 "Game Informer" called it its 15th favourite game in 2001.Its staff thought that it was the best non-"Final Fantasy" game Square had produced at the time.GameSpot included "Chrono Trigger" in "The Greatest Games of All Time" list released in April 2006, and it also appeared as 28th on an "All Time Top 100" list in a poll conducted by Japanese magazine "Famitsu" the same year.