Arma 3
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How do players who really played Arma 3 rate it? TrueGG Rating 91.7%

Release date: Sep 12, 2013 Data as of 2026-10-19 View on Steam ↗

Players who really played rate it about the same as Steam overall. Early impressions are weaker, so the first few hours tend to decide whether it clicks.

Good for

  • Players willing to push through a slow start
  • Players looking for hundreds of hours

Think twice if you are

  • Players who judge a game in the first hours (early ratings are lower)

A rule-based guide from review patterns (no AI). How

TrueGG RatingMethodology ↗
91.7%
▲ +1.3 pt
vs Steam overall

Positive among players with 50+ hours (last 180 days) · 2,758 reviews

TrueGG, all time
95.6%
Steam overall
90.4%
Japanese, all time
94.6%

Early wall

Reviews written under 2 hours: 6.3% of all reviews. Their positive share is 61.4%.

This is not a drop-off rate; it describes who wrote reviews. Refund guide: within 14 days of purchase and under 2 hours of play (Steam refund policy).

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Does the rating change the longer people play?

Used for TrueGG Rating (50h+)JapaneseRight: reviews
Positive share by playtimeRanges from 50 hours up are highlighted. Exact values are in the table below.0%25%50%75%100%0–1 h55%1941–2 h60%1622–5 h80%6075–10 h82%63410–20 h90%65120–50 h90%88050–100 h93%539100–200 h93%552200+ h91%1,667Positive share by playtime0–1 h19455%1–2 h16260%2–5 h60780%5–10 h63482%10–20 h65190%20–50 h88090%50–100 h53993%100–200 h55293%200+ h1,66791%

Positive share by playtime at the time of review (reviews from the last 180 days). Ranges under 50 reviews are pale and dashed (indicative only); “—” means no reviews.

Show chart values as a table
PlaytimePositiveJapaneseReviews
0–1 h54.6%0.0%194
1–2 h59.9%—162
2–5 h80.2%—607
5–10 h82.2%—634
10–20 h89.6%100.0%651
20–50 h89.8%100.0%880
50–100 h92.9%—539
100–200 h92.8%100.0%552
200+ h90.9%75.0%1,667

How long people play: half of reviewers had played 50+ hours. 69% had 20+ hours and 46% had 100+ hours (all time).

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Summary

Arma 3 has a TrueGG Rating of 91.7%: the positive share among 2,758 reviews written in the last 180 days by players with 50+ hours, close to Steam's overall 90.4%. Players who really play it broadly agree with the headline number (all time: 95.6%).

Reviews written under 2 hours make up 6% of the total, and only 61% of them are positive. Some players bounce off early, but those who get past the opening rate it higher. Steam accepts refund requests within 2 hours of play and 14 days of purchase.

In the last 180 days, reviews at 2–5h are 80% positive versus 91% at 200h+: the more people play, the more they like it.

Negative reviews most often mention monetization and DLC and controls and UI. Positive reviews praise how fun it feels and performance.

Among Japanese-language reviews, the TrueGG Rating is 94.6%, similar to all languages.

Re-weighting reviews by trust signals (playtime, length, how the game was obtained) barely changes the rating (90.1% adjusted), so Steam's number is not noticeably distorted by key giveaways or throwaway reviews.

All figures come from Steam's public review counts, and topics are counted with our published dictionary (no AI). Data as of 2026-10-19.

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Why it is rated this way

What drives the rating

Complaints center on live operations and online play (Monetization & DLC). These shift over time, so weigh recent reviews more than the all-time figure. It is also a game many people bounce off early (early reviews are much less positive than those of players who stuck with it).

− Most mentioned complaints

  • Monetization & DLC9% of negative reviews (5% of positive) · most common among 100h+ players
  • Controls, UI & camera7% of negative reviews (3% of positive) · most common among 2–20h players

+ What players praise

  • Fun & feel23% of positive reviews (9% of negative)
  • Performance8% of positive reviews (6% of negative)
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Counted from 393 recent negative and 600 positive reviews in Japanese and English, using our published topic dictionary. No AI is used. Topics overlap, so shares do not add up to 100%. Sarcasm and nuance are not detected, and this does not show cause and effect.How we count

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Checking the numbers

Figures with a different scope, shown alongside the TrueGG Rating.

