All 23 BioWare Games, Ranked
BioWare is closing, according to EA’s announcement on 21 October, prompting a retrospective ranking of all 23 games the studio made. The list spans the studio’s three decades of work, from early experiments to its best-known role-playing series, and shows how its party-based stories and consequential choices shaped its identity.
The ranking includes remasters and mobile and browser spin-offs, but excludes expansions. Its lower-ranked entries include the discontinued Dragon Age and Mass Effect spin-offs, while Anthem’s servers shut down in January 2026. BioWare’s first game, Shattered Steel, was a mech combat game that sold more than 170,000 copies; the article also notes the unusual Sonic Chronicles, a turn-based RPG for Nintendo DS.
In short
- EA announced BioWare’s closure on 21 October.
- The ranking covers 23 games across three decades.
- Shattered Steel, BioWare’s first game, sold over 170,000 copies.
Explained simply
BioWare was a video game studio founded in Canada in 1995. It became known for role-playing games, in which players develop characters and make decisions, often alongside a group of companions.
Its best-known series include Dragon Age and Mass Effect, which combine fictional worlds with stories shaped by player choices. The studio also made games in other styles, including its first release, the mech combat game Shattered Steel, and the Nintendo DS game Sonic Chronicles.
BioWare’s history matters because its games helped establish a style of role-playing built around party members, dialogue and consequential choices. Looking across its releases gives a sense of how that approach changed over the studio’s three decades.