Saints Row: The Third

Saints Row: The Third

BANGER · Shooter · 2011

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

A BANGER today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 75% in the Winter Sale 2025.

Today

$9.99BANGER

Typical seasonal cut

$2.4975% offBANGER

Cost per hourS
$0.64/hr
ReviewsS
96% of 69,818
Critics
84 players 12 higher
Genre rank
Top 1% Shooter
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.49 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
15.6h
To 100%
46h 2.9x the story
Achievements
83

Price and sales

Sales
101 on record
Typical cut
75% off
Steam low
$1.99 September 2020
Sale every
41d last October 2026
Lowest now $2.49 at Humbleall-time low $1.49 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
107 now
Recent reviews
93% 30 days
Cheaper than
46% of its genre
Better reviewed
97% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

90% start to 4% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

Across all 101 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.

Against its own genre its score lands in the top 1 percent. It is better reviewed than 97 percent of its genre. Among the games closest to it, Saints Row 2 ($9.99, scores 47) and Saints Row ($29.99, scores 2) both come in lower.

The math says it holds its tier up to $20.11, and you are being asked for $9.99.

More about Saints Row: The Third

Critics scored it 84. Players sit 12 points higher at 96 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.

Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 16 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2022 to October 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,424 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 1,193 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 81 percent of the 2,731 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.

Finishing takes 15.6 hours; clearing it takes 46, which is 2.9 times the campaign.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Last discount ended 24 days ago.

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Cost per hour$0.64/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
MonetizationNone
No in-game purchases. Paid DLC exists and is not docked
For context
Refunds16 of 800 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

What players say

You can jump out of a helicopter to crash a pool party listening to Power by Kanye West Exceptional
abstractRecommendedafter 1.5h6 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
When there weren't as many women in dev teams and devs worked out of passion on top of the money they would get from a good product anyways.
ArgenAnonRecommendedafter 36hOct 2026Read on Steam
Saints Row: The Third. It used to be able to run without problems. But Now? Stutters and freezes frames for several seconds at a time. It's UN-playable. Saints Row IV runs smoothly, no issues there.
MikaelAngeloNot recommendedafter 143h2 found this helpfulRead on Steam

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

About the game

Get ready for the most out-landish gameplay scenarios ever seen as the Third Street Saints take on the Syndicate!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 10 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.

Cite this score

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Saints Row: The Third scores 95/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/55230/saints-row-the-third
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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 Nov 4, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+12
Critics84
Players96
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 69,818 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperVolition
PublisherDeep Silver
GenreShooter
Released2011
Players3.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements83