Rise of the Third Power
Worth it · RPG · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99.
- Length
- 25.4h 35.2h to 100%
- Value
- $0.79/hr
- Reviews
- 88% of 599 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.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
On the eve of history's greatest war, eight unlikely heroes rise to challenge an empire and change the fate of a continent. Rise of the Third Power is a story-driven RPG of political intrigue, sacrifice, and revolution.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 3 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 660, AMD Radeon HD 7870, or equivalent DX10+ GPU, 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
29 discounts in the 5 years on record, a median of 40 percent off across all of them, roughly 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 4 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Monster Sanctuary ($19.99, scores 84) beats it on value, while it beats Small Saga ($19.99, scores 71).
More about Rise of the Third Power
Steam's global achievement data puts 25 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 355 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2022 to August 2026.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
The drop-off
81% start to 25% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 6 when we last checked, on Oct 7, 16:53 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
A really, really good jrpg! Great story and characters. The game uses post WW1 Germany as inspiration for it's villain country, and the game kind of goes from there. For a JRPG fantasy game it's fairly grounded, and the story is more on the political side which I really liked, as it was so different from most games. As mentioned above the characters are all good, with a few stand outs, the princess actually being...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Great game. Excellent story and characters. Gameplay is good, but too easy. Even on the highest difficulty. One thing I did not like was spending a lot of time in caves/ sewers with the exact same tile set. Made some of the dungeons feel samey. The other thing I didn't like was the forced split of the party at the end of the game. And the fact that the final boss was still using the same abilities as in the previous...
I played this game on challenge from start to finish and did everything in it. Throught that journey the game want from a 3/10 to an 8/10 many times. Which in a way the steam binnary reviews can be insuficient to explain. In the end the game is a 5/10, some story beats are not well develop and three of the party members i don't like. But the first three you get are the best and the final scenes at the end of the...
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Cite this score
Rise of the Third Power scores 75/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/698700/rise-of-the-third-powerReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.