Trine 3: The Artifacts of Power
Skip · RPG · 2015
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $21.99.
- Length
- 5h
- Value
- $4.40/hr
- Reviews
- 63% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 260 / Radeon HD 4000 series / Intel HD Graphics 4000, 6 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The Trine heroes in full 3D. Explore a fairytale world of breathtaking sceneries and enchanting creatures, solving puzzles as wizard, knight and thief, alone or together in online or local co-op.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $4.39, set in March 2025. 111 discounts in the 11 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 91 percent. Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince ($29.99, scores 58) outscores it, and so does Trine 2: Complete Story ($19.99, scores 77). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
Steam's global achievement data puts 26 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written January 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 51 percent of the 1,098 reviews written there were positive, against 63 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
75% start to 26% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
9 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
The game is great - graphics, sound, etc. The inside-the-book level is awesome. But there's one downside that outweighs all the positives: the controls. Since the developers used a 3D model, every movement has a 3D dimension to it. You constantly have to correct your movement, taking this into account. It's irritating, frustrating, and so on and so on... The game is also too short. There is a developer post where...
It's something like a f****ng scam. Game is not completed. It is like about 30-40% of the game released. The controls are terrible, crooked and inconvenient. Only the last level with the boss is something good here. All other levels are absolutely trash.
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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Trine 3: The Artifacts of Power scores 12/100 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/319910/trine-3-the-artifacts-of-powerThe 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 2, price as of Sep 24.
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