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Battlefield 3™

Team-based military FPS with vehicles and destructible multiplayer battlefields

DICE · Published by Electronic Arts · Released Jun 11, 2020

Action

Third-party account required DRM declared on Steam

Reviews
Mostly Positive
71% of 18K
Recent reviews
Mostly Positive
76% of 164 in 30 days
Players
63
daily peak, Nov 7, 2026
Steam Deck
Unsupported
Last update on Steam
1 year ago
Jul 18, 2025
Minimum PC
DirectX 10 GPU
2 GB RAM · 20 GB disk
Full requirements

Metacritic: 89/100 (critic reviews)

What is Battlefield 3™?

A first-person military shooter with a single-player campaign and class-based online PvP across 29 maps. In multiplayer, you fight as Assault, Engineer, Support, or Recon, using weapons and gadgets while driving tanks, buggies, helicopters, and jets through destructible environments.

For you if...

  • +you like team-based FPS matches with distinct combat roles
  • +you want infantry combat, vehicles, and destructible maps
  • +you also want a short single-player military campaign

Not for you if...

  • −you want only a long single-player campaign
  • −you dislike competitive online PvP

What players say

71% of 18,070 reviews are positive · 76% of 164 in the last 30 days

Players praise the gunplay, map layouts, class roles, vehicle combat, and campaign presentation. The dominant current complaint is that the EA app and browser-based Battlelog cause activation loops and launch failures that can block both multiplayer and the campaign; players also report a sparse multiplayer population.

Players over time

▼ -42% vs a month ago

Players online on Steam, one sample a day.

Highest since Sep 2026: 138 players on Sep 21, 2026.

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Sep 21, 2026138

Screenshots and trailer

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Battlefield 3™ system requirements

Minimum: DirectX 10 GPU, 2 GB RAM, 20 GB of disk space.

As published by the developer.

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Minimum

OS
Windows 7 64-bit
Processor
2 GHz Dual Core (Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz or Althon X2 2.7 GHz)
Graphics
Graphics card (AMD): DirectX 10.1 compatible with 512 MB RAM (ATI Radeon 3000, 4000, 5000 or 6000 series, with ATI Radeon 3870 or higher performance) Graphics card (NVIDIA): DirectX 10.0 compatible with 512 MB RAM (NVIDIA GeForce 8, 9, 200, 300, 400 or 500 series with NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT or higher performance)
Memory
2 GB RAM
Storage
20 GB available space
DirectX
Version 10

Recommended

OS
Windows 7 64-bit
Processor
Quad-core CPU
Graphics
Graphics Card: DirectX 11 compatible with 1024 MB RAM (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 or ATI Radeon 6950)
Memory
4 GB RAM
Storage
20 GB available space
DirectX
Version 11

Does Battlefield 3™ have co-op or multiplayer?

Yes: PvP online. It also has a single-player mode.

Does Battlefield 3™ run on Steam Deck?

Unsupported No: Valve rates it Unsupported on Steam Deck.

  • Not supported on SteamOS

PC version details

DRM
EA on-line activation and Origin client software installation and background use required.
Third-party account
EA Account (Supports Linking to Steam Account)
Controller
Full controller support
Platforms
Windows
Achievements
34
Steam features
Trading cards
Age rating
17+
Languages
Full audio: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Russian, Japanese, Korean. Text only: Czech, Hungarian, Traditional Chinese.

Does Battlefield 3™ use AI-generated content?

No AI-generated content is disclosed on the game's Steam page.

Self-reported by the developer under Steam rules: it covers AI content that ships in the game, not tools used to make it. Steam page checked on Nov 7, 2026. How to filter AI games on Steam

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Recent updates

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