Far Cry 3

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Far Cry 3

Short description

Stranded on the Rook Islands as Jason Brody, fight your way through a lawless tropical open world using a powerful arsenal to save your friends and escape the madness of this acclaimed visceral FPS.

Developer
Ubisoft Montreal, Massive Entertainment, and Ubisoft Shanghai
Publisher
Ubisoft
Release
Tue, Dec 04, 2012
Price
$19.99
Reviews
124,153
Positive
87%
Followers
151,759
Owners (estimated)
2M – 5M
Concurrent players
488
Genres
Action, Adventure
Features
Multi-player, Co-op, Partial Controller Support
Tags
Open World FPS Action Adventure Multiplayer Shooter Stealth Co-op First-Person Hunting Singleplayer Sandbox Story Rich Survival Online Co-Op Nudity Atmospheric Crafting Colorful RPG
Revenue (estimated, gross)~$100msomewhere between $49.6m and $100m · roughly 2.5M–5M copies

Review count and SteamSpy's owner range agree well enough to narrow the estimate down to this band. Multiplied by the $19.99 launch price — there is not enough price history for this game to weight the copies by what they actually sold for. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

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History

75 data points since Jul 27, 2026. Gaps mean nothing changed — the value carries forward.

Revenue (est.) ~$97.9m → ~$100m
Reviews 121,618 → 124,153
Followers 150,506 → 151,759
Concurrent players 488 → 488
Price $3.99 → $19.99
Positive reviews 87.7% → 87.4%

The revenue curve is an estimate, not a measurement. It is the only calculated series here: each interval takes the review growth of that period, multiplies it by the sales-per-review factor and by the price actually charged at the time, and adds the result to the running total. That is why it climbs more slowly through discount periods than the review curve next to it. The last point is the same figure quoted above — gross, before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

The blurred area is the rest of the history. 406 further data points reach back to Nov 1, 2012 — your plan shows the last 90 days of it. How far each series in particular reaches is written on its own chart; not every one of them goes back that far. The shape in the blurred area is decoration, not data: the figures are not in this page at all. Plus unlocks the complete series.

The dashed line marks Jul 28, 2026, when steamlense started measuring. Everything to its left was backfilled from public sources — monthly review counts from Steam, price changes from IsThereAnyDeal, monthly player averages from SteamCharts. Those are monthly figures, so the curve is coarser there — one point a month instead of one a day.

Lowest recorded price: $2.99 on Jul 13, 2020.

How crowded is this niche?

How full the niche around Far Cry 3 is — measured on the tags it leads with, against every other combination on Steam.

±?? Open World + FPS + Action

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Similar games that found an audience

Games sharing at least 3 of this title's leading tags, with enough reviews to have gone somewhere. Ranked by how much they overlap, not by how big they are. − missing and + extra mark the tags each one does not share with Far Cry 3. Studio counts the titles that developer has released — the closest thing to production scale that public data allows. It is not a budget, and nobody publishes those.

Image Name Studio Shared Tag difference Price Reviews Positive Released Revenue (estimated)
Far Cry 4 Far Cry 4 Ubisoft Montreal, Red Storm, Shanghai, Toronto, Kiev first game 5 − Shooter + Co-op $29.99 69,404 85% Mon, Nov 17, 2014 $93.7m
$60m – $150m
Far Cry 6 Far Cry 6 Ubisoft Montreal 31 titles +4 5 − Shooter + Online Co-Op $59.99 36,251 71% Thu, May 11, 2023 $60m
$43.5m – $60m
Crysis 3 Crysis 3 Crytek 10 titles 5 − Open World + Singleplayer n/a 4,656 85% Thu, Jun 04, 2020 n/a
Deadfall Adventures Deadfall Adventures The Farm 51 8 titles 5 − Open World + First-Person $19.99
$4.99
75%
1,304 75% Fri, Nov 15, 2013 $1.1m
$470k – $9m
Counter-Strike 2 Counter-Strike 2 Valve 34 titles 4 − Open World − Adventure + Competitive + Team-Based Free 5,316,228 85% Tue, Aug 21, 2012 n/a

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