Far Cry 3
Worth it · Shooter · 2012
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 80% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$19.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$4.9975% offWorth it
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.26/hr
- Reviews▼
- 88% of 135,643
- Critics
- 88
- Genre rank
- Top 16% Shooter
Holding it back: DRM, Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 15.9h
- To 100%
- 36h 2.3x the story
- Achievements
- 44
Price and sales
- Sales
- 109 on record
- Typical cut
- 70% off
- Steam low
- $2.99 July 2020
- Sale every
- 39d last September 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 587 now
- Recent reviews
- 81% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 16% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 76% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
20% start to 2% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 109 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 70 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 16 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 76 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Far Cry® 4 ($29.99, scores 58) and theHunter Classic (scores 6).
More about Far Cry 3
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 14 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written September 2026 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 57 percent of the 9,899 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.
135,643 people have reviewed it, which is a big enough crowd to settle the number.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Far Cry 3 is easily one of Ubisoft's best games and still holds up incredibly well today. 🌴 The Rook Islands are beautiful, atmospheric, and full of things to do. The combination of open-world exploration, gunplay, hunting, crafting, stealth, and outpost liberation makes the gameplay extremely addictive. I especially love how you can approach enemy camps however you want - stealthily, with a sniper rifle, or by...
2 more reviews
Far Cry 3 is the third installment in the popular Far Cry FPS games. You are Jason Brody, stranded on a lawless tropical archipelago. Confront the infamous Vaas Montenegro, make brutal choices, and fight to escape a descent into madness that will change Jason forever. Played this on my Dell Precision 3480 with Arc Xe graphics and RTX A500 discrete graphics. Game is very playable. Ubisoft has forced Steam accounts to...
And that's your "best FarCry", huh? No more physics of trees, wind & fire, no destructibility, no weapon jamming & physics, no healing animations, no dark nights, no immersion. Lame af graphics; almost every second action in gameplay is a crooked QTE (causing time loss or occasional deaths) - a gift to consolish degenerates.. * The shooting, vehicles and the color palette have been nicely improved though. (on a...
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About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 15 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
Far Cry 3 scores 68/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/220240/far-cry-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 Nov 5, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.