Every Prince of Persia game, ranked
All 4 Prince of Persia games we hold, spanning 1993 to 2024: 3 ranked by the GamingPickz Score and plotted below, the rest listed in release order so nothing in the series is missing. Together they carry 13,965 Steam reviews.
Where to start
- For the best-reviewed: Prince of Persia: Warrior Within (GamingPickz Score 7.3), the highest-rated entry we can score.
- For canon order: begin with Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow and the Flame (1993) and follow the release-order timeline below.
The Prince of Persia games on the grid
Compare the whole catalogueThe same 3 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.
3 games have both
Axes are fitted to these 3 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.
- Mobile
- Multi-platform
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.
3 best Prince of Persia games, ranked
Ordered by GamingPickz Score. Every figure links back to the source that produced it.
- 1
Prince of Persia: Warrior Within
Best for: A consistently well-received pick in this category
7.3GamingPickz Scoremedium confidencePrince of Persia: Warrior Within at a glance Released 2004 Studio Not recorded Player sentiment 83% positive of 4,127 Critics 83/100 Price $9.99 Steam Deck playable Install size Not stated Accessibility 0 declared features Raw 83% shrinks to 83.1 on 4,127 reviews, then blends with the 83 critic aggregate, giving 7.3.
Worth checking first- Flagged for mature content on its store page.
- 2
Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown
Best for: A consistently well-received pick in this category
7.2GamingPickz Scoremedium confidencePrince of Persia: The Lost Crown at a glance Released 2024 Studio Not recorded Player sentiment 84% positive of 7,043 Critics 85/100 Price $29.99 Steam Deck verified Install size 30 GB Accessibility 1 declared feature Raw 84% shrinks to 84.0 on 7,043 reviews, then blends with the 85 critic aggregate, giving 7.2.
What the data supports- Valve has tested it and rates it Verified on the Steam Deck.
- 3
Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones
Best for: A consistently well-received pick in this category
7.1GamingPickz Scoremedium confidencePrince of Persia: The Two Thrones at a glance Released 2005 Studio Not recorded Player sentiment 80% positive of 2,795 Critics 85/100 Price $9.99 Steam Deck playable Install size Not stated Accessibility 1 declared feature Raw 80% shrinks to 80.5 on 2,795 reviews, then blends with the 85 critic aggregate, giving 7.1.
Worth checking first- Flagged for mature content on its store page.
Nintendo GameCubePlayStation PortablePCPlayStation 2PlayStation 3Xbox
Only the 3 Prince of Persia games with Steam review data can be scored and ranked. The complete series, scored or not, is charted in order below.
Best and worst entry
The best-received Prince of Persia game we can score is Prince of Persia: Warrior Within at 7.3. The lowest is Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones at 7.1, 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.
How the series scored over time
GamingPickz Score against release year, 2004 to 2024. It has held roughly steady across the years.
Cheapest way in, and best value
- Cheapest right now: Prince of Persia: Warrior Within at $9.99. Prices are read live from Steam and move.
- Best value: Prince of Persia: Warrior Within, 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 Prince of Persia entries on Steam:
- Verified: Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown
- Playable: Prince of Persia: Warrior Within, Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones
Platforms across the series
Where the 4 Prince of Persia games have landed, counting every entry we hold:
| Platform family | Entries |
|---|---|
| PC | 3 of 4 |
| PlayStation | 3 of 4 |
| Xbox | 3 of 4 |
| Nintendo | 2 of 4 |
| Mobile | 1 of 4 |
The Prince of Persia series, game by game
Every Prince of Persia 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.
