2016 · Souls-like · Dark Fantasy · RPG
How long isDARK SOULS™ III?
by FromSoftware, Inc.
55 hours
for the typical playerhalf of them between 21 hours and 125 hours
DARK SOULS™ III among the 64 soulslikes here
The whole tier list#3
of 64
ranked by owners here who played past two hours
- 81%
- got past 2 hours
- +25 on the kind's 55%
- 52%
- past 20 hours
- +25 on the kind's 27%
- 88%
- launched it
- +19 on the kind's 68%
- 547
- libraries own it
- 1 in 4 of the 2,453 read here
Next to it in the ranking
Long for a soulslike: 55 hours for the typical player, longer than 108 of 110 soulslikes here.
69% recommend it at 0 to 2 hours
89% recommend it at 2 to 5 hours
92% recommend it at 5 to 10 hours
94% recommend it at 10 to 20 hours
95% recommend it at 20 to 50 hours
96% recommend it at 50 to 100 hours
97% recommend it at 100 to 200 hours
96% recommend it at 200 to 500 hours
94% recommend it past 500 hours
Does DARK SOULS™ III hold up?
Holds steady
Do the first two hours of DARK SOULS™ III tell you?
In the first two hours69%recommend it
After that95%recommend it
6 in 100 said no: 5 after the window had closed, 1 while a refund was still possible.
How this is counted
Half of its Steam reviewers had played 55 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 21 hours and 125 hours.
One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 442,000 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.
It holds steady: between 89% and 97% recommend it at every stage past the first two hours.
3% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 69% of those recommend it. After the window, 95% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 84% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 24 hours in.
When would you get there?
8weeks
At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 55 hours on Thursday, January 7, 2027.
Half of its reviewers had played between 21 and 125 hours: Dec 4 to Mar 18, 2027 at this pace.
How this is counted
The typical player's hours are the hours Steam reviewers had played when they wrote their review, not a time to beat. The days count from today, playing the hours the pace says on each day.
Where do players get filtered in DARK SOULS™ III?
The filter
Vordt of the Boreal Valley
18 of every 100 players got to this one and no further.
They hold Iudex Gundyr and never earned it.
How this is counted
86% of the players who launched DARK SOULS™ III hold Iudex Gundyr, its first story achievement on Steam, and 43% hold Lord of Cinder: Lothric, Younger Prince, its last. The steepest drop comes between Iudex Gundyr (86%) and Vordt of the Boreal Valley (68%).
Steam's global achievement stats count everyone who ever launched the game, people still playing included. They are not a finish rate. The filter is the steepest drop between two story achievements; the players who never reached the first one barely started, and are never the filter.
How many endings does DARK SOULS™ III have?
Where did you leave it?
Stopped part way? Your Steam profile brings back the story so far, read aloud, up to the last story achievement you hold. Nothing past it.
No Steam, or played it elsewhere?
Is DARK SOULS™ III worth it?
Video Game Backlog
One hour, at list price
DARK SOULS™ III
- Steam list price, US
- $59.99
- Typical player
- ÷ 55 h
- soulslike rate
- $2.05/h
- 55 h at that rate
- $113
List price. Not a sale price,
not what anyone paid.
Is DARK SOULS™ III worth it? Yes.
Good value
1.9× the hours of a typical soulslike, for the same money
Loved
95% recommend it after the refund windowmost soulslikes: 85%
Gets played
88% of owners here have played itmost soulslikes: 62%
How this is counted
At Steam's US list price of $59.99, the typical player's 55 hours come to $1.09 an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 95% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. At $1.09 an hour, DARK SOULS™ III is cheaper per hour than 99 of 110 soulslikes here: the typical one of 110 soulslikes here charges $2.05, so the same $59.99 buys 1.9× the hours.
