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Game2017
SpellForce 3 Reforced
Developer Grimlore Games
SpellForce 3 is a 2017 video game developed by Grimlore Games and published by THQ Nordic. It was released for Microsoft Windows on 7 December 2017. SpellForce 3 is the third full and the ninth overall release in the SpellForce video game series. It is the first entry in the series since 2014's SpellForce 2: Demons of the Past. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
180 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon) · newest Oct 6, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
70
Fresh
121 positive · 53 negative
95% range 62–76%
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Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
6,111 of 7,959 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
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Reactions
60 of 180 · most liked firstThe "Red Shell" Controversy In 2018, SpellForce 3 (along with dozens of other popular games like Civilization VI, Kerbal Space Program, and Elder Scrolls Online) used a third-party analytics integration called Red Shell. What it did: It was a "marketing attribution" tool. It tracked whether a user who clicked an ad later bought or played the game by matching anonymized digital fingerprints. Why it was called spyware: Players were angry because it was installed without explicit consent and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is quite fine, except for one major problem. There is a major part of the game when one must build a base. It is very difficult to do all the tasks required while defending against waves of enemies destroying what one is building. Eventually, one will prevail until one reaches the unknown island. The same thing happens, except one is under a tight time limit to keep the protective walls powered up with resources. This is difficult because the resources do not load when ordered to do…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Most ANTI-FUN game you will ever play! The RTS portion in particular is so annoying, everything about it is made to piss you off. And the fact that you auto-lose the game if more than 2 heroes die means you have to CONSTANTLY babysit them. Destroy an enemy base and within 2 minutes it will be completely rebuilt. Destroy his entire army including titan unit, the AI will just rebuild all of it in a couple of seconds. Not to mention, the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ trebuchets which are totally OP in this game.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Genuinely an outstanding RPG/RTS. It has hiccups along the way but generally speaking it scratches a very specific itch the likes of Warcraft 3, albeit with a far greater focus on the RPG side of things. You make your own hero, level up through different classes with varying spells to create your own varied party of heroes (or thoroughly despicable rapscallions) as your main character meets and grows alongside the game's existing cast of characters. Along with full co-op and a decently…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I had never played an RTS game before, but I have a vast CRPG/ARPG experience, so when looking for a new game to play I came across with Spellforce 3 and decided to give it a go despite some negative reviews about its RTS part. I've just finished the main campaign after a 50 hours journey so here I am to review it. In the beginning I really got mad at the RTS aspect of the game, I felt like the game was cheating and I had to reload a few RTS battles. This changed though somewhere around…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I actually forgot about this game until recently and was checking to see what DLC was available when I saw I was banned from the discussions for a game i'd thought i'd never touched before. Low and behold some time ago I purchased this and experienced the same bugs at launch as everyone, made a comment in a thread about issues and received a perma ban from all discussions along with most of the people in the thread. There's a very good reason why all the positive comments talk about the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →honestly, this game is the best rts l've ever played and l love it so much (campaign player take)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Gave SpellForce 3 another chance after playing it a couple of years ago and not liking it. Well, that only cemented the impression I'd already had back then: This game has so many problems, I'm not even sure where to start. As someone who worships the first installment of the series (the 2003 RTS/RPG gem), I hate almost everything about this one. But let's begin with some of the game mechanics, since not everybody is fangirling this series (and mostly its lore) to the depths of the Rift and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I’m thrilled to say after finishing the main campaign of Spellforce 3 this is the most similar to Warcraft 3 for the RPG side. Multiple unique heroes, diverse skill trees(one even has necromancy and demonology!), can equip varied amount of gear, and unleash devastating aoe spells. Complete with passives, active aura’s and summons! On the RTS side, you can build a base, make your soldiers, upgrade your units buildings, collect specific resources structures, and increasing the population cap. And…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Really amazing game. I've been playing RTS games since WarCraft 2, and RPG games since the first Final Fantasy. The story in SpellForce 3 is well written. Everything is voice acted. The campaigns are professionally crafted. And the ending was perfect. There are so many ways to play this game: You can focus more on leading vast army units, with your Heroes built to optimize army output. You can focus more on Legendary Heroes. Where you need very little army because your heroes can solo the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good: Great music and graphics. Bad: Graphics are unreadable in the RTS segments—it’s almost impossible to tell which unit is which. The balance is bad. For some reason, there is a very intense collision between units, which is really messing up pathfinding. Horrible: Writers were only interested in r/atheism. Not intelligent anti-religious writing, but specifically r/atheism-level stuff—horrible and one-sided. Other than that, they were only interested in suicide and sexual violence, to the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really want to like this game. But, the balance during troop and base building game play is horrible and just frustrating. I like to be challenge but, the AI mobs spawn none stop. They are unfairly stronger than the troops I can put out. I really wanted to finish this game for the story, but I'm going have to put it down for now.