Every great BioWare story starts the same way: You gather a party. For thirty years, the studio gave us companions we’d follow anywhere, choices that kept us up at night, and worlds we didn’t want to leave, from Candlekeep to the Citadel to Thedas. On Oct. 21, EA announced it’s closing BioWare, so we’ve ranked all 23 of its games — including remasters and mobile and browser spin-offs (but not expansions) — from worst to best.
We’ll start with the footnotes and work our way up to the legends. Not every Dragon Age adventure came on a disc or via Steam download. Journeys, a free Flash tactical RPG from EA2D and BioWare, let you lead a party of warriors, rogues, and mages through turn-based, hex-grid battles, from a darkspawn ambush to Orzammar and back into the Deep Roads to find a Grey Warden.
While Chapters 2 and 3 of this game never arrived, preservation projects have resurfaced Chapter 1 so you can still play it on a PC through the Flashpoint archive. An apt fate for a Deep Roads game, if you ask me. Spoilers: Jacob Taylor’s vacation has not gone as planned.
In Mass Effect Galaxy, the former Alliance marine’s cruise ends in a batarian terrorist attack. The aftermath sends him and Miranda Lawson after a plot against the Citadel Council, shortly before he joined Cerberus. Finishing the iPhone game got you a reward in Mass Effect 2.
Unfortunately, this mobile game left the App Store in 2012, and it was iOS-only, so there’s no official way to play it today — which makes Jacob’s vacation possibly the rarest trip in the galaxy. Dragon Age 2 came with a social network attached. Legends, a strategy RPG on Facebook and Google+, ran alongside the sequel in the Free Marches.
In it, you played as a trusted ally of Ravi, the Viscount of Kaiten, investigating the mystery around his son. You could recruit your friends’ avatars via the linked social platforms. EA ended support for this game in 2012, but an offline single-player version survives in the Internet Archive.
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