Far Cry 3 - Blood Dragon

Far Cry 3 - Blood Dragon

Fair · Shooter · 2013

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 75% in the Winter Sale 2025.

Today

$14.99Fair

Typical seasonal cut

$3.7475% offWorth it

Cost per hour▼
$3.41/hr
Reviews▼
87% of 20,019
Critics
81 players 6 higher
Genre rank
Top 29% Shooter

Holding it back: DRM, Cost per hour

Why
It needs 52% off ($7.17) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.74 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
4.4h
To 100%
8.7h 2.0x the story
Achievements
19

Price and sales

Sales
111 on record
Typical cut
70% off
Steam low
$2.24 July 2020
Sale every
36d last September 2026
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $1.91 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
18 now
Recent reviews
81% 30 days
Cheaper than
33% of its genre
Better reviewed
75% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

11% start to 3% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This 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 111 times in the 13 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 70 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

Against its own genre its score lands in the top 29 percent. It is pricier than 67 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 75 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Borderlands 3 ($5.99, scores 59) beats it on value, while it beats Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus ($39.99, scores 46).

More about Far Cry 3 - Blood Dragon

8 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2024 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 54 percent of the 2,567 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.

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

Raising the score
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Cost per hour$3.41/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
DRMUplay account needed
Needs a second account on top of Steam, a small friction discount
For context
Refunds8 of 800 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

What players say

UBI CONNECT FIX IS BROKEN HERE IS THE FIX: *works on steam deck* > go into the game properties, navigate to 'launch options' > type the following into the text box: PROTON_NO_FSYNC=1 PROTON_NO_ESYNC=1 %command% > launch the game > if ubi connect launcher says "looking for patches", close the launcher, & re-launch the game > the ubi connect launcher will update, and the game will launch > exit the game > go into the...
Doctor GrooveRecommendedafter 5.7h6 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews
отличное дополнение к основной игре, в меру короткая и не надоедает, а наоборот интригует и забавляет своим бытием. советую пройти от начала до конца со всеми ачивками, чтобы получить удовольствие от опыта.
amanbobRecommendedafter 7.0h5 found this helpfulRead on Steam
The most arcade style and least realistic Far Cry game in existence. Usually, I'd say that's a bad thing for a game in this series, but in this case, it works pretty well (specailly because it's a spin-off title, and not a main-line game). The over-the-top action and sci-fi tropes of this game are pretty fun to interact and play with. And the progression is very straight forward and easy to track. It's a short game...
ZepyRecommendedafter 8.7hOct 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

Far Cry® 3: Blood Dragon is THE Kick-Ass Cyber Shooter.Welcome to an 80’s vision of the future. The year is 2007 and you are Sargent Rex Colt, a Mark IV Cyber Commando. Your mission: get the girl, kill the baddies, and save the world.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 512 MB DirectX 9.0c–compliant, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.

Cite this score

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Far Cry 3 - Blood Dragon scores 57/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/233270/far-cry-3-blood-dragon
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Reviews 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 Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+6
Critics81
Players87
Metacritic critics · 20,019 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperUbisoft Montreal
PublisherUbisoft
GenreShooter
Released2013
Players1.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements19