worth playing?
Yes, if you want story rather than combat. It is the only One Piece game with an original narrative Oda contributed to, including the exclusive characters Adio and Lim that he designed, and it reviewed at 73 from 70 critics. Its weakness is mid-game pacing.
Which One Piece game should I avoid?
One Piece: World Seeker (2019). It is the lowest-rated entry at 58 from 47 critics, and unusually its user score of 5.0 is lower than its critic score, with 46% of the 240 user ratings negative.
What is the next One Piece game?
One Piece: Grand Gourmet, a cooking and restaurant management sim launching 23 October 2026 on Nintendo Switch, Switch 2, PC via Steam and mobile. It features more than 400 characters.
