Grand Theft Auto III – The Definitive Edition
Skip · Shooter · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $19.79.
- Length
- 13.8h
- Value
- $1.43/hr
- Reviews
- 66% positive
Watch this gameOne email when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 2GB / AMD Radeon R9 280 3GB, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
It all starts in Liberty City. With revolutionary freedom to go anywhere and jack anyone, Grand Theft Auto III puts the center of the criminal underworld at your fingertips, if you have enough guts to take it.
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
The value story
July 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $19.79. It has gone on sale once in the 67 days tracked here, most recently in July 2026. Today's $19.79 at 67 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
At full price it scores 12. The current cut is what makes it a 16.
It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 77 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition ($19.79, scores 58) and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City – The Definitive Edition ($19.79, scores 58) both outscore it.
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 5 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2026 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 45 percent of the 852 reviews written there were positive, against 66 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 13.8 hours. Doing everything runs 36, 2.6 times as long.
The drop-off
81% start to 8% 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
About 61 players at once, as of Sep 24.
Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
GTA 3 is a great game, it was revolutionary at the time. The remaster does it no benefit or justice.
Game crashed 6 times in 3 hours. The game is buggy and broken. The controls are archaic, clunky, and unintuitive, and the gameplay itself isn't even fun. Came to experience a piece of gaming history, only to be left frustrated and disappointed. I think I'll just skip straight to GTA 4 instead.
Had a really good time with this one. Some of the missions were definitely frustrating, but I guess that's part of GTA
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Grand Theft Auto III – The Definitive Edition scores 16/100 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/1546970/grand-theft-auto-iii-the-definitive-editionReviews 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 Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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