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Gothic 3 (2006)

Piranha Bytes

PC (Microsoft Windows)

3.32 from 345 ratings

1658 members have it in their collection · 15 playing now · 938 backlogged · 84 wish listed

How long? Main story 60h · with extras 57h · 100% 23h (from 6 logged playthroughs)

Gothic 3 is a fantasy-themed role-playing game for Windows from the German game developer Piranha Bytes. It is the sequel to Gothic II. Although widely available in English, the native release of the game is German. The game was released throughout the European Union on October 13, 2006 and became available throughout North America starting November 20, 2006. The North … Read more
Gothic 3 is a fantasy-themed role-playing game for Windows from the German game developer Piranha Bytes. It is the sequel to Gothic II. Although widely available in English, the native release of the game is German. The game was released throughout the European Union on October 13, 2006 and became available throughout North America starting November 20, 2006. The North American release incorporates two patches that appeared after the initial UK edition. A Collector's Edition was also released containing bonus collectible material. JoWooD released a standalone expansion, entitled Gothic 3: Forsaken Gods, on November 21, 2008. Read less
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Details

Developers
Piranha Bytes
Publishers
Aspyr Media, Deep Silver, DreamCatcher Interactive, JoWooD Productions Software, Nordic Games Publishing
Genres
Adventure, Role-playing (RPG)
Themes
Action, Fantasy, Open world, Sandbox
Series
Gothic
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Release dates

  • Oct 13, 2006 (Europe) PC (Microsoft Windows)
  • Nov 02, 2006 (Australia) PC (Microsoft Windows)
  • Nov 20, 2006 (North_America) PC (Microsoft Windows)
  • May 05, 2008 (Worldwide) PC (Microsoft Windows)

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Rating distribution

5 stars
53
4 stars
98
3 stars
123
2 stars
48
1 star
23
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Nelemania

Status Nelemania Jul 30, 2023

I finally finished Gothic 3 and on a very high note.

It has its flaws, but it brings the series to a worthy ending and I had 104 hours playtime in which the game consistently grew on me. Yes it has problems (save often!) and is still unplayble without community patches, but it also made it into my "Best 100 …

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I finally finished Gothic 3 and on a very high note.

It has its flaws, but it brings the series to a worthy ending and I had 104 hours playtime in which the game consistently grew on me. Yes it has problems (save often!) and is still unplayble without community patches, but it also made it into my "Best 100 shelf".

When it comes to a huge handcrafted world with handplaced loot and endless freedom, there is nothing alike. The desert is not my favorite setting, but the other two beautiful and huge environments made more than up for that. It is more that a desert isn't as interesting to look at as other environments. I have yet to play a game with focus on exploring that made a desert fun without cars and even with a car its samy.

Bye, bye, Xardas, bye, bye Myrthana.

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Nelemania

Status Nelemania Jul 11, 2023

Canada is on fire, the US is now in a heatwave (heat dome?) and here in southern Germany we are getting 37°C (98,6 F) today, in a country without air conditioning.

Please stay safe and keep yourself and your gaming equipment cool!

I decided to leave the desert in Gothic 3 and travel to Nordmar, so I can at least …

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Canada is on fire, the US is now in a heatwave (heat dome?) and here in southern Germany we are getting 37°C (98,6 F) today, in a country without air conditioning.

Please stay safe and keep yourself and your gaming equipment cool!

I decided to leave the desert in Gothic 3 and travel to Nordmar, so I can at least see some ice and snow when my attic apartment starts to feel like an oven. Fortunately, my laptop stays relatively cool with this old game, but I have a cooling pad at the ready. Two, actually, one for me and one for my laptop.

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Nelemania

Status Nelemania Jul 9, 2023

Finally reached the desert in Gothic 3 (~55 hours in). They did a good job in making it into a real desert:

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But for a guy that has to walk everywhere at least once to get a tiny bit of fast travel and coming from the rich environment before, it is a bit boring to walk through sand forever.

They …

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Finally reached the desert in Gothic 3 (~55 hours in). They did a good job in making it into a real desert:

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But for a guy that has to walk everywhere at least once to get a tiny bit of fast travel and coming from the rich environment before, it is a bit boring to walk through sand forever.

They tried to make up for it with music and sound and overall I am still enjoying my time in the game, but it is my least favorite environment in the Gothic series so far. I haven't seen Nordmar yet, though.

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Nelemania

Status Nelemania Jul 2, 2023

This is extremely true. I don't know how often I have died to these walking bones yet, or I have to run for my life the moment I hear them coming.

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Nelemania

Status Nelemania Jun 29, 2023

When you can play the first and second games in a series straight out of the box, and the third has you jumping through all sorts of loops to finally have a game that wants to start, allows you to move around, and loads the correct language version... it's just bad.

On top of that, the combat system is even …

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When you can play the first and second games in a series straight out of the box, and the third has you jumping through all sorts of loops to finally have a game that wants to start, allows you to move around, and loads the correct language version... it's just bad.

On top of that, the combat system is even more annoying, not because the combat is worse than in the previous games, but because they decided, for some reason I don't understand, that a character should run slower uphill than downhill, and now if you're fighting an enemy on a hill and the enemy is on a lower level than you, you're just doomed, and I don't mean visibly lower, just a tiny bit lower can make the difference.

Everything that makes the series great for me is still there, but technically it is a big downgrade. Why, just why?

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V1CGaming

Review V1CGaming 3/5 · Feb 9, 2022

I can't call it Gothic.

If you apply some patches, if you turn a blind eye on the combat system (which can be really hard). Yeah, it still has rubbish optimization. It's a really good RPG with amazing open world, amazing soundtrack and good hero growth. Glitched but still very good game. I would tell the game has most beautiful map from all Gothic Saga. …

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If you apply some patches, if you turn a blind eye on the combat system (which can be really hard). Yeah, it still has rubbish optimization. It's a really good RPG with amazing open world, amazing soundtrack and good hero growth. Glitched but still very good game. I would tell the game has most beautiful map from all Gothic Saga. Too bad that JoWood wanted to compete with Oblivion back then and rushed the release.

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