MetricPositiveScope
Official Steam rating90.4%All time, all languages · 296,055 reviews
Adjusted rating90.1%Weighted by trust (95% range 89.7%–90.5%), −0.3pt vs official
Japanese-language reviews84.2%All time, Japanese-language reviews (−6.3pt vs overall) · 587 reviews
Show the positive vs negative breakdown

Share of sampled reviews that meet each condition that lowers trust. When a condition is more common on the positive side, the adjusted rating falls below the official one.

ConditionPositive reviewsNegative reviews
Under 2 hours played at review2%25%
Very short text48%26%
Key activated outside Steam11%15%
Received for free2%2%
Owns very few games19%8%
Over 100 reviews written1%4%
Average trust (1.0 = full)0.730.76

The median total playtime of the sampled reviewers is 24.6 hours. 400 positive and 400 negative reviews analyzed · data as of 2026-10-19

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When did the rating change?

Monthly positive and negative review counts since release, as published by Steam.

Reviews per month

■ Positive■ Negative
0 2,000 4,000 6,000 2013-03: +490 / −15 2013-04: +139 / −5 2013-05: +111 / −0 2013-06: +165 / −9 2013-07: +182 / −3 2013-08: +116 / −1 2013-09: +227 / −7 2013-10: +104 / −3 2013-11: +340 / −14 2013-12: +820 / −52 2014-01: +727 / −58 2014-02: +733 / −46 2014-03: +666 / −63 2014-04: +437 / −34 2014-05: +1,058 / −66 2014-06: +1,539 / −83 2014-07: +943 / −70 2014-08: +643 / −53 2014-09: +530 / −46 2014-10: +1,076 / −91 2014-11: +896 / −101 2014-12: +1,255 / −95 2015-01: +1,192 / −118 2015-02: +737 / −63 2015-03: +1,000 / −93 2015-04: +923 / −102 2015-05: +1,162 / −122 2015-06: +1,195 / −143 2015-07: +694 / −88 2015-08: +693 / −69 2015-09: +702 / −67 2015-10: +771 / −72 2015-11: +830 / −81 2015-12: +1,144 / −139 2016-01: +1,148 / −126 2016-02: +1,158 / −132 2016-03: +857 / −74 2016-04: +705 / −56 2016-05: +1,206 / −131 2016-06: +1,360 / −166 2016-07: +1,247 / −170 2016-08: +775 / −131 2016-09: +690 / −91 2016-10: +661 / −80 2016-11: +4,254 / −134 2016-12: +1,352 / −179 2017-01: +1,279 / −165 2017-02: +1,022 / −100 2017-03: +881 / −97 2017-04: +990 / −153 2017-05: +894 / −97 2017-06: +1,987 / −344 2017-07: +1,619 / −224 2017-08: +930 / −152 2017-09: +1,326 / −260 2017-10: +825 / −112 2017-11: +3,452 / −194 2017-12: +1,465 / −270 2018-01: +1,069 / −197 2018-02: +850 / −139 2018-03: +652 / −110 2018-04: +869 / −180 2018-05: +685 / −118 2018-06: +805 / −182 2018-07: +673 / −162 2018-08: +564 / −94 2018-09: +563 / −127 2018-10: +445 / −90 2018-11: +2,751 / −129 2018-12: +727 / −124 2019-01: +572 / −106 2019-02: +840 / −176 2019-03: +443 / −66 2019-04: +412 / −61 2019-05: +626 / −142 2019-06: +2,908 / −174 2019-07: +3,753 / −221 2019-08: +422 / −104 2019-09: +463 / −142 2019-10: +1,139 / −107 2019-11: +5,089 / −218 2019-12: +3,625 / −218 2020-01: +3,685 / −284 2020-02: +2,112 / −137 2020-03: +2,832 / −257 2020-04: +3,592 / −430 2020-05: +2,219 / −225 2020-06: +1,987 / −191 2020-07: +2,175 / −212 2020-08: +1,627 / −154 2020-09: +1,946 / −243 2020-10: +2,440 / −323 2020-11: +3,127 / −231 2020-12: +2,553 / −263 2021-01: +2,569 / −219 2021-02: +2,530 / −309 2021-03: +2,168 / −376 2021-04: +1,629 / −138 2021-05: +2,991 / −401 2021-06: +2,206 / −261 2021-07: +2,125 / −246 2021-08: +2,037 / −226 2021-09: +1,963 / −227 2021-10: +1,466 / −122 2021-11: +2,905 / −271 2021-12: +2,019 / −206 2022-01: +2,072 / −195 2022-02: +1,745 / −173 2022-03: +1,955 / −477 2022-04: +2,106 / −277 2022-05: +1,340 / −145 2022-06: +1,842 / −233 2022-07: +1,974 / −233 2022-08: +1,247 / −117 2022-09: +1,859 / −235 2022-10: +1,408 / −155 2022-11: +2,257 / −172 2022-12: +1,585 / −154 2023-01: +1,983 / −216 2023-02: +1,207 / −137 2023-03: +1,589 / −172 2023-04: +1,289 / −141 2023-05: +1,250 / −131 2023-06: +1,408 / −167 2023-07: +2,069 / −291 2023-08: +1,158 / −114 2023-09: +1,830 / −280 2023-10: +1,252 / −122 2023-11: +2,556 / −268 2023-12: +1,404 / −193 2024-01: +1,481 / −206 2024-02: +1,097 / −111 2024-03: +1,279 / −146 2024-04: +1,198 / −180 2024-05: +973 / −121 2024-06: +1,294 / −279 2024-07: +2,414 / −506 2024-08: +1,331 / −216 2024-09: +1,145 / −185 2024-10: +962 / −109 2024-11: +1,919 / −201 2024-12: +1,728 / −204 2025-01: +1,531 / −243 2025-02: +879 / −109 2025-03: +1,318 / −219 2025-04: +842 / −134 2025-05: +1,047 / −151 2025-06: +1,297 / −271 2025-07: +1,354 / −267 2025-08: +987 / −153 2025-09: +1,412 / −264 2025-10: +990 / −130 2025-11: +1,265 / −99 2025-12: +874 / −135 2026-01: +926 / −137 2026-02: +787 / −94 2026-03: +912 / −111 2026-04: +836 / −151 2026-05: +694 / −180 2026-06: +767 / −102 2026-07: +817 / −108 2026-08: +651 / −78 2026-09: +735 / −137 2026-10: +395 / −52 2013/032014/012015/012016/012017/012018/012019/012020/012021/012022/012023/012024/012025/012026/01

