Avatar: The Last Airbender — The Burning Earth
94%
of ballots
The 2025 Flagship Ranking
The Definitive Avatar Games Tier List — All 47 Titles, Ranked by 14,200 of You.
Six years of continuous votes, three studio closures, one canonical ledger. This is the community-weighted ranking of every officially licensed Avatar: The Last Airbender video game — from the 2006 GBA original to last winter's browser release. Cast a single ballot before Friday at midnight, and your vote feeds the bands you see.
The full ranking, the reasoning behind every S-tier placement, and the weekly ballot digest arrive every Friday. No filler — just tiers.
Methodology
How the tier list is actually built.
Every ballot is one of four weighted votes — a five-axis ledger that we rebuilt in 2019 and have not touched since, because the axes held. The bands shift only when the community shifts them.
Axis 01
Gameplay Quality
How the title plays in 2025 — controller feel, frame pacing, encounter design, camera, and the moment-to-moment loop. A 2006 GBA brawler is judged as a GBA brawler, not against a 2025 action RPG.
Axis 02
Lore Fidelity
Whether the game stays inside the canonical ATLA universe — bending taxonomy, character voice, era placement, and the small lore cues that separate a licensed adaptation from a coat of paint.
Axis 03
Replay Value
New Game+, bonus content, branching routes, post-credits bosses, the second playthrough you actually start. We weight replay against a ten-hour working week, not against an unemployed speedrunner.
Axis 04
Speedrun Viability
Whether the routes are clean enough to race. This is why the 2007 PS2 title sits a band higher than its sequel — and why the four speedrun.com records on our wall are spread across three different games.
The full methodology document, including the original 2019 weighting paper and the 2022 revision notes, lives in the wiki under /wiki/ · ranking methodology.
An Editorial Aside
“We do not rank these games to wound the people who loved them. We rank them because fandom is a craft — and a craft is the slow, careful work of saying what is good, and why, and to whom. The ledger is a love letter written in five axes.”
— Mira Vasquez, Lead Lore Consultant, in the 2022 winter retrospective
The Ledger
The 2025 community tier list — all 47 games ranked.
Bands are color-coded by the dominant elemental nation of each game's setting. The community vote column shows the percentage of ballots placing the title in its current band — a 90% is a settled placement; a 51% is contested.
Filter
S — Canon-defining
A — Excellent
B — Solid
C — Forgiving
D — Curio
S
Canon-Defining
Avatar: The Last Airbender — Into the Inferno
89%
of ballots
A
Excellent
Avatar: The Last Airbender — The Rift
86%
of ballots
Avatar: The Last Airbender — Quest for Balance
81%
of ballots
B
Solid
Avatar: The Last Airbender — Fire & Shadow
72%
of ballots
Avatar: The Last Airbender — The Legend of Aang
68%
of ballots
Avatar: The Last Airbender — North & South
64%
of ballots
Avatar: The Last Airbender — Smoke & Stone
61%
of ballots
C
Forgiving
Avatar: The Last Airbender — Path of Zuko
58%
of ballots
D
Curio
Avatar: The Last Airbender — Escape from the Spirit World
71%
of ballots
Showing 10 of 47 ranked titles. Open the full ledger →
By the Numbers
The live community behind the list.
14,200
Community votes cast since launch
47
Officially licensed games indexed
4
World records held on speedrun.com
12,000+
Lore wiki entries cross-referenced to the show
Last ledger refresh: Thursday, 13 November 2025, 23:47 PT. Next refresh: Friday, 21 November 2025.
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A single ballot feeds the bands above. The Friday newsletter prints the week's biggest shifts, the three most-contested placements, and one editor's note from the lore desk. No advertisements, no sponsored tiers — just the ledger and the people who keep it honest.