Sacred 3
Skip · RPG · 2014
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $14.99.
- Length
- 8.6h
- Value
- $1.74/hr
- Reviews
- 27% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GT 610 (1024MB) / ATI Radeon 4770 (512MB), 25 GB of storage. Windows only.
Sacred 3 is an arcade Hack ‘n’ Slash game for up to 4 players. Choose a hero and fight cooperatively against the rise of evil. Victory is Ours. Glory is Mine.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
November 2017 is where it bottomed out, at $2.99. 77 discounts in the 12 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 14 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
It is pricier than 78 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 99 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Castle Crashers® ($14.99, scores 97) and Gauntlet™ Slayer Edition ($19.99, scores 60) both outscore it.
The press liked it more than its buyers did, 57 against 27 percent.
This site sampled 352 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 10 percent of the 986 reviews written there were positive, against 27 percent overall, and those are 45 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 8.6 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
64% start to 1% 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
4 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
I am giving a positive review only cause it looks bad if I have too many negative reviews. The game is maybe a 5.5 out of 10. The game play is decent. I thought I'd write a review because so many reviews state its not Sacred and just get Sacred 2 instead. So I bought the game not knowing what its failings were because It doesn't bother me if it doesn't play like previous Sacred titles. It could still be a great game...
I don't care what the reviews say. I really enjoy this game. I play all the big isometric ARPG games, Diablo, PoE, the Korean MMOs, roguelikes. This one is just very fun. Mission, objective based.
not sure why I didnt read the reviews first.. my mistake. really bad game.. should NOT be called 'sacred'... nothing like it! devs should be crucified for calling it that. but even as a 'stand alone' game, its not good. skills, gameplay, scenarios.. all stupid and NOT fun. why anyone would rate this as a positive I have no idea. AND you keep getting stuck in the environment.. especially near chests.. no way to get...
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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Sacred 3 scores 2/100 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/247950/sacred-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 17, price as of Sep 24.
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