Every ELDEN RING game, ranked
All 2 ELDEN RING games we hold, spanning 2022 to 2025: 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 1,342,268 Steam reviews.
Where to start
- For the best-reviewed: ELDEN RING (GamingPickz Score 9.0), the highest-rated entry we can score.
- For the money: ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN gives the most score per dollar right now.
The ELDEN RING 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 ELDEN RING games, ranked
Ordered by GamingPickz Score. Every figure links back to the source that produced it.
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ELDEN RING
Best for: The safest bet on this list, by weight of evidence
9.0GamingPickz Scorehigh confidenceELDEN RING at a glance Released 2022 Studio FromSoftware, Inc. Player sentiment 93% positive of 1,151,941 Critics 94/100 Price $59.99 Steam Deck verified Install size 60 GB Accessibility 7 declared features Raw 93% shrinks to 93.0 on 1,151,941 reviews, then blends with the 94 critic aggregate, giving 9.0.
What the data supports- 93% positive across 1,151,941 reviews is a strong signal at that volume, where a few enthusiasts cannot move the number.
- Valve has tested it and rates it Verified on the Steam Deck.
- Declares 7 accessibility features, well above the catalogue norm.
Worth checking first- Flagged for mature content on its store page.
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ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN
Best for: Playing through with a friend online
7.7GamingPickz Scoremedium confidenceELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN at a glance Released 2025 Studio FromSoftware, Inc. Player sentiment 82% positive of 190,327 Critics No aggregate Price $39.99 Steam Deck playable Install size 30 GB Accessibility 6 declared features Raw 82% shrinks to 82.0 on 190,327 reviews, giving 7.7. No critics data, so that weight was redistributed across the rest rather than counted as zero.
Worth checking first- Flagged for mature content on its store page.
Best and worst entry
The best-received ELDEN RING game we can score is ELDEN RING at 9.0. The lowest is ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN at 7.7, a 1.3-point spread across the series. The GamingPickz Score is a composite of player sentiment, critics and popularity, computed the same way for every game.
Cheapest way in, and best value
- Cheapest right now: ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN at $39.99. Prices are read live from Steam and move.
- Best value: ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN, 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 ELDEN RING entries on Steam:
- Verified: ELDEN RING
- Playable: ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN
Platforms across the series
Where the 2 ELDEN RING games have landed, counting every entry we hold:
| Platform family | Entries |
|---|---|
| PC | 2 of 2 |
The ELDEN RING series, game by game
Every ELDEN RING 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.
- 2022
ELDEN RING
9.0THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED FANTASY ACTION RPG. Rise, Tarnished, and be guided by grace to brandish the power of the Elden Ring and become an Elden Lord in the Lands Between. (Steam)
- 2025
ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN is a standalone adventure within the ELDEN RING universe, crafted to offer players a new gaming experience by reimagining the game’s core design. (Steam)
ELDEN RING vs other series
How ELDEN RING stacks up against other series in the same genre, as a whole:
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Common questions
How many ELDEN RING games are there?
We hold 2 ELDEN RING games in the catalogue, released between 2022 and 2025. 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 ELDEN RING game is best?
By the GamingPickz Score, ELDEN RING rates highest at 9.0. 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 ELDEN RING games in?
Release order is listed below, from 2022 to 2025. 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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