Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition
Skip · Action · 2014
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $29.99.
- Length
- 13.9h
- Value
- $2.16/hr
- Reviews
- 77% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 / AMD Radeon 7870 or higher, 30 GB of storage. Windows only.
Explore the zombie-infested city of Los Perdidos, and find a way to escape before a military strike wipes the entire city, and everyone in it, off the map.
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $5.99, set in June 2024. It has been discounted 91 times in the 12 years tracked here, typically at 70 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. 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 6 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 26 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 70 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Dead Rising® 2 ($19.99, scores 44) beats it on value, while it beats Dead Rising 4 ($29.99, scores 2).
22 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2023 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 39 percent of the 1,629 reviews written there were positive, against 77 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 13.9 hours. Doing everything runs 44, 3.2 times as long.
The drop-off
87% start to 2% 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
136 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
Waste of time, the game is boring and stupid. My progress reset to zero because of a glitch. Save your money and time by not getting this game.
It's not terrible, but it just doesn't get what made the first 2.5 games work. Mechanically, it's better, but the map sucks to traverse big-time, it's way too easy and the visuals are in dire need of some color. I've played this for like 4-5 hours and I'm not even sure if there's a time limit. Cutting or vastly loosening the time restrictions was just a bad choice for the series. It's one of the big points of...
The third installment in the Dead Rising franchise. This was fun. Having played it now, it definitely was a product of its time. It's a shame that what followed after this was what killed the Dead Rising franchise. Thankfully, the Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster addressed that.
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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Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition scores 41/100 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/265550/dead-rising-3-apocalypse-editionThe 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 13, price as of Sep 24.
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