Darksiders III
Skip · RPG · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $39.99.
- Length
- 14.2h
- Value
- $2.82/hr
- Reviews
- 76% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 660 / Radeon R7 370 with 2 GB VRAM, 25 GB of storage. Windows only.
Return to an apocalyptic Earth in Darksiders III, a hack-n-slash Action Adventure where players assume the role of FURY in her quest to hunt down and dispose of the Seven Deadly Sins. The most enigmatic of the Four Horsemen, FURY must bring balance to the forces that now ravage Earth.
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How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $3.99, set in December 2025. 61 discounts in the 8 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 14 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 41 percent on value. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 60 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Maneater ($5.99, scores 72) beats it on value, while it beats Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty ($19.99, scores 1).
Steam's global achievement data puts 33 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. 4 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 38 percent of the 1,078 reviews written there were positive, against 76 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (time-limited); the score docks it lightly for that.
Finishing takes 14.2 hours; clearing it takes 32, which is 2.2 times the campaign.
The drop-off
79% start to 33% finishPeople genuinely stick with this one. Steam global achievements
Players
52 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
Finished the game on **Reckoning difficulty. Don't do that.** If you want a real challenge, play on **Apocalyptic**. Reckoning is less "difficult" and more "unfair". Most mid-game enemies can one or two-shot you while having enormous HP pools. One of the DLC bosses has over **200K HP**, while my whip combo was doing around 1K damage. That's not difficulty, that's just making the numbers bigger. ### What it does well...
Nowhere near as good as Darksiders 1 and 2, but still a decent game in its own right. Story and art style are great as always and the Souls-like gameplay as brutal as it can be (had to play this on the easiest difficulty lol) has a high skill curve and is very fun once you get the hang of it.
5.5/10 I beat the game on Apocalpyse difficulty but damn the game is quite boring and the bosses are alright nothing crazy. The games story is just unbearable to listen to especially the talking between Watcher and Fury. The cutscenes are boring and quite miserable making you want to skip them all eventually when your patience runs thin but I prevailed and didn't skip any but I did start skipping non cutscene...
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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Darksiders III scores 35/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/606280/darksiders-iiiThe 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 14, price as of Sep 24.
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