Every Poker Night game, ranked
All 2 Poker Night games we hold, spanning 2010 to 2013: 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 17,092 Steam reviews.
Where to start
- For the best-reviewed: Poker Night at the Inventory (GamingPickz Score 7.4), the highest-rated entry we can score.
The Poker Night 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 Poker Night games, ranked
Ordered by GamingPickz Score. Every figure links back to the source that produced it.
- 1
Poker Night at the Inventory
Best for: A consistently well-received pick in this category
7.4GamingPickz Scoremedium confidencePoker Night at the Inventory at a glance Released 2010 Studio Telltale Games Player sentiment 90% positive of 9,680 Critics 71/100 Price Not listed Steam Deck playable Install size Not stated Accessibility 0 declared features Raw 90% shrinks to 89.8 on 9,680 reviews, then blends with the 71 critic aggregate, giving 7.4.
Worth checking first- Players rate it well above critics, 90 against 71. Usually a sign it improved after launch, or that it delivers something reviewers undervalued.
- 2
Poker Night 2
Best for: A consistently well-received pick in this category
7.4GamingPickz Scoremedium confidencePoker Night 2 at a glance Released 2013 Studio Telltale Games Player sentiment 88% positive of 7,412 Critics 75/100 Price Not listed Steam Deck playable Install size Not stated Accessibility 1 declared feature Raw 88% shrinks to 87.8 on 7,412 reviews, then blends with the 75 critic aggregate, giving 7.4.
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.
- Flagged for mature content on its store page.
Best and worst entry
The best-received Poker Night game we can score is Poker Night at the Inventory at 7.4. The lowest is Poker Night 2 at 7.4, a 0.0-point spread across the series. The GamingPickz Score is a composite of player sentiment, critics and popularity, computed the same way for every game.
On a Steam Deck
Valve's own Deck compatibility rating for the Poker Night entries on Steam:
- Playable: Poker Night at the Inventory, Poker Night 2
Platforms across the series
Where the 2 Poker Night games have landed, counting every entry we hold:
| Platform family | Entries |
|---|---|
| PC | 2 of 2 |
The Poker Night series, game by game
Every Poker Night 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.
- 2010
Prepare for a different kind of poker night in a very different kind of club and play against familiar faces! (Steam)
Reception
Reception The game received "mixed or average" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic . It was praised for its humorous interactions and the characters' unique strategies, but received criticism for its animation quality and various bugs. ^ "Poker Night at the Inventory for PC Reviews" . (Wikipedia)
- 2013
The chips are down and the ante is up in this sentence already bursting with poker clichés! Take the fifth seat in Poker Night 2, at a table featuring Claptrap (Borderlands 2), Brock Samson (The Venture Bros.), Ash (Army of Darkness) and Sam (Sam and Max series). (Steam)
Reception
Reception The PC and iOS versions received "generally favorable reviews", while the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions received "mixed or average reviews", according to the review aggregation website Metacritic . ^ "Poker Night 2 for iPhone/iPad Reviews" . Metacritic . (Wikipedia)
Poker Night, head to head
Two entries side by side on score, price, specs and reception:
Poker Night vs other series
How Poker Night stacks up against other series in the same genre, as a whole:
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Common questions
How many Poker Night games are there?
We hold 2 Poker Night games in the catalogue, released between 2010 and 2013. 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 Poker Night game is best?
By the GamingPickz Score, Poker Night at the Inventory rates highest at 7.4. 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 Poker Night games in?
Release order is listed below, from 2010 to 2013. 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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