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Are you new to Sword Art Online games, but having a problem which to buy?

If you google with a keyword like "best sword art online games", all the answers you get are something like "Depends on your taste", "It depends".
We don't think these are helpful answers.

However, statistics and data always show the truth. In this document, we won't give our own personal opinions and personal recommendation to each of SAO games. We only look at the data which would prove what is real "best sword art online game".

This article is based on both Gamstat, which shows the amount of new players (since Gamstat not updating, they are all based on last known data), and Metacritic, which shows the rating of games by their own standards.

Top #1. Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet
Metacritic Score 72 - Top #1 among all SAO games
Gamstat Ranking among SAO Games : Top #2

Highest Metacritic ranking and pretty high ranking in Gamstat.

Top #2. Sword Art Online: Lost Song
Metacritic Score 70 - Top #2 among all SAO games
Gamstat Ranking among SAO Games : Top #3

Pretty high both Mecritic Score and Gamstat Ranking.

Top #3. Sword Art Online: Alicization Lycoris
Metacritic Score 58  - Top #6 among all SAO games
Gamstat Ranking among SAO Games : Top #1

Lowest Metacritic score among all SAO games but top #1 in terms of new player numbers. 
This is probably because this is newest SAO game as of writing this. So we put it at middle position.

Top #4. Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization
Metacritic Score 69 - Top #3 among all SAO games
Gamstat Ranking among SAO Games : Top #4

Top #5. Sword Art Online: Hollow Fragment
Metacritic Score 67 - Top #4 among all SAO games
Gamstat Ranking among SAO Games : Top #5

Top #6. Accel World vs. Sword Art Online
Metacritic Score 64  - Top #5 among all SAO games
Gamstat Ranking among SAO Games : Top #6

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