Arma 3
Worth it · Shooter · 2013
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 75% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$29.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$5.9980% offWorth it
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.54/hr
- ReviewsA
- 90% of 296,218
- Critics
- 74 players 16 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 12% Shooter
Holding it back: AI content, Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 19.5h
- To 100%
- 120.5h 6.2x the story
- Achievements
- 123
Price and sales
- Sales
- 104 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $2.99 June 2024
- Sale every
- 38d last September 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 7,042 now
- Recent reviews
- 89% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 7% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 85% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
93% start to <1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 104 times in the 13 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 8 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 12 percent. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 85 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead ($19.99, scores 67) and ARMA: Gold Edition ($9.99, scores 46).
More about Arma 3
Critics scored it 74. Players sit 16 points higher at 90 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 35 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2026 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 59 percent of the 11,711 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
19.5 hours to finish it, 121 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 6.2 times the campaign.
296,218 reviews stand behind that percentage.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 53 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Played this game for hundreds of hours but honestly the MilSim is way too complicated to play, if your into that, g4u.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Altis Life was Goated, KOTH and Wasteland along with BR was alright, so many bugs and exploits, and FAR too many cheaters, Battle eye Anticheat sucks. Was fun when it was poppin now its dead, Had some good memories and logged tons of hours. 8/10 - because of friends and memories Game - 5/10
Awesome sandbox game with ways to play for lower end PCs as well. You aren't going to be able to do some mods, host multiplayer, or possibly even play multiplayer, but singleplayer has a ton to offer with dynamic missions offering endless replayability.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Experience true combat gameplay in a massive military sandbox. Deploy with a wide variety of single- and multiplayer content, a massive arsenal of modern weapons and vehicles, and limitless opportunities for content creation. Authentic, diverse, open - Arma 3 sends you to war.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 50 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Cite this score
Arma 3 scores 71/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The developer disclosed AI-generated content on Steam, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/107410/arma-3Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 3, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.