- 1993
Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow and the Flame is a 1993 cinematic platform game released by Broderbund for MS-DOS, and later ported to Macintosh, Super NES, and FM Towns. It is the second installment in the Prince of Persia series, and a direct sequel to 1989's Prince of Persia. Both games were designed by Jordan… (Wikipedia)
Plot
The game takes place 11 days after the events of the first game . During this period, the Prince was hailed as a hero who defeated the evil Jaffar. He turns down all riches and instead asks for the Princess's hand in marriage as his reward, to which the Sultan of Persia reluctantly agrees. (Wikipedia)
Reception
Reception According to Jordan Mechner, Prince of Persia 2 was a commercial success, with sales of 750,000 units by 2000. Charles Ardai wrote in Computer Gaming World that " Prince of Persia 2 not only is in every dimension better than Prince of Persia , but ... is the cruelest, most infuriating, least merciful—in short, the best—game of its type I have ever played", with "an appeal that is absolutely irresistible". (Wikipedia)
- 2004
Enter the dark underworld of Prince of Persia Warrior Within, the sword-slashing sequel to the critically acclaimed Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time™. Hunted by Dahaka, an immortal incarnation of Fate seeking divine retribution, the Prince embarks upon a path of both carnage and mystery to defy his preordained death. (Steam)
Plot
Seven years after the events of The Sands of Time , following the reversal of his devastating release of the Sands in the palace of Azad, the Prince is hunted by a being called the Dahaka as the Prince was destined to die after releasing the Sands. Seeking advice from a wise man, the Prince learns the Sands were created on a distant island by the Empress of Time. Despite the wise man's warnings about changing fate, the Prince resolves to travel to the… (Wikipedia)
Reception
Reception According to Ubisoft, Prince of Persia: Warrior Within sold 1. 9 million units worldwide in its debut month, 1. 8 Million in the first two weeks. (Wikipedia)
- 2005
The Prince of Persia, a seasoned warrior, returns from the Island of Time to Babylon with his love, Kaileena. Instead of the peace that he longs for, he finds his homeland ravaged by war and the kingdom turned against him. (Steam)
Plot
The game is set immediately after the events of Prince of Persia: Warrior Within , in which the Prince kills the Dahaka, saves Kaileena and prevents the Sands of Time from being created. Unlike the previous games, the story is narrated by Kaileena. The Prince's actions alter the timeline of events that took place before that point. (Wikipedia)
Reception
Reception By the end of December 2005, sales of The Two Thrones had surpassed 1. 5 million copies. The game received a "Gold" sales award from the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA), indicating sales of at least 200,000 copies in the United Kingdom. (Wikipedia)
- 2024
Dash into a stylish and thrilling action-adventure platformer set in a mythological Persian world where the boundaries of time and space are yours to manipulate. (Steam)
Plot
After experiencing over 30 years of drought and famine, and an invasion from the Kushan Empire , the Persian Empire is on the brink of collapse. The latest Kushan invasion into Persian territory is repelled thanks to the efforts of the Immortals clan. Sargon, the clan's youngest member, personally defeats and kills the Kushan general Uvishka. (Wikipedia)
Reception
Reception Critical reception Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown received "generally favorable" reviews from critics for all versions of the game, according to review aggregator website Metacritic . OpenCritic determined 96% of critics recommended it. Several critics described The Lost Crown as a successful return to the franchise after an extended hiatus, and ranked it among the genre's best games. (Wikipedia)
Prince of Persia, head to head
Two entries side by side on score, price, specs and reception:
Prince of Persia vs other series
How Prince of Persia stacks up against other series in the same genre, as a whole:
Also: Prince of Persia vs Lego Batman, Prince of Persia vs Watch, Prince of Persia vs Crash Bandicoot, Prince of Persia vs Darksiders, Prince of Persia vs God of War, Prince of Persia vs It Takes Two, Prince of Persia vs Lego Harry Potter, Prince of Persia vs Marvel’s Spider-Man, Prince of Persia vs Mirror's Edge, Prince of Persia vs Red Dead Redemption, Prince of Persia vs Sea of Thieves
Common questions
How many Prince of Persia games are there?
We hold 4 Prince of Persia games in the catalogue, released between 1993 and 2024. 3 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 Prince of Persia game is best?
By the GamingPickz Score, Prince of Persia: Warrior Within rates highest at 7.3. 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 Prince of Persia games in?
Release order is listed below, from 1993 to 2024. For most series that is also story order, but we list dates rather than telling you a canon; the timeline is read from Wikidata.
More franchises
Browse every game franchise ranked the same way, or head to the full grid.