Every eFootball PES game, ranked
All 2 eFootball PES games we hold, spanning 2019 to 2020: 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 64,219 Steam reviews.
Where to start
- For the best-reviewed: eFootball PES 2021 SEASON UPDATE (GamingPickz Score 7.0), the highest-rated entry we can score.
- For canon order: begin with eFootball PES 2020 (2019) and follow the release-order timeline below.
The eFootball PES 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.
- 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.
2 best eFootball PES games, ranked
Ordered by GamingPickz Score. Every figure links back to the source that produced it.
- 1
eFootball PES 2021 SEASON UPDATE
Best for: Playing through with a friend online
7.0GamingPickz Scoremedium confidenceeFootball PES 2021 SEASON UPDATE at a glance Released 2020 Studio Konami Digital Entertainment Player sentiment 78% positive of 38,097 Critics No aggregate Price Not listed Steam Deck playable Install size 40 GB Accessibility 1 declared feature Raw 78% shrinks to 78.1 on 38,097 reviews, giving 7.0. No critics data, so that weight was redistributed across the rest rather than counted as zero.
Worth checking first- Carries in-game purchases. Check what they cost before committing.
- 2
eFootball PES 2020
Best for: Playing through with a friend online
6.5GamingPickz Scoremedium confidenceeFootball PES 2020 at a glance Released 2019 Studio Konami Digital Entertainment Player sentiment 71% positive of 26,122 Critics No aggregate Price Not listed Steam Deck verified Install size 40 GB Accessibility 1 declared feature Raw 71% shrinks to 71.2 on 26,122 reviews, giving 6.5. 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.
Worth checking first- Carries in-game purchases. Check what they cost before committing.
Best and worst entry
The best-received eFootball PES game we can score is eFootball PES 2021 SEASON UPDATE at 7.0. The lowest is eFootball PES 2020 at 6.5, a 0.5-point spread across the series. The GamingPickz Score is a composite of player sentiment, critics and popularity, computed the same way for every game.
On a Steam Deck
Valve's own Deck compatibility rating for the eFootball PES entries on Steam:
- Verified: eFootball PES 2020
- Playable: eFootball PES 2021 SEASON UPDATE
Platforms across the series
Where the 2 eFootball PES games have landed, counting every entry we hold:
| Platform family | Entries |
|---|---|
| PC | 2 of 2 |
The eFootball PES series, game by game
Every eFootball PES 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.
- 2019
Experience unparalleled realism and authenticity in this year's definitive football game: PES 2020. (Steam)
Reception
Reception By the end of September 2019, the PES franchise had sold 106. 8 million copies. By December 2020, the franchise had sold 111 million copies, an increase of 4. (Wikipedia)
- 2020
Celebrate 25 years of PES with the eFootball PES 2021 Season Update* - available at a special anniversary price! (Steam)
eFootball PES, head to head
Two entries side by side on score, price, specs and reception:
eFootball PES vs other series
How eFootball PES stacks up against other series in the same genre, as a whole:
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Common questions
How many eFootball PES games are there?
We hold 2 eFootball PES games in the catalogue, released between 2019 and 2020. 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 eFootball PES game is best?
By the GamingPickz Score, eFootball PES 2021 SEASON UPDATE rates highest at 7.0. 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 eFootball PES games in?
Release order is listed below, from 2019 to 2020. 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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