Every Dragon Age game, ranked
All 4 Dragon Age games we hold, spanning 2010 to 2024: 4 ranked by the GamingPickz Score and plotted below, the rest listed in release order so nothing in the series is missing. Together they carry 105,266 Steam reviews.
Where to start
- For the best-reviewed: Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition (GamingPickz Score 7.9), the highest-rated entry we can score.
The Dragon Age games on the grid
Compare the whole catalogueThe same 4 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.
4 games have both
Axes are fitted to these 4 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.
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- Xbox
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.
4 best Dragon Age games, ranked
Ordered by GamingPickz Score. Every figure links back to the source that produced it.
- 1
Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition
Best for: A consistently well-received pick in this category
7.9GamingPickz Scorehigh confidenceDragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition at a glance Released 2010 Studio BioWare Player sentiment 86% positive of 31,317 Critics 91/100 Price $29.99 Steam Deck unsupported Install size Not stated Accessibility 0 declared features Raw 86% shrinks to 86.0 on 31,317 reviews, then blends with the 91 critic aggregate, giving 7.9.
Worth checking first- Flagged for mature content on its store page.
- Valve rates it Unsupported on the Steam Deck.
- 2
Dragon Age Inquisition
Best for: Playing through with a friend online
7.2GamingPickz Scorehigh confidenceDragon Age Inquisition at a glance Released 2020 Studio BioWare Player sentiment 76% positive of 21,380 Critics 85/100 Price $39.99 Steam Deck unknown Install size 26 GB Accessibility 1 declared feature Raw 76% shrinks to 76.1 on 21,380 reviews, then blends with the 85 critic aggregate, giving 7.2.
Worth checking first- Flagged for mature content on its store page.
- 3
Dragon Age II: Ultimate Edition
Best for: A consistently well-received pick in this category
7.2GamingPickz Scoremedium confidenceDragon Age II: Ultimate Edition at a glance Released 2020 Studio BioWare Player sentiment 81% positive of 7,636 Critics 82/100 Price $29.99 Steam Deck unsupported Install size 7 GB Accessibility 0 declared features Raw 81% shrinks to 81.1 on 7,636 reviews, then blends with the 82 critic aggregate, giving 7.2.
What the data supports- Small install at 7 GB.
Worth checking first- Flagged for mature content on its store page.
- Valve rates it Unsupported on the Steam Deck.
- 4
Dragon Age: The Veilguard
Best for: A consistently well-received pick in this category
5.9GamingPickz Scoremedium confidenceDragon Age: The Veilguard at a glance Released 2024 Studio Not recorded Player sentiment 68% positive of 44,933 Critics No aggregate Price $59.99 Steam Deck verified Install size 100 GB Accessibility 8 declared features Raw 68% shrinks to 68.1 on 44,933 reviews, giving 5.9. 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.
- Declares 8 accessibility features, well above the catalogue norm.
Worth checking first- Flagged for mature content on its store page.
Best and worst entry
The best-received Dragon Age game we can score is Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition at 7.9. The lowest is Dragon Age: The Veilguard at 5.9, a 2.0-point spread across the series. The GamingPickz Score is a composite of player sentiment, critics and popularity, computed the same way for every game.
How the series scored over time
GamingPickz Score against release year, 2010 to 2024. The later entries score lower than the earlier ones: the series has been trending down.
Cheapest way in, and best value
- Cheapest right now: Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition at $29.99. Prices are read live from Steam and move.
- Best value: Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition, 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 Dragon Age entries on Steam:
- Verified: Dragon Age: The Veilguard
- Unsupported: Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition, Dragon Age II: Ultimate Edition
Platforms across the series
Where the 4 Dragon Age games have landed, counting every entry we hold:
| Platform family | Entries |
|---|---|
| PC | 4 of 4 |
| Xbox | 1 of 4 |
The Dragon Age series, game by game
Every Dragon Age 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.
- 2010
Explore a stunning world, make complex moral choices, and engage in bone-crushing combat against massive and terrifying creatures. The Ultimate Edition includes Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening and all nine content packs. (Steam)
- 2020
Winner of over 130 Game of the Year awards, discover the definitive Dragon Age: Inquisition experience. The Game of the Year Edition includes the critically acclaimed game, all three official add-ons - Jaws of Hakkon, The Descent, and Trespasser - and more. (Steam)
Plot
Setting See also: Characters of Dragon Age: Inquisition Following the explosion of the Kirkwall Chantry in Dragon Age II and the events of the 2011 novel Dragon Age: Asunder , the Circle of Magi has gone rogue and the Templar Order seceded from the Chantry to wage their own war on the world's mages. The Mage-Templar war is temporarily halted by a Conclave near the village of Haven in the Kingdom of Ferelden, where Divine Justinia V, leader of the Chantry,… (Wikipedia)
Reception
Reception Critical reception Dragon Age: Inquisition received "generally favorable" reviews, according to review aggregator platform Metacritic . OpenCritic determined that 92% of critics recommended the game. Many critics regarded it as a significant improvement over Dragon Age II , and helped revitalize the series. (Wikipedia)
- 2020
You are Hawke, a refugee seeking to escape the darkspawn-plagued land of Ferelden and become Champion of Kirkwall. Rise to power and fight epic battles while making decisions that determine the course of civilization. (Steam)
- 2024
Unite the Veilguard and defy the gods in Dragon Age™: The Veilguard, an immersive single-player RPG. (Steam)
Plot
Setting Map of Thedas featuring the main regions of the setting. Veilguard occurs primarily in the northern regions of Thedas. The story begins ten years after the events of Dragon Age: Inquisition , with previous companion Solas , now known by his previous alias, Fen'Harel, the elven god of betrayal and rebellion, attempting to destroy the Veil, the metaphysical boundary between the physical world and the Fade, the world of spirits and demons. (Wikipedia)
Reception
Critical reception Reception Dragon Age: The Veilguard received "generally favorable" reviews from critics for its Windows, Xbox Series X/S, and PlayStation 5 versions, according to the review aggregator website Metacritic . OpenCritic determined that 71% of critics recommended the game. Veilguard was subject to review bombing on Metacritic, with some users criticizing the game for being " woke ". (Wikipedia)
Dragon Age, head to head
Two entries side by side on score, price, specs and reception:
Dragon Age vs other series
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Common questions
How many Dragon Age games are there?
We hold 4 Dragon Age games in the catalogue, released between 2010 and 2024. 4 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 Dragon Age game is best?
By the GamingPickz Score, Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition 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 Dragon Age games in?
Release order is listed below, from 2010 to 2024. 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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