Every Supreme Commander game, ranked
All 2 Supreme Commander games we hold, spanning 2011 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 17,503 Steam reviews.
Where to start
- For the best-reviewed: Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance (GamingPickz Score 8.1), the highest-rated entry we can score.
The Supreme Commander 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 Supreme Commander games, ranked
Ordered by GamingPickz Score. Every figure links back to the source that produced it.
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Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance
Best for: Playing with other people
8.1GamingPickz Scorehigh confidenceSupreme Commander: Forged Alliance at a glance Released 2011 Studio Gas Powered Games Player sentiment 97% positive of 14,353 Critics 81/100 Price $12.99 Steam Deck unsupported Install size Not stated Accessibility 0 declared features Raw 97% shrinks to 96.6 on 14,353 reviews, then blends with the 81 critic aggregate, giving 8.1.
Worth checking first- Players rate it well above critics, 97 against 81. Usually a sign it improved after launch, or that it delivers something reviewers undervalued.
- Valve rates it Unsupported on the Steam Deck.
Supreme Commander at a glance Released 2011 Studio Gas Powered Games Player sentiment 89% positive of 3,150 Critics 86/100 Price $12.99 Steam Deck unsupported Install size Not stated Accessibility 0 declared features Raw 89% shrinks to 88.4 on 3,150 reviews, then blends with the 86 critic aggregate, giving 7.5.
Worth checking first- Valve rates it Unsupported on the Steam Deck.
Best and worst entry
The best-received Supreme Commander game we can score is Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance at 8.1. The lowest is Supreme Commander at 7.5, 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: Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance at $12.99. Prices are read live from Steam and move.
- Best value: Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance, 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 Supreme Commander entries on Steam:
- Unsupported: Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance, Supreme Commander
Platforms across the series
Where the 2 Supreme Commander games have landed, counting every entry we hold:
| Platform family | Entries |
|---|---|
| PC | 2 of 2 |
The Supreme Commander series, game by game
Every Supreme Commander 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.
- 2011
The last days of man are at hand.. Two years after the Infinite War the once great warring nations now lie in ruins, and humanity’s hope for a brighter future is nothing but a bitter memory. A new, seemingly unstoppable enemy, supported by the zealots of The Order, now seeks to eradicate mankind: UEF, Aeon Loyalist, and Cybran alike. (Steam)
Plot
Setting The game supreme commander is set in the 39th century in which humanity is able to travel through the galaxy quickly using a quantum tunnel, a portal opened in the fabric of space leading to a designated location potentially light-years away. Tunneling let humankind establish many colonies, which were governed by a centralized Earth Empire. As the number of human worlds grew, however, its control eventually weakened, and the Empire collapsed. (Wikipedia)
Reception
Reception The reception to Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance has been generally positive, on the same level as that for the original game. On November 7, 2007, GameSpot s review gave it a score of 8. 5 out of 10. (Wikipedia)
- 2011
For a thousand years, three opposing forces have waged war for what they believe is true. There can be no room for compromise: their way is the only way. Dubbed The Infinite War, this devastating conflict has taken its toll on a once-peaceful galaxy and has only served to deepen the hatred between the factions. (Steam)
Supreme Commander, head to head
Two entries side by side on score, price, specs and reception:
Common questions
How many Supreme Commander games are there?
We hold 2 Supreme Commander games in the catalogue, released between 2011 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 Supreme Commander game is best?
By the GamingPickz Score, Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance rates highest at 8.1. 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 Supreme Commander games in?
Release order is listed below, from 2011 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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