Risen 3 - Titan Lords
Skip · RPG · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $14.99.
- Length
- 25.2h
- Value
- $0.59/hr
- Reviews
- 74% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Radeon HD 3850 or GeForce 9600 GT, VRAM 512MB, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
The world has been abandoned by its gods and is scarred from the rampage of the Titans. Humanity is struggling to regain strength. You, however, have more pressing concerns: your own life has been shattered and you must set off to reclaim what is lost amidst the darkness spreading throughout the world.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $2.99. That was October 2022. It has been discounted 87 times in the 12 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. 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.
Value puts it in the top 29 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 78 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Gothic II: Gold Edition ($19.99, scores 91) beats it on value, while it beats ELEX ($29.99, scores 39).
The press gave it 65; the people who bought it give it 74 percent. A 9-point gap in the buyer's favour.
4 of the 705 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 32 percent of the 599 reviews written there were positive, against 74 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.
25.2 hours to finish it, 54 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.1 times the campaign.
The drop-off
83% start to 6% 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
46 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
Early in game I went island hopping and killed everything on the islands, then when I tired the story the game world was like dead and it wasn't worth playing. 6/10, it should be more cognizant about what veteran Piranha Bytes players will do.
Risen 3 is a lot like Risen 2 but with better combat and more polish. Mostly just more of the same, which is good, and I had fun playing it. The ending is very brief.
Very fun game, has some game breaking bugs but still manage to finish it. Combat is not really standing the test of time but I didn't come to Risen for combat but for exploration and just doing quests. Boss fights are atrocious its either you spam attack and stunlock them or you get two hit. Ending is kinda disappointing though like really bad specially this is is the final of the series. Also didn't like they...
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Risen 3 - Titan Lords scores 42/100 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/249230/risen-3-titan-lordsThe 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 16, price as of Sep 24.
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