SpellForce 3 Reforced
Skip · RPG · 2017
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $39.99.
- Length
- 29.5h
- Value
- $1.36/hr
- Reviews
- 77% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 660 2GB, AMD Radeon 7850 2GB, 51 GB of storage. Windows only.
SpellForce 3 - The perfect blend between RTS and RPG!
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $7.99. That was November 2023. 62 discounts in the 9 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart. 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 7 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 24 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 64 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition ($39.99, scores 81) beats it on value, while it beats Dragon Age™ Inquisition ($9.99, scores 40).
Steam's global achievement data says about 14 percent of players ever finish it. On a 29.5-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 4 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written January 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 38 percent of the 460 reviews written there were positive, against 77 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
65% start to 14% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
12 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
Atrociously bad AI. Terrible controls. Spellforce 1&2 were meh... this is much worse. Mixture of RPG and RTS simply can't work, apparently. Story had potential, but not enough to get through uninspired gameplay.
Get it on sale. There's an amazing beautiful well made game here once you get past the reddit fedora tipping atheist tier writing. I don't know why they got the guy from Enderal to write a new Spellforce game, it'd be like getting a guy who hates dragons to write a new Eragon novel. Every other aspect of this game is positively divine. The music, the units, the gameplay, if I had a single wish I'd wish for a writer...
I had never played an RTS game before, but I have a vast CRPG/ARPG experience, so when looking for a new game to play I came across with Spellforce 3 and decided to give it a go despite some negative reviews about its RTS part. I've just finished the main campaign after a 50 hours journey so here I am to review it. In the beginning I really got mad at the RTS aspect of the game, I felt like the game was cheating and...
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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SpellForce 3 Reforced scores 45/100 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/311290/spellforce-3-reforcedThe 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 Aug 1, price as of Sep 24.
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