Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III
Skip · Action · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $39.99.
- Length
- 17.5h
- Value
- $2.29/hr
- Reviews
- 48% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 460 or AMD Radeon 6950 or equivalent DirectX 11-card, 50 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Step into a brutal battle between three warring factions In Dawn of War III you will have no choice but to face your foes when a catastrophic weapon is found on the mysterious world of Acheron.
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The value story
October 2020 is where it bottomed out, at $3.99. Its cuts run 80 percent off as a rule. There have been 68 in the 10 years tracked, about 6 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 6 weeks.
It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 99 percent. Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Anniversary Edition (Classic) ($14.99, scores 84) outscores it, and so does Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Anniversary Edition (Classic) ($49.99, scores 54). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
The press liked it more than its buyers did, 77 against 48 percent.
9 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 17 percent of the 1,892 reviews written there were positive, against 48 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 17.5 hours; clearing it takes 56, which is 3.2 times the campaign.
The drop-off
68% 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
88 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
They tried to split the difference between tactical DoW I RTS style. Sacrificial troops. easily replaced easily lost. Disposable army. Very "streamlined" Base building. With the Hero based Units as your anchor for Combat and Story.. Similar to Dow II. And missed the mark on both. no room to get attached to your heroes (elites). Customization is.. generic.. defeats the purpose. The cut scenes or story telling feels...
I've been doing a playthrough of all the Dawn of War games in anticipation of the 4th game and I feel very conflicted on Dawn of War 3. It looks great, every faction feels very authentic to who they're supposed to be, the armies were great with the walkers and customizable elites being a highlight. I just didn't have fun playing it, it was a slog to get through and after having just played the previous games and...
i bought it right before they announced the 4th one wich is kinda sad, but i really like this one. this is my first DOW game, but the army painter is great, the tactics are great, and despite me never finding multiplayer matches (idk if theyre down or not) the bot multiplayer and the campaign are great ways to find what army you like best. i totally recommend this to anyone who likes 40k, total war, or halo wars
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Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III 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/285190/warhammer-40-000-dawn-of-war-iiiThe 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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