The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III

The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III is the eighth installment in the main Trails series, serving as a direct sequel to the events of The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II. The game follows…

84 28 September 2017

Adventure Role-playing (RPG) Strategy Turn-based strategy (TBS) Action Comedy Drama Fantasy

The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III is an adventure developed by Nihon Falcom, released 28 September 2017 on PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Android. The main story takes about 70 hrs to finish.

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What The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III is

The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III is an adventure game developed by Nihon Falcom and released in 2017. It is available on PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Android, Google Stadia and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on PhyreEngine.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III is a 2017 role-playing video game developed by Nihon Falcom. The game is the eighth installment of the Trails series, itself a part of the larger The Legend of Heroes series, and follows Trails of Cold Steel II (2014).

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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, comedy, drama and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 53 achievements to unlock.

Where it sits in the The Legend of Heroes series

The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III is the 31st of 68 entries we hold in the The Legend of Heroes series. It arrived a year after The Legend of Heroes: Sora no Kiseki the 3rd Evolution. The next entry was The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky - Kizuna in 2018. Its critic score of 84 is 4 points above the series average of 80. The highest-rated entry is Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter at 87.

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How it was received

The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III holds a critic score of 84 out of 100. That places it above 81% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 13 points above the year average.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 70 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 120 hrs, roughly 1.7 times the length of the critical path.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for Core i3-2100 3.10 GHz, 8 GB RAM and Geforce GTX 650 Ti. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 25GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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What it launched against

The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III launched on 28 September 2017, within three weeks of Cuphead, South Park: The Fractured But Whole, Middle-earth: Shadow of War and Divinity: Original Sin 2. All of them reviewed better. It was a PlayStation 5 launch-window title.

Released around the same time: Cuphead, South Park: The Fractured But Whole, Middle-earth: Shadow of War, Divinity: Original Sin 2.

Cheats and codes

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Official trailer

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Screenshots

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Quick answers

The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III — frequently asked questions

When did The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III come out?

The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III was released on 28 September 2017 for PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Android, Google Stadia and PC (Microsoft Windows).

What are the minimum PC requirements for The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III?

At minimum, The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III needs Core i3-2100 3.10 GHz, 8 GB RAM, Geforce GTX 650 Ti graphics, 25 GB available space of storage.

How long does it take to beat The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III?

The main story of The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III takes around 70 hrs, or 120 hrs for 100% completion.

How many GB is The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III?

The PC version needs about 25 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("25 GB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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