Every Crysis game, ranked
All 3 Crysis games we hold, spanning 2011 to 2022: 3 ranked by the GamingPickz Score and plotted below, the rest listed in release order so nothing in the series is missing. Together they carry 39,782 Steam reviews.
Where to start
- For the best-reviewed: Crysis 3 Remastered (GamingPickz Score 7.4), the highest-rated entry we can score.
- For canon order: begin with Crysis 2 - Maximum Edition (2011) and follow the release-order timeline below.
- For the money: Crysis Remastered gives the most score per dollar right now.
The Crysis games on the grid
Compare the whole catalogueThe same 3 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.
3 games have both
Axes are fitted to these 3 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.
3 best Crysis games, ranked
Ordered by GamingPickz Score. Every figure links back to the source that produced it.
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Crysis 3 Remastered
Best for: Handheld play, small install and Deck verified
7.4GamingPickz Scoremedium confidenceCrysis 3 Remastered at a glance Released 2022 Studio Crytek Player sentiment 88% positive of 8,194 Critics No aggregate Price $13.49 Steam Deck verified Install size 18 GB Accessibility 1 declared feature Raw 88% shrinks to 87.8 on 8,194 reviews, giving 7.4. No critics data, so that weight was redistributed across the rest rather than counted as zero.
What the data supports- Valve has tested it and rates it Verified on the Steam Deck.
Worth checking first- Flagged for mature content on its store page.
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Crysis 2 - Maximum Edition
Best for: A consistently well-received pick in this category
7.3GamingPickz Scoremedium confidenceCrysis 2 - Maximum Edition at a glance Released 2011 Studio Crytek Studios Player sentiment 85% positive of 13,866 Critics No aggregate Price $29.99 Steam Deck playable Install size Not stated Accessibility 1 declared feature Raw 85% shrinks to 85.0 on 13,866 reviews, giving 7.3. No critics data, so that weight was redistributed across the rest rather than counted as zero.
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Crysis Remastered
Best for: A consistently well-received pick in this category
6.8GamingPickz Scoremedium confidenceCrysis Remastered at a glance Released 2021 Studio Crytek Player sentiment 77% positive of 17,722 Critics No aggregate Price $10.49 Steam Deck playable Install size 20 GB Accessibility 1 declared feature Raw 77% shrinks to 77.1 on 17,722 reviews, giving 6.8. No critics data, so that weight was redistributed across the rest rather than counted as zero.
Worth checking first- Flagged for mature content on its store page.
Best and worst entry
The best-received Crysis game we can score is Crysis 3 Remastered at 7.4. The lowest is Crysis Remastered at 6.8, a 0.6-point spread across the series. The GamingPickz Score is a composite of player sentiment, critics and popularity, computed the same way for every game.
How the series scored over time
GamingPickz Score against release year, 2011 to 2022. It has held roughly steady across the years.
Cheapest way in, and best value
- Cheapest right now: Crysis Remastered at $10.49. Prices are read live from Steam and move.
- Best value: Crysis Remastered, 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 Crysis entries on Steam:
- Verified: Crysis 3 Remastered
- Playable: Crysis 2 - Maximum Edition, Crysis Remastered
Platforms across the series
Where the 3 Crysis games have landed, counting every entry we hold:
| Platform family | Entries |
|---|---|
| PC | 3 of 3 |
The Crysis series, game by game
Every Crysis 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.
- 2011
Aliens are decimating New York City, only you have the technology to survive. Be The Weapon. (Steam)
- 2021
The classic first person shooter from Crytek is back with the action-packed gameplay, sandbox world, and thrilling epic battles you loved the first time around – now with remastered graphics optimized for a new generation of hardware. (Steam)
Plot
The game begins on August 7, 2020, when North Korean forces led by General Ri-Chan Kyong take control of the Lingshan Islands. A team of American civilian archaeologists, led by Dr. Rosenthal, sends out a distress call indicating that they have discovered something that could change the world. (Wikipedia)
Reception
Critical reception Reception Upon its release, Crysis was met with critical acclaim. Review aggregator website Metacritic rated the PC version 91/100, the Xbox 360 version 81/100, and the PlayStation 3 version 81/100. The game was awarded a 98% in the PC Gamer U. (Wikipedia)
- 2022
Experience the single-player experience from the iconic first-person shooter, Crysis 3, optimized to take advantage of today's hardware in Crysis 3 Remastered. (Steam)
Plot
Setting Players take on the role of Prophet as he returns to New York City in 2047, 24 years after the events of Crysis 2 . He discovers the city has been encased in a giant dome created by the corrupt CELL corporation. The New York City Liberty Dome is a veritable urban rainforest teeming with overgrown trees, dense swamplands, and raging rivers. (Wikipedia)
Reception
Critical reception Reception Crysis 3 has received generally positive reviews from critics. Aggregating review websites Metacritic rated the Xbox 360 version 76/100, the PlayStation 3 version 77/100 and the PC version 76/100. The visuals and graphics of the game were widely praised by reviewers. (Wikipedia)
Crysis, head to head
Two entries side by side on score, price, specs and reception:
Crysis vs other series
How Crysis stacks up against other series in the same genre, as a whole:
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Common questions
How many Crysis games are there?
We hold 3 Crysis games in the catalogue, released between 2011 and 2022. 3 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 Crysis game is best?
By the GamingPickz Score, Crysis 3 Remastered rates highest at 7.4. 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 Crysis games in?
Release order is listed below, from 2011 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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