The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing III
Skip · RPG · 2015
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $14.99.
- Length
- 8.1h
- Value
- $1.85/hr
- Reviews
- 65% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, GeForce 8800, Radeon HD4000, Intel HD4000 (min. 512 MB VRAM), 20 GB of storage. Windows only.
Van Helsing, monster hunter will face the most difficult trials of his life as he is trying to destroy his nemesis. The civil war is over in Borgovia, but the future still looks grim. The city of weird science is in ruins and a strange cult prophesises the coming of the end times.
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The value story
June 2019 is where it bottomed out, at $1.49. It has been discounted 68 times in the 11 years tracked here, typically at 90 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
It is pricier than 77 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 87 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing II ($14.99, scores 23) beats it on value, while it beats Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem ($3.99, scores 2).
Steam's global achievement data says about 3 percent of players ever finish it. On an 8.1-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. Of the 437 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 41 percent of the 189 reviews written there were positive, against 65 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
52% start to 3% finishMost players never reach the end. On an 8.1-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
7 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
Final Score: 76/100 Gameplay Experience: 19/25 Presentation & Immersion: 18/25 Design & Technical Aspects: 19/25 Final Considerations: 20/25
Diablo feel but with Van Helsing world. Nice story and funny banter with Katarina.
If you like ARPG's, you'll like this game. It's more of a linear ARPG focusing on it's story, but there's plenty of quests, directions and player choices to take. Its quirky, funny, low-key based, and pretty addictive. It's not without it's flaws, but all-in-all i def recommend this game for ARPG fans.
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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The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing III scores 13/100 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/359900/the-incredible-adventures-of-van-helsing-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 23, price as of Sep 24.
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