The price is Steam's US list price for the game by itself: not a sale price, a bundle or what anyone paid. The hours are the ones its reviewers had played, not a time to beat. Its kind (soulslikes) is what the game is first, as a model that knows games named it once from a list of Steam's kinds (for a game it did not know, its strongest Steam tags name it), among the kinds with at least 20 priced games here; failing that, by its Steam genre. The going rate is the middle hourly cost of those games, and the receipt prices its typical hours at it. The words beside it compare it with its kind: loved is 90% recommending it or more, liked 80%, mixed 65%; it gets played when a quarter fewer of the owners read here never launched it than of its kind's typical game. Whether it holds up is drawn on the hours road above, and counts toward the one-word answer.
Is DARK SOULS™ III better now than at launch?
April 2016
85%
≈ 14,500 reviews
Now
93%
≈ 24,900 reviews
How this is counted
Its Steam reviews began in April 2016. Of those posted in the first 30 days, 85% recommend it; of those posted in the last 12 months, 93% do.
One token is 2% of the reviews first posted in its first 30 days, and in the last 12 months. Each counts with the verdict it carries today, so a review its author has since changed shows the new one. The biggest comebacks and falls.
Where can I play DARK SOULS™ III today?
In a collection
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt + Dark Souls III, out on PS4 and Xbox One in 2018.
- todayPC2017in Dark Souls III: The Fire Fades Edition
- todayPS42018in the collection
- todayXbox One2018in the collection
How this is counted
From IGDB, found by its Steam app: the machines DARK SOULS™ III came out on and the year it first reached each, and the collections, ports, remasters and remakes that carry it. A machine counts for today while it, or the one after it, still plays its games and its store sells them: Switch, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series, PC and phones. A PC release from before 2005 counts as gone, unless Steam sells it. IGDB does not say when a store stopped selling a release, so a delisted one can still show here.
Would you like DARK SOULS™ III?
Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like DARK SOULS™ III, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long DARK SOULS™ III would take you. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.
How this is counted
It reads how long you tend to stay: across every game you've played whose typical hours it knows (free games left out), how often you went past the typical player and how often you left before half their hours. It glows when you often stay past them, dims when you often leave early, and needs five played games to read at all. Then it shows the games you own most like this one, by the same measure as the shelf of games like it, each with your hours against the typical player's.
Why not a forecast for this game: on 36,766 Steam libraries, how a player did on games like one told little beyond how long they stay in games at all, so those games are shown as evidence and never scored. Nothing of the library is kept.
@nu1x holds this page
- 1st
@nu1x436 h - 2nd
@showyjozy230 h - 3rd
@ravage194 h - 4th
@mrtester186 h - 5th
@keita157 h - 6th
@goofy-ahh-face113 h - 7th
@radu10771 h - 8th
@teddy-bear-inc58 h
Public pages here, by the hours Steam has on this game. From two hours up, the most hours holds the page.
What did people here do with DARK SOULS™ III?
- A
The middle pick of 10 players on the Steam tier list
1 in 3
Name 100 runs say its name: players asked to name 100 games from memory
How this is counted
Counted from the Steam libraries read here and the pages kept here, not from all of Steam's players. A case is one owner, or one in twenty of them when there are more. The tier is the middle player's on the Steam tier list, shown once ten players have ranked it.
Games like DARK SOULS™ III
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DARK SOULS III, but a third of the hours, and more divisive
Mixed · 68%Games like Lords of the Fallen
WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers
DARK SOULS III, but gorier, and a quarter of the hours
Divisive · 57%Games like WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers
Mortal Shell
DARK SOULS III, but a tenth of the hours, and more divisive
Mixed · 67%Games like Mortal Shell
Blade of Darkness
DARK SOULS III, but a hack and slash game, and a tenth of the hours
Loved · 90%Games like Blade of Darkness
How this is counted
Its own series apart, where it plays alike; then the games sharing the most of its strongest Steam tags, genres and themes, the better known ahead among the about as alike. A model that knows games read the list once: the ones it said do not play like this game are left out, the closest come first. Under each name, what sets it apart from DARK SOULS™ III: a kind of game it is that DARK SOULS™ III is not, a feature its tags carry that DARK SOULS™ III's barely do, how many hours people play it, how its reviewers feel. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.