Positive share per month

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% Monthly data overall 89.7% 2024-08: update2024-11: update2024-12: update2025-01: update2025-05: update2025-06: update2025-11: update2026-03: update2026-07: update2026-08: update 2013-03: 97.0%2013-04: 96.5%2013-05: 100.0%2013-06: 94.8%2013-07: 98.4%2013-08: 99.1%2013-09: 97.0%2013-10: 97.2%2013-11: 96.0%2013-12: 94.0%2014-01: 92.6%2014-02: 94.1%2014-03: 91.4%2014-04: 92.8%2014-05: 94.1%2014-06: 94.9%2014-07: 93.1%2014-08: 92.4%2014-09: 92.0%2014-10: 92.2%2014-11: 89.9%2014-12: 93.0%2015-01: 91.0%2015-02: 92.1%2015-03: 91.5%2015-04: 90.0%2015-05: 90.5%2015-06: 89.3%2015-07: 88.7%2015-08: 90.9%2015-09: 91.3%2015-10: 91.5%2015-11: 91.1%2015-12: 89.2%2016-01: 90.1%2016-02: 89.8%2016-03: 92.1%2016-04: 92.6%2016-05: 90.2%2016-06: 89.1%2016-07: 88.0%2016-08: 85.5%2016-09: 88.3%2016-10: 89.2%2016-11: 96.9%2016-12: 88.3%2017-01: 88.6%2017-02: 91.1%2017-03: 90.1%2017-04: 86.6%2017-05: 90.2%2017-06: 85.2%2017-07: 87.8%2017-08: 86.0%2017-09: 83.6%2017-10: 88.0%2017-11: 94.7%2017-12: 84.4%2018-01: 84.4%2018-02: 85.9%2018-03: 85.6%2018-04: 82.8%2018-05: 85.3%2018-06: 81.6%2018-07: 80.6%2018-08: 85.7%2018-09: 81.6%2018-10: 83.2%2018-11: 95.5%2018-12: 85.4%2019-01: 84.4%2019-02: 82.7%2019-03: 87.0%2019-04: 87.1%2019-05: 81.5%2019-06: 94.4%2019-07: 94.4%2019-08: 80.2%2019-09: 76.5%2019-10: 91.4%2019-11: 95.9%2019-12: 94.3%2020-01: 92.8%2020-02: 93.9%2020-03: 91.7%2020-04: 89.3%2020-05: 90.8%2020-06: 91.2%2020-07: 91.1%2020-08: 91.4%2020-09: 88.9%2020-10: 88.3%2020-11: 93.1%2020-12: 90.7%2021-01: 92.1%2021-02: 89.1%2021-03: 85.2%2021-04: 92.2%2021-05: 88.2%2021-06: 89.4%2021-07: 89.6%2021-08: 90.0%2021-09: 89.6%2021-10: 92.3%2021-11: 91.5%2021-12: 90.7%2022-01: 91.4%2022-02: 91.0%2022-03: 80.4%2022-04: 88.4%2022-05: 90.2%2022-06: 88.8%2022-07: 89.4%2022-08: 91.4%2022-09: 88.8%2022-10: 90.1%2022-11: 92.9%2022-12: 91.1%2023-01: 90.2%2023-02: 89.8%2023-03: 90.2%2023-04: 90.1%2023-05: 90.5%2023-06: 89.4%2023-07: 87.7%2023-08: 91.0%2023-09: 86.7%2023-10: 91.1%2023-11: 90.5%2023-12: 87.9%2024-01: 87.8%2024-02: 90.8%2024-03: 89.8%2024-04: 86.9%2024-05: 88.9%2024-06: 82.3%2024-07: 82.7%2024-08: 86.0%2024-09: 86.1%2024-10: 89.8%2024-11: 90.5%2024-12: 89.4%2025-01: 86.3%2025-02: 89.0%2025-03: 85.8%2025-04: 86.3%2025-05: 87.4%2025-06: 82.7%2025-07: 83.5%2025-08: 86.6%2025-09: 84.2%2025-10: 88.4%2025-11: 92.7%2025-12: 86.6%2026-01: 87.1%2026-02: 89.3%2026-03: 89.1%2026-04: 84.7%2026-05: 79.4%2026-06: 88.3%2026-07: 88.3%2026-08: 89.3%2026-09: 84.3%2026-10: 88.4% 2013/032014/012015/012016/012017/012018/012019/012020/012021/012022/012023/012024/012025/012026/01

Months with under 30 reviews are omitted from the rate.

