Company of Heroes 3
Skip · Action · 2023
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $23.99.
- Length
- 21.2h
- Value
- $1.13/hr
- Reviews
- 57% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950, AMD Radeon R9 370, or equivalent performance, 40 GB of storage. Windows only.
Company of Heroes 3 combines heart-pounding combat with deeper strategic choices in a stunning Mediterranean theatre of war. In Company of Heroes 3, every battle tells a story...what's yours?
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How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $23.99. That was August 2025. It has been discounted 30 times in the 4 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today's $23.99 at 60 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 97 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Mechabellum ($8.99, scores 50) and Soldiers: Heroes of World War II - Enhanced Edition ($4.99, scores 60) both outscore it.
The press liked it more than its buyers did, 81 against 57 percent.
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 10 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written June 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 30 percent of the 1,982 reviews written there were positive, against 57 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 21.2 hours. Doing everything runs 52, 2.5 times as long.
3 years after release it still had 2.2K people in it at once.
The drop-off
68% 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
2,183 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
Originally bought this because I loved the old Company of Heroes games and the old Dawn of War games, out of a sense of loyalty I suppose. Its not a great game, the campaign isn't good and I can't find an online match, so I pretty much stick to skirmishes against the AI, which is fun. Then they announce final stand, I get excited, Yay new fun content for this game I really want to like. Ooops, its not new content...
This game became the true loss for not even goes on sale People told me don't buy just use the cracked version They don't deserve your money Now i see why they told me that
From COH 2 a legendary game to this???!! What is this nonsense?? Infantry characters are like cartoon made for kids like war is a joke :)). I wish I could refund my money. I have been playing COH 2 for years and I will continue to do so. What a disappointment. Panzer knew I was hiding in the bushes and chased my SPAA lol. Must be very smart AI haha. A friend of mine told me they even removed the Soviets and I still...
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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Company of Heroes 3 scores 3/100 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/1677280/company-of-heroes-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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