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Far Cry 3
Discover the dark secrets of a lawless island ruled by violence and take the fight to the enemy as you try to escape. You’ll need more than luck to escape alive!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
What reviewers agree on
40 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“The epitome and pinnacle of contemporary story driven FPS games, competes with RD2 both in gameplay, story and atmosphere; Despite being 6 year younger, and having 1 tenth of development staff. It is the magnum opus of…”
“A jogabilidade é um dos pontos mais fortes. O jogador pode escolher entre atacar inimigos de forma direta ou usar stealth, tornando a experiência dinâmica. O sistema de progressão, com habilidades e crafting, incentiva…”
“This was the first farcry game iv ever played and thank god this was the first one this is the best farcry game exploring is fun hunting is fun story is fun but its outdated but not the gameplay it crashes has some…”
38 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“The epitome and pinnacle of contemporary story driven FPS games, competes with RD2 both in gameplay, story and atmosphere; Despite being 6 year younger, and having 1 tenth of development staff. It is the magnum opus of…”
“A jogabilidade é um dos pontos mais fortes. O jogador pode escolher entre atacar inimigos de forma direta ou usar stealth, tornando a experiência dinâmica. O sistema de progressão, com habilidades e crafting, incentiva…”
“This was the first farcry game iv ever played and thank god this was the first one this is the best farcry game exploring is fun hunting is fun story is fun but its outdated but not the gameplay it crashes has some…”
16 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“A jogabilidade é um dos pontos mais fortes. O jogador pode escolher entre atacar inimigos de forma direta ou usar stealth, tornando a experiência dinâmica. O sistema de progressão, com habilidades e crafting, incentiva…”
“i love this game!Huge classic still has good graphics too!the story is amazing and fun but i cant find the freeroam where do i play it??”
“---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☑ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just…”
9 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“I remember playing this game at a very young age on PS3 and now I'm an adult playing this on Steam. I bought it on sale, knowing it would bring nothing but nostalgia, and that it did. I remember seeing the Citra scene…”
“A good game to tell you the real definition of insanity. You keep on playing this over and over and never end up with.”
“A very great classic. I remember the hype when it first came out and how the villain, Vaas (aka Nacho), was a psycho to everyone based on the trailer. My only regret is I got this on console and not PC. For my sins, I…”
6 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☑ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just…”
“This is the first Far Cry game I've played in the series. Honestly, I started with this one because almost everyone recommended it. Pros: The story is great. The actor for the antagonist played the role incredibly well.…”
“Still pretty decent and a good story driven game with fun gameplay. Little dated but not as much for it's graphics or audio but rather the fact that it crashes basically every hour if you won't patch the memory issue. I…”
25 of the 103 reviews raise this · 17 of them still recommend the game.
“Would love to play this game, as I love the Far Cry franchise - but Ubisoft can't be bothered to make their old games playable on modern hardware.”
“This is a great game that is left unsupported by Ubisoft and now wont run for more than 10 minutes. there might be solutions if you download other software or start digging into game files but none have worked for me…”
“The mere fact that you [i]need[/i] to mod this or use third party tools in order for the game to not crash should be enough to not recommend you buy it. Doubly so because it uses Ubisoft Connect. But my issues are…”
16 of the 103 reviews raise this · 9 of them still recommend the game.
“Replaying it again for the third time to grab all the achievements and all I can think about is how deeply annoying so many parts of this game are. Unskippable cutscenes, requires the Ubisoft servers to be online to…”
“The mere fact that you [i]need[/i] to mod this or use third party tools in order for the game to not crash should be enough to not recommend you buy it. Doubly so because it uses Ubisoft Connect. But my issues are…”
“why do we let ubisoft put up games on steam i buy a single player game and i cant play it cause ubisoft needs me to log into their bull crap ubi connect that dosent work why do i need a internet connection for a single…”
8 of the 103 reviews raise this · 7 of them still recommend the game.
“Replaying it again for the third time to grab all the achievements and all I can think about is how deeply annoying so many parts of this game are. Unskippable cutscenes, requires the Ubisoft servers to be online to…”
“I get why people say this is one of the best games in far cry. I agree it is good but still I prefer far cry 5 because when I complete half of the game and got to the second island for me it became kinda boring because…”
“Did I ever tell you the definition of insanity? I have to log in every single time when I want to play this game. Let’s just get this out of the way. I really don’t like Ubisoft because of this. They also really love…”
6 of the 103 reviews raise this · 6 of them still recommend the game.
