Sniper Elite 3
Skip · Shooter · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Under the fair line today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 87% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$29.99Skip
Typical seasonal cut
$2.9990% offFair
- Cost per hour▼
- $3.30/hr
- Reviews▼
- 82% of 28,595
- Genre rank
- Top 44% Shooter
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 9.1h
- To 100%
- 30.6h 3.4x the story
- Finish
- 16% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 77
Price and sales
- Sales
- 76 on record
- Typical cut
- 80% off
- Steam low
- $2.99 July 2023
- Sale every
- 56d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 170 now
- Recent reviews
- 76% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 7% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 60% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
84% start to 16% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 76 discounts in the 12 years tracked, the median cut is 80 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 44 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Sniper Elite 4 ($59.99, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats Sniper Elite 5 ($49.99, scores 41).
More about Sniper Elite 3
Steam's global achievement data puts about 16 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 9.1-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 10 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2024 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 62 percent of the 2,351 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
9.1 hours to finish it, 31 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.4 times the campaign.
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
Fun, reminds me of Dishonored and Deus Ex. Too easy to cheese - you can kill every enemy on the map if you find a few 30-feet long stretches you could crouch along to reset the alertness / relocation timer. Slower going. The story is fine, just an excuse to kill monsters really.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Great game! The multiplayer is still alive, and the maps are small and dynamic (I actually prefer them to the later games). Met some good friends here. Join in!
The ballistics in Sniper Elite 3 are so mind bogglingly terrible that it makes the game completely unplayable, and if you are going to play and of the other Sniper Elite games you'll understand why. The ballistics in Sniper Elite 3 are completely different than any other games in the series, and to play it, you'll have to unlearn any of your muscle memory that you've built. I've had no problem beating all of the...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Sniper Elite 3 is a tactical third-person shooter that combines stealth, gameplay choice and genre-defining ballistics with huge, open levels and the exotic terrain of World War 2 North Africa.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 18 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Sniper Elite 3 scores 47/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/238090/sniper-elite-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.