Bejeweled® 3
BANGER · Strategy · 2010
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $4.99.
- Length
- 4.6h
- Value
- $1.08/hr
- Reviews
- 96% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 128+MB of video memory (256+MB recommended). Runs on Windows, macOS.
The biggest, brightest Bejeweled ever! Discover all-new ways to play the world’s #1 puzzle game. Find your perfect match with 8 breathtaking game modes that meet all your moods.
What drives the score
How to read this
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 has never been cheaper than $0.99. That was February 2021. It has been discounted 58 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 8 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 14 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 8 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 99 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition ($4.99, scores 97) beats it on value, while it beats Zuma Deluxe ($4.99, scores 93).
The math says it holds its tier up to $10.54, and you are being asked for $4.99.
82 from critics against 96 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Of the 465 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 89 percent of the 834 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 4.6 hours. Doing everything runs 45, 9.7 times as long.
The drop-off
77% start to 4% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
387 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
The amount of depth surprised me after I started to incorporate real time techniques and (some would say) exploits into my play. Without that, it's a fairly low-agency experience as most match-3 games tend to be, but tech fundamentally breaks a lot of stuff in the player's favor in a really satisfying way. I became unkillable in classic mode, quitting at 100 million points out of boredom. I was allowed to have my...
Bejeweled is pretty much what you expect. Match gems and zone out. The thing about this that I like is the Diamond Mine and other variants of the game away from the classic gameplay. I find those more enjoyable.
It is a match 3 tile game The dragons in this game get a rating of ?/10 because I don't remember if there are any dragons in this. If there are, they're probably pretty chill, though
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Bejeweled® 3 scores 96/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/78000/bejeweled-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 16, price as of Sep 24.
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