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Gear Up vs Ravenfield

Gear Up is an FPS open-world game from Doctor Entertainment AB (2015) while Ravenfield is an FPS sandbox game from SteelRaven7 (2017).

Gear Up

2015 · Doctor Entertainment AB

6.5GamingPickz Score

Free

Steam: Mostly Positive

Ravenfield

2017 · SteelRaven7

8.5GamingPickz Score

$17.99

Steam: Overwhelmingly Positive

What each one is

Steam files Gear Up under FPS and Open-World. In contrast, it files Ravenfield under FPS and Sandbox.

Gear Up

Feel the adrenaline as you control your unique tank in multiplayer arcade action! Build your ultimate war machine from over a million different combinations. Now, will you go for the rumbling caterpillar tracks or the crawling spider legs?

Description from its Steam store page

Ravenfield

Fight upon the Ravenfield together with your Blue allies! Take down those pesky Reds using helicopters, tanks, guns, and active ragdoll physics!

Description from its Steam store page

At a glance

Gear UpRavenfield
GamingPickz Score6.5/108.5/10
Steam ratingMostly Positive (75%, 8,339)Overwhelmingly Positive (97%, 79,971)
Critic aggregateNo aggregateNo aggregate
PriceFree$17.99
Install size1 GB
Steam Deckplayableplayable
Released20152017
DeveloperDoctor Entertainment ABSteelRaven7

Prices and Steam ratings are read live and move over time.

Gear Up vs Ravenfield, point by point

Each facet side by side. A round is marked won only where a figure settles it; feel and "which is better" carry no mark, because no number we hold decides them.

  1. Genre and premise

    Gear UpFPS open-world game
    RavenfieldFPS sandbox game

    What each is filed as. Each game describes itself in full above; we do not judge a premise.

  2. How it plays

    Gear UpFree to Play, Robots, Action
    RavenfieldFPS, War, Shooter

    The tags players apply most, in order of votes. A read on feel, not a verdict.

  3. Reception

    Gear UpScore 6.5 · 75% on Steam
    RavenfieldScore 8.5 · 97% on Steam

    The GamingPickz Score is a composite of player sentiment, critics and popularity, computed the same way for every game.

  4. Content and scale

    Gear Up8,339 reviews
    Ravenfield79,971 reviews · 1 GB

    Reach and footprint, not quality: more reviews or a bigger install is not a better game.

  5. Price

    Gear UpFree
    Ravenfield$17.99

    Read live from Steam and subject to change.

  6. On a Steam Deck

    Gear UpPlayable
    RavenfieldPlayable

    Valve's own Deck compatibility rating.

Across the rounds a number can settle, it is level at 1 each. Which one is "better" is the part no figure decides, so we leave it to what you want from the two.

The two on the grid

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Gear Up and Ravenfield on the axes the GamingPickz Score is built from, on the full 0 to 100 scale so each dot is its real position. Change either axis to compare them on any measure.

2 games have both

01000100PlayersPopularityGear Up

Players. The share of Steam reviews marked positive, pulled toward the catalogue average in proportion to how few reviews stand behind it. A game with 200 reviews moves a long way toward the average; one with 200,000 barely moves at all. Without this a title sitting at 100 percent on nine reviews outranks Half-Life 2 at 98 percent on 278,000.

Popularity. A blend of two things that are not the same. Audience is how many people wrote a Steam review, which is a floor on how many played it. Reach is how many language editions of Wikipedia document the game, which is cultural footprint rather than sales. A game can score high on one and low on the other: a huge free-to-play title has audience without reach, and a landmark console exclusive has reach without a Steam audience at all. Where both exist they are averaged; where only one does, that one carries it.

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How positions are decided

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  • Placed by the published method, not by us. Every coordinate is computed from the axis definitions and weights printed on this site. Nobody moves a point. See the axes.
  • Nothing here is paid for. No sponsored placements, no promoted slots, no arrangement of any kind affects a position. If that ever changes it will be labelled and sit outside the ranking.
  • No favouritism, including our own. The 16 games we have written full reviews of are scored by exactly the same formula as the other 1,510, from the same third-party inputs, and they land where it puts them. Our own opinion of a game does not enter its coordinates.
  • A position is not an endorsement. It says how a game was received and what it costs, not that we recommend it. Where we do recommend something, it carries a written review with a name on it.
  • Fetched from live third-party data. Player sentiment from Steam, critic aggregates as published on store pages, prices checked hourly, attention from Wikipedia. Each figure carries its source and the date it was read, and we do not adjust any of them.

Which to pick, by what you want

  • The higher-rated of the two: Ravenfield (GamingPickz Score 8.5)
  • The cheaper right now: Gear Up (Free)
  • The safer bet by weight of reviews: Ravenfield (79,971 reviews)

What they have in common

Both are tagged by Steam players with:

ActionShooterWarSandboxIndieStrategyFunnySimulation

Where they differ

Gear Up is also

Free to PlayMultiplayerRobotsBuildingTanksPvP

Ravenfield is also

MilitaryFirst-PersonEarly AccessTeam-BasedTacticalModdable

Tags players apply to one game and not the other.

Difficulty and who each is for

By the tags players apply, Gear Up is middle-of-the-road on difficulty. Ravenfield is middle-of-the-road on difficulty.

System requirements, side by side

Gear UpRavenfield
Minimum GPUDirectX 10Intel HD 4000
Minimum CPUIntel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz32-bit, 2 GHz
Minimum RAM2 GB4 GB
Install size1 GB

Can your PC run them? Check each against your own kit: Gear Up · Ravenfield.

Accessibility features

Steam store pages declare 1 accessibility feature for Gear Up and 1 for Ravenfield. A declaration is a floor, not a review.

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Common questions

How different are Gear Up and Ravenfield in scope?

Gear Up has drawn 8,339 Steam reviews. Ravenfield has drawn 79,971 Steam reviews and installs in 1 GB.

Is Gear Up or Ravenfield better?

By the GamingPickz Score, Ravenfield rates higher (8.5 to 6.5). That is a composite of player sentiment, the critic aggregate and popularity, not our taste. "Better" also depends on price, length and platform, which the table above lays out.

Which is cheaper, Gear Up or Ravenfield?

Gear Up is cheaper right now at Free, against $17.99. Prices move, so this is read live from Steam and can change.

Do you rank one above the other for a fee?

No. Neither game, nor anyone else, pays for placement or a verdict here. The order and every figure come out of the same public data the rest of the site uses.

How we compare, and what we will not do

The GamingPickz Score is a composite of player sentiment (adjusted for sample size), the critic aggregate and popularity, computed by the same code every ranked list on this site uses. The Steam rating label is Valve's own, reconstructed from the positive percentage and review count. Prices are read live. We do not write an opinion of which game is "better": we report the numbers and say which wins each measurable question above.

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