Every America's Army game, ranked
All 2 America's Army games we hold, spanning 2009 to 2013: 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 13,532 Steam reviews.
Where to start
- For the best-reviewed: America's Army: Proving Grounds (GamingPickz Score 6.8), the highest-rated entry we can score.
- For canon order: begin with America's Army 3 (2009) and follow the release-order timeline below.
The America's Army 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.
- PC
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 America's Army games, ranked
Ordered by GamingPickz Score. Every figure links back to the source that produced it.
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America's Army: Proving Grounds
Best for: Trying the genre without spending anything
6.8GamingPickz Scoremedium confidenceAmerica's Army: Proving Grounds at a glance Released 2013 Studio U.S. Army Player sentiment 79% positive of 11,051 Critics No aggregate Price Free Steam Deck playable Install size 9.77 GB Accessibility 1 declared feature Raw 79% shrinks to 79.2 on 11,051 reviews, giving 6.8. No critics data, so that weight was redistributed across the rest rather than counted as zero.
What the data supports- Free to download, so trying it costs only time.
- Small install at 9.77 GB.
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America's Army 3
Best for: Trying the genre without spending anything
6.3GamingPickz Scoremedium confidenceAmerica's Army 3 at a glance Released 2009 Studio U.S. Army Player sentiment 71% positive of 2,481 Critics 70/100 Price Free Steam Deck unsupported Install size Not stated Accessibility 0 declared features Raw 71% shrinks to 72.8 on 2,481 reviews, then blends with the 70 critic aggregate, giving 6.3.
What the data supports- Free to download, so trying it costs only time.
Worth checking first- Valve rates it Unsupported on the Steam Deck.
Best and worst entry
The best-received America's Army game we can score is America's Army: Proving Grounds at 6.8. The lowest is America's Army 3 at 6.3, a 0.5-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: America's Army 3 at Free. Prices are read live from Steam and move.
On a Steam Deck
Valve's own Deck compatibility rating for the America's Army entries on Steam:
- Playable: America's Army: Proving Grounds
- Unsupported: America's Army 3
Platforms across the series
Where the 2 America's Army games have landed, counting every entry we hold:
| Platform family | Entries |
|---|---|
| PC | 2 of 2 |
The America's Army series, game by game
Every America's Army 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.
- 2009
Download AA3 Today and Become a Member of the elite America's Army Team! America's Army fans and new players alike can now experience America's Army 3, the official U.S. Army game. (Steam)
Reception
America's Army has been generally positively received. GameSpot stated: "nothing beats going in and seeing what the Army really does. Without actually having to do it. (Wikipedia)
- 2013
America’s Army: Proving Grounds is the official game of the U.S. Army and part of the highly acclaimed America’s Army game series. This free military game focuses on small unit tactical maneuvers and puts you to the test in a wide variety of new America’s Army maps and AA fan favorites. (Steam)
Reception
America's Army has been generally positively received. GameSpot stated: "nothing beats going in and seeing what the Army really does. Without actually having to do it. (Wikipedia)
America's Army, head to head
Two entries side by side on score, price, specs and reception:
America's Army vs other series
How America's Army stacks up against other series in the same genre, as a whole:
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Common questions
How many America's Army games are there?
We hold 2 America's Army games in the catalogue, released between 2009 and 2013. 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 America's Army game is best?
By the GamingPickz Score, America's Army: Proving Grounds rates highest at 6.8. 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 America's Army games in?
Release order is listed below, from 2009 to 2013. 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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