Every Sniper game, ranked
All 2 Sniper 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 27,554 Steam reviews.
Where to start
- For the best-reviewed: Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 (GamingPickz Score 6.4), the highest-rated entry we can score.
- For canon order: begin with Sniper: Ghost Warrior (2010) and follow the release-order timeline below.
- For the money: Sniper: Ghost Warrior gives the most score per dollar right now.
The Sniper 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 Sniper games, ranked
Ordered by GamingPickz Score. Every figure links back to the source that produced it.
Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 at a glance Released 2013 Studio City Interactive Player sentiment 76% positive of 18,757 Critics 52/100 Price $9.99 Steam Deck verified Install size Not stated Accessibility 1 declared feature Raw 76% shrinks to 76.2 on 18,757 reviews, then blends with the 52 critic aggregate, giving 6.4.
What the data supports- Valve has tested it and rates it Verified on the Steam Deck.
Worth checking first- Players rate it well above critics, 76 against 52. Usually a sign it improved after launch, or that it delivers something reviewers undervalued.
- Flagged for mature content on its store page.
Sniper: Ghost Warrior at a glance Released 2010 Studio City Interactive Player sentiment 58% positive of 8,797 Critics 55/100 Price $7.99 Steam Deck unsupported Install size Not stated Accessibility 1 declared feature Raw 58% shrinks to 59.1 on 8,797 reviews, then blends with the 55 critic aggregate, giving 5.4.
Worth checking first- Valve rates it Unsupported on the Steam Deck.
Best and worst entry
The best-received Sniper game we can score is Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 at 6.4. The lowest is Sniper: Ghost Warrior at 5.4, 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: Sniper: Ghost Warrior at $7.99. Prices are read live from Steam and move.
- Best value: Sniper: Ghost Warrior, 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 Sniper entries on Steam:
- Verified: Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2
- Unsupported: Sniper: Ghost Warrior
Platforms across the series
Where the 2 Sniper games have landed, counting every entry we hold:
| Platform family | Entries |
|---|---|
| PC | 2 of 2 |
The Sniper series, game by game
Every Sniper 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
As a Ghost Warrior, an elite sniper in a highly trained special ops unit, your unique skills in the art of stalking, target detection, surveillance and shooting accuracy will determine mission success. (Steam)
Reception
Sales In January 2021, CI Games CEO Marek Tyminski confirmed that the Sniper: Ghost Warrior franchise had sold over eleven million copies. ^ " Sniper: Art of Victory Reviews" . Metacritic . (Wikipedia)
- 2013
Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 takes the bulls-eye precision of its predecessor to new and exciting heights! (Steam)
Plot
The game starts with player taking control of U. S. Marine Captain Cole Anderson, in the Philippines , with CIA Officer Diaz making their way to an old Russian radar post to destroy it while working on a tip that some mercenaries had assembled there to broker a deal for a biological weapon . (Wikipedia)
Reception
Reception Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 received "mixed or average" reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic . Gameplanet 's reviewer writes that the game is not as linear as other modern (i. e. (Wikipedia)
Sniper, head to head
Two entries side by side on score, price, specs and reception:
Sniper vs other series
How Sniper stacks up against other series in the same genre, as a whole:
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Common questions
How many Sniper games are there?
We hold 2 Sniper 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 Sniper game is best?
By the GamingPickz Score, Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 rates highest at 6.4. 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 Sniper 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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