Orcs Must Die! 3
Worth it · Shooter · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $29.99.
- Length
- 10.1h
- Value
- $2.97/hr
- Reviews
- 86% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 660, 2 GB | AMD Radeon HD 7870, 2 GB, 12 GB of storage. Windows only.
Slice, burn, toss, zap, grind and gib massive hordes of repugnant orcs in this long-awaited successor to the award-winning Orcs Must Die! series.
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 $2.99. That was November 2024. It has been discounted 40 times in the 5 years tracked here, typically at 70 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 6 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 11 percent on value. It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 73 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Orcs Must Die! 2 ($3.74, scores 89) beats it on value, while it beats Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville™ ($8.99, scores 28).
Steam's global achievement data says about 4 percent of players ever finish it. On a 10.1-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 6 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written January 2023 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 62 percent of the 902 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
10.1 hours to finish it, 46 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 4.6 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 10.1 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
95% start to 4% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 10.1-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
161 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
My all time favourite action tower defense game. Completing this game with all achievements was very challenging and entertaining.
Really fun and in many parts better than the 2nd game, but it has a lot of unpredictable and annoying bugs that in the end make it worse than Orcs Must Die 2. 7/10 --- Good Additions --- The weekly missions and scramble are really cool and fun additions. --- Bugs --- Enemies ignoring barricades and just walking through or sometimes falling through or over barricades and then running into the rift, ruining the whole...
Constant issues with co-op lag and connectivity that are NOT due to our hardware. Very frustrating. Will never buy another game from this franchise.
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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Orcs Must Die! 3 scores 73/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1522820/orcs-must-die-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 15, price as of Sep 23.
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