DOOM 3
Worth it · Shooter · 2012
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99.
- Length
- 10.9h
- Value
- $0.92/hr
- Reviews
- 86% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 3 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT / ATI Radeon HD 5750, 512 MB video RAM, 11 GB of storage. Windows only.
A demonic invasion has overwhelmed the Union Aerospace Corporation's Mars research facility. As one of only a few survivors, you must fight your way to hell and back against a horde of demons in this award-winning horror/action FPS and reimagining of the original DOOM.
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The value story
August 2017 is where it bottomed out, at $1.24. It has been discounted 78 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 60 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 13 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 74 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, DOOM ($19.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats DOOM Eternal ($29.99, scores 64).
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 8 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 70 percent of the 1,504 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 17 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
37% start to 2% 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
118 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
Modern DOOM is nowhere near the greatness of DOOM 3, its horror aspect and environmental creepiness, enemies jumping outofwhere, the jumpscares.. freaking hell, i don't know how many times i've grunted.
Still one of my all time favourite FPS games and another Doom game that absolutely stole my heart when I was a boy. Yes, it's a shame that the flashlight was needlessly disregarded for the re-release, annihilating the mood in a few sections and generally bringing down the atmosphere altogether. But what's here remains a satisfying, dark and moody horror shooter, still riffing on all the fun level design of the...
BFG or not debates aside, this is a great game. I love all the DOOM games, but I have a weird soft spot for this one. Just something about it. If you don't like it that's fine, but it's definitely a great game.
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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DOOM 3 scores 71/100 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/208200/doom-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 Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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