Fate watch order

Start with Unlimited Blade Works, then Fate/Zero, then Heaven's Feel. Everything else is optional and can be watched in any order after that.

Main story

1. Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works (TV, 2014–2015, start at episode 0)
2. Fate/Zero (TV, 2011–2012, prequel — hits hardest after UBW)
3. Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel I. presage flower (film, 2017)
4. Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel II. lost butterfly (film, 2019)
5. Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel III. spring song (film, 2020)

Then, in any order

• Lord El-Melloi II's Case Files {Rail Zeppelin} Grace note (TV, 2019, follows Waver after Fate/Zero)
• Fate/strange Fake: Whispers of Dawn (special, 2023), then Fate/strange Fake (TV, 2026, 13 episodes)
• Fate/Grand Order, in story order: First Order (2016) → Camelot: Wandering; Agateram (film, 2020) → Camelot: Paladin; Agateram (film, 2021) → Babylonia (TV, 2019–2020, start at Episode 0) → Final Singularity: Solomon (film, 2021)
• Fate/Apocrypha (TV, 2017, separate world)
• Fate/Extra Last Encore (TV, 2018, separate world)
• Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya (magical-girl spin-off)
• Carnival Phantasm and Today's Menu for the Emiya Family (comedy, after the main story)

Fate/stay night (2006, Studio Deen) adapts the first route of the visual novel. It is optional; most people skip it.