Battlefield 3™ Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-06-13
- Campaign story is amazing
- Game is solid and fun
- Best Battlefield game in franchise
- Game fails to launch
- EA launcher causes problems
- Frequent game crashes
Emotions
Archetypes
Hardware
Windows <8GB VRAM / <16GB RAMpositiveWindows <8GB VRAM / 16-31GB RAMnegative
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Mostly Positive (6/10)
- Total reviews
- 18,413
- Positive
- 13,22671.8%
- Negative
- 5,18728.2%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 1,402,565
- Estimated revenue
- $56,088,574
- Game price
- $40
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 3028.77%
- Estimated copies lost
- 23,004
- Estimated revenue lost
- $919,930
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 3038.8% Avg playtime 0.7h | 1704.9% Avg playtime 1h |
| > 2h playtime | 46313.4% Avg playtime 12.2h | 2,50772.8% Avg playtime 33h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 1.6 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 8.7 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 100.1 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 2,191.7 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
3,443 total
Organic purchasers3,13691.1%
Voted up: 77%
Key activations3078.92%
Voted up: 83%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
3,443 total
First impression0-2h64518.7%
Voted up: 44%
Mid game2-10h1,95656.8%
Voted up: 84%
Late game10-20h39911.6%
Voted up: 85%
Endgame20h+44312.9%
Voted up: 92%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
66.7%
Global baseline 77.8%
12 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 18,413 total.