Black Mirror III

Black Mirror III

Worth it · Narrative · 2014

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The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $9.99.

Length
13h 15.3h to 100%
Value
$0.77/hr
Reviews
90% of 556 positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

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

Raising the score
Value$0.77/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Holding it back
Reviews90% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 88% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 243 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Help Darren continue his search to uncover his clouded past. What do his torturous nightmares really mean? Who is the mysterious person that posted the bail to set him free? What demons lie waiting in the crypt?
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 128 MB VRAM, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

It has been discounted 93 times in the 13 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 3 percent on value. It is pricier than 69 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 88 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments ($2.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Syberia: The World Before ($39.99, scores 57).

More about Black Mirror III

Critics scored it 75. Players sit 15 points higher at 90 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.

Of the 243 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026.

Players

Players online
5 when we last checked, on Oct 8, 13:55 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

Black Mirror III is the last game of the Black Mirror series where the story ends with our main character Darren. After his journey to the small English town Willow Creek, he continues to discover his dark past and his ties to royal Gordon Family and the ancient curse that has been haunting the family for centuries. Just like the first and second game, Black Mirror III offers a traditional point and click experience...
aredhelRecommendedafter 23hApr 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
A very satisfying end to the Gordon legacy, deviating from the Samuel method. If this was ever made into a film, it'd be epic.
ArtsyFartZRecommendedafter 21hSep 2025Read on Steam
The third installment entirely takes place in the haunting Black Mirror Manor, carrying on from where the second game left off. The protagonist has become a naturalised Brit, and switched to the metric measuring system in his comments. In customary fashion for the Black Mirror series, much of the dialogue is only there to give exposition, and scenes have to be revisited to check for new interactions as the plot...
slobbergobNot recommendedafter 22hAug 2025Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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Black Mirror III scores 76/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/286480/black-mirror-iii
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Reviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+15
Critics75
Players90
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 556 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperCranberry Production
PublisherTHQ Nordic
GenreNarrative
Released2014
Players150Kowners, SteamSpy estimate