Every Day of Defeat game, ranked
All 2 Day of Defeat games we hold, spanning 2003 to 2010: 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 30,966 Steam reviews.
Where to start
- For the best-reviewed: Day of Defeat: Source (GamingPickz Score 7.9), the highest-rated entry we can score.
- For canon order: begin with Day of Defeat (2003) and follow the release-order timeline below.
- For the money: Day of Defeat gives the most score per dollar right now.
The Day of Defeat 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 Day of Defeat games, ranked
Ordered by GamingPickz Score. Every figure links back to the source that produced it.
Day of Defeat: Source at a glance Released 2010 Studio Valve Player sentiment 92% positive of 23,601 Critics 80/100 Price $9.99 Steam Deck playable Install size Not stated Accessibility 6 declared features Raw 92% shrinks to 91.9 on 23,601 reviews, then blends with the 80 critic aggregate, giving 7.9.
Worth checking first- Flagged for mature content on its store page.
- Multiplayer only. There is no solo mode to fall back on.
Day of Defeat at a glance Released 2003 Studio Valve Player sentiment 90% positive of 7,365 Critics 79/100 Price $4.99 Steam Deck playable Install size Not stated Accessibility 4 declared features Raw 90% shrinks to 89.7 on 7,365 reviews, then blends with the 79 critic aggregate, giving 7.6.
Worth checking first- 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 Day of Defeat game we can score is Day of Defeat: Source at 7.9. The lowest is Day of Defeat 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: Day of Defeat at $4.99. Prices are read live from Steam and move.
- Best value: Day of Defeat, 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 Day of Defeat entries on Steam:
- Playable: Day of Defeat, Day of Defeat: Source
Platforms across the series
Where the 2 Day of Defeat games have landed, counting every entry we hold:
| Platform family | Entries |
|---|---|
| PC | 2 of 2 |
The Day of Defeat series, game by game
Every Day of Defeat 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.
- 2003
Enlist in an intense brand of Axis vs. Allied teamplay set in the WWII European Theatre of Operations. Players assume the role of light/assault/heavy infantry, sniper or machine-gunner class, each with a unique arsenal of historical weaponry at their disposal. Missions are based on key historical operations. (Steam)
Plot
A player takes cover behind rubble in order to avoid enemy fire. Day of Defeat's initial retail offering included fifteen maps, each depicting different scenarios with variation in size and thematic locations. These often drew inspiration from historical World War II battles, such as the battle at Omaha Beach and street-fighting in the Italian city of Salerno during Operation Avalanche . (Wikipedia)
Reception
Reception Day of Defeat received "generally favorable reviews" according to the review aggregation website Metacritic . IGN praised the game for its use of narrow spaces to stimulate the game's "relentless pacing", and GameSpy spoke highly of its attention to detail. Reviewers also praised Day of Defeat for its promotion of teamwork through purposefully tight corridors that force players to cooperate, lest they be killed by an enemy outside their field… (Wikipedia)
- 2010
Valve's WWII Multiplayer Classic - Now available for Mac. (Steam)
Reception
Reception Day of Defeat: Source was given a positive reception, receiving ratings of 80/100 and 81% from the review aggregation sites Metacritic and GameRankings . The game's graphics received praise, with GameSpot stating that "presentation is Day of Defeat: Source s most obvious strength", and PC Zone citing this for creating a "tense and atmospheric" game. The ragdoll physics in the game noted by reviewers as being "amusing", and the game's audio work… (Wikipedia)
Day of Defeat, head to head
Two entries side by side on score, price, specs and reception:
Day of Defeat vs other series
How Day of Defeat stacks up against other series in the same genre, as a whole:
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Common questions
How many Day of Defeat games are there?
We hold 2 Day of Defeat games in the catalogue, released between 2003 and 2010. 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 Day of Defeat game is best?
By the GamingPickz Score, Day of Defeat: Source 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 Day of Defeat games in?
Release order is listed below, from 2003 to 2010. 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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