Far Cry 3
Stranded on the Rook Islands as Jason Brody, fight your way through a lawless tropical open world using a powerful arsenal to save your friends and escape the madness of this acclaimed visceral FPS.
Action AdventureFirst-Person ShooterOpen WorldRole-PlayingSandboxSurvival
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- Released
- 2012
- Developer
- Red Storm Entertainment
- Platforms
- 3 systems
- Critics
- 88
- Steam Deck
- playable
- Download
- Not stated
What is Far Cry 3?
Stranded on the Rook Islands as Jason Brody, fight your way through a lawless tropical open world using a powerful arsenal to save your friends and escape the madness of this acclaimed visceral FPS.
Description as published by the developer on its own store page, read 30 August 2026. It is marketing copy, not our assessment.
The record
| First released | 29 November 2012 |
|---|---|
| Developer | Red Storm Entertainment, Ubisoft Shanghai |
| Publisher | Not recorded |
| Platforms | PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 |
| Genres | Action Adventure, First-Person Shooter, Open World, Role-Playing, Sandbox, Survival |
| Languages | 17 supported |
Source. Catalogue facts from Wikidata Q796529, seeded 30 August 2026. Store data from Steam, read 30 August 2026.
How was Far Cry 3 received?
Method. Player figures are Steam's own totals for the PC version, read 30 August 2026. The Metacritic score is the one Steam publishes on its store page and can lag the site itself. Metacritic page. Neither is our opinion. We have not published a review of this game.
Accessibility
Seeing
None declared
Hearing
None declared
Input
- Partial Controller Support
Difficulty
None declared
Method. Features the publisher declared on its own store page. A declaration is a floor, not a review.
What does it support?
| Capability | Support |
|---|---|
| Controller | partial support |
| Cloud saves | No |
| Cross-platform play | No |
| Mod support | No official workshop |
| Online play | Single-player only |
| In-game purchases | No |
| Steam Deck | playable |
| Download size | Not stated |
| Add-on content | None listed |
| Age gate | 17+ |
Method. Read from the publisher's Steam listing on 30 August 2026. Describes the PC version. Console versions differ.
What does it cost?
Steam price in US dollars, read 30 August 2026. Prices move hourly and vary by region. Check the current price.
Is Far Cry 3 worth it?
88% of 133,189 Steam reviews are positive, which Steam rates Very Positive. It costs $19.99 on Steam, and critics score it 88/100.
That is the data, not a verdict for sale: whether it is worth it depends on the price you pay and what you want. Players do report problems — see the reported-problems section below before buying. We have not published our own review of this game.
How long is Far Cry 3? How long to beat it
Total play time for Far Cry 3 is about 36.1 hours to do everything, and around 15.9 hours to reach the end of the main story. These are player-submitted times from HowLongToBeat, not our own, shown with the number of players behind each.
| How you play | Hours | Players logged |
|---|---|---|
| Just the main story: straight through the critical path | 15.9h | 1,622 |
| Main + the extras: story plus the side content most people do | 25.5h | 2,365 |
| Completionist: everything: 100% the game | 36.1h | 1,091 |
At its current price of $19.99, beating the main story works out to about $1.26 per hour. That is the price divided by the hours, a value read and not a verdict: a longer game costs less per hour, which is not the same as being the better game.
Source: HowLongToBeat community submissions, read 2026-10-19.
Far Cry 3 system requirements
The minimum requirements from Far Cry 3's Steam page. These are what it takes to launch and be playable, not to run at high settings.
| Memory | 4 GB RAM (other games at this level) |
|---|---|
| Processor | Intel Core®2 Duo E6700 @ 2.6 GHz |
| Graphics | 512MB Video RAM (1GB Video RAM) · runs on a low-end GPU |
Where Far Cry 3 sits on the grid
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Players. The share of Steam reviews marked positive, pulled toward the catalogue average in proportion to how few reviews stand behind it. A game with 200 reviews moves a long way toward the average; one with 200,000 barely moves at all. Without this a title sitting at 100 percent on nine reviews outranks Half-Life 2 at 98 percent on 278,000.
Popularity. A blend of two things that are not the same. Audience is how many people wrote a Steam review, which is a floor on how many played it. Reach is how many language editions of Wikipedia document the game, which is cultural footprint rather than sales. A game can score high on one and low on the other: a huge free-to-play title has audience without reach, and a landmark console exclusive has reach without a Steam audience at all. Where both exist they are averaged; where only one does, that one carries it.
- Multi-platform
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How positions are decided
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- Fetched from live third-party data. Player sentiment from Steam, critic aggregates as published on store pages, prices checked hourly, attention from Wikipedia. Each figure carries its source and the date it was read, and we do not adjust any of them.
Estimated sales for Far Cry 3
These are estimates, not reported figures. Red Storm Entertainment has not published unit sales for Far Cry 3, and nobody outside the company can measure them. What follows is arithmetic on the review count, with the method printed below so you can check it or reject it.
How this was calculated
Steam sales track review counts closely enough that dividing one by the other across games with published figures gives a usable multiplier. This is the standard method for estimating sales from outside a publisher.
| Reviews on Steam | 133,189 |
|---|---|
| Sales per review | 30 to 60 |
| List price | $19.99 |
| Assumed average selling price | 33% to 66% of list |
What this cannot tell you
Steam only. Console, Epic, GOG and retail sales are not in here. For a game that sold heavily on PlayStation this is a fraction of the real number.
