Every DRAGON BALL game, ranked
All 5 DRAGON BALL games we hold, spanning 2016 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 266,941 Steam reviews.
Where to start
- For the best-reviewed: DRAGON BALL FighterZ (GamingPickz Score 8.1), the highest-rated entry we can score.
- For canon order: begin with DRAGON BALL XENOVERSE 2 (2016) and follow the release-order timeline below.
- For the money: DRAGON BALL XENOVERSE 2 gives the most score per dollar right now.
The DRAGON BALL 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.
- 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.
4 best DRAGON BALL games, ranked
Ordered by GamingPickz Score. Every figure links back to the source that produced it.
DRAGON BALL FighterZ at a glance Released 2018 Studio Arc System Works Player sentiment 90% positive of 76,719 Critics 85/100 Price $59.99 Steam Deck unsupported Install size 6 GB Accessibility 1 declared feature Raw 90% shrinks to 90.0 on 76,719 reviews, then blends with the 85 critic aggregate, giving 8.1.
What the data supports- Small install at 6 GB.
Worth checking first- Valve rates it Unsupported on the Steam Deck.
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DRAGON BALL XENOVERSE 2
Best for: Playing through with a friend online
7.9GamingPickz Scorehigh confidenceDRAGON BALL XENOVERSE 2 at a glance Released 2016 Studio QLOC Player sentiment 90% positive of 59,432 Critics 78/100 Price $19.99 Steam Deck unsupported Install size Not stated Accessibility 1 declared feature Raw 90% shrinks to 90.0 on 59,432 reviews, then blends with the 78 critic aggregate, giving 7.9.
Worth checking first- Valve rates it Unsupported on the Steam Deck.
- 3
DRAGON BALL Z: KAKAROT
Best for: Players who trust other players over critics
7.9GamingPickz Scorehigh confidenceDRAGON BALL Z: KAKAROT at a glance Released 2020 Studio CyberConnect2 Co. Ltd. Player sentiment 93% positive of 58,245 Critics 73/100 Price $19.99 Steam Deck verified Install size 36 GB Accessibility 1 declared feature Raw 93% shrinks to 92.9 on 58,245 reviews, then blends with the 73 critic aggregate, giving 7.9.
What the data supports- Valve has tested it and rates it Verified on the Steam Deck.
Worth checking first- Players rate it well above critics, 93 against 73. Usually a sign it improved after launch, or that it delivers something reviewers undervalued.
DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO at a glance Released 2024 Studio Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd. Player sentiment 86% positive of 72,545 Critics 83/100 Price $49.99 Steam Deck playable Install size 29 GB Accessibility 4 declared features Raw 86% shrinks to 86.0 on 72,545 reviews, then blends with the 83 critic aggregate, giving 7.8.
Only the 4 DRAGON BALL games with Steam review data can be scored and ranked. The complete series, scored or not, is charted in order below.
Best and worst entry
The best-received DRAGON BALL game we can score is DRAGON BALL FighterZ at 8.1. The lowest is DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO at 7.8, 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.
How the series scored over time
GamingPickz Score against release year, 2016 to 2024. It has held roughly steady across the years.
Cheapest way in, and best value
- Cheapest right now: DRAGON BALL XENOVERSE 2 at $19.99. Prices are read live from Steam and move.
- Best value: DRAGON BALL XENOVERSE 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 DRAGON BALL entries on Steam:
- Verified: DRAGON BALL Z: KAKAROT
- Playable: DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO
- Unsupported: DRAGON BALL XENOVERSE 2, DRAGON BALL FighterZ
Platforms across the series
Where the 5 DRAGON BALL games have landed, counting every entry we hold:
| Platform family | Entries |
|---|---|
| PC | 5 of 5 |
The DRAGON BALL series, game by game
Every DRAGON BALL 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.
- 2016
DRAGON BALL XENOVERSE 2 builds upon the highly popular DRAGON BALL XENOVERSE with enhanced graphics that will further immerse players into the largest and most detailed Dragon Ball world ever developed. (Steam)
- 2018
DRAGON BALL FighterZ is born from what makes the DRAGON BALL series so loved and famous: endless spectacular fights with its all-powerful fighters. (Steam)
- 2020
The Dragon Ball RPG of your dreams! For the first time, you can play the rest of the story. Step into the universe of Dragon Ball Z in all its iconic glory and become the hero you were always meant to be! (Steam)
- 2024
DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO takes the legendary gameplay of the Budokai Tenkaichi series and raises it to whole new levels. Make yours the destructive power of the strongest fighters ever to appear in Dragon Ball! (Steam)
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DRAGON BALL XENOVERSE
not scoredNo sourced description on file.
DRAGON BALL, head to head
Two entries side by side on score, price, specs and reception:
DRAGON BALL vs other series
How DRAGON BALL stacks up against other series in the same genre, as a whole:
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Common questions
How many DRAGON BALL games are there?
We hold 5 DRAGON BALL games in the catalogue, released between 2016 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 BALL game is best?
By the GamingPickz Score, DRAGON BALL FighterZ rates highest at 8.1. 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 BALL games in?
Release order is listed below, from 2016 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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