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Control Craft 3

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60%Game Brain Score
Most mentioned positive aspects:replayability, music
Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, monetization
60% User Score Based on 84 reviews

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Control Craft 3 is a single player tactical shooter game. It was developed by Atomic Fabrik and was released on December 30, 2016. It received neutral reviews from players.

Control Craft 3 is a fast paced RTS, which brings quick thinking and clever tactics together for some planet conquering action.

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60%Audience ScoreBased on 84 reviews
replayability1 positive mentions
monetization13 negative mentions
  • Fast-paced, accessible RTS focused on quick decision-making and tactical pressure without complex mechanics.
  • Clean, minimalistic art style that prioritizes battlefield readability and functional gameplay.
  • Offers a decent amount of content with dozens of levels, upgradeable units, and various tactical challenges.
  • Poor PC port with buggy controls, awkward UI, and technical issues like mouse becoming unresponsive.
  • Unbalanced and frustrating AI that targets the player unfairly and creates difficulty spikes; gameplay can become boring or repetitive.
  • Presence of advertising and microtransaction design elements detract from experience; achievements and other features are often bugged.

  • gameplay

    14 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    21% positive mentions, 58% neutral mentions, 21% negative mentions

    The gameplay centers on capturing strategic points and deploying units, offering a simple yet timing-focused experience that gradually increases in challenge. However, it is criticized for lack of innovation, repetitive mechanics, buggy controls, and unpolished interface, leading to limited long-term appeal. Overall, it feels like an unrefined, recycled iteration of previous titles with minimal added depth.

    • “Instead of traditional base-building and resource harvesting, Control Craft 3 centers its gameplay around capturing and holding strategic points while deploying different unit types to overwhelm the enemy.”
    • “This non-linear approach helps prevent the experience from feeling overly rigid, even though the core mechanics remain consistent throughout.”
    • “Early stages act as an effective tutorial, easing players into the mechanics, while later levels demand sharper timing and more deliberate unit deployment.”
    • “The gameplay itself doesn't really offer anything interesting either.”
    • “Seems to just be more of the same of the previous entries in the series - exact same UI, gameplay, etc. Every single time you move a unit they will recite one of a couple different lines which gets incredibly annoying.”
    • “The game is a ripoff of many much older games like Galcom, and the gameplay is unchanged.”

  • monetization

    13 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    The monetization of this game is widely criticized as a lazy, cash-grab port of a mobile app, featuring persistent ads and microtransactions despite being a paid PC release. Players feel the in-game advertising is intrusive and unethical, detracting significantly from the overall experience.

    • “The game is a mobile game and sadly designed around microtransactions.”
    • “Control Craft 3 is a mobile app that's been dumped on Steam as a lazy cash grab.”
    • “In-game advertising is a complete insult to gamers everywhere.”

  • graphics

    8 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    25% positive mentions, 37% neutral mentions, 38% negative mentions

    The graphics in Control Craft 3 feature a clean, minimalistic sci-fi art style that prioritizes clarity and functionality over advanced visuals. While not impressive or highly detailed, the modest graphics effectively support gameplay by ensuring information is clear and accessible. However, there are limited graphical settings available beyond basic screen mode options.

    • “Visually, Control Craft 3 adopts a clean, functional art style that prioritizes readability over spectacle.”
    • “I like the art style: minimalistic sci-fi ambient, which suits the fun and casual gameplay.”
    • “While the graphics are modest and unlikely to impress players seeking cutting-edge visuals, they serve the gameplay well by ensuring that information is conveyed efficiently.”
    • “Also, there doesn't seem to be any graphical control apart from full screen or window.”
    • “The graphics aren't that good.”

  • story

    6 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    50% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 50% negative mentions

    The story keeps the game engaging through challenging scenarios that require strategic thinking, though some players find the pacing frustrating due to slower unit production and unfavorable conditions. However, technical issues like mission selection bugs have impacted the overall experience. Despite difficulties, the narrative conveys a message of perseverance against overwhelming odds.

    • “Moral of the story: you never know what life has in store for you, and if I had given up when all odds were against me, I wouldn't be where I am today.”
    • “To summarise it, you start with fewer units than the enemies, you produce slower, your tower placements are less favourable, and the AI makes it their mission to kill you and you only.”
    • “This keeps the game engaging without resorting to artificial difficulty spikes, though some players may still find certain missions frustrating if they prefer slower, more methodical RTS pacing.”
    • “To summarise it, you start with fewer units than the enemies, you produce slower, your tower placements are less favorable, and the AI makes it their mission to kill you and only you.”
    • “Really disappointing, currently bugged so that you can't even see the last 3 missions on the mission select screen for me.”
    • “Really disappointing, currently bugged so that you can't even see the last 3 missions on the mission select screen for me.”

  • stability

    3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    33% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 67% negative mentions

    The game initially suffered from buggy controls and a poor user interface, leading to an unbalanced experience. However, recent updates have significantly improved stability, making it largely bug-free.

    • “So the game is now pretty much bug free.”
    • “A poorly adapted mobile game with buggy controls, a terrible UI, questionable achievements, and very little interesting gameplay.”
    • “Buggy, unbalanced.”

  • replayability

    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    50% positive mentions, 50% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    Replayability is largely driven by refining gameplay strategies within the same mechanics, despite the absence of multiplayer modes and extensive customization options. Many players find substantial long-term enjoyment, as evidenced by significant playtime even before updates.

    • “So there's a lot of replayability - practically all my 18 hours at the time of this review was on the pre-patch version.”

  • music

    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The music is relaxing and creates a soothing atmosphere, helping players feel at ease during gameplay.

    • “I relaxed for 5 minutes listening to this music, long enough to realize that I would be okay.”
    • “Music's nice, though.”

  • optimization

    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 50% neutral mentions, 50% negative mentions

    The game currently suffers from performance issues and requires optimization to run more smoothly. Users indicate that improvements in this area are needed.

    • “Needs optimization”

  • grinding

    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    Grinding in the game is extensive and time-consuming, especially for certain achievements that demand large quantities of specific items. This aspect makes the game suitable for players who enjoy farming and prolonged repetitive tasks.

    • “Some of the achievements require a high amount of said item to be used, which literally takes hours of non-stop grinding.”
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Play Times

30h Median play time
30h Average play time
30-30h Spent by most gamers
*Based on 1 analyzed playthroughs
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Control Craft 3 is a tactical shooter game. Common tags for Control Craft 3 include turn-based, indie, trading, exploration, tower defense and others.

Control Craft 3 is available on PC, Mac OS and Windows.

On average players spend around 30 hours playing Control Craft 3.

Control Craft 3 was released on December 30, 2016.

Control Craft 3 was developed by Atomic Fabrik.

Control Craft 3 has received neutral reviews from players. Most players liked Control Craft 3 for its replayability but disliked it for its gameplay.

Control Craft 3 is a single player game.

Similar games include Control Craft 2, ConflictCraft, Airstrike HD, ConflictCraft 2, MechDefender and others.