Every Dishonored game, ranked
All 3 Dishonored games we hold, spanning 2012 to 2017: 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 168,170 Steam reviews.
Where to start
- For the best-reviewed: Dishonored (GamingPickz Score 8.5), the highest-rated entry we can score.
The Dishonored 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.
- Multi-platform
- 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 Dishonored games, ranked
Ordered by GamingPickz Score. Every figure links back to the source that produced it.
Dishonored at a glance Released 2012 Studio Arkane Studios Player sentiment 98% positive of 88,064 Critics 91/100 Price $9.99 Steam Deck verified Install size Not stated Accessibility 6 declared features Raw 98% shrinks to 97.9 on 88,064 reviews, then blends with the 91 critic aggregate, giving 8.5.
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.
- 2
Dishonored 2
Best for: A consistently well-received pick in this category
8.1GamingPickz Scorehigh confidenceDishonored 2 at a glance Released 2016 Studio Arkane Studios Player sentiment 90% positive of 66,755 Critics 86/100 Price $29.99 Steam Deck playable Install size 60 GB Accessibility 6 declared features Raw 90% shrinks to 90.0 on 66,755 reviews, then blends with the 86 critic aggregate, giving 8.1.
Worth checking first- Flagged for mature content on its store page.
- 3
Dishonored: Death of the Outsider
Best for: A consistently well-received pick in this category
7.6GamingPickz Scorehigh confidenceDishonored: Death of the Outsider at a glance Released 2017 Studio Arkane Studios Player sentiment 88% positive of 13,351 Critics 81/100 Price $29.99 Steam Deck verified Install size 32 GB Accessibility 6 declared features Raw 88% shrinks to 87.9 on 13,351 reviews, then blends with the 81 critic aggregate, giving 7.6.
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.
Best and worst entry
The best-received Dishonored game we can score is Dishonored at 8.5. The lowest is Dishonored: Death of the Outsider at 7.6, a 0.9-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, 2012 to 2017. The later entries score lower than the earlier ones: the series has been trending down.
Cheapest way in, and best value
- Cheapest right now: Dishonored at $9.99. Prices are read live from Steam and move.
- Best value: Dishonored, 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 Dishonored entries on Steam:
- Verified: Dishonored, Dishonored: Death of the Outsider
- Playable: Dishonored 2
Platforms across the series
Where the 3 Dishonored games have landed, counting every entry we hold:
| Platform family | Entries |
|---|---|
| PC | 3 of 3 |
| PlayStation | 1 of 3 |
| Xbox | 1 of 3 |
The Dishonored series, game by game
Every Dishonored 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.
- 2012
Dishonored
8.5Dishonored is an immersive first-person action game that casts you as a supernatural assassin driven by revenge. With Dishonored’s flexible combat system, creatively eliminate your targets as you combine the supernatural abilities, weapons and unusual gadgets at your disposal. (Steam)
Plot
Setting Dishonored takes place in the industrial city of Dunwall, where technology and otherworldly forces coexist. The city's design is modeled on London and Edinburgh between the late 1800s and the early 1900s. The capital of the Empire of the Isles, Dunwall is ruled by an oppressive regime that came to power following the assassination of the Empress and the kidnapping of her daughter. (Wikipedia)
Characters
Actress Chloë Grace Moretz voiced the young princess Emily Kaldwin, her second video game voice acting role. The main character of Dishonored , whom the player controls, is Corvo Attano , the former bodyguard to Dunwall's Empress Jessamine Kaldwin ( April Stewart ). Corvo becomes an infamous assassin after he is framed for the empress's murder. (Wikipedia)
Reception
Pre-release Dishonored was displayed for the public at the 2012 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), and received four nominations from the Game Critics Awards for Best Action/Adventure Game, Best Console Game, Best Original Game, and the overall Best of Show award. The game was also recognized at the event for: "Game of Show" by GameSpy , and Joystiq Editor-in-Chief Ludwig Keitzmann, and was nominated by Destructoid and EGM ; "Best Action Game" by GameSpy… (Wikipedia)
- 2016
Dishonored 2
8.1Reprise your role as a supernatural assassin in Dishonored 2. Declared a “masterpiece” by Eurogamer and hailed “a must-play revenge tale” by Game Informer, Dishonored 2 is the follow up to Arkane’s 1st-person action blockbuster & winner of 100+ 'Game of the Year' awards, Dishonored. (Steam)
Plot
Setting While players begin and end the game in Dunwall, much of the story takes place in the coastal city of Karnaca, the capital of Serkonos that lies along the southern region of the Empire of the Isles, whose chief exports include silver . Unlike Dunwall, which relied on whale oil for power, Karnaca is powered by wind turbines fed by currents generated by a cleft mountain along the city's borders, though the winds that blow over and into the city… (Wikipedia)
Characters
Actors portraying Corvo and Emily at Paris Games Week 2016 The main characters of Dishonored 2 that the player can control are Corvo Attano ( Stephen Russell ), a former bodyguard turned assassin and the main character of the previous game , and Emily Kaldwin ( Erica Luttrell ), Corvo's daughter and the former Empress of the Empire of the Isles. The game's main antagonists include Luca Abele ( Vincent D'Onofrio ), the new duke of Serkonos following the… (Wikipedia)
Reception
Pre-release Emily Kaldwin 's reveal as player character at E3 2015 drew attention pre-release. GamesRadar called it one of the event's biggest surprises, noting the rarity of female protagonists. Both GameSpot and The Guardian commented on the prominence of female player characters in 2015's E3 expo. (Wikipedia)
- 2017
From the award-winning developers at Arkane® Studios comes Dishonored®: Death of the Outsider, the next standalone adventure in the critically-acclaimed Dishonored® series. (Steam)
Plot
After the events of Dishonored 2 , Emily Kaldwin is reinstated as empress and begins to salvage the Empire previously broken by Delilah's rule. Billie Lurk wakes aboard her ship, the Dreadful Wale, having a recurring nightmare regarding her right arm and eye. Billie has tracked down her old mentor Daud's whereabouts to a boxing club in Albarca Baths. (Wikipedia)
Reception
Reception IGN s Tom Marks considered it "a worthy end", but felt it did not reach the "high bar" of Dishonored 2 . Marks praised the "wonderfully detailed" levels and the encouragement to use abilities more liberally, though expressed mixed feelings at the removal of the Chaos system and lack of character progression. Alessandro Fillari at GameSpot gave the game a positive review, praising the level design and individual missions, while also criticizing… (Wikipedia)
Dishonored, head to head
Two entries side by side on score, price, specs and reception:
Dishonored vs other series
How Dishonored stacks up against other series in the same genre, as a whole:
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Common questions
How many Dishonored games are there?
We hold 3 Dishonored games in the catalogue, released between 2012 and 2017. 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 Dishonored game is best?
By the GamingPickz Score, Dishonored rates highest at 8.5. 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 Dishonored games in?
Release order is listed below, from 2012 to 2017. 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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