Theatre of War 3: Korea
Skip · Strategy · 2011
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 0, under the fair line, at $6.99.
- Length
- 11.2h
- Value
- $0.62/hr
- Reviews
- 46% of 208 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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About the game
Replay the events of the first hot war of the Cold War era, the Korean War, also known as the Forgotten War. Players will be involved in two campaigns, both set in the 1950’s: the North Korean (June 25 – August 20) and the American (September 15 – October 8).
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, nVidia GeForce 6600 or ATI Radeon X800 with 256MB RAM or better, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 75 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 80 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is less well reviewed than 99 percent of its genre. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Men of War: Vietnam ($7.99, scores 14) and Radio Commander: Vietnam '64 ($19.99, scores 21) both outscore it.
What players say
Considering the cheap price, it's hard to downvote it and it's the best of the (limited) number of Korean War games that are out there. That said it's clearly half finished and the somewhat designed campaigns of the past games are ditched for a Total War style map campaign where you fight essentially MP bot matches over and over with a campaign map progression system. It's also decently more buggy and prone to...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I like it, Honestly this is a really good game. Its a shame this series is abandoned.
If you love watching tanks slowly turn in place like depressed Roombas, this is your masterpiece.
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No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Theatre of War 3: Korea scores 0/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/63960/theatre-of-war-3-koreaReviews 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 30, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.