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Descent 3 cover art

Descent 3

Outrage Entertainment · Interplay Inc. · 2014-04-15

Steam

Action

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Jul 2000 (Linux), Nov 1999 (Mac), Sep 10, 1999 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The vertigo continues as the highly anticipated sequel to Descent I and II takes the mind-bending, pulse-pounding experience to another level!

68%
positive of 101 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
78/100
IGDB user rating (16 ratings)
bronze
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$19.99
steam price (US)
Descent 3 is a first-person shooter video game developed by Outrage Entertainment and published by Interplay Entertainment. It was originally released for Microsoft Windows in North America on June 17, 1999. Descent 3 is the third game in the Descent video game series and a sequel to Descent II. The game takes place in a science fiction setting of the Solar System where the player is cast as Material Defender, a mercenary who must help an organization known as the Red Acropolis Research Team to stop robots infected by an alien virus.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 25% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 50% of 18,480 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.5k–6.1k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 101 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.69 at GOG (2018-09-04)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 3 of 6 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
8820142026Week of 2014-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2014-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2014-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2014-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2014-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$19.99$2.692015-01-012026-03-262015-01-01 — best price $4.992015-04-06 — best price $9.992015-06-08 — best price $9.992015-06-22 — best price $9.992015-11-14 — best price $9.992017-11-27 — best price $9.992018-01-04 — best price $9.992018-03-20 — best price $9.992018-05-14 — best price $9.992018-09-04 — best price $2.692018-11-01 — best price $9.992018-12-13 — best price $3.392019-01-21 — best price $9.992019-04-29 — best price $9.992019-07-29 — best price $6.992019-10-25 — best price $3.392019-12-03 — best price $9.992020-01-27 — best price $9.992020-04-24 — best price $6.992020-07-31 — best price $3.492020-12-02 — best price $4.992021-02-11 — best price $7.992021-06-28 — best price $9.992021-10-11 — best price $6.992021-12-22 — best price $6.992022-08-02 — best price $7.992022-11-24 — best price $7.992023-01-05 — best price $9.992023-06-29 — best price $7.992023-08-08 — best price $9.992023-11-28 — best price $9.992024-02-13 — best price $9.992024-05-09 — best price $9.992024-09-10 — best price $7.992024-11-27 — best price $7.992025-03-13 — best price $7.992025-10-06 — best price $19.992026-03-26 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

95342026-06-25 — 74 pageviews2026-06-28 — 53 pageviews2026-07-01 — 58 pageviews2026-07-04 — 58 pageviews2026-07-07 — 71 pageviews2026-07-10 — 60 pageviews2026-07-13 — 76 pageviews2026-07-16 — 34 pageviews2026-07-19 — 64 pageviews2026-07-22 — 64 pageviews2026-07-25 — 56 pageviews2026-07-28 — 66 pageviews2026-07-31 — 41 pageviews2026-08-03 — 59 pageviews2026-08-06 — 53 pageviews2026-08-09 — 57 pageviews2026-08-12 — 36 pageviews2026-08-15 — 61 pageviews2026-08-18 — 63 pageviews2026-08-21 — 74 pageviews2026-08-24 — 53 pageviews2026-08-27 — 44 pageviews2026-08-30 — 68 pageviews2026-09-02 — 48 pageviews2026-09-05 — 42 pageviews2026-09-08 — 49 pageviews2026-09-11 — 61 pageviews2026-09-14 — 57 pageviews2026-09-17 — 95 pageviews2026-09-20 — 51 pageviews2026-09-22 — 57 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerMulti-playerFamily Sharing

Player tags

FPS6DOFRetroSpaceActionSci-fiClassicShooterOld School

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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