Far Cry 3
Worth it · Shooter · 2012
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $4.99.
- Length
- 15.9h
- Value
- $0.31/hr
- Reviews
- 88% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 75% over the last 30 days against 88% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 15 GB of storage. Windows only.
Stranded on the Rook Islands as Jason Brody, fight your way through a lawless tropical open world using a powerful arsenal to save your friends and escape the madness of this acclaimed visceral FPS.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
July 2020 is where it bottomed out, at $2.99. It has been discounted 109 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 70 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today's $4.99 at 75 percent off still sits 67 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
Take the discount away and it is a 68. With it, 76.
Value puts it in the top 9 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 78 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 78 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Far Cry® 4 ($5.99, scores 69) and theHunter Classic (scores 4).
Players rate it 88 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 75 percent. Something recent has soured the room. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 5 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 58 percent of the 9,718 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 15.9 hours; clearing it takes 36, which is 2.3 times the campaign.
133,490 people have reviewed it, which is a big enough crowd to settle the number.
The drop-off
19% 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
488 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
Far Cry 3 has aged quite well, and I think that one of the biggest reasons for that is Vaas. He is an awesome villain, that I would describe as unpredictable, threatening, charismatic and genuinely memorable. The opening sequence in the camp with Vaas I found disturbing, but at the same time it was also brilliant. The game throws you straight into a desperate escape attempt with just the right amount of panic. I...
10/10. Burned down massive fields of marijuana with a flamethrower and hallucinated a boss fight against a giant glowing tattoo monster using a magic bow. Visually, the game has aged like a fine wine. The atmosphere is incredible, the storyline is INSANELY captivating (like really), and I still find it just as gorgeous as it did 7ish years ago, when I first played it. Every single person on this island has lost...
Came for the tropical island, stayed because a shirtless psychopath convinced me that shooting pirates and doing drugs was somehow a reasonable career choice, 10/10 would get stranded again. Best FC btw, Vaas Legend!
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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Far Cry 3 scores 76/100 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/220240/far-cry-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 12, price as of Sep 24.
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