Every ArcheAge game, ranked
All 2 ArcheAge games we hold, spanning 2015 to 2019: 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 11,093 Steam reviews.
Where to start
- For the best-reviewed: ArcheAge (GamingPickz Score 5.7), the highest-rated entry we can score.
The ArcheAge 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 ArcheAge games, ranked
Ordered by GamingPickz Score. Every figure links back to the source that produced it.
ArcheAge at a glance Released 2015 Studio XLGAMES Player sentiment 52% positive of 7,338 Critics 80/100 Price Not listed Steam Deck unknown Install size 70 GB Accessibility 0 declared features Raw 52% shrinks to 53.6 on 7,338 reviews, then blends with the 80 critic aggregate, giving 5.7.
Worth checking first- Critics rate it well above players, 80 against 54. Worth reading why before buying.
- Carries in-game purchases. Check what they cost before committing.
- Flagged for mature content on its store page.
ArcheAge: Unchained at a glance Released 2019 Studio XLGAMES Player sentiment 53% positive of 3,755 Critics No aggregate Price Not listed Steam Deck unknown Install size 70 GB Accessibility 0 declared features Raw 53% shrinks to 56.0 on 3,755 reviews, giving 5.0. No critics data, so that weight was redistributed across the rest rather than counted as zero.
Worth checking first- Carries in-game purchases. Check what they cost before committing.
- Flagged for mature content on its store page.
- Multiplayer only. There is no solo mode to fall back on.
Best and worst entry
The best-received ArcheAge game we can score is ArcheAge at 5.7. The lowest is ArcheAge: Unchained at 5.0, a 0.7-point spread across the series. The GamingPickz Score is a composite of player sentiment, critics and popularity, computed the same way for every game.
Platforms across the series
Where the 2 ArcheAge games have landed, counting every entry we hold:
| Platform family | Entries |
|---|---|
| PC | 2 of 2 |
The ArcheAge series, game by game
Every ArcheAge 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.
- 2015
ArcheAge
5.7Play ArcheAge - A vast open-world sandbox MMORPG with everything you can possibly imagine. (Steam)
Reception
Reception ArcheAge has received generally favorable reviews from critics, holding a score of 80 out of 100 on Metacritic based on 11 critic reviews. ^ "ArcheAge for PC Reviews" . Metacritic . (Wikipedia)
- 2019
ArcheAge: Unchained removes the barrier between you and the ultimate MMO experience. (Steam)
ArcheAge, head to head
Two entries side by side on score, price, specs and reception:
ArcheAge vs other series
How ArcheAge stacks up against other series in the same genre, as a whole:
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Common questions
How many ArcheAge games are there?
We hold 2 ArcheAge games in the catalogue, released between 2015 and 2019. 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 ArcheAge game is best?
By the GamingPickz Score, ArcheAge rates highest at 5.7. 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 ArcheAge games in?
Release order is listed below, from 2015 to 2019. 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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