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Game entry

Heretic

1994 · FPS · PC, Mac, DOS · id Software

Heretic is ranked no. 1,750 among the best video games of all time by GameForever voters, with an ELO score of 1,518 and 44% of duels won. Its best rank by family puts it at no. 20 out of 69 (1994).

World rank

no. 1,750

ELO score

1,518

Wins

44%

Duels played

86

About Heretic

Three brothers, known as the Serpent Riders, have used their powerful magic to possess seven kings of Parthoris into mindless puppets and corrupt their armies. The Sidhe elves resist the Serpent Riders' magic. The Serpent Riders thus declared the Sidhe as heretics and waged war against them. The Sidhe are forced to take a drastic measure to sever the natural power of the kings destroying them and their armies, but at the cost of weakening the elves' power, giving the Serpent riders an advantage to slay the elders. While the Sidhe retreat, one elf, sets off on a quest of vengeance against the weakest of the three Serpent Riders, D'Sparil. He travels through the "City of the Damned", the ruined capital of the Sidhe, then past Hell's Maw and finally the Dome of D'Sparil.

ELO progression

Score moved from 1,500 to 1,518 ELO points over the last 170 days.

Head-to-head

Direct record on the most played match-ups.

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The standing

Where Heretic ranks

The world rank mixes every family of games. Here is where Heretic stands in each of the ones it belongs to. Its best standing, all families considered: 20 out of 69 (1994).

Where Heretic ranks
Ranking Position Games competing
World ranking 1,750 5,046
FPS 186 452
1990s 244 659
1994 20 69

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