The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III
Worth it · RPG · 2020
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $59.99.
- Length
- 60h
- Value
- $1.00/hr
- Reviews
- 91% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Geforce GTX 650 Ti, 25 GB of storage. Windows only.
Experience an epic story developed across three titles, and crafted for new and old fans alike. Also includes an interactive introduction to catch up new players to the ongoing story so anyone can dive right in to the world of Trails of Cold Steel.
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
It has never been cheaper than $14.99. That was October 2024. Its cuts run 60 percent off as a rule. There have been 42 in the 6 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, FINAL FANTASY VIII ($4.79, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats Ikenfell ($19.99, scores 74).
3 of the 512 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 85 percent of the 119 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 60 hours. Doing everything runs 122, 2.0 times as long.
The drop-off
74% start to 12% 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
40 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 09:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
The ending broke my mind! For now this is the most heart breaking game in this series and one of the best jprg endings totally!
This was a fun entry in the Trails series, with the right amount of difficulty when playing on Nightmare. It does, at times, feel drawn out. However, the overall experience I had was positive and the new characters are welcome.
Having a blast with the story! Things that bother me with this game are just staples in the series at this point which really bums me out. Things like the very inconsistent voice acting and the gating off of certain areas until you progress the story. Just shove me in Crossbell and let me go to town exploring commmaaannnn man. Either way it's Trails and characters and world building are still peak.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III scores 78/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/991270/the-legend-of-heroes-trails-of-cold-steel-iiiReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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