9th Dawn III
Worth it · RPG · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $15.99.
- Length
- 52.6h
- Value
- $0.30/hr
- Reviews
- 87% of 536 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
9th Dawn III: Shadow of Erthil is a massive open world RPG/dungeon crawler packed full of content – featuring more than 270 monsters to fight and capture, a fun card game with 180 cards to collect, and over 1,400 unique items to hoard!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Integrated graphics, 748 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 40 discounts in the 6 years tracked, the median cut is 40 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 5 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 79 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 88 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Nobody Saves the World ($7.49, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats BELOW ($24.99, scores 24).
More about 9th Dawn III
This site sampled 363 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written October 2020 to August 2026.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
60% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 2 when we last checked, on Oct 13, 09:53 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
As wide as an ocean, as deep as a puddle. This game has loads of content but is very shallow for an RPG. It's a fine game if you want to turn your brain off and kill some mobs. However, the level design isn't really "open world", with tons of locked doors you need to go through a maze to get to the other side and open. And the character building is very shallow, even if there are many options to choose from. The...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Meh... I don't recommend this game unless you LOVE double-backing repeatedly. I *really* wanted to love this game... I really tried but ultimately, the dungeons are boring, slow, tedious and too maze like. You have to constantly backtrack in order to go up, cross the map, go down, then down, the cross the map then take the proper turns to climb the propper ladder to pull the lever you saw 40 minutes ago. The rub...
You can capture all enemy monsters to use as combat pets, so this gave me a very pokemon gotta catch em all feeling. You end up with a little necromancer army consisting of the most powerful creatures youre able to find. The only thing I didn't like was going into a new dungeon, couldn't use the necro army because theyll immediately start slaughtering everything and I'd be like nooo that was a rare one I wanted...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
9th Dawn III scores 71/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1154850/9th-dawn-iiiReviews 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 Oct 1, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.