Orcs Must Die! 3

Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.

Very Positive · 85%Very Positive · 85%2021

The verdict

A fun, chaotic trap-and-shooter hybrid that shines in co-op and offers lots of replay. Skip it if you want a solo, trap-focused experience or expect it to beat OMD2.

Great for

Duo co-op players who enjoy trap combos, orc-slaughtering chaos, and chasing high scores

Main risk

Traps feel weak and the game plays like a shooter, with co-op disconnects and crashes

What players love

Great fun in co-op with a friend

Mentioned in ~1 in 3 positive reviews

“It's one of my top go to games for co-op, in which it really shines.”
Steam review · 18.2 h played ↗

“This is great co op game to play with a friend. The game allows you to be creative with your traps and rewards you for being creative.”
Steam review · 8 h played ↗

“Co-op turns the game into gold.”
Steam review · translated · 36.8 h played ↗

Addictive blend of tower defense and third-person action

Mentioned in ~1 in 6 positive reviews

“Successfully combines tower defense and TPS mechanics into a fast-paced and highly additive experience.”
Steam review · 56.4 h played ↗

“if you ever loved playing tower defence this really hits the spot.”
Steam review · 17.3 h played ↗

“Setting traps and blasting waves of orcs is as fun and satisfying as ever.”
Steam review · 7.8 h played ↗

Huge variety of traps, weapons and strategies

Mentioned in ~1 in 6 positive reviews

“the trap variety is huge, and there are so many different strategies depending on your playstyle.”
Steam review · 88 h played ↗

“The physics traps are hilarious, but there is enough depth with combining elements to keep the other traps nice to use as well.”
Steam review · 78.2 h played ↗

Lots of content and replayability

Mentioned in ~1 in 10 positive reviews

“With a main campaign, two side campaigns, endless levels, and the randomized boon/bane scramble mode, this game is tons of fun”
Steam review · 177.2 h played ↗

“skirmish mode really makes it replayable forever!”
Steam review · 191.5 h played ↗

War Scenarios add epic scale

Mentioned in ~1 in 13 positive reviews

“Especially the war scenarios which are basically huge siege maps complete with archers, knights, catapults, giant flip traps”
Steam review · 18.2 h played ↗

“The War Scenarios are absolutely insane, bigger battles, longer matches, more strategy, and the chance to use massive traps on a huge scale.”
Steam review · 88 h played ↗

Funny, charming characters and presentation

Mentioned in ~1 in 15 positive reviews

“The cutscenes are dope. The voice acting is good. The lines are quippy and witty.”
Steam review · 26.8 h played ↗

“The new main characters have great banter, which makes them likable and adds a nice dose of charm to the experience.”
Steam review · 64.7 h played ↗

What players complain about

Traps feel weak; it plays like a shooter

Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews

“It's a game about traps, except the traps suck. Seriously. The traps feel like they do almost nothing”
Steam review · 12.5 h played ↗

“Its a shooter now, and for that there are thousands better ones out there.”
Steam review · 10.5 h played ↗

“Terrible balance, most traps are completely useless; the game is beaten with barricades, tar and gold rain.”
Steam review · translated · 15.9 h played ↗

Worse than Orcs Must Die 2

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews

“Just play OMD2 instead. OMD3 is almost a straight downgrade from its predecessor.”
Steam review · 13.8 h played ↗

“Overall, just a big downgrade, get OMD 2 instead.”
Steam review · 10.2 h played ↗

“Currently this game is basically a much less polished version of Orcs Must Die 2 with overall less content”
Steam review · 14.8 h played ↗

Starved for money; level and balance design

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews

“always starved for money, you never really get to build anything satisfying, always just the bare minimum”
Steam review · 16.4 h played ↗

“Terrible level design, too many orc spawns, some can't be merged into a single path to the portal.”
Steam review · translated · 7.2 h played ↗

Co-op disconnects and connectivity problems

Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews

“Thumbs down for archaic connectivity where if a player disconnects, there is no ability to re-join, which kills the run.”
Steam review · 22.4 h played ↗

“I constantly get "failed to connect" error whilst balls deep in scramble or endless”
Steam review · 29.7 h played ↗

“The game is cool but co-op doesn't work because the teammate keeps dropping out, which is infuriating.”
Steam review · translated · 1.6 h played ↗

Frequent crashes and unplayable on some PCs

Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews

“This game will crash very often when the first two never did. Cannot even Endless mode because of the crashes.”
Steam review · 1.9 h played ↗

“so many people can't even get the game to run anymore and they just don't care”
Steam review · 99.8 h played ↗

“Crashes, crashes, crashes. Endless crashes in co-op mode.”
Steam review · translated · 4.2 h played ↗

Bugs and broken enemy AI or pathing

Mentioned in ~1 in 13 negative reviews

“Level 14 for example was so atrociously bugged that even the best strategy was useless bc of enemies randomly clipping thru walls/floors and directly into the rift”
Steam review · 59.4 h played ↗

“Archers and other aim and shoot towers like mounted xbow work about 50% of the time.”
Steam review · 22.6 h played ↗

System requirements

From the Steam store page

Steam Deck: Verified

Minimum

OSWindows 7

ProcessorIntel Core i5-2300 | AMD Ryzen 3 1200

Memory6 GB RAM

GraphicsNvidia GeForce GTX 660, 2 GB | AMD Radeon HD 7870, 2 GB

Storage12 GB available space

Recommended

OSWindows 10

ProcessorIntel Core i5-9600K | AMD Ryzen 5 3600X

Memory8 GB RAM

GraphicsNvidia GeForce GTX 1060, 3 GB | AMD Radeon RX Vega 64

Storage12 GB available space

OSWindows 7

ProcessorIntel Core i5-2300 | AMD Ryzen 3 1200

Memory6 GB RAM

GraphicsNvidia GeForce GTX 660, 2 GB | AMD Radeon HD 7870, 2 GB

Storage12 GB available space

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