Sniper Elite 3
Skip · Shooter · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $29.99.
- Length
- 9.1h
- Value
- $3.30/hr
- Reviews
- 82% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 18 GB of storage. Windows only.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $2.99, set in July 2023. Its cuts run 80 percent off as a rule. There have been 75 in the 12 years tracked, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 2 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 8 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 40 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 64 percent. 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).
Steam's global achievement data says about 16 percent of players ever finish it. On a 9.1-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 6 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2024 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 62 percent of the 2,341 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.
The drop-off
84% start to 16% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
82 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
A cycle of shooting, hiding, shooting, and hiding again. The sniper missions in Hitman are more fun.
Loved SE3 as a kid, but sadly this game did not age well. The game is buggy and crashed way too often. Co-op and multiplayer are basically unplayable. Joined a friend in the lobby, then pressed start and instantly crashed the game and vice versa. Singleplayer is still an alright experience (as long as you remember to save every 5 min).
Sniper Elite 3 is one of those games that I keep coming back to. It's definitely not perfect, but there's something really satisfying about taking your time, finding a good position, and lining up that perfect shot. The open maps give you more freedom than I expected, and I like that you can approach most situations in different ways instead of just running in and shooting everything. The stealth, traps, sniping and...
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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Sniper Elite 3 scores 47/100 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/238090/sniper-elite-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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