Every A Plague Tale game, ranked
All 2 A Plague Tale games we hold, spanning 2019 to 2022: 2 ranked by the GamingPickz Score and plotted below, the rest listed in release order so nothing in the series is missing. Together they carry 98,202 Steam reviews.
Where to start
- For the best-reviewed: A Plague Tale: Innocence (GamingPickz Score 7.9), the highest-rated entry we can score.
The A Plague Tale games on the grid
Compare the whole catalogueThe same 2 games, plotted rather than listed. The two axes below are the ones the ranking is built from, so a game sitting high and right is a game the formula placed near the top. Change either axis to see the field a different way. Where we hold a publisher wordmark, the game is drawn as its mark rather than a dot.
2 games have both
Axes are fitted to these 2 games rather than the full 0 to 100 scale, because a filtered list shares a narrow band and would otherwise sit in one corner. End values are marked. A point on the left edge is the lowest of thesegames, not a low score.
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.
- Multi-platform
- Xbox
Every point links to that game's entry. The value map and the reception map are fixed views of the same data.
How positions are decided
No paid placement, no favouritism, live third-party data
- 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.
2 best A Plague Tale games, ranked
Ordered by GamingPickz Score. Every figure links back to the source that produced it.
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A Plague Tale: Innocence
Best for: A consistently well-received pick in this category
7.9GamingPickz Scorehigh confidenceA Plague Tale: Innocence at a glance Released 2019 Studio Asobo Studio Player sentiment 93% positive of 71,473 Critics 81/100 Price $39.99 Steam Deck playable Install size 50 GB Accessibility 1 declared feature Raw 93% shrinks to 92.9 on 71,473 reviews, then blends with the 81 critic aggregate, giving 7.9.
Worth checking first- Flagged for mature content on its store page.
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A Plague Tale: Requiem
Best for: A consistently well-received pick in this category
7.6GamingPickz Scorehigh confidenceA Plague Tale: Requiem at a glance Released 2022 Studio Asobo Studio Player sentiment 91% positive of 26,729 Critics 82/100 Price $49.99 Steam Deck verified Install size 55 GB Accessibility 8 declared features Raw 91% shrinks to 90.9 on 26,729 reviews, then blends with the 82 critic aggregate, giving 7.6.
What the data supports- Valve has tested it and rates it Verified on the Steam Deck.
- Declares 8 accessibility features, well above the catalogue norm.
Worth checking first- Flagged for mature content on its store page.
Best and worst entry
The best-received A Plague Tale game we can score is A Plague Tale: Innocence at 7.9. The lowest is A Plague Tale: Requiem at 7.6, a 0.3-point spread across the series. The GamingPickz Score is a composite of player sentiment, critics and popularity, computed the same way for every game.
Cheapest way in, and best value
- Cheapest right now: A Plague Tale: Innocence at $39.99. Prices are read live from Steam and move.
- Best value: A Plague Tale: Innocence, the most GamingPickz Score per dollar in the series at its current price.
On a Steam Deck
Valve's own Deck compatibility rating for the A Plague Tale entries on Steam:
- Verified: A Plague Tale: Requiem
- Playable: A Plague Tale: Innocence
Platforms across the series
Where the 2 A Plague Tale games have landed, counting every entry we hold:
| Platform family | Entries |
|---|---|
| PC | 2 of 2 |
| PlayStation | 1 of 2 |
| Xbox | 2 of 2 |
| Nintendo | 1 of 2 |
The A Plague Tale series, game by game
Every A Plague Tale game we hold, in release order. Each description is the game's own, from Steam where it has a listing and Wikipedia for the older entries, never ours.
- 2019
Follow the grim tale of young Amicia and her little brother Hugo, in a heartrending journey through the darkest hours of history. (Steam)
Plot
In November 1348, Amicia de Rune is a 15-year-old French noble living in Aquitaine during the Hundred Years' War between England and France . Her five-year-old brother, Hugo, has been ill since birth; their mother, Beatrice, an alchemist, has sheltered him in their estate while trying to devise a cure. While hunting with her father Robert in the forest, Amicia encounters an unusual substance on the ground, and her dog Lion is gruesomely consumed by an… (Wikipedia)
Reception
Reception A Plague Tale: Innocence received "generally favorable" reviews from critics, according to review aggregator website Metacritic . Sales In the United Kingdom, the game was the ninth-best-selling retail game in its week of release. In July 2020, Focus Home Interactive announced that it had sold over one million units. (Wikipedia)
- 2022
Embark on a heartrending journey into a brutal, breathtaking world, and discover the cost of saving those you love in a desperate struggle for survival. Strike from the shadows or unleash hell with a variety of weapons, tools and unearthly powers. (Steam)
Plot
In June 1349, six months following the events of the first game , siblings Amicia (Charlotte McBurney) and Hugo de Rune (Logan Hannan), along with their mother Beatrice (Lucy Briggs-Owen) and her apprentice Lucas ( Kit Connor ), seek refuge among an organization of alchemists called the Order. A hostile group of survivalist beekeepers attack the siblings, causing the Prima Macula to reawaken in Hugo. The group hides in a fortified town in Provence where… (Wikipedia)
Reception
Reception A Plague Tale: Requiem received "generally favorable" reviews from critics, according to review aggregator website Metacritic . Sales In the United Kingdom, the game was the fifth best-selling retail game in its week of release. On 4 November 2022, Focus Entertainment announced that the game had reached over 1 million players. (Wikipedia)
A Plague Tale, head to head
Two entries side by side on score, price, specs and reception:
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Common questions
How many A Plague Tale games are there?
We hold 2 A Plague Tale games in the catalogue, released between 2019 and 2022. 2 of them carry enough Steam data to rank; the rest are listed in release order below, including console-only entries with no Steam listing.
Which A Plague Tale game is best?
By the GamingPickz Score, A Plague Tale: Innocence rates highest at 7.9. That is a composite of player sentiment, the critic aggregate and popularity, computed the same way for every game, not our opinion. The full ranking is above.
What order should I play the A Plague Tale games in?
Release order is listed below, from 2019 to 2022. For most series that is also story order, but we list dates rather than telling you a canon; the timeline is read from Wikidata.
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