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you are looking for a real succesor of spellforce 1 imo you are at the wrong adress. This game was kind of fun but in the end didnt know what it really wanted to be. It felt like a mix of an "arcade" version of a crpg with rts levels put in the mix. The issue is it didnt excel in any of it quite the contrary. Pros: *Nice soundtrack *Good Story *"crpg" parts are fun at first *Main character *Voice acting Cons: *RTS part is boring and lets you do the same thing over and over again in every…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☑ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☑ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →All you hear during the game is Tahar this, Tahar that... This game should have been called TaharForce or something. It's playable, but not enjoyable. A lot of missed opportunities and badly designed elements. Q: Would I recommend? A: Despite the "Thumb's Down", this game can still be somewhat enjoyable, especially in co-op. [+] 1) Almost fully VAed Some VA acting is... lame, though. 2) Standard story 3) Good performance 4) Good "reforged" graphics 5) Two-phased gameplay…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Apparently no one has ever tried playing the co-op campaign with two additional players, because it doesn't work. Cutscenes keep freezing and we had to restart every couple of minutes to get around that problem. Didn't find any fixes either. It works perfectly well with only two players though.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →* WARNING * Might be harmful to your hardware. After uninstalling, a folder with several subfolders, one of them is unnamed, still remains in the steamapps/common folder named "SpellForceThree". This folder cannot be deleted. When trying, you just get the error 0x80004005 unknown error. This error is "unknown", not specified, so there is no fix for this error. In that case, chkdsk dism, scannow or other tools like unlockers are useless.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →From the moment you dive into the game, it strikes a great balance between accessible gameplay and engaging depth. Whether you’re a seasoned gamer or a newcomer, the game’s learning curve is refreshingly straightforward, making it easy to get into without feeling overwhelmed. One of the highlights of SpellForce 3 is the character customization. You have a wide range of options to tailor your hero to your playstyle, making the experience feel personal and immersive. The sheer variety in…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is like warcraft III, it surely brings back memories. A lotta quests and all are fully voiced even the NPCs or the normal conversation to them. Great graphics and effects too.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →SpellForce 3 + Expansions. ------------------------------------- A Throwback Done Right I grew up with the original SpellForce games and I can honestly say SpellForce 3 feels like coming home. From the moment the music starts you get that same warm feeling of the old days. The mix of RTS and RPG is still here and it works just as good as before. You build your base, gather your army, then go on a quest with your hero. The story is solid and has enough twists to keep you going. It respects the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →While it is an interesting combination of the RTS and RPG genres, Spellforce 3 is also full of problems, ranging from stylistic mistakes and grammatical errors to a bad design of the game's major systems. On paper, Spellforce 3 should be a great game - you have the complexity of an RTS combined with the storyline and companion interactions of an RPG campaign. In practice though, both the RTS and the RPG sides are of a far lower quality than is the standard and they constantly wrestle with…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a decent 7/10 game that doesn't take a whole lot of risks but tells a decent RPG story. It feels like playing a homebrew DnD campaign. Some parts needed an editor, and it drags on a little toward the end but overall I enjoyed it and it didn't waste my time.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Massive dissapointment for me. If you like me are a fan of Warcrafts, Starcrafts rts and crpgs then stay away as far as you can from this one. It looks and sounds amazing. Superb units design, expecially orcs, but most everything else is bad. The rpgs part is ok 6-7 out of ten, but the real time strategy portion is just frustrating bore. No base building at your own pace, no fun watching fights. It is clicking as fast as you can to win. Puking as many units as possible. No time to even watch…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Low effort game. The story could be somewhat interesting, it's not groundbreaking but it's alright. Hero itemization is a bit lacking, inventory management is a blunder. Using hero skills is rather bad: you'll have plenty, all they did was just give you two skill bars, deal with it. With that big a roster, that's just lazy and lousy. The strategy part is garbage. It's just expand expand expand and then the AI throws insane armies at you from all angles because you can't be everywhere at once.…
