Lucius III
Skip · Narrative · 2018
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 0, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 4.9h
- Value
- $4.08/hr
- Reviews
- 53% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Geforce GTX 660, 25 GB of storage. Windows only.
Lucius is back. In a whole new narrative experience, he now returns to his old neighborhood of Winter Hill. The path will be a difficult one, with trials and tribulations waiting ahead. Has he made the right choices? Is it finally time to end it all?
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.99, set in July 2021. Its cuts run 85 percent off as a rule. There have been 70 in the 8 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 99 percent. Lucius ($9.99, scores 52) outscores it, and so does Lucius II ($19.99, scores 8). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
Of the 605 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 34 percent of the 156 reviews written there were positive, against 53 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 4.9 hours; clearing it takes 11, which is 2.2 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 4.9 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
63% start to 10% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
I love the original Lucius, it's a janky. buggy mess that is just oh so compelling. Lucius II tried something else, but ended up quite boring. At least there was an attempt at something there. The demake is maybe the best example of a faithful adaptation you'll ever see. And with that I say do not play Lucius III. It seems like a return to normalcy, it seems like we're going back to the old formula. Figuring out the...
Super buggy, the story and the graphics are cool but is unplayable, if you don't do everything in a specific order you can't go forward in the game and you have to restart from the autosave, wich is often the beginning of the current chapter because this game doesn't really have checkpoints. If this problems were solved it would've been a really cool game like the first two of the series, but it's really broken. You...
The fact that this game is on steam is insane. The game takes place in a city with no people or cars because the devs did not bother to program routine or life on the map. It suffers from bugs, graphical issues, audio issues, crashes, gameplay issues ,lighting issues, crashes, lag and game breaking bugs + it uses 50% of your GPU power at all times for some reason. At least 3 chapters were taken out of the game and...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Cite this score
Lucius III scores 0/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/513290/lucius-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 Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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