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Shenmue III

YS NET · ININ · 2020-11-19

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ActionAdventure

Franchise: Shenmue · Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Nov 19, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Nov 19, 2019 (PlayStation 4)

Shenmue III sees the eagerly anticipated continuation of the epic story-driven saga. Take control of Ryo Hazuki, a teenage martial artist, determined to unravel the mystery behind his father's murder and to exact revenge on the killer.

Shenmue III is a 2020 Action and Adventure game priced at $29.99, with an estimated 50,000 to 100,000 owners and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (73% of 1420 reviews).

3
playing now
73%
positive of 1.4k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
3,539
twitch viewers (latest)
3539.0
viewers/channel (concentration)
68/100
critic score (11 outlets, IGDB)
65/100
IGDB user rating (26 ratings)
4.51★
PlayStation Store rating (2,883 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$29.99
steam price (US)

3 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 17:00 UTC (census sample)

Shenmue III is a 2019 action-adventure game developed by Ys Net and published by Deep Silver for the PlayStation 4 and Windows. Like the previous Shenmue games, it consists of open-world environments interspersed with brawler battles and quick time events, with a day-and-night system, variable weather effects, non-player characters with daily schedules, and various minigames. Players control the teenage martial artist Ryo Hazuki, who continues his search for his father's killer in the mountains of 1980s Guilin, China.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 3 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 44 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~6/week).
  • · Review velocity down 20% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (235 reviews).
  • · Top 13% of 27,675 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 28k–64k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,420 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$29.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.49 at Steam (2024-10-29) · bundled 5×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $29.99 · on sale 35 of 68 observed days · $28.50 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
20920920202026Week of 2020-11-01: 209 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 64 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1002026-09-15 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 11:00 — 3 players2026-09-17 18:00 — 2 players2026-09-19 02:00 — 3 players2026-09-20 09:00 — 8 players2026-09-21 17:00 — 4 players2026-09-23 00:00 — 4 players2026-09-24 08:00 — 1 players2026-09-25 15:00 — 2 players2026-09-26 23:00 — 5 players2026-09-28 06:00 — 3 players2026-09-29 14:00 — 3 players2026-09-30 21:00 — 7 players2026-10-02 05:00 — 1 players2026-10-03 12:00 — 10 players2026-10-04 21:00 — 8 players2026-10-06 04:00 — 6 players2026-10-07 12:00 — 6 players2026-10-08 19:00 — 8 players2026-10-10 03:00 — 5 players2026-10-11 10:00 — 4 players2026-10-12 18:00 — 8 players2026-10-14 01:00 — 4 players2026-10-14 17:00 — 3 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
1523Nov 2020Aug 2026Nov 2020 — avg 152 · peak 327Jan 2021 — avg 27 · peak 57Mar 2021 — avg 12 · peak 27May 2021 — avg 17 · peak 41Jul 2021 — avg 13 · peak 29Sep 2021 — avg 14 · peak 38Nov 2021 — avg 9 · peak 23Jan 2022 — avg 14 · peak 28Mar 2022 — avg 13 · peak 49May 2022 — avg 10 · peak 23Jul 2022 — avg 9 · peak 21Sep 2022 — avg 10 · peak 52Nov 2022 — avg 7 · peak 18Jan 2023 — avg 11 · peak 37Mar 2023 — avg 9 · peak 20May 2023 — avg 8 · peak 18Jul 2023 — avg 8 · peak 17Sep 2023 — avg 8 · peak 21Nov 2023 — avg 9 · peak 23Jan 2024 — avg 9 · peak 23Mar 2024 — avg 10 · peak 27May 2024 — avg 11 · peak 26Jul 2024 — avg 9 · peak 25Sep 2024 — avg 8 · peak 20Nov 2024 — avg 18 · peak 56Jan 2025 — avg 7 · peak 17Mar 2025 — avg 6 · peak 15May 2025 — avg 5 · peak 16Jul 2025 — avg 5 · peak 14Sep 2025 — avg 4 · peak 11Nov 2025 — avg 4 · peak 11Jan 2026 — avg 6 · peak 14Mar 2026 — avg 5 · peak 16May 2026 — avg 4 · peak 11Jul 2026 — avg 4 · peak 12Aug 2026 — avg 4 · peak 10
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$59.99$0.002015-07-052026-10-142015-07-05 — best price $59.992020-04-02 — best price $24.992020-09-10 — best price $24.992021-01-04 — best price $49.992021-02-15 — best price $49.992021-04-22 — best price $14.492021-05-27 — best price $10.002021-07-26 — best price $11.992021-08-31 — best price $29.992021-10-28 — best price $11.992021-12-09 — best price $11.992022-02-02 — best price $29.992022-04-07 — best price $29.992022-05-24 — best price $29.992022-08-05 — best price $5.112022-10-10 — best price $29.992022-12-01 — best price $29.992023-02-01 — best price $4.492023-03-20 — best price $4.492023-05-18 — best price $4.492023-07-22 — best price $1.992023-09-04 — best price $5.392023-09-30 — best price $4.192023-11-24 — best price $3.892024-01-29 — best price $3.892024-03-14 — best price $2.992024-05-16 — best price $2.992024-07-31 — best price $29.992024-10-01 — best price $2.992025-02-25 — best price $29.992025-08-18 — best price $17.992026-04-24 — best price $13.492026-09-01 — best price $29.992026-09-16 — best price $13.492026-10-01 — best price $13.492026-10-14 — best price $29.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

3291382026-05-29 — 183 pageviews2026-06-02 — 156 pageviews2026-06-06 — 302 pageviews2026-06-10 — 220 pageviews2026-06-14 — 242 pageviews2026-06-18 — 138 pageviews2026-06-22 — 146 pageviews2026-06-26 — 329 pageviews2026-06-30 — 211 pageviews2026-07-04 — 166 pageviews2026-07-08 — 165 pageviews2026-07-12 — 190 pageviews2026-07-16 — 204 pageviews2026-07-20 — 208 pageviews2026-07-24 — 256 pageviews2026-07-28 — 181 pageviews2026-08-01 — 164 pageviews2026-08-05 — 174 pageviews2026-08-09 — 183 pageviews2026-08-13 — 176 pageviews2026-08-17 — 195 pageviews2026-08-21 — 191 pageviews2026-08-25 — 308 pageviews2026-08-29 — 150 pageviews2026-09-02 — 160 pageviews2026-09-06 — 207 pageviews2026-09-10 — 186 pageviews2026-09-14 — 198 pageviews2026-09-18 — 177 pageviews2026-09-22 — 172 pageviews2026-09-26 — 148 pageviews2026-09-30 — 154 pageviews2026-10-04 — 171 pageviews2026-10-07 — 174 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
27.1%
earned "Regular Shopper"
3.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing3 DLC

8 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese

Post-launch support: 3 DLC released, first 2020-11-19 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS4 (PlayStation)5,19310%64
Steam (Steam)6568%64

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

RPGEpicAnimeActionFightingAdventureOpen WorldStory RichAtmosphericKickstarter

Census log

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

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