Updates and ratings before and after

DateAnnouncement2 months before → after
2026-08-11 Arma 3 Mac Port Update 2.22 —
2026-07-16 Arma: Cold War Assault Remastered Is Out Now! 84% → 87% (+2.8pt)
2026-03-19 Arma 3 Creator DLC: Expeditionary Forces Update 1.2 88% → 82% (−5.9pt)
2025-11-26 Arma 3 Creator DLC: Expeditionary Forces Update 1.1 86% → 87% (+1.0pt)
2025-06-17 OPREP - Performance Optimizations in 2.20 87% → 85% (−2.1pt)
2025-05-29 Arma 3 Creator DLC: Global Mobilization - Cold War Germany Update 1.6 86% → 83% (−2.8pt)
2025-01-21 Arma 3 Mac Port Update 2.18 90% → 87% (−3.0pt)
2024-12-10 Arma 3 Creator DLC: S.O.G. Prairie Fire Update 1.31 90% → 87% (−3.0pt)
2024-11-26 Arma 3 Creator DLC: Expeditionary Forces is out now 88% → 88% (+0.2pt)
2024-08-06 Arma 3 Creator DLC: Spearhead 1944 Update 1.1 is out now 83% → 88% (+5.2pt)

Picked automatically from the titles of Steam announcements by the developer (one per month, last 3 years, up to 10). The dotted lines mark those months. Before and after are the positive rates of the two months before and after (excluding the month itself); shown as "—" under 50 reviews or when the two months after are not complete. An update is not necessarily the cause of a change.

