DARK SOULS™ III
Worth it · Action · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $59.99, a BANGER if it drops to $38.21.
- Length
- 31.2h
- Value
- $1.92/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti / ATI Radeon HD 7950, 25 GB of storage. Windows only.
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!
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $9.99. That was April 2020. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 49 in the 11 years tracked, about 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 22 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 9 weeks. The math puts its BANGER price at $38.21. The record reaches that level 45 times.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. 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 84) beats it on value, while it beats DARK SOULS™ II: Scholar of the First Sin ($39.99, scores 63).
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 8. 12 of the 798 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2026 to September 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,221 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,738 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 67 percent of the 8,767 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.
Still 4.4K concurrent players, 10 years in.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
The drop-off
94% start to 21% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
4,381 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
Dark Souls III feels like the story of a knight who kept their vow until the world ended. Everything here is tired. Kingdoms have collapsed into ash. Gods have withered into memory. Great warriors have forgotten what they were fighting for. Old duties continue long after the people who gave them meaning are gone. And somehow, you keep walking. That is what I love most about this game. You die, you return, you learn...
You will be fighting the camera more than the boss 10/10 suffering Would recommend if you want to go bald
The penultimate action RPG. Only for the daring and courageous of heart. You may loose many battles in this game, but you only loose the war when you quit.
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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DARK SOULS™ III scores 77/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/374320/dark-souls-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 11, price as of Sep 24.
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