Etrian Odyssey III HD

Etrian Odyssey III HD

Fair · RPG · 2023

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $39.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
42.2h 101.5h to 100%
Value
$0.95/hr
Reviews
87% of 778 positive
It needs 7% off ($37.08) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $37.08 or less.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

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

Raising the score
Value$0.95/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Holding it back
Reviews87% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 86% after the small-sample adjustment
DRMDenuvo
Denuvo copy protection, a small friction discount
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds2 of 364 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Set sail to an undersea labyrinth in search of the Deep City of Armoroad! Lead a party of adventurers to explore the vast dungeon in search of untold technology, treasure, and lost secrets.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

It has been discounted 25 times in the 4 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 60 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

Value puts it in the top 7 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Dragon Cliff ($1.99, scores 77) beats it on value, while it beats 再刷一把 PlayAgain ($8.99, scores 15).

More about Etrian Odyssey III HD

2 of the 364 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2023 to August 2026.

Finishing takes 42.2 hours; clearing it takes 102, which is 2.4 times the campaign.

Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.

The drop-off

78% start to 3% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

Players online
131 when we last checked, on Oct 6, 12:55 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

The first game with 3 endings, but the tedium of replaying each time made me lose motivation to finish it. They really expanded side content but most of it is linear or useless. If you play on hard difficulty, it just gets SOOO grindy.
Berticus420Not recommendedafter 7.0h2 found this helpfulRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Etrian Odyssey III HD scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1810820/etrian-odyssey-iii-hd
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Reviews 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 Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperATLUS
PublisherSEGA
GenreRPG
Released2023
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements29