Every Blasphemous game, ranked
All 2 Blasphemous games we hold, spanning 2019 to 2023: 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 88,150 Steam reviews.
Where to start
- For the best-reviewed: Blasphemous (GamingPickz Score 7.9), the highest-rated entry we can score.
- For the money: Blasphemous 2 gives the most score per dollar right now.
The Blasphemous 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 Blasphemous games, ranked
Ordered by GamingPickz Score. Every figure links back to the source that produced it.
- 1
Blasphemous
Best for: Handheld play, small install and Deck verified
7.9GamingPickz Scorehigh confidenceBlasphemous at a glance Released 2019 Studio The Game Kitchen Player sentiment 90% positive of 66,881 Critics 77/100 Price $24.99 Steam Deck verified Install size 4 GB Accessibility 1 declared feature Raw 90% shrinks to 90.0 on 66,881 reviews, then blends with the 77 critic aggregate, giving 7.9.
What the data supports- Valve has tested it and rates it Verified on the Steam Deck.
- Small install at 4 GB.
Worth checking first- Players rate it well above critics, 90 against 77. Usually a sign it improved after launch, or that it delivers something reviewers undervalued.
- Flagged for mature content on its store page.
- 2
Blasphemous 2
Best for: Handheld play, small install and Deck verified
7.9GamingPickz Scorehigh confidenceBlasphemous 2 at a glance Released 2023 Studio The Game Kitchen Player sentiment 91% positive of 21,269 Critics 83/100 Price $9.49 Steam Deck verified Install size 4 GB Accessibility 1 declared feature Raw 91% shrinks to 90.9 on 21,269 reviews, then blends with the 83 critic aggregate, giving 7.9.
What the data supports- Valve has tested it and rates it Verified on the Steam Deck.
- Small install at 4 GB.
Worth checking first- Flagged for mature content on its store page.
Best and worst entry
The best-received Blasphemous game we can score is Blasphemous at 7.9. The lowest is Blasphemous 2 at 7.9, a 0.0-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: Blasphemous 2 at $9.49. Prices are read live from Steam and move.
- Best value: Blasphemous 2, 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 Blasphemous entries on Steam:
- Verified: Blasphemous, Blasphemous 2
Platforms across the series
Where the 2 Blasphemous games have landed, counting every entry we hold:
| Platform family | Entries |
|---|---|
| PC | 2 of 2 |
The Blasphemous series, game by game
Every Blasphemous 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
Blasphemous
7.9Blasphemous is a brutal action-platformer with skilled hack’n slash combat set in the nightmare world of Cvstodia. Explore, upgrade your abilities, and perform savage executions on the hordes of enemies that stand between you and your quest to break eternal damnation. (Steam)
- 2023
The Penitent One awakens as Blasphemous 2 joins him once again in an endless struggle against The Miracle. Dive into a perilous new world filled with mysteries and secrets to discover, and tear your way through monstrous foes that stand between you and your quest to end the cycle once and for all. (Steam)
Plot
Setting and characters Set many years after the Wounds of Eventide ending, worship for the Miracle had declined following the death of the High Wills and Escribar, and for a time, Cvstodia experienced an age without gods or the Miracle's influence. However, pain and suffering remained in the world, and people eventually began praying for a greater power to relieve their suffering, giving the Miracle an opportunity to return. The Miracle eventually… (Wikipedia)
Reception
Reception Blasphemous 2 received "generally favorable" reviews, according to review aggregator website Metacritic . OpenCritic determined that 94% of critics recommended it. Travis Northup from IGN described the game as "a gloriously gross return to Cvstodia", and added that despite the game's lack of originality with its design, "it more than makes up for with its bizarre world, appalling story, and inspired look and sound". (Wikipedia)
Blasphemous, head to head
Two entries side by side on score, price, specs and reception:
Blasphemous vs other series
How Blasphemous stacks up against other series in the same genre, as a whole:
Common questions
How many Blasphemous games are there?
We hold 2 Blasphemous games in the catalogue, released between 2019 and 2023. 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 Blasphemous game is best?
By the GamingPickz Score, Blasphemous 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 Blasphemous games in?
Release order is listed below, from 2019 to 2023. 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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