Dead Space™ 3
Skip · Shooter · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $3.99.
- Length
- 12.7h
- Value
- $0.31/hr
- Reviews
- 72% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
Journey across space to the icy planet of Tau Volantis with Isaac Clarke and Sgt. John Carver to discover and destroy the source of the Necromorph outbreak.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $3.99. That was October 2023. 47 discounts in the 6 years on record. They run about 80 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today's $3.99 at 80 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
Take the discount away and it is a 32. With it, 37.
It is pricier than 70 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 61 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Aliens: Fireteam Elite ($29.99, scores 56) beats it on value, while it beats Aliens: Colonial Marines Collection ($29.99, scores 8).
Steam's global achievement data puts 26 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 14 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2025 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 85 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 41 percent of the 1,317 reviews written there were positive, against 72 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
79% start to 26% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
81 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
I think it was a really enjoyable co-op game as we played it through with my sister. It was fun for one, of course I have to tell I wouldn't play it out again soon, but still, the story was enjoyable, it was kinda easy to play together, it was scary here and there so yeah I can absolutely recommend it if you want to have some fun on some tired evenings with a friend or family. I even enjoyed the weapon system, to...
this game is pretty good, but has flaws. It's not as bad as people like to overexaggerate. It's also not as good as the previous games and the remake but it's really fun to play and with the best setting (imo). This game's story has a lot of interesting ideas but fall flat because the main focus is on the action instead of the horror, and most of the characters are unlikable, forgetful, or unrecognizable to their...
September 12, 2026. Game will not launch at all. Is it Windows 11? Is it the EA app? Who knows.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Dead Space™ 3 scores 37/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1238060/dead-space-3The BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 18, price as of Sep 24.
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