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negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great Graphics, decent sound. Horrible everything else including gameplay. Worse rts than SF1, worse rpg than SF1. As RPG, there is very little character building. There is no interesting builds, you just get very few options, an all of them without any depth. As RTS, is very shallow and rushed. They took some inspiration from The settlers series as in resources need to be transported from and to work sites, but forgot to include everything else that made that system good, like minimal…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great music, great gameplay, wonderful story! Now, after a couple of years, I am going to ask another batch of my buddies, to walk it through with me. I HIGHLY recommend.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Playing in 2026. Still great game
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I tried SpellForce 3, but graphics were too unclear to enjoy playing so gave up. In addition to graphics controlling heros was confusing, they have abilities but I can't see at map which hero is which and I don't understand when should I use the abilities and what their impact is.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →No way to pause and give orders in the game strongly hampers the enjoyment of it. I do not understand the devs refusal to implement it, pausing and giving orders is a feature in both isometric RPGs and within strategy games like these.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Really goofy for a remake. Enemies barely react to hits and animations are poorly made. Dubbing is quite cringe and UI is a mess. Nice graphics though.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is nothing short of amazing. An interesting mix of RTS and RPG two genres I really love, this game offers an excellent campaign when it comes to characters which are very impressive and interesting, voice acting and story, it's a long campaign (which is great) with a lot of content and lore offered with excellent map designs and soundtracks. The campaign can get a bit tiresome on harder difficulties which can be easily resolved by changing the difficulty anytime you want, with no…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is half RTS half RPG. If you want a great RTS, this ain't it. Enemy forces seemingly simply spawn troops on a timer, ignoring resources. But the other half of the game (story, exploring, looting and building your characters) is pretty sweet and I would recommend it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fun for a bit, but the RTS is 'ok', and the RPG the same. Together they make for a 6/10 experience. As for the RPG side, the talents and skills are quite interesting, but your heroes will quickly reach such a power spike that the party levels (not RTS parts) are boring and trivial. Furthermore the story suffer from being quite 'generic' and the writing is pretty bad, but the voice acting is fairly good. Sadly, it doesn't take long before you groan to see every NPC have so much to say, and yet…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Loved this game It does not feel like warcaft 3 but does feel in the vibe of it, feels more like rpg/rts then rts/rpg like warcraft 3, spellforce 3 focus on rpg more then rts but does not forget the rts part, unlike waarcraft 3 which focus on rts and have rpg like gameplay in it
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Account creation for multiplayer is heavily flawwed and has no support. There is no way to make an account other than in game and you probably won't receive and email to confirm your account. The Games great if you could create an account. Account making process is completely BAD. DO NOT BUY unless you want to play LAN Or offline alone.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →being a fan of the 2nd and 1st game before they existed on steam, ive tried to play this game multiple times and just cant, it lacks the character of the first two games.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →SpellForce 3 Reforced stands as one of the more fascinating fantasy strategy games of recent years because it refuses to settle into a single genre. Instead of functioning purely as a real-time strategy title or an action-focused role-playing game, it blends both styles into one enormous adventure that constantly shifts between personal storytelling and large-scale warfare. Grimlore Games crafted a world that feels inspired by classic fantasy epics while modernizing many mechanics to create a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Played all 3 campaigns game is very good good story, base building not for every1 but i thorougly enjoyed it Big recommend to any1 wanting to play a good mix of RTS and adventure. Played soul harvest and fallen god in coop with my brother and was a very enjoyable experience. 1st campaign i m not sure if you can play in coop cause i played it myself before i got to play with bro. In these days of devs developing utter garbage this game is imo 10/10.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →TLDR: Recommend it! Buy it on sale. Ok RPG, good RTS but nothing that will blow your mind. Pretty sure that I played this for the first time before the Reforced version. I though the game was ok. The RTS part didn't captivated me at the time. Fast forward to 2025 and I decided to give the game a second chance, this time after immersing myself into the RTS genre and getting relative good in AoE2 (relative to my close friends, not internet good haha). Spellforce is a game that tries to merge…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →so i really like the story and the characters in this game, it's just that i'm tragic with the rts part of it
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Boring game. Enemy bases are almost indestructible because workers keep repairing them and the AI spawns an infinite number of works to repair the base. I spent about an hour trying to whittle down an enemy base's health before getting bored with how repetitive it is and giving up. So boring. Also, the heroes keep switching!!! I spend time planning my skill points and equipment for a hero and then the heroes switch. This game ruins the fun in progressing and developing characters. It sucks the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I don't know what it is about the balance in this game, but its hard as #@!% for me. I really wanted to like it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very unpleasant game to play...Just not fun and don't recommend. Too many times while playing this had to ask myself...Why?
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have the main game and both DLC's. It's reallyworth it. especially on discount. Played 200 hours for about 9 EUR. And will at some point replay :)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sad cause I really want to enjoy this. I've tried it multiple times but it just plays like absolute ass. Trying to micro 4 heroes like it's a damn MOBA + RTS army + base building is miserable. Game balance also sucks. Very first mission and base had infinitely respawning workers (with 0 exaggeration the worker instantly respawns right where he dies every time you kill him) and starts repairing it so fast you have to use your entire max population army + heroes to destroy it and it takes like a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Get it on sale. There's an amazing beautiful well made game here once you get past the reddit fedora tipping atheist tier writing. I don't know why they got the guy from Enderal to write a new Spellforce game, it'd be like getting a guy who hates dragons to write a new Eragon novel. Every other aspect of this game is positively divine. The music, the units, the gameplay, if I had a single wish I'd wish for a writer who actually understood and loved this franchise and setting instead of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is okay at best, the overall story is kinda meh and overdone, but the writing for each segment is god awful, and nearly a decade later they still haven't even fixed typos or when text didn't match up with the actual spoken lines. But seriously, the writing is just absolutely cringey, and I don't know why the writers have such a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hard-on for suicide. At least half the main cast has either threatened suicide or had someone in their storylines threaten to commit suicide, or…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Campaign was nice
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great game, nice balance between RPG and RTS. Graphics for this sort of game are excellent too! Only thing I was not too keen on was the end level, it was too easy and a bit of an anti-climax!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →AI basically cant play the rts and just cheats and throws waves of units at you. Also there are too few rts maps in the campaign. But the story is great and there isnt much competition.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Incredible RTS And RPG with a fantastic story. Anyone that's a fan of either or both should give this game a go, it's got the same feel as WC3 and it's such delight to play
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Did you know that the game doesn't save the progress via Steam cloud? I didn't. I lost almost 13 hours of progress because developers don't seem to care a lot about the issue since the release of SpellfForce3 Reforced in 2021. It's been four (4) years. Nice work. Good job. Etc. Thanks a lot, I guess, I'll take a refund.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Coop and multiplayer is not availble in Russia.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →For anyone who doesnt know Spellforce, its a RPG/RTS hybrid, you get pure RPG parts with heroes only and RTS parts with up to 4 heroes of your choice. First, I dont know how ppl put the difficulty to circle mage and complain about it being hard.. my boyfriend and I played it on that difficulty and yes the first mission had us struggle a bit because we never played any SF games before (first orc RTS part) but every mission after that was a walk in the park.. without spoiling the story, there…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good warcraft-like game 10/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Atrociously bad AI. Terrible controls. Spellforce 1&2 were meh... this is much worse. Mixture of RPG and RTS simply can't work, apparently. Story had potential, but not enough to get through uninspired gameplay.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I saw and heard a lot of sublime or even direct modern political messages. Good stories, high fantasy at that, don't require ideological doctrines in their timeline.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game series is really great!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Nice graphics. Decent RTS/RPG campaign. Hard to find a game like this these days.
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