Caesar™ 3
BANGER · Strategy · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $5.99.
- Length
- 33.8h
- Value
- $0.18/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, DirectX 7 Compatible 3D Card, 604 MB of storage. Windows only.
Prove your strength of mind and spirit and you just may be crowned Caesar!
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
The value story
December 2016 is where it bottomed out, at $3.59. Its cuts run 35 percent off as a rule. There have been 80 in the 10 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 97 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Zeus + Poseidon ($9.99, scores 94) beats it on value, while it beats Pharaoh + Cleopatra ($9.99, scores 84).
The math says it holds its tier up to $26.74, and you are being asked for $5.99.
4 of the 401 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, 75 percent of the 297 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 33.8 hours. Doing everything runs 79, 2.3 times as long.
Players
108 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 21:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Caesar 3 is one game that deserves to be in the City builder Hall of Fame, in my opinion. its small but full on content that will always hold a place in my heart. I've been playing this game since I was a kid. I would recommend every gamer have game in their Library.
I have played this game so much and adore it's simplicity. This an CIV 5 and great.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Caesar™ 3 scores 86/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/517790/caesar-3Reviews 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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