Reviews per day, last 30 days

0 20 40 60 2026-09-19: +32 / −3 2026-09-20: +25 / −5 2026-09-21: +23 / −3 2026-09-22: +16 / −3 2026-09-23: +17 / −1 2026-09-24: +9 / −4 2026-09-25: +21 / −3 2026-09-26: +25 / −7 2026-09-27: +18 / −3 2026-09-28: +14 / −3 2026-09-29: +9 / −5 2026-09-30: +13 / −2 2026-10-01: +21 / −4 2026-10-02: +23 / −5 2026-10-03: +26 / −4 2026-10-04: +41 / −5 2026-10-05: +25 / −3 2026-10-06: +23 / −5 2026-10-07: +26 / −2 2026-10-08: +17 / −1 2026-10-09: +20 / −4 2026-10-10: +36 / −5 2026-10-11: +19 / −1 2026-10-12: +17 / −2 2026-10-13: +16 / −2 2026-10-14: +13 / −0 2026-10-15: +18 / −0 2026-10-16: +22 / −2 2026-10-17: +19 / −3 2026-10-18: +13 / −4 09/1909/2610/0310/1010/17
Show monthly data as a table
MonthPositiveNegativePositive
2013-034901597.0%
2013-04139596.5%
2013-051110100.0%
2013-06165994.8%
2013-07182398.4%
2013-08116199.1%
2013-09227797.0%
2013-10104397.2%
2013-113401496.0%
2013-128205294.0%
2014-017275892.6%
2014-027334694.1%
2014-036666391.4%
2014-044373492.8%
2014-051,0586694.1%
2014-061,5398394.9%
2014-079437093.1%
2014-086435392.4%
2014-095304692.0%
2014-101,0769192.2%
2014-1189610189.9%
2014-121,2559593.0%
2015-011,19211891.0%
2015-027376392.1%
2015-031,0009391.5%
2015-0492310290.0%
2015-051,16212290.5%
2015-061,19514389.3%
2015-076948888.7%
2015-086936990.9%
2015-097026791.3%
2015-107717291.5%
2015-118308191.1%
2015-121,14413989.2%
2016-011,14812690.1%
2016-021,15813289.8%
2016-038577492.1%
2016-047055692.6%
2016-051,20613190.2%
2016-061,36016689.1%
2016-071,24717088.0%
2016-0877513185.5%
2016-096909188.3%
2016-106618089.2%
2016-114,25413496.9%
2016-121,35217988.3%
2017-011,27916588.6%
2017-021,02210091.1%
2017-038819790.1%
2017-0499015386.6%
2017-058949790.2%
2017-061,98734485.2%
2017-071,61922487.8%
2017-0893015286.0%
2017-091,32626083.6%
2017-1082511288.0%
2017-113,45219494.7%
2017-121,46527084.4%
2018-011,06919784.4%
2018-0285013985.9%
2018-0365211085.6%
2018-0486918082.8%
2018-0568511885.3%
2018-0680518281.6%
2018-0767316280.6%
2018-085649485.7%
2018-0956312781.6%
2018-104459083.2%
2018-112,75112995.5%
2018-1272712485.4%
2019-0157210684.4%
2019-0284017682.7%
2019-034436687.0%
2019-044126187.1%
2019-0562614281.5%
2019-062,90817494.4%
2019-073,75322194.4%
2019-0842210480.2%
2019-0946314276.5%
2019-101,13910791.4%
2019-115,08921895.9%
2019-123,62521894.3%
2020-013,68528492.8%
