Silent Hunter® III
Fair · Strategy · 2008
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $2.49. Buy it if you want it.
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- 88% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 64 MB (128 MB video card recommended)(see supported list*), 1.5 GB of storage. Windows only.
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- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Strategy game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $2.49, set in November 2020. It has been discounted 78 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. Today's $2.49 at 75 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 4 percent on value. It is pricier than 70 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, UBOAT ($29.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Silent Hunter 5®: Battle of the Atlantic ($9.99, scores 0).
Of the 473 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 4 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 61 percent of the 320 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
Players
54 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Silent Hunter® III scores 66/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). Length is estimated at 8 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/15210/silent-hunter-iiiThe 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 3, price as of Sep 24.
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