Every Kingdoms of Amalur game, ranked
All 2 Kingdoms of Amalur games we hold, spanning 2020 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 21,156 Steam reviews.
Where to start
- For the best-reviewed: Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning (GamingPickz Score 7.6), the highest-rated entry we can score.
- For canon order: begin with Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning (2020) and follow the release-order timeline below.
- For the money: Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning gives the most score per dollar right now.
The Kingdoms of Amalur 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 Kingdoms of Amalur games, ranked
Ordered by GamingPickz Score. Every figure links back to the source that produced it.
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Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
Best for: A consistently well-received pick in this category
7.6GamingPickz Scorehigh confidenceKingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning at a glance Released Not recorded Studio Big Huge Games Player sentiment 88% positive of 13,009 Critics 81/100 Price Not listed Steam Deck playable Install size Not stated Accessibility 1 declared feature Raw 88% shrinks to 87.9 on 13,009 reviews, then blends with the 81 critic aggregate, giving 7.6.
Worth checking first- Flagged for mature content on its store page.
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Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning
Best for: A consistently well-received pick in this category
6.6GamingPickz Scoremedium confidenceKingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning at a glance Released 2020 Studio KAIKO Player sentiment 77% positive of 8,147 Critics No aggregate Price $39.99 Steam Deck verified Install size 40 GB Accessibility 1 declared feature Raw 77% shrinks to 77.3 on 8,147 reviews, giving 6.6. 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- Flagged for mature content on its store page.
Best and worst entry
The best-received Kingdoms of Amalur game we can score is Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning at 7.6. The lowest is Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning at 6.6, a 1.0-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: Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning at $39.99. Prices are read live from Steam and move.
- Best value: Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning, 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 Kingdoms of Amalur entries on Steam:
- Verified: Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning
- Playable: Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
Platforms across the series
Where the 2 Kingdoms of Amalur games have landed, counting every entry we hold:
| Platform family | Entries |
|---|---|
| PC | 2 of 2 |
The Kingdoms of Amalur series, game by game
Every Kingdoms of Amalur 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.
- 2020
The hit RPG returns! Remastered with stunning visuals and refined gameplay Re-Reckoning delivers intense, customizable RPG combat inside a sprawling game world. (Steam)
Plot
Setting and characters Reckoning is set within the world of Amalur, with the game's events taking place across the Faelands, a land separated into two distinct territories by a great river. All things in the Faelands follow a destined path dictated by the Fate Weave, which can be read and reported by gifted individuals dubbed Fateweavers. The current age is referred to as the "Age of Arcana", a time when unknown magic is beginning to manifest. (Wikipedia)
Reception
Reception Over its first two months on sale, Reckoning sold over 400,000 copies not counting digital sales, a figure referred to by NPD Group as impressive. In the United Kingdom during its first week, the game reached the top of sales charts, surpassing the previous lead Final Fantasy XIII-2 . By July 2012, the game had sold 1. (Wikipedia)
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The minds of New York Times bestselling author R.A. Salvatore, Spawn creator Todd McFarlane, and Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion lead designer Ken Rolston have combined to create Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, a new role-playing game set in a world worth saving. (Steam)
Plot
Setting and characters Reckoning is set within the world of Amalur, with the game's events taking place across the Faelands, a land separated into two distinct territories by a great river. All things in the Faelands follow a destined path dictated by the Fate Weave, which can be read and reported by gifted individuals dubbed Fateweavers. The current age is referred to as the "Age of Arcana", a time when unknown magic is beginning to manifest. (Wikipedia)
Reception
Reception Over its first two months on sale, Reckoning sold over 400,000 copies not counting digital sales, a figure referred to by NPD Group as impressive. In the United Kingdom during its first week, the game reached the top of sales charts, surpassing the previous lead Final Fantasy XIII-2 . By July 2012, the game had sold 1. (Wikipedia)
Kingdoms of Amalur, head to head
Two entries side by side on score, price, specs and reception:
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Common questions
How many Kingdoms of Amalur games are there?
We hold 2 Kingdoms of Amalur games in the catalogue, released between 2020 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 Kingdoms of Amalur game is best?
By the GamingPickz Score, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning 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 Kingdoms of Amalur games in?
Release order is listed below, from 2020 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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