The band is wide because the method is imprecise. Review rates vary with price, genre, launch era and how insistently a game asks. Published analyses put the ratio between 30 and 60 for paid games, and we show the whole range rather than picking a point in it.
The owner estimate above measures something else. SteamSpy counts accounts that have the game, which includes free weekends, bundles, giveaways and gifts. It sits higher than a sales figure for that reason, and the two are not alternative answers to the same question.
Revenue is the shakiest line. It assumes an average selling price well below list because most copies move in sales, and it ignores regional pricing, refunds, key resellers and whatever deal the publisher actually has with Valve. Treat it as an order of magnitude, not a figure.
If Red Storm Entertainment publishes a real number we will use that instead and say where it came from. Our editorial policy covers how we handle figures we cannot verify.
Far Cry 3 price & deals: is it on sale?
We have one reading so far: $19.99 on 30 August 2026. Prices are checked daily from here, and this becomes a chart once there is more than one point to join. A single observation is a price, not a history.
What readers say about Far Cry 3
Reviews written by people who have played it. These are separate from the GamingPickz Score and are never averaged into it: that score comes from thousands of Steam reviews with a sample-size correction, and a handful of unverified ratings would distort it rather than improve it.
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Problems players report
We read the 300 most recent negative Steam reviews of Far Cry 3 on 30 August 2026 and counted what they mention. These are complaints, not confirmed defects: we have not reproduced any of them, and a review describes one person's machine. What the counts tell you is which problems more than one person ran into.
- Crashes and freezes124 of 300 (41%)
crazy." I've owned this game for 2 days and have managed a grand total of 30 minutes of playtime because it crashes constantly.
Steam review, 29 July 2026 · 33 hours played · 113 readers marked it helpful- I need to set a RAM usage limit of 4GB because otherwise the game crashes constantly.
Steam review, 7 July 2026 · 32 hours played · 24 readers marked it helpful - Will not launch or install17 of 300 (6%)
Have to enter password everytime to launch a fu**ing singleplayer game that struggles to run on modern hardware and doesn't launch in compatibility mode.
Steam review, 29 July 2026 · 2 hours played · 4 readers marked it helpfulIf anyone has some tips, and they work, I'll change my review, but I can't even launch it :( Xbox 360 - 10/10 PC - 1/10
Steam review, 3 August 2026 · 0 hours played · 1 readers marked it helpful - Performance and stutter15 of 300 (5%)
I used to play a p!rated copy of this game like 6 years ago on a gt 1030 and a sh!tty i3 4130 and I still managed to get over 120 fps.
Steam review, 29 July 2026 · 2 hours played · 4 readers marked it helpfulMy computer can run it with FPS above 100 on high quality, but because it crashes, i play it on minimal.
Steam review, 28 July 2026 · 29 hours played · 2 readers marked it helpful - Launchers, accounts and anti-cheat9 of 300 (3%)
ubi retroactively updated this game to require always-online sign in every time you boot it up.
Steam review, 29 July 2026 · 44 hours played · 14 readers marked it helpfulWhat even is the point of online only drm if the game has been cracked since the stone age?
Steam review, 11 July 2026 · 67 hours played · 1 readers marked it helpful
A further 4 reviews call the game buggy or broken without saying how, which is why they are counted separately rather than assigned to a theme. Counted by keyword across review text, so a review discussing two problems is counted under both. Read the reviews yourself.
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Games like Far Cry 3
24 games overlap with Far Cry 3 on the tags Steam players applied to it, on genre, and on theme. The closest are Far Cry 4, Far Cry Primal and Far Cry 5.
Part of the Far Cry series
Far Cry 3 is one of 10 Far Cry games we track. See the whole series ranked by the GamingPickz Score, plotted on the grid, and listed in release order:
Far Cry 3 head to head
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Common questions about Far Cry 3
What platforms is Far Cry 3 on?
Far Cry 3 is available on PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360. It first released in 2012.
How much does Far Cry 3 cost?
$19.99 on Steam in the United States, read on 30 August 2026. Prices move often and vary by region, so check the store before buying.
Do players recommend Far Cry 3?
88% of 133,189 Steam reviews are positive, which Steam rates Very Positive. That is players rating it, not our review. We have not published a review of this game.
What is the Metacritic score for Far Cry 3?
88 out of 100 for the PC version, as published on the game's own Steam store page. Steam can lag Metacritic by a few points.
Does Far Cry 3 work on Steam Deck?
Valve rates Far Cry 3 as playable on the Steam Deck, from its own testing.
Who made Far Cry 3?
Far Cry 3 was developed by Red Storm Entertainment, Ubisoft Shanghai.
Is Far Cry 3 worth it in 2026?
88% of 133,189 Steam reviews are positive (Very Positive), and it is $19.99 on steam. That is the strongest signal we hold; "worth it" depends on the price you pay and what you want, so weigh the sentiment against the current price above.
Is Far Cry 3 on sale?
Not at the moment. Far Cry 3 is at its $19.99 list price on Steam, read on 30 August 2026. It has been cheaper before; the price history above shows when.
What are the system requirements for Far Cry 3?
At minimum, Far Cry 3 needs 4 GB RAM, a Intel Core®2 Duo E6700 @ 2.6 GHz, a 512MB Video RAM (1GB Video RAM), from its Steam listing. That is what it takes to launch and be playable, not to run at high settings. Check it against your own PC on the can-I-run page.
How long does it take to beat Far Cry 3?
about 15.9 hours for the main story, 25.5 hours with the main extras, 36.1 hours to complete everything, from HowLongToBeat's player-submitted times. These are community medians, so your own run may be shorter or longer.