With the release of God of War Ragnarök now upon us, it seems like the best time to go back through the God of War franchise and evaluate the best of what the franchise had to offer us. As such, we will be listing all of the mainline God of War games from not-so-good to great. While none of the games on this list are objectively bad games, some were definitely more fun than the rest.

Before we start with this list, we have one God of War game that was not a part of the mainline series, but it still filled in the gaps between games canonically. Due to that, this game is a special mention.

Here are all the God of War games ranked.

Special mention – God of War: Betrayal

God of War: Betrayal is the only God of War game on this list to not feature on any console. Betrayal was a mobile game created back in 2007, before the Android era of smartphones. This might lead you to think the game was just a random spin-off and not very relevant—but in fact, the opposite was true.

The events of God of War: Betrayal takes place between two other mainline God of War games, Ghost of Sparta and God of War II. Chronologically, this is supposed to be the fifth game in the Greek saga of Kratos, although it was the third game released in the franchise. It is the only 2D side-scroller game in the series as opposed to all of the games being third-person action-adventure games.

In this game, Kratos is framed for the murder of Argos in one of his Spartan campaigns after…