Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal
BANGER · Strategy · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $14.99.
- Length
- 15.6h
- Value
- $0.96/hr
- Reviews
- 96% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Shader Model 2.0 or better, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Creeper World 3 is what happens when cellular automata takes over a strategy simulation. Instead of discrete units that attack your base, a fluid-like substance spreads over the terraformable terrain. Your base, your weapons, your strategy... you must adapt them all.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
June 2015 is where it bottomed out, at $1.49. Its cuts run 67 percent off as a rule. There have been 58 in the 13 years tracked, about 9 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Particle Fleet: Emergence ($14.99, scores 75) and Creeper World 4 ($24.99, scores 57).
$20.18 is where it would stop being a BANGER. It is priced at $14.99.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 6 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 15.6-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. None of the 376 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, 75 percent of the 157 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
15.6 hours to finish it, 96 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 6.1 times the campaign.
The drop-off
99% start to 6% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 15.6-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
166 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 13:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I play creeper world games since they were flash games. And i will continue playing them
Solid tower defence. Scratched the itch. I think it was the instant feedback and when you won, you had to work for it making it rewarding. Just the right difficulty for me.
A genuinely amazing game. It's an asymmetrical RTS puzzle game with a fun campaign, literally hundreds of additional levels, a level editor, and a browser for player-made maps.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal scores 91/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/280220/creeper-world-3-arc-eternalReviews 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 Sep 20, price as of Oct 1.
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