Every Dungeon Siege game, ranked
All 2 Dungeon Siege games we hold, spanning 2005 to 2011: 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 7,167 Steam reviews.
Where to start
- For the best-reviewed: Dungeon Siege (GamingPickz Score 7.2), the highest-rated entry we can score.
- For canon order: begin with Dungeon Siege II (2005) and follow the release-order timeline below.
The Dungeon Siege 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.
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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 Dungeon Siege games, ranked
Ordered by GamingPickz Score. Every figure links back to the source that produced it.
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Dungeon Siege
Best for: A consistently well-received pick in this category
7.2GamingPickz Scoremedium confidenceDungeon Siege at a glance Released 2011 Studio Gas Powered Games Player sentiment 82% positive of 4,258 Critics 86/100 Price $6.99 Steam Deck unsupported Install size Not stated Accessibility 6 declared features Raw 82% shrinks to 82.2 on 4,258 reviews, then blends with the 86 critic aggregate, giving 7.2.
Worth checking first- Valve rates it Unsupported on the Steam Deck.
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Dungeon Siege II
Best for: A consistently well-received pick in this category
6.8GamingPickz Scoremedium confidenceDungeon Siege II at a glance Released 2005 Studio Gas Powered Games Player sentiment 77% positive of 2,909 Critics 80/100 Price $6.99 Steam Deck unknown Install size Not stated Accessibility 0 declared features Raw 77% shrinks to 77.8 on 2,909 reviews, then blends with the 80 critic aggregate, giving 6.8.
Best and worst entry
The best-received Dungeon Siege game we can score is Dungeon Siege at 7.2. The lowest is Dungeon Siege II at 6.8, a 0.4-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: Dungeon Siege II at $6.99. Prices are read live from Steam and move.
- Best value: Dungeon Siege, 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 Dungeon Siege entries on Steam:
- Unsupported: Dungeon Siege
Platforms across the series
Where the 2 Dungeon Siege games have landed, counting every entry we hold:
| Platform family | Entries |
|---|---|
| PC | 2 of 2 |
The Dungeon Siege series, game by game
Every Dungeon Siege 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.
- 2005
It’s been a generation since you vanquished the evil that plagued the Land of Ehb, and now…a new menace has awakened. In Dungeon Siege II, the sequel to the best-selling RPG from Gas Powered Games, you will be called on to again wield sword and spell to save the world from a growing abomination many years in the making. (Steam)
Plot
The game begins with the player-controlled protagonist and their friend, Drevin, serving as mercenaries in the army of Valdis, a warlord who has aligned himself with a race of Dark Wizards and wields the magical Sword of Zaramoth. The player character and Drevin are ordered to capture a temple held by dryads. After the temple is captured, however, Valdis attacks the mercenaries. (Wikipedia)
Reception
Reception The game received "favorable" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic . GameSpot said, " Dungeon Siege II is a solid effort that manages to improve on the first game to deliver a lengthy, combat-heavy dungeon hack that will certainly please fans of the genre. " Detroit Free Press gave the game all four stars, saying, "It's a winning combination: the same great concept that made Dungeon Siege a hit now with new story lines,… (Wikipedia)
- 2011
Dungeon Siege® combines the immersive elements of a role-playing game with over-the-top intensity and non-stop action. Dungeon Siege plunges you into a continuous 3D fantasy world where you face off against an army of evil that has been unleashed. (Steam)
Plot
Dungeon Siege is set in the Kingdom of Ehb, a varied region on the continent of Aranna containing deserts, swamps, forests, and mountains, created three centuries earlier at the dissolution of the Empire of Stars. At the beginning of the game, the player character's farming village is attacked by a race of creatures named the Krug. The main character, a farmer with no given background who is named by the player, journeys through the Krug forces to the… (Wikipedia)
Reception
Reception Dungeon Siege was commercially successful, selling over 1. 7 million copies. According to the NPD Group , preorders of the game in the month before its release made it the eighth-best selling computer game of March 2002, and upon release in the following month it rose to second-best selling, after The Sims: Vacation . (Wikipedia)
Dungeon Siege, head to head
Two entries side by side on score, price, specs and reception:
Dungeon Siege vs other series
How Dungeon Siege stacks up against other series in the same genre, as a whole:
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Common questions
How many Dungeon Siege games are there?
We hold 2 Dungeon Siege games in the catalogue, released between 2005 and 2011. 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 Dungeon Siege game is best?
By the GamingPickz Score, Dungeon Siege rates highest at 7.2. 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 Dungeon Siege games in?
Release order is listed below, from 2005 to 2011. 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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