Every Squad game, ranked
All 2 Squad games we hold, spanning 2018 to 2020: 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 268,189 Steam reviews.
Where to start
- For the best-reviewed: Squad (GamingPickz Score 7.7), the highest-rated entry we can score.
- For canon order: begin with Squad 44 (2018) and follow the release-order timeline below.
- For the money: Squad 44 gives the most score per dollar right now.
The Squad 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 Squad games, ranked
Ordered by GamingPickz Score. Every figure links back to the source that produced it.
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Squad
Best for: The safest bet on this list, by weight of evidence
7.7GamingPickz Scoremedium confidenceSquad at a glance Released 2020 Studio Offworld Player sentiment 81% positive of 242,753 Critics No aggregate Price $39.99 Steam Deck playable Install size 65 GB Accessibility 1 declared feature Raw 81% shrinks to 81.0 on 242,753 reviews, giving 7.7. No critics data, so that weight was redistributed across the rest rather than counted as zero.
Worth checking first- Flagged for mature content on its store page.
- Multiplayer only. There is no solo mode to fall back on.
Squad 44 at a glance Released 2018 Studio Offworld Player sentiment 74% positive of 25,436 Critics No aggregate Price $19.99 Steam Deck unsupported Install size 100 GB Accessibility 1 declared feature Raw 74% shrinks to 74.2 on 25,436 reviews, giving 6.7. No critics data, so that weight was redistributed across the rest rather than counted as zero.
Worth checking first- Flagged for mature content on its store page.
- Valve rates it Unsupported on the Steam Deck.
- Multiplayer only. There is no solo mode to fall back on.
Best and worst entry
The best-received Squad game we can score is Squad at 7.7. The lowest is Squad 44 at 6.7, 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: Squad 44 at $19.99. Prices are read live from Steam and move.
- Best value: Squad 44, 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 Squad entries on Steam:
- Playable: Squad
- Unsupported: Squad 44
Platforms across the series
Where the 2 Squad games have landed, counting every entry we hold:
| Platform family | Entries |
|---|---|
| PC | 2 of 2 |
The Squad series, game by game
Every Squad 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
- 2020
Squad, head to head
Two entries side by side on score, price, specs and reception:
Squad vs other series
How Squad stacks up against other series in the same genre, as a whole:
Also: Squad vs ARK, Squad vs Borderlands, Squad vs Crysis, Squad vs Dead Island, Squad vs Dishonored, Squad vs Max Payne, Squad vs Red Faction, Squad vs Sniper Elite, Squad vs Sniper Ghost Warrior, Squad vs Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon, Squad vs America's Army, Squad vs ArcheAge, Squad vs Bright Memory, Squad vs Enlisted, Squad vs EverQuest, Squad vs Heaven Island, Squad vs Homefront, Squad vs Infestation, Squad vs Metal Gear, Squad vs POSTAL, Squad vs RAGE, Squad vs Red Dead Redemption, Squad vs Sea of Thieves, Squad vs Shadow Warrior, Squad vs Slime Rancher, Squad vs Sniper, Squad vs The Lord of the Rings, Squad vs Thief, Squad vs World of Tanks, Squad vs Z1 Battle Royale, Squad vs Zombie Army
Common questions
How many Squad games are there?
We hold 2 Squad games in the catalogue, released between 2018 and 2020. 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 Squad game is best?
By the GamingPickz Score, Squad rates highest at 7.7. 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 Squad games in?
Release order is listed below, from 2018 to 2020. 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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