BioWare games ranked is a journey through party-based RPGs, experimental spin-offs, mobile curiosities and one very strange Sonic adventure. This selection covers the studio’s lower-ranked releases, beginning with the browser and mobile games that are now difficult to access and ending with a pair of inventive early projects.
BioWare was founded in Edmonton and built its reputation around memorable companions, branching decisions and richly detailed settings. Its catalogue also reaches beyond traditional role-playing games, including mech combat, third-person shooting, co-operative action and a Nintendo DS RPG. For Australian players exploring older releases, a suitable arcade machine buying guide can help when deciding how best to display a broader retro collection.
23. Dragon Age Journeys (2009)
Dragon Age Journeys was a free Flash tactical RPG made by EA2D and BioWare. Its turn-based battles used a hexagonal grid, with players leading warriors, rogues and mages through darkspawn attacks, Orzammar and the Deep Roads while searching for a Grey Warden.
Only the first chapter was released. Chapters 2 and 3 never arrived, although preservation work has made Chapter 1 playable on PC through the Flashpoint archive. Its fate is fitting for a game built around an expedition into the Deep Roads: the adventure survives in an unexpected corner of gaming history.
22. Mass Effect Galaxy (2009)
Mass Effect Galaxy gave Jacob Taylor an adventure away from Commander Shepard. What begins as a holiday for the former Alliance marine is interrupted by a batarian terrorist attack, leading Jacob and Miranda Lawson into an investigation involving a threat to the Citadel Council before Jacob joins Cerberus.
The iPhone game offered a reward in Mass Effect 2 for players who completed it. However, it was exclusive to iOS and left the App Store in 2012, meaning there is no official modern way to play it.
21. Dragon Age Legends (2011)
Dragon Age Legends was a strategy RPG designed for Facebook and Google+. It ran alongside Dragon Age 2, placing players in the Free Marches as an ally of Ravi, the Viscount of Kaiten. The story focused on investigating the mystery surrounding his son.
Its social features allowed players to recruit friends’ avatars from the connected platforms. EA ended support in 2012, but an offline single-player build remains available through the Internet Archive, giving preservationists a way to keep this unusual side story accessible.
20. Mass Effect Infiltrator (2012)
Released on the same day as Mass Effect 3, Mass Effect Infiltrator followed a Cerberus operative who discovers disturbing experiments inside the organisation’s laboratories and turns against his employer. IronMonkey Studios developed the iOS cover shooter as a story running parallel to Shepard’s campaign.
Unlike the main trilogy, this spin-off removed dialogue wheels and concentrated on movement, cover and gunplay. EA removed it from the App Store in 2015, leaving it unavailable today unless a player retained an older copy.
19. Anthem (2019)
Anthem introduced a world left incomplete by its creators, where Freelancers used Javelin exosuits to stop a mysterious faction from taking control of ancient technology. It was BioWare’s first new intellectual property in roughly a decade and was designed around co-operative play for squads of up to four.
Missions and strongholds began from Fort Tarsis, with each player choosing a Javelin for aerial movement and combat. The launch was troubled, and the game’s servers were shut down in January 2026. Even so, its first flight in a Javelin captured an unusually convincing sense of freedom.
18. Shattered Steel (1996)
BioWare’s first released game was a mech action title rather than an RPG. Published by Interplay, Shattered Steel placed players in the role of a mercenary pilot investigating pirate attacks on Lanios 3. The supposed raiders ultimately proved to be a hostile alien species, in a future devastated by the Core Wars.
The game sold more than 170,000 copies, a solid result for its era, and remains playable on PC through Steam. It may not contain the party dynamics that later defined BioWare, but its opening statement was clear enough: the studio’s first blueprint featured a giant robot.
17. Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood (2008)
A BioWare-developed, turn-based Sonic RPG sounds improbable, but Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood made the concept work on Nintendo DS. After Dr Eggman’s defeat, a new threat kidnaps the last echidna, sending Sonic and a party of ten allies into a fresh adventure.
Players assembled squads, listened to their companions and made dialogue choices while investigating the Dark Brotherhood. The framework was unmistakably BioWare, even with a blue hedgehog leading the party. The result remains one of the studio’s most unexpected genre experiments.
16. Mass Effect: Andromeda (2017)
Mass Effect: Andromeda left the Milky Way behind. Players choose Scott or Sara Ryder, who awakens from cryo-sleep as the Andromeda Initiative’s new Pathfinder and must search for a home in the Heleus Cluster.
Settlement is complicated by the militaristic kett and the embattled angara, who are fighting over the most promising worlds. The game had a difficult launch, but its alien landscapes remained a visual highlight. It is available on PC, PlayStation and Xbox.
15. Dragon Age 2 (2011)
Rather than spanning an entire continent, Dragon Age 2 concentrates on Kirkwall and follows the city across a decade. Players control Hawke, a refugee who escapes the destruction of home, flees the Blight and eventually becomes Kirkwall’s Champion.
The story is presented by Varric, whose account to a Seeker is deliberately unreliable and divided into three acts. Its smaller setting gives the game a more personal focus, while Hawke’s rise shows how far one survivor can go in pursuit of influence and power. The game is playable on PC and Xbox consoles through backward compatibility.
14. MDK2 (2000)
MDK2 brought an alien invasion to BioWare’s own hometown of Edmonton. The sequel to Shiny’s cult shooter follows janitor Kurt Hectic, scientist Dr Fluke Hawkins and Max, a six-legged dog, as they uncover a minecrawler in the city and become involved in a plan to destroy Earth.
Originally released on Dreamcast, the game is now playable on PC. Its broad comedy and deliberately odd cast reveal a side of BioWare that is easy to overlook: even a studio associated with sweeping dramatic adventures could make room for an exuberant, silly shooter.
These entries show how wide BioWare’s early ambitions were, from hex-grid fantasy and social strategy to mech combat, handheld RPGs and co-operative science fiction. For collectors building a dedicated setup, browse arcade machines or consider a compact bartop arcade for a smaller Australian games room.
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