DARK SOULS™ III
Worth it · Action · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $59.99, a BANGER if it drops to $38.14.
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.92/hr
- ReviewsS
- 94% of 442,987
- Critics
- 89 players 5 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Action
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $38.14 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 31.2h
- To 100%
- 100.7h 3.2x the story
- Finish
- 21% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 43
Price and sales
- Sales
- 50 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $9.99 April 2020
- Sale every
- 61d last September 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 4,697 now
- Recent reviews
- 92% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 1% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
94% start to 21% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 50 discounts in the 11 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 9 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $38.14. The record reaches that level 46 times.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 1 percent. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED ($39.99, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats DARK SOULS™ II: Scholar of the First Sin ($39.99, scores 63).
More about DARK SOULS™ III
Steam's global achievement data puts 21 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 18. 12 of the 799 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2026 to October 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,368 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 1,982 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 67 percent of the 8,833 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
31.2 hours to finish it, 101 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.2 times the campaign.
442,987 reviews stand behind that percentage.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 2 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
If you came here to find out whether this game is worth playing, whether it's actually good, or if you were simply waiting for a sign to finally start - here it is. Go and play it. It's been 10 years, and Dark Souls III is still absolutely unmatched. There are games with such a unique design that, once you've experienced them, you can never mistake them for the thousands of others out there. Fight, explore, die...
2 more reviews
Don't you love the felling of getting kick in the balls while you stub your toe and hit your funny bone then play this game and you'll experience all three together with added bonuses like Heart attack/getting stung 15 times by a bullet ant/breaking a femur bone and many more
This has to be one of the greatest Dark Souls games i have ever played. One of the best gameplay featured in this game alone. The Boss fights were ridiculously amazing. 👍👍👍 Having put at least 50 hours I definitely recommend this game if this is your first souls game . Though if you go from 1 to 3rd chances are you would understand more references in this game. 1000/10 Masterpiece
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Dark Souls continues to push the boundaries with the latest, ambitious chapter in the critically-acclaimed and genre-defining series. Prepare yourself and Embrace The Darkness!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti / ATI Radeon HD 7950, 25 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
DARK SOULS™ III scores 77/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/374320/dark-souls-iiiReviews 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 Nov 4, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.