Heroes of Hellas 3: Athens

Heroes of Hellas 3: Athens

Worth it · Strategy · 2015

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $2.99.

Length
11.7h 24.4h to 100%
Value
$0.26/hr
Reviews
92% of 235 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$0.26/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Holding it back
Reviews92% 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 85 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

Rebuild Athens from the ashes of its destruction and secure the help of the Heroes of Olympus as you battle an evil god!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 32 MB video card, 246 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

The value story

It has been discounted 91 times in the 12 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 55 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 78 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Zuma Deluxe ($4.99, scores 93) beats it on value, while it beats 10,000,000 ($4.99, scores 71).

More about Heroes of Hellas 3: Athens

The main story runs 11.7 hours. Doing everything runs 24, 2.1 times as long.

Players

Players online
1 when we last checked, on Oct 10, 03:54 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

Heroes of Hellas 3: Athens, developed and published by Alawar Casual, is a colorful and content-rich casual puzzle game that blends familiar match-3 mechanics with light city restoration and mythological flair. Set in a fantastical reimagining of ancient Greece, the game frames its puzzle action around the task of rebuilding Athens after catastrophe has left the city in ruins. Rather than presenting match-3 levels...
xxadonisxxRecommendedafter 15hDec 2025Read on Steam
2 more reviews
I haven't played a M3 in ages and I certainly got my money's worth with this game! So much better than M3's I played years ago! One of the best designed casual games I've played! While the mechanic is similar, it's not completely repetitive because each level changes the board layout and the requirements needed to complete it. There are small items to seek in pictures to complete quests. While there are no steam...
CavalierLadyRecommendedafter 29hApr 2025Read on Steam
Heroes of Hellas 3 is a match-3 game. The game is part of a series of four games (so far) that the developers have released. I have played and completed all parts. Part 3 was the easiest. All fours games are different but great. In contrast to the other three parts, Heroes of Hellas 3 unfortunately has no Steam achievements. That's a bit of a shame. As for match-3 games, the Hellas series are the best match-3 games...
ChaneRecommendedafter 13hFeb 2024Read on Steam

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No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

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Heroes of Hellas 3: Athens scores 77/100 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/347590/heroes-of-hellas-3-athens
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Details

DeveloperAlawar Casual
PublisherAlawar Casual
GenreStrategy
Released2015
Players150Kowners, SteamSpy estimate