Ancient Warfare 3

Ancient Warfare 3

Fair · Shooter · 2024

Steam Deck Unsupported

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Fair at $12.99. Buy it if you want it.

ReviewsS
95% of 2,799
Genre rank
Top 24% Shooter

Holding it back: Cost per hour, est. length, Length unknown

Watch this gameOne alert when a sale makes it a BANGER.

Time and effort

To 100%
13.1h
Achievements
33

Price and sales

Sales
37 on record
Typical cut
20% off
Steam low
$5.84 June 2018
Sale every
95d last October 2026
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $5.84 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
11 now
Cheaper than
42% of its genre
Better reviewed
95% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

83% start to 2% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This 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

It has been discounted 37 times in the 9 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 20 percent, about 14 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

Against its own genre its score lands in the top 24 percent. It is better reviewed than 95 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Ravenfield ($17.99, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats Total Tank Simulator ($19.99, scores 43).

More about Ancient Warfare 3

This site sampled 391 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 5 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 60 percent of the 143 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $9.09 (30% off). Predictions like this were right 92% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

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 we assumed
  • How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Shooter game (about 6 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
Raising the score
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Holding it back
Cost per hour, est. length~$2.17/hr
Estimated: no length in our data yet
Length unknownNo verified $/hr
No length in our data yet, so the biggest driver can't be verified. A heavy dock until it is
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds5 of 391 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Dive into a sandbox full of action and customization! Choose from different game modes like deathmatch, conquest, king of the hill, zombie survival and many more. Create your own scenarios and content in the easy to use in-game editors or use one of the 50k+ workshop items from other players...
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 2.9 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.

No data upstream: length (HowLongToBeat), critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Ancient Warfare 3 scores 61/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. Length is estimated at 6 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/758990/ancient-warfare-3
Embed the live badge

Reviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Details

DeveloperJNI Games
PublisherJNI Games
GenreShooter
Released2024
Completionist13.1h100%, HowLongToBeat
Players150Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements33