Orcs Must Die! 3
78 /100
Based on 15 reviews

Orcs Must Die! 3 Reviews

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Gideons Gaming
September 6, 2024
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Orcs Must Die 3 is a third-person cooperative tower defense game without the towers. Instead, you have an arsenal of traps you can use to set up diabolical combinations of death-dealing hazards that would even make Jigsaw blush underneath his creepy mask.

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Xbox fans of strategic horde smashing will find a perfect home with Robot Entertainment’s latest game in the series. There are plenty of maps, challenges, and a variety of ways to defend your tower from the orcs. There are not any glaring flaws as far as the eye can see, and for what it is worth, I think that is what makes Orcs Must Die! 3 an easy recommendation for the strategy fan. ∎

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9/10

Orcs Must Die! 3 is an excellent outing from Robot Entertainment, as it delivers exciting tower defense action along with some truly challenging sequences. The two new protagonists serve to usher the story in a new direction, while adding some flavor to gameplay. Playing with a friend is best, as it allows the two stars of the game to shine the brightest. Now free from the shackles of Google Stadia exclusivity, Orcs Must Die! 3 is the best entry in the series.

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After a year-long exclusivity on Google Stadia, Orcs Must Die! 3 has finally made its way onto other platforms. In fact, in many ways we have Stadia to thank for Orcs Must Die! 3 even existing, nearly 10 years after the last numbered entry in the series was released. I absolutely loved 2017’s Orcs Must Die! Unchained, a free-to-play multiplayer take on the series unique realtime tower defense formula, but it was the cause for some financial trouble for Robot Entertainment after it flopped commercially. After getting back on their feet with the Stadia deal, I was thrilled to hear...

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7/10

Orcs Must Die! 3 is the long-awaited third instalment of the franchise that takes the tower defence genre, typically a rather hands-off affair, and turbocharges it by letting you dive into the fray yourself and hunt down waves of orcs alongside your system of traps. Beginning life as a timed Google Stadia exclusive of all things, the title has finally arrived on other platforms. Despite the addition of two new modes and an entire additional campaign, this entry doesn’t really bring any part...

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8/10

Orcs Must Die 3 is an action tower defense game and the latest installment of Robot Entertainment's series. I absolutely loved the first Orcs Must Die for Xbox Live Arcade but is this a worthy sequel and does it meet the high expectations of tower defense fans?

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PC Gamer
July 26, 2021
81/100

Action tower defense comes home.

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7/10

Despite some hitches in its structure and similar levels, new additions to the orc killing formula make Orcs Must Die! 3 as fun as the series has ever been.

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8/10

Though its name offers no way around it, the creative ways you dispatch foes makes Orcs Must Die 3 perhaps the most addictive Stadia exclusive to date.

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WCCFtech
July 14, 2020
7.7/10

Orcs Must Die 3 is a game where you must defend a magical rift from relentless waves of greenskins. But while the game, style, and presentation of Orcs Must Die is fun, light-hearted and irrelevant, it came at something of an opportune time for itself, as it releases when several extremely high profile fantasy franchises are beginning to change the way they depict orcs. This game might be inspired by the same orcish mythos mired in the stereotypical tropes and racism, the depiction within Orcs Must Die isn’t nearly as problematic.

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8/10

Orcs Must Die! 3 is a hectic, challenging hybrid of action and tower defense that is a lot of fun for anyone looking to kill a ton of orcs.

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7/10

A co-op focus, and complicated difficulty curve can make the game stressful at times, but in the end it's worth the pain.

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Inverse
July 14, 2020
8/10

Stadia and Robot Entertainment have a fantastic base here that really takes advantage of the platform, those glitches need to be fixed and the live service type elements need to follow through for Orcs Must Die! 3 to reach killer app status on Google Stadia. Even with its rough edges, this is a very important game for the platform and sets a standard Stadia Games and Entertainment needs to follow with its exclusives going forward. 8/10

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TheSixthAxis
July 14, 2020
8/10

Orcs Must Die! 3 is a great return for the series, giving you a near endless number of ways to bring down destruction on the Orc hordes, even if the larger War Scenarios lose some of the series' carefully weighted balance.

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IGN
January 1, 2000
7/10

Orcs Must Die! 3 is a respectable, if long-overdue followup to the excellent Orcs Must Die! 2, but it feels more like an expansion to the 2012 game than a true revival or sequel. It’s certainly worthwhile for the 18 new and challenging maps it comes with, but its selection of traps and enemies are overly familiar and the large-scale War Scenario levels don’t meaningfully expand on the great third-person action meets tower defense idea like you’d expect.

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