Every Red Orchestra game, ranked
All 2 Red Orchestra games we hold, spanning 2006 to 2011: 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 40,661 Steam reviews.
Where to start
- For the best-reviewed: Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad with Rising Storm (GamingPickz Score 7.9), the highest-rated entry we can score.
- For canon order: begin with Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 (2006) and follow the release-order timeline below.
- For the money: Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 gives the most score per dollar right now.
The Red Orchestra 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 Red Orchestra games, ranked
Ordered by GamingPickz Score. Every figure links back to the source that produced it.
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Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad with Rising Storm
Best for: Players who trust other players over critics
7.9GamingPickz Scorehigh confidenceRed Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad with Rising Storm at a glance Released 2011 Studio Tripwire Interactive Player sentiment 93% positive of 38,119 Critics 76/100 Price $19.99 Steam Deck playable Install size Not stated Accessibility 0 declared features Raw 93% shrinks to 92.9 on 38,119 reviews, then blends with the 76 critic aggregate, giving 7.9.
Worth checking first- Players rate it well above critics, 93 against 76. Usually a sign it improved after launch, or that it delivers something reviewers undervalued.
- Flagged for mature content on its store page.
- Multiplayer only. There is no solo mode to fall back on.
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Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45
Best for: Playing with other people
7.3GamingPickz Scoremedium confidenceRed Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 at a glance Released 2006 Studio Tripwire Interactive Player sentiment 87% positive of 2,542 Critics 81/100 Price $4.99 Steam Deck unknown Install size Not stated Accessibility 0 declared features Raw 87% shrinks to 86.6 on 2,542 reviews, then blends with the 81 critic aggregate, giving 7.3.
Worth checking first- Flagged for mature content on its store page.
- Multiplayer only. There is no solo mode to fall back on.
Best and worst entry
The best-received Red Orchestra game we can score is Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad with Rising Storm at 7.9. The lowest is Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 at 7.3, a 0.6-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: Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 at $4.99. Prices are read live from Steam and move.
- Best value: Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45, 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 Red Orchestra entries on Steam:
- Playable: Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad with Rising Storm
Platforms across the series
Where the 2 Red Orchestra games have landed, counting every entry we hold:
| Platform family | Entries |
|---|---|
| PC | 2 of 2 |
The Red Orchestra series, game by game
Every Red Orchestra 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.
- 2006
Fight in the theatre of war that changed the world forever. Battle alongside your compatriots on some of the most inhospitable environments of the Eastern Front in Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45. Red Orchestra places you in the most realistic WWII first-person multi-player combat to date on the PC, allowing the player to fight through... (Steam)
Reception
Reception The PC version received "favorable" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic . Red Orchestra won Computer Games Magazine s 2004 "Best Mod" award. Ostfront 41–45 was a runner-up for Computer Games Magazine s list of the top 10 computer games of 2006. (Wikipedia)
- 2011
Contains full Rising Storm content as well! (Steam)
Red Orchestra, head to head
Two entries side by side on score, price, specs and reception:
Red Orchestra vs other series
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Common questions
How many Red Orchestra games are there?
We hold 2 Red Orchestra games in the catalogue, released between 2006 and 2011. 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 Red Orchestra game is best?
By the GamingPickz Score, Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad with Rising Storm rates highest at 7.9. 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 Red Orchestra games in?
Release order is listed below, from 2006 to 2011. 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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