Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete
Worth it · Strategy · 2006
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $4.99.
- Length
- 22.2h
- Value
- $0.22/hr
- Reviews
- 89% positive
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Sid Meier's Civilization III: Complete, the latest offering in the Sid Meier's Civilization III franchise, provides gaming fans with Sid Meier's Civilization III, the highly-addictive journey of discovery.
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $0.99, set in December 2019. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 80 in the 14 years tracked, about 7 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 7 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 94 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Sid Meier's Civilization® IV ($19.99, scores 87) beats it on value, while it beats Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI ($59.99, scores 72).
3 of the 597 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 69 percent of the 524 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
22.2 hours to finish it, 123 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 5.6 times the campaign.
It came out 20 years ago and 1.4K were still playing it at the last check.
Players
1,383 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete scores 81/100 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/3910/sid-meier-s-civilization-iii-completeThe 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 3, price as of Sep 24.
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