World War 3
Skip · Multiplayer · 2022
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The reviews do not carry it. What it costs you is time.
- Price
- Free to play
- Reviews
- 54% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 41% over the last 30 days against 54% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Geforce GTX 670/ GTX 1650 or AMD Radeon HD 7950, 80 GB of storage. Windows only.
World War 3 is a free-to-play tactical online multiplayer FPS where the world is your battleground. Outgun the enemy in thrilling, team-based skirmishes with a huge arsenal of weapons, vehicles, gadgets, and drones at your disposal.
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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
It is less well reviewed than 95 percent of its genre. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Pixel Strike 3D (free, scores 34) and POLYGON (free, scores 39) both outscore it.
Players rate it 54 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 41 percent. Something recent has soured the room. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written September 2023 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 34 percent of the 3,357 reviews written there were positive, against 54 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
Players
59 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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World War 3 scores 0/100 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/674020/world-war-3The 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 12.
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