2020-022,11213793.9%
2020-032,83225791.7%
2020-043,59243089.3%
2020-052,21922590.8%
2020-061,98719191.2%
2020-072,17521291.1%
2020-081,62715491.4%
2020-091,94624388.9%
2020-102,44032388.3%
2020-113,12723193.1%
2020-122,55326390.7%
2021-012,56921992.1%
2021-022,53030989.1%
2021-032,16837685.2%
2021-041,62913892.2%
2021-052,99140188.2%
2021-062,20626189.4%
2021-072,12524689.6%
2021-082,03722690.0%
2021-091,96322789.6%
2021-101,46612292.3%
2021-112,90527191.5%
2021-122,01920690.7%
2022-012,07219591.4%
2022-021,74517391.0%
2022-031,95547780.4%
2022-042,10627788.4%
2022-051,34014590.2%
2022-061,84223388.8%
2022-071,97423389.4%
2022-081,24711791.4%
2022-091,85923588.8%
2022-101,40815590.1%
2022-112,25717292.9%
2022-121,58515491.1%
2023-011,98321690.2%
2023-021,20713789.8%
2023-031,58917290.2%
2023-041,28914190.1%
2023-051,25013190.5%
2023-061,40816789.4%
2023-072,06929187.7%
2023-081,15811491.0%
2023-091,83028086.7%
2023-101,25212291.1%
2023-112,55626890.5%
2023-121,40419387.9%
2024-011,48120687.8%
2024-021,09711190.8%
2024-031,27914689.8%
2024-041,19818086.9%
2024-0597312188.9%
2024-061,29427982.3%
2024-072,41450682.7%
2024-081,33121686.0%
2024-091,14518586.1%
2024-1096210989.8%
2024-111,91920190.5%
2024-121,72820489.4%
2025-011,53124386.3%
2025-0287910989.0%
2025-031,31821985.8%
2025-0484213486.3%
2025-051,04715187.4%
2025-061,29727182.7%
2025-071,35426783.5%
2025-0898715386.6%
2025-091,41226484.2%
2025-1099013088.4%
2025-111,2659992.7%
2025-1287413586.6%
2026-0192613787.1%
2026-027879489.3%
2026-0391211189.1%
2026-0483615184.7%
2026-0569418079.4%
2026-0676710288.3%
2026-0781710888.3%
2026-086517889.3%
2026-0973513784.3%
2026-103955288.4%
Show daily data as a table
DayPositiveNegative
2026-09-19323
2026-09-20255
2026-09-21233
2026-09-22163
2026-09-23171
2026-09-2494
2026-09-25213
2026-09-26257
2026-09-27183
2026-09-28143
2026-09-2995
2026-09-30132
2026-10-01214
2026-10-02235
2026-10-03264
2026-10-04415
2026-10-05253
2026-10-06235
2026-10-07262
2026-10-08171
2026-10-09204
2026-10-10365
2026-10-11191
2026-10-12172
2026-10-13162
2026-10-14130
2026-10-15180
2026-10-16222
2026-10-17193
2026-10-18134
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Recent sentiment

PeriodPositiveReviews
Last 30 days87.2%811
Last 180 days86.9%5,878
All time90.4%296,055
Japanese, last 180 days77.8%9
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