2009 · Life Sim · Building · Sandbox
How long isThe Sims™ 3?
37 hours
for the typical playerhalf of them between 10 hours and 140 hours
The Sims™ 3 among the 66 life sims here
The whole tier list#7
of 66
ranked by owners here who played past two hours
- 73%
- got past 2 hours
- +25 on the kind's 47%
- 33%
- past 20 hours
- +14 on the kind's 19%
- 82%
- launched it
- +21 on the kind's 61%
- 84
- libraries own it
- 1 in 30 of the 2,483 read here
A bargain: 54¢ an hour, cheaper than 147 of 155 life sims here.
56% recommend it at 0 to 2 hours
79% recommend it at 2 to 5 hours
84% recommend it at 5 to 10 hours
88% recommend it at 10 to 20 hours
89% recommend it at 20 to 50 hours
90% recommend it at 50 to 100 hours
91% recommend it at 100 to 200 hours
92% recommend it at 200 to 500 hours
93% recommend it past 500 hours
Does The Sims™ 3 hold up?
Grows on people
79% of its Steam reviewers recommend it at 2–5 hours played, and 93% past 500 hours played.
Earned when the share recommending a game rises 8 points or more from its first stage past the two-hour mark to its last, never falls 5 points on the way, and at least 80% of all its Steam reviewers recommend it. Every game that holds it.
Do the first two hours of The Sims™ 3 tell you?
In the first two hours56%recommend it
After that89%recommend it
14 in 100 said no: 11 after the window had closed, 3 while a refund was still possible.
How this is counted
Half of its Steam reviewers had played 37 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 10 hours and 140 hours.
One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 34,400 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.
It grows on people: 79% recommend it at 2–5 hours, and 93% past 500 hours.
7% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 56% of those recommend it. After the window, 89% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 77% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 12 hours in.
When would you get there?
5weeks
At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 37 hours on Monday, December 21.
Half of its reviewers had played between 10 and 140 hours: Nov 24 to Apr 3, 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.
Is The Sims™ 3 worth it?
Video Game Backlog
One hour, at list price
The Sims™ 3
- Steam list price, US
- $19.99
- Typical player
- ÷ 37 h
- life sim rate
- $1.82/h
- 37 h at that rate
- $67
List price. Not a sale price,
not what anyone paid.
Is The Sims™ 3 worth it? Yes.
A steal
3.4× the hours of a typical life sim, for the same money
Liked
89% recommend it after the refund windowmost life sims: 90%
Gets played
83% of owners here have played itmost life sims: 67%
How this is counted
At Steam's US list price of $19.99, the typical player's 37 hours come to 54¢ an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 89% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. At 54¢ an hour, The Sims™ 3 is cheaper per hour than 147 of 155 life sims here: the typical one of 155 life sims here charges $1.82, so the same $19.99 buys 3.4× 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 (life sims) 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.
Where can I play The Sims™ 3 today?
In a collection
The Sims 3: Starter Pack, out on PC in 2013.
- Wii2010ported
- DS2010ported
- PS32010ported
- Xbox 3602010ported
- 3DS2011ported
- todayPC2013in the collection
How this is counted
From IGDB, found by its Steam app: the machines The Sims™ 3 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 The Sims™ 3?
Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like The Sims™ 3, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long The Sims™ 3 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.
@danonyyy holds this page
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 The Sims™ 3?
1 in 6
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.
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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 The Sims™ 3: a kind of game it is that The Sims™ 3 is not, a feature its tags carry that The Sims™ 3's barely do, how many hours people play it, how its reviewers feel. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.