Desperados III
Worth it · Strategy · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it 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
$39.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$9.9975% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.49/hr
- ReviewsS
- 96% of 16,700
- Critics
- 86 players 10 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Strategy
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $9.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 26.8h
- To 100%
- 65.1h 2.4x the story
- Achievements
- 36
Price and sales
- Sales
- 46 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $3.99 September 2025
- Sale every
- 47d last September 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 61 now
- Recent reviews
- 91% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 1% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
40% start to 2% rarestThis 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
46 discounts in the 7 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. It becomes a BANGER at $37.77, a level the record has reached 45 times.
Its score puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun ($39.99, scores 82) and Shadow Tactics: Aiko's Choice ($19.99, scores 57).
More about Desperados III
The press gave it 86; the people who bought it give it 96 percent. A 10-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Of the 712 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 7 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2020 to November 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,604 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,237 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 86 percent of the 581 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 26.8 hours. Doing everything runs 65, 2.4 times as long.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 31 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
What players say
If Hector Mendoza has a million fans, then I am one of them. If Hector Mendoza has ten fans, then I am one of them. If Hector Mendoza has only one fan then that is me If Hector Mendoza has no fans, then that means I am no longer on earth. If the world is against Hector Mendoza, then I am against the world.
1 more review
I have played all of, or at least most of, the tactics games that Mimimi Games have put out. This is by far the best version of their formula. Even the games that came after were not as interesting or engaging. Pacing is great, story is fun, map layout mostly seems fun (with a few exceptions). If you like real time tactics games and haven't played this one, its a must.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Desperados III is a story-driven, hardcore tactical stealth game, set in a ruthless Wild West scenario. Play smart if you want to succeed. A good plan can make the difference between survival and finding yourself at the business end of a pistol.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 560 / Radeon HD 5850, 2GB, 20 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Desperados III scores 84/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/610370/desperados-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 Oct 14, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.