Rise of the Triad
Skip · Shooter · 2013
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $1.49.
- Length
- 7.7h
- Value
- $0.19/hr
- Reviews
- 66% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, ATI Radeon HD 3870 / NVIDIA 8800 GT, 7 GB of storage. Windows only.
Apogee Software and Interceptor Entertainment proudly present the rebirth of the cult-classic first-person shooter, “Rise of the Triad”. Bigger, better and more ludicrous than ever before.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.49, set in September 2020. Its cuts run 80 percent off as a rule. There have been 63 in the 13 years tracked, about 9 weeks apart. Today's $1.49 at 90 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
It is pricier than 64 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 79 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Serious Sam Classics: Revolution ($9.99, scores 79) and Quake ($9.99, scores 82) both outscore it.
Steam's global achievement data says about 3 percent of players ever finish it. On a 7.7-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. None of the 405 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 55 percent of the 516 reviews written there were positive, against 66 percent overall, and those are 27 percent of everything written about it.
7.7 hours to finish it, 41 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 5.4 times the campaign.
The drop-off
76% start to 3% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 7.7-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
1 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
Honestly, this game is ok. I'd only pick it up as a part of the HUNT bundle that also includes both the Classic and Ludicrous versions of old school Rise of the Triad though. This 2013 release is a product of its era where there was little confidence in classic 90s/00s style FPS games before Doom 2016 and Doom Eternal revived them. As such, it was "modernized" for the audiences of that time with an annoying...
it's fun and bad sometimes but fun but i wouldn't recommend it unless you get it for cheap! just get the original, ludicrous edition or og with a source port, the original is better! also the mp40 in this game is really weird, the original has the proper mp40
Get the original, this is not worth your money. Hard crashes randomly and there is a bug where if you pickup the shotgun it may crash, no optimization and compatibility updates since 2015, horrible controls and weird performance issues. Ludicrous Edition is so much better
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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Rise of the Triad scores 19/100 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/217140/rise-of-the-triadThe 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 6, price as of Sep 24.
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