Wasteland 3
Fair · Multiplayer · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $39.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 35.8h
- Value
- $1.12/hr
- Reviews
- 85% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 71% over the last 30 days against 85% all-time.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 760 or AMD Equivalent, 45 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Following the critically acclaimed 2014 Game of the Year winner Wasteland 2, the RPG series that pioneered the post-apocalyptic genre in video games returns with Wasteland 3.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
The lowest price on record is $6.99, set in February 2021. It has been discounted 44 times in the 7 years tracked here, typically at 67 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales.
On value it sits in the top 7 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Those Who Rule ($17.99, scores 68) beats it on value, while it beats Pathfinder: Kingmaker — Enhanced Plus Edition ($3.59, scores 53).
Players rate it 85 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 71 percent. Something recent has soured the room. 8 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2023 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 48 percent of the 495 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 35.8 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 76, 2.1 times as much.
The drop-off
84% start to 23% finishA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
One of the most beautifully blended alternate history universes out there. This one setting has terminator robots, oil hoarders, sentient AIs, clones, satoshi, industrial towns, cult of crazy wives, yellowstone survivalists, political maneuvering, shopping mall, cult of atom, 2 flavour of cannibals, 3 more flavours of crazed people and the regular good old team of disciplined military specialists. The songs are a...
Truly an Underrated and Underlooked title, If you couldnt stand the old Fallout 1 & 2 games but you really want a Narrative Top-Down XCOM Turn-based style combat then look no further, this is pretty much the modern take of it all with its own brand, the jokes are almost similar in how dark humor is treated, its a serious but wild wasteland where strange things can happen, with the main goal being to assist the...
Can not recommend this game for 2 COMMON bugs apparently - Saving the game manually sometimes the game doesn't actually register and when you load the game surprise you're somewhere else - Random encounters bug ever since April 2023, you cannot exit encounter even after killing all enemies. This is still not fixed in 2026. Once they fix those bugs, I might return because the game is good otherwise.
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Cite this score
Wasteland 3 scores 64/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/719040/wasteland-3Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 17, price as of Oct 1.
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