Every Pathfinder game, ranked
All 2 Pathfinder games we hold, spanning 2018 to 2021: 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 79,164 Steam reviews.
Where to start
- For the best-reviewed: Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition (GamingPickz Score 7.6), the highest-rated entry we can score.
- For canon order: begin with Pathfinder: Kingmaker — Enhanced Plus Edition (2018) and follow the release-order timeline below.
The Pathfinder 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 Pathfinder games, ranked
Ordered by GamingPickz Score. Every figure links back to the source that produced it.
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Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition
Best for: Sinking a long time into one world
7.6GamingPickz Scorehigh confidencePathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition at a glance Released 2021 Studio Owlcat Games Player sentiment 83% positive of 44,046 Critics 83/100 Price $19.99 Steam Deck playable Install size 50 GB Accessibility 8 declared features Raw 83% shrinks to 83.0 on 44,046 reviews, then blends with the 83 critic aggregate, giving 7.6.
What the data supports- Declares 8 accessibility features, well above the catalogue norm.
Worth checking first- Flagged for mature content on its store page.
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Pathfinder: Kingmaker — Enhanced Plus Edition
Best for: Sinking a long time into one world
7.1GamingPickz Scorehigh confidencePathfinder: Kingmaker — Enhanced Plus Edition at a glance Released 2018 Studio Owlcat Games Player sentiment 78% positive of 35,118 Critics 73/100 Price $19.99 Steam Deck playable Install size 30 GB Accessibility 1 declared feature Raw 78% shrinks to 78.1 on 35,118 reviews, then blends with the 73 critic aggregate, giving 7.1.
Worth checking first- Flagged for mature content on its store page.
Best and worst entry
The best-received Pathfinder game we can score is Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition at 7.6. The lowest is Pathfinder: Kingmaker — Enhanced Plus Edition at 7.1, 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.
Cheapest way in, and best value
- Cheapest right now: Pathfinder: Kingmaker — Enhanced Plus Edition at $19.99. Prices are read live from Steam and move.
- Best value: Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition, 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 Pathfinder entries on Steam:
- Playable: Pathfinder: Kingmaker — Enhanced Plus Edition, Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition
Platforms across the series
Where the 2 Pathfinder games have landed, counting every entry we hold:
| Platform family | Entries |
|---|---|
| PC | 2 of 2 |
The Pathfinder series, game by game
Every Pathfinder 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.
- 2018
Pathfinder: Kingmaker - Enhanced Plus Edition is the first isometric party-based cRPG set in the Pathfinder fantasy universe. Enjoy a classic RPG experience inspired by games like Baldur's Gate, Fallout 1 and 2 and Arcanum. Explore and conquer the Stolen Lands and make them your kingdom! (Steam)
- 2021
Embark on a journey to a realm overrun by demons in a new epic RPG from the creators of the critically acclaimed Pathfinder: Kingmaker. Explore the nature of good and evil, learn the true cost of power, and rise as a Mythic Hero capable of deeds beyond mortal expectations. (Steam)
Pathfinder, head to head
Two entries side by side on score, price, specs and reception:
Pathfinder vs other series
How Pathfinder stacks up against other series in the same genre, as a whole:
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Common questions
How many Pathfinder games are there?
We hold 2 Pathfinder games in the catalogue, released between 2018 and 2021. 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 Pathfinder game is best?
By the GamingPickz Score, Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition 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 Pathfinder games in?
Release order is listed below, from 2018 to 2021. 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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