Every Killing Floor game, ranked
All 2 Killing Floor games we hold, spanning 2009 to 2016: 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 198,207 Steam reviews.
Where to start
- For the best-reviewed: Killing Floor (GamingPickz Score 8.1), the highest-rated entry we can score.
- For the money: Killing Floor 2 gives the most score per dollar right now.
The Killing Floor 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 Killing Floor games, ranked
Ordered by GamingPickz Score. Every figure links back to the source that produced it.
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Killing Floor
Best for: Players who trust other players over critics
8.1GamingPickz Scorehigh confidenceKilling Floor at a glance Released 2009 Studio Tripwire Interactive Player sentiment 95% positive of 68,905 Critics 72/100 Price $19.99 Steam Deck playable Install size Not stated Accessibility 0 declared features Raw 95% shrinks to 94.9 on 68,905 reviews, then blends with the 72 critic aggregate, giving 8.1.
Worth checking first- Players rate it well above critics, 95 against 72. Usually a sign it improved after launch, or that it delivers something reviewers undervalued.
- Flagged for mature content on its store page.
Killing Floor 2 at a glance Released 2016 Studio Tripwire Interactive Player sentiment 88% positive of 129,302 Critics 75/100 Price $2.99 Steam Deck playable Install size 80 GB Accessibility 1 declared feature Raw 88% shrinks to 88.0 on 129,302 reviews, then blends with the 75 critic aggregate, giving 7.9.
Worth checking first- Players rate it well above critics, 88 against 75. Usually a sign it improved after launch, or that it delivers something reviewers undervalued.
- Carries in-game purchases. Check what they cost before committing.
- Flagged for mature content on its store page.
Best and worst entry
The best-received Killing Floor game we can score is Killing Floor at 8.1. The lowest is Killing Floor 2 at 7.9, a 0.2-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: Killing Floor 2 at $2.99. Prices are read live from Steam and move.
- Best value: Killing Floor 2, 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 Killing Floor entries on Steam:
- Playable: Killing Floor, Killing Floor 2
Platforms across the series
Where the 2 Killing Floor games have landed, counting every entry we hold:
| Platform family | Entries |
|---|---|
| PC | 2 of 2 |
The Killing Floor series, game by game
Every Killing Floor 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.
- 2009
6-player co-op survival horror at its finest! Free updates, free special events and a ridiculous amount of fun! (Steam)
- 2016
In KILLING FLOOR 2, players descend into continental Europe after it has been overrun by horrific, murderous clones called Zeds that were created by rogue elements of the Horzine Corporation. 6-player Co-Op & 12-player VS Zed-slaughtering mayhem. (Steam)
Reception
Reception Killing Floor 2 received "generally favorable" reviews according to review aggregator website Metacritic . However, like the previous game, negative feedback from the reviewers considered that the lack of any real plot or aim for the players other than killing specimens, the small number of existing maps, and the repetitiveness of the gameplay reduced its replay value . ^ "Killing Floor 2 for PC Reviews" . (Wikipedia)
Killing Floor, head to head
Two entries side by side on score, price, specs and reception:
Killing Floor vs other series
How Killing Floor stacks up against other series in the same genre, as a whole:
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Common questions
How many Killing Floor games are there?
We hold 2 Killing Floor games in the catalogue, released between 2009 and 2016. 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 Killing Floor game is best?
By the GamingPickz Score, Killing Floor rates highest at 8.1. 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 Killing Floor games in?
Release order is listed below, from 2009 to 2016. 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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