“A jogabilidade é um dos pontos mais fortes. O jogador pode escolher entre atacar inimigos de forma direta ou usar stealth, tornando a experiência dinâmica. O sistema de progressão, com habilidades e crafting, incentiva…”
“Юбисофт плохо оптимизировали данную игру. Всю сюжетную часть игры проходил с вылетом в каждый час ,думая что проблеме в моем железе. пробовал сменить на DX9 и все стало еще хуже только после зазвершения сюжетной части…”
“Such a great game but this optimization is so poor shame on ubisoft for ruining its old titles especially with that ubisoft connect BS”
4 of the 103 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“Replaying it again for the third time to grab all the achievements and all I can think about is how deeply annoying so many parts of this game are. Unskippable cutscenes, requires the Ubisoft servers to be online to…”
“Did I ever tell you the definition of insanity? I have to log in every single time when I want to play this game. Let’s just get this out of the way. I really don’t like Ubisoft because of this. They also really love…”
“First Review : Too many crashes with this damn Ubisoft launcher, it's actually impossible to have a lot of fun without recreating the settings over and over again. I have hope to retry the experience later in the future…”
Counted across 103 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 89.4% positive rating · as of 2026-05-20
“saw it was on sale one day, bought it, killed a bunch of people on an island, got home played the game 10/10 would recommend”
— a player, Steam review · 46 hrs played“one of the gretest game , classic masterpeice amazing story and an insane villan vass , the best fer cry game ever”
— a player, Steam review · 35 hrs played“Did I ever tell you the definition of insanity? Insanity, is, entering the exact, correct f****ng account and password on the Ubisoft Connect launcher, over and over again, expecting the game to run. That. is. crazy.”
— a player, Steam review · 44 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-23 23:43 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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Far Cry 3 - Steam Achievements Issue
We started to release Far Cry 3 achievement on Steam, but during the update, we encountered sync issues with multiplayer achievements for players who had previously unlocked them via Ubi Connect. We'r
Far Cry 3 & Far Cry 4 nominated in the Steam Awards!
http://i.imgur.com/1gZptBF.jpg On December 22nd, don’t forget to vote for your favorite videogame Villain! Far Cry 3’s Vaas and Far Cry 4’s Pagan Min are nominated in the Steam Awards category: “Villa
Far Cry 3 & Far Cry 4 nominated in the Steam Awards!
http://i.imgur.com/1gZptBF.jpg On December 22nd, don’t forget to vote for your favorite videogame Villain! Far Cry 3’s Vaas and Far Cry 4’s Pagan Min are nominated in the Steam Awards category: “Villa
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Action, Adventure |
| Player tags | Open World · FPS · Action · Adventure · Multiplayer · Shooter · Stealth · Co-op · First-Person · Hunting · Singleplayer · Sandbox (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · Co-op · Steam Achievements · Partial Controller Support |
| Languages | English * , German * , French * , Italian * , Spanish - Spain * , Portuguese - Portugal, Polish, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Czech, Russian * , Japanese * , Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese * |
| Achievements | 44 |
| Estimated owners | 2,000,000 – 5,000,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | http://farcrygame.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows XP, Windows Vista Processor: Intel Core®2 Duo E6700 @ 2.6 GHz or AMD Athlon64 X2 6000+ @ 3.0Ghz or better Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: 512MB Video RAM (1GB Video RAM), DirectX9c (DirectX11) Shader Model 3.0 (Shader Model 5.0) DirectX®: 9.0c Hard Drive: 15 GB HD space Sound: DirectX Compatible (Recommended Surround Sound 5.1 capable) Other Requirements: Broadband Internet connection Additional: *Supported Video Cards at Time of Release: AMD Radeon™ HD 2900 / 3000 / 4000 / 5000 / 6000 / 7000 series, NVIDIA® GeForce® 8800 GTX / 9 / 200 / 400 / 500 / 600 series. Laptop version