Golden Sun

Evil is slowly covering the world. Forces of darkness are pursuing the lost art of Alchemy, and the fate of mankind hangs in the balance. You and your companions, armed with weapons, Psynergy magic, and a host…

90 1 August 2001

Adventure Role-playing (RPG) Fantasy

Golden Sun is an adventure developed by Camelot Software Planning, released 1 August 2001 on Wii U and Game Boy Advance. The main story takes about 26 hrs to finish.

Verified 29 Sep 2026 Sources: IGDB , Wikipedia

What Golden Sun is

Golden Sun is an adventure game developed by Camelot Software Planning and released in 2001. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Wii U and Game Boy Advance.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Golden Sun is a series of fantasy role-playing video games developed by Camelot Software Planning and published by Nintendo. It follows the story of a group of magically attuned "adepts" who are charged with preventing the potentially destructive power of alchemy from being released as it was in the past. Players navigate characters through the game's world by defeating enemies, solving puzzles, and completing assigned missions to complete the storyline.

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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Golden Sun series

Golden Sun is the first of 3 entries we hold in the Golden Sun series. The next entry was Golden Sun: The Lost Age in 2002. Its critic score of 90 is 5 points above the series average of 85. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.

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How it was received

Golden Sun holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 92% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2001 averaged 72, so it scored 18 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 86, across 147 votes.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 26 hrs.

What it launched against

Golden Sun launched on 1 August 2001, within three weeks of Final Fantasy X, Max Payne, Mario Kart: Super Circuit and Wario Land 4. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Final Fantasy X, Max Payne, Mario Kart: Super Circuit, Wario Land 4.

Cheats and codes

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