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Every Dragon's Dogma game, ranked

All 2 Dragon's Dogma games we hold, spanning 2016 to 2024: 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 165,294 Steam reviews.

Where to start

For the best-reviewed: Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen (GamingPickz Score 7.8), the highest-rated entry we can score.

The Dragon's Dogma games on the grid

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The 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.

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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.

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

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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 Dragon's Dogma games, ranked

Ordered by GamingPickz Score. Every figure links back to the source that produced it.

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Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen
Best for: Handheld play, small install and Deck verified
7.8GamingPickz Scorehigh confidence
Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen at a glance
Released 2016 Studio Capcom
Player sentiment 88% positive of 49,002 Critics 81/100
Price $29.99 Steam Deck verified
Install size 20 GB Accessibility 1 declared feature
Raw 88% shrinks to 88.0 on 49,002 reviews, then blends with the 81 critic aggregate, giving 7.8.
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.
PC
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Dragon's Dogma 2
Best for: A consistently well-received pick in this category
6.8GamingPickz Scorehigh confidence
Dragon's Dogma 2 at a glance
Released 2024 Studio CAPCOM Co., Ltd.
Player sentiment 62% positive of 116,292 Critics 88/100
Price $29.99 Steam Deck unsupported
Install size Not stated Accessibility 1 declared feature
Raw 62% shrinks to 62.1 on 116,292 reviews, then blends with the 88 critic aggregate, giving 6.8.
Worth checking first
- Critics rate it well above players, 88 against 62. Worth reading why before buying.
- Flagged for mature content on its store page.
- Valve rates it Unsupported on the Steam Deck.
PC
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Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen at a glance
Released	2016	Studio	Capcom
Player sentiment	88% positive of 49,002	Critics	81/100
Price	$29.99	Steam Deck	verified
Install size	20 GB	Accessibility	1 declared feature

Dragon's Dogma 2 at a glance
Released	2024	Studio	CAPCOM Co., Ltd.
Player sentiment	62% positive of 116,292	Critics	88/100
Price	$29.99	Steam Deck	unsupported
Install size	Not stated	Accessibility	1 declared feature

Best and worst entry

The best-received Dragon's Dogma game we can score is Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen at 7.8. The lowest is Dragon's Dogma 2 at 6.8, a 1.0-point spread across the series. The GamingPickz Score is a composite of player sentiment, critics and popularity, computed the same way for every game.

Cheapest way in, and best value

Cheapest right now: Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen at $29.99. Prices are read live from Steam and move.
Best value: Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen, 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's Dogma entries on Steam:

Verified: Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen
Unsupported: Dragon's Dogma 2

Platforms across the series

Where the 2 Dragon's Dogma games have landed, counting every entry we hold:

Platform family	Entries
PC	2 of 2

The Dragon's Dogma series, game by game

Every Dragon's Dogma 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's Dogma: Dark Arisen
7.8
Capcom · pc
Set in a huge open world, Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen presents a rewarding action combat experience. (Steam)
RPGOpen WorldCharacter CustomizationFantasy
Plot
The game opens with a group led by a knight named Savan nearing the end of a quest to defeat the Dragon, a being that signals the end of days. An unknown time later in the present-day Duchy of Gransys, the protagonist's village of Cassardis is attacked by the newly-arrived Dragon. When the protagonist attacks the Dragon, the Dragon takes their heart. (Wikipedia)
Reception
Original version Reception In Japan, Dragon's Dogma received positive reviews from critics, where Famitsu gave the game an overall score of 34 out of 40, based on four reviewer scores of 8, 9, 8, and 9. Famitsu gave it a "Hall of Fame: Gold" award, praising "the game's variety in combat, the effectiveness of working together with Pawns, the exceptionally fun sidequests, and the uniqueness of each vocation. " In the Western world , Dragon's Dogma received… (Wikipedia)
2024
Dragon's Dogma 2
6.8
CAPCOM Co., Ltd. · pc
Dragon’s Dogma 2 is a single player, narrative driven action-RPG that challenges the players to choose their own experience – from the appearance of their Arisen, their vocation, their party, how to approach different situations and more - in a truly immersive fantasy world. (Steam)
Open WorldRPGAction RPGFantasy
Plot
The story of Dragon's Dogma 2 begins in a mining site, where the player character, who is assumed to be a Pawn, is forced to clear rubble alongside other Pawns. When the camp is attacked, the player escapes with the help of a mysterious figure called the Pathfinder. The Pathfinder reveals the player is not a Pawn, but the Arisen, and after they make their escape they eventually reach a ruined town called Melve. (Wikipedia)
Reception
Reception Critical reception Dragon's Dogma 2 received "generally favorable" reviews from critics, according to review aggregator website Metacritic , with 92% of critics recommending the game, according to OpenCritic . In Japan, four critics from Famitsu gave the game a total score of 32 out of 40, with each critic awarding the game an 8 out of 10. The game was praised for refining its predecessor's gameplay, its dynamic and dense game world, and… (Wikipedia)

Dragon's Dogma, head to head

Two entries side by side on score, price, specs and reception:

Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen vs Dragon's Dogma 2Scores, price and specs side by side

Dragon's Dogma vs other series

How Dragon's Dogma stacks up against other series in the same genre, as a whole:

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Common questions

How many Dragon's Dogma games are there?

We hold 2 Dragon's Dogma games in the catalogue, released between 2016 and 2024. 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 Dragon's Dogma game is best?

By the GamingPickz Score, Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen rates highest at 7.8. 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's Dogma 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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