Every Halo Game, Ranked by Fans
Rank every Halo game head-to-head: Halo 3 vs Reach, Combat Evolved vs Halo 2, ODST vs Infinite, the Halo Wars games and the Campaign Evolved remake. Your first pick is right here. No sign-up.
Size
Halo Infinite2021 · Xbox / PC
Halo: Campaign Evolved2026 · Xbox / PS5 / PC
Tap a poster to make your pick. Crowd numbers appear after you choose.
How the community ranks them
Results appear here as people finish brackets. Each pick feeds the head-to-head numbers, so the first players decide where all 11 start.
How the Halo Games bracket works
This Halo game ranking is played, not dragged into rows. You get one matchup at a time — Halo: Combat Evolved or Halo 2? Halo 3 or Halo Wars? — and after 10 picks the bracket has a champion, with everything else placed by how far it got. Comparing two games is far easier than sorting 11 of them at once, which is why the finished list tends to survive a second look.
This bracket runs 4 rounds at the default 11-slot size (Opening round, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Final), with every one of the 11 games in the field. 11 is not a power of two, so 5 of them draw a first-round bye — spread evenly across the draw rather than handed to whoever happens to land at the top of it. The draw is seeded: the same for everyone today, different tomorrow, and different again whenever you press New draw. You can also play it at 8 slots for a shorter or longer run.
10 picks, 4 rounds
- Opening round3 matchups
- Quarterfinals4 matchups
- Semifinals2 matchups
- Final1 matchup
Roughly 1-2 minutes start to finish at the default size.
All 11 entrants
All 11 entrants are listed below, including Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo 2, Halo 3 and Halo Wars.
- Halo: Combat Evolved2001 · Xbox
- Halo 22004 · Xbox
- Halo 32007 · Xbox 360
- Halo Wars2009 · Xbox 360
- Halo 3: ODST2009 · Xbox 360
- Halo: Reach2010 · Xbox 360
- Halo 42012 · Xbox 360
- Halo 5: Guardians2015 · Xbox One
- Halo Wars 22017 · Xbox One / PC
- Halo Infinite2021 · Xbox / PC
- Halo: Campaign Evolved2026 · Xbox / PS5 / PC
Tier list instead?
Load all 11 into the tier list maker and sort them into S through F yourself: same entrants, no matchups.
Open the tier list makerMissing something?
Build your own Halo game bracket with exactly the entrants you want, then share the link.
Open the bracket makerGetting a ranking you actually agree with
- Pick the game you would rather replay this weekend, not the one that was most important when it came out.
- The default run puts all 11 games in the draw. Short on time? Drop to 8 slots — a quicker run over a random 8 of them.
- Use undo the moment you regret a pick. One reflex answer in an early round can knock out a favourite before it gets going.
Questions people ask
How many games are in the Halo Games bracket?
The pool holds 11 games. A default run puts all of them in the draw and takes 10 picks across 4 rounds: Opening round, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Final. 5 entrants start with a first-round bye, spread evenly through the draw. Other field sizes are available too — 8, 11 slots.
Which games are included?
Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo 2, Halo 3, Halo Wars, Halo 3: ODST, Halo: Reach, Halo 4, Halo 5: Guardians, Halo Wars 2, Halo Infinite and Halo: Campaign Evolved. Every entrant is listed further down this page with its artwork.
How long does the Halo Games bracket take?
About 1-2 minutes — 10 choices at the default size, or 7 if you drop to an 8-slot bracket. There is no sign-up, and your progress is saved on this device after every pick.
Is this a halo games tier list or a ranking?
Both are here, and the bracket is closer to a tier list than it looks. It ends with a champion, a runner-up and then every other game grouped by the round it went out in — which is exactly a set of tiers, decided by 10 direct comparisons rather than by your first guess at a layout. What it deliberately does not do is claim a precise gap between two games that never met. If you would rather place the games into S through F rows yourself, the tier list maker loads all 11 of them at bracketranker.com/tier-list-maker.
Is there a community halo games ranking?
Every completed bracket feeds the Halo Games community results page, which aggregates win rates across all plays and tracks how often each of the 11 entrants takes the title. It updates continuously, so it moves as more people play.
Can I change which games are included?
Use the bracket maker: add your own games, name it, and share the link so other people play the same field. That is the route to take when this pool of 11 is missing something you would have picked, or when you want a version scoped to one era, label or franchise.