Every Friday the 13th game, ranked
All 2 Friday the 13th games we hold, spanning 2017 to 2018: 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 82,920 Steam reviews.
Where to start
- For the best-reviewed: Friday the 13th: Killer Puzzle (GamingPickz Score 7.6), the highest-rated entry we can score.
- For canon order: begin with Friday the 13th: The Game (2017) and follow the release-order timeline below.
The Friday the 13th 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 Friday the 13th games, ranked
Ordered by GamingPickz Score. Every figure links back to the source that produced it.
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Friday the 13th: Killer Puzzle
Best for: A consistently well-received pick in this category
7.6GamingPickz Scoremedium confidenceFriday the 13th: Killer Puzzle at a glance Released 2018 Studio Blue Wizard Digital Player sentiment 94% positive of 6,080 Critics No aggregate Price Not listed Steam Deck playable Install size 0.29 GB Accessibility 1 declared feature Raw 94% shrinks to 93.4 on 6,080 reviews, giving 7.6. No critics data, so that weight was redistributed across the rest rather than counted as zero.
What the data supports- Small install at 0.29 GB.
Worth checking first- Carries in-game purchases. Check what they cost before committing.
- Flagged for mature content on its store page.
Friday the 13th: The Game at a glance Released 2017 Studio IllFonic Player sentiment 80% positive of 76,840 Critics 61/100 Price Not listed Steam Deck unsupported Install size 4 GB Accessibility 1 declared feature Raw 80% shrinks to 80.0 on 76,840 reviews, then blends with the 61 critic aggregate, giving 7.0.
What the data supports- Small install at 4 GB.
Worth checking first- Players rate it well above critics, 80 against 61. Usually a sign it improved after launch, or that it delivers something reviewers undervalued.
- Flagged for mature content on its store page.
- Valve rates it Unsupported on the Steam Deck.
Best and worst entry
The best-received Friday the 13th game we can score is Friday the 13th: Killer Puzzle at 7.6. The lowest is Friday the 13th: The Game at 7.0, a 0.6-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 Friday the 13th entries on Steam:
- Playable: Friday the 13th: Killer Puzzle
- Unsupported: Friday the 13th: The Game
Platforms across the series
Where the 2 Friday the 13th games have landed, counting every entry we hold:
| Platform family | Entries |
|---|---|
| PC | 2 of 2 |
The Friday the 13th series, game by game
Every Friday the 13th 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.
- 2017
Jason is back! Jason Voorhees is unleashed and stalking the grounds of Camp Crystal Lake! Take on the role as Jason Voorhees and Camp Crystal Lake counselors. This is the game you’ve been waiting for; the chance to kill or be killed on Friday the 13th! (Steam)
Plot
Five primary maps are available, each of which are based on locations from the first five films, and each set concurrent with the films' time periods. Matches may take place at Camp Crystal Lake, the setting of the first film , in 1979; Packanack Lodge, the setting of the second film , in 1984; Higgins Haven, the setting of the third film , in 1984; the Jarvis House, the setting of the fourth film , in 1984; and Pinehurst, the setting of the fifth film ,… (Wikipedia)
Characters
The game's primary killer is Jason Voorhees , the series' most recurring antagonist. Nine different versions of Jason are playable, based on his appearances from the second , third , fourth , sixth , seventh , eighth , and ninth films, and make-up artist Tom Savini 's own Jason created exclusively for backers of the game. Roy Burns , the Jason copycat killer from the fifth film , is also playable under the moniker "Part V Jason". (Wikipedia)
Reception
Reception Friday the 13th: The Game received "mixed or average" reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic . Caitlin Cooke of Destructoid gave the game 6. 5/10, concluding "There aren't many games that can offer a camaraderie aspect to the survival horror genre, and Friday the 13th delivers in that regard. (Wikipedia)
- 2018
Help legendary horror icon Jason Voorhees stalk and slay campers across 100+ puzzle levels in a hilariously off kilter puzzle game. Jason will terrorize victims from the campgrounds of Crystal Lake to the highrises of Manhattan, from supermax prisons to space stations... and beyond! (Steam)
Friday the 13th, head to head
Two entries side by side on score, price, specs and reception:
Friday the 13th vs other series
How Friday the 13th stacks up against other series in the same genre, as a whole:
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Common questions
How many Friday the 13th games are there?
We hold 2 Friday the 13th games in the catalogue, released between 2017 and 2018. 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 Friday the 13th game is best?
By the GamingPickz Score, Friday the 13th: Killer Puzzle rates highest at 7.6. 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 Friday the 13th games in?
Release order is listed below, from 2017 to 2018. 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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