Saints Row: The Third
BANGER · Shooter · 2011
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $9.99.
- Length
- 15.6h
- Value
- $0.64/hr
- Reviews
- 96% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 10 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
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What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.99, set in September 2020. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 100 in the 14 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. 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 IV: Re-Elected ($19.99, scores 69) both come in lower.
The math says it holds its tier up to $20.13, and you are being asked for $9.99.
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, 17 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2022 to September 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 571 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 81 percent of the 2,730 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.
The drop-off
90% start to 4% 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
Players
163 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
10/10!!! i never realized how fun it is to game on pc. this game doesnt have lag issues or glitch as much
Saint Row The Third is a game that doesn't take itself seriously and only focuses on delivering a very entertaining experience. The story might not be anything to talk about but the game makes up for it in pure fun. The missions and characters feel like they came straight out of an cartoon, and the side content isn't tedious but rather fun to play. So fun that I've finished the game 100% twice and I'm willing to do...
The last Saints Row that actually made sense. not quite as fun as SR2 but not as bad as SR4. but a banger none the less.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Saints Row: The Third scores 95/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/55230/saints-row-the-thirdThe 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 Sep 11, price as of Sep 24.
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