SIMULACRA 3
Skip · Strategy · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 7, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Length
- 5.1h 9h to 100%
- Value
- $1.96/hr
- Reviews
- 59% of 367 positive
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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
About the game
The town of Stonecreek is haunted. People keep disappearing into thin air, leaving nothing but an eerie symbol behind. With the townsfolk gripped with fear, use a missing victim's phone to unlock the truth in the third entry of the acclaimed horror series, SIMULACRA.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
41 discounts in the 4 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 64 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 93 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Breakout 13 ($9.99, scores 66) and Cyber Manhunt ($9.99, scores 78) both outscore it.
More about SIMULACRA 3
Of the 326 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2022 to August 2026.
The drop-off
81% start to 6% 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
What players say
The weakest of the Simulacra Trilogy by far (even Pipe Dreams felt more comprehensive as a horror experience). It feels like the budget for this game was severely cut. There are many features missing in this game that were present in the previous, the horror elements are few and far between, and obvious bugs still remaining in the game (as of Sept 2026). The audio mixing clearly has issues with some dialogue being...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
This is gonna contain spoilers but this game makes me so angry. Why did we kill off Jabbr and pretty much any of the other apps in the first two games?? It was so fun like hello you can't remove the apps that made the game feel like you were on an actual phone, and not to mention the dialogue is crap none of the characters even sound like real people and to add onto that THERE IS NO CHARACTERS, why are we stuck with...
It's the weakest Simulacra game, but its not just bad. There's some decent stuff, but it doesn't feel like it belongs with the others and should rather have been a standalone game in the same style, rather than presented as a direct sequel.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
SIMULACRA 3 scores 7/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1925970/simulacra-3Reviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.