The Secret Order 3: Ancient Times

The Secret Order 3: Ancient Times

Fair · Narrative · 2016

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
3.5h 4.6h to 100%
Value
$4.28/hr
Reviews
87% of 392 positive
It needs 66% off ($5.15) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.15 or less.

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
Engagement62% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$4.28/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews87% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 85% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 132 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

Find a way to destroy the ancient artifacts!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 128 MB VRAM, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

The value story

It has been discounted 83 times in the 11 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 70 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 18 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 82 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 82 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Abyss: The Wraiths of Eden ($14.99, scores 57) beats it on value, while it beats Enigmatis: The Ghosts of Maple Creek ($14.99, scores 52).

More about The Secret Order 3: Ancient Times

Steam's global achievement data puts 62 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15.

The drop-off

71% start to 62% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

Players

Players online
3 when we last checked, on Oct 9, 22:57 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

Should I start by pointing out that this game literally undid the events from the Second game? Oops...? Two important things... ONE: THE BABY GRIFFIN is the best thing ever!!! It looks like a plush toy came to life AND it has the cutest animations! Especially when wiggling its little feetsies or stomping the tree. I could pass the game just for her. ^^ TWO: The Royal Griffin... Did you seriously do THAT to it... Do...
Miss Zi BunneyRecommendedafter 3.6hSep 2024Read on Steam
1 more review, not recommended
Thing you should know about me. If I'm skipping every other puzzle in the game it doesn't mean the puzzles are hard. It means they are poorly designed and confusing. And also I hate the game and I want it to be over. The first game had great puzzles, they were challenging, but were fair and made sense. But this game has the most randomly designed puzzles that directions make no sense. Like for instance you are...
SleepingRoseNot recommendedafter 8.8hNov 2024Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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The Secret Order 3: Ancient Times scores 53/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/437420/the-secret-order-3-ancient-times
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Reviews 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 Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

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Details

DeveloperSunward Games
PublisherArtifex Mundi
GenreNarrative
Released2016
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements26