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Lead infantry and vehicle operations across vast military maps, tackling campaigns, co-op missions, and player-made battles.
Released 12 Sep 2013
Build Missions in Eden
Direct Live Battles
Coordinate Squad Operations
Experience true combat gameplay in a massive military sandbox. Deploy with a wide variety of single- and multiplayer content, a massive arsenal of modern weapons and vehicles, and limitless opportunities for content creation. Authentic, diverse, open - Arma 3 sends you to war.
Developed by Bohemia Interactive · Published by Bohemia Interactive









Arma 3 is a military sandbox set across large island environments. Play as an infantry soldier, vehicle operator, pilot, or squad leader in campaigns, scenarios, and missions, including conflicts on Altis and Stratis and operations in Tanoa.
Plan and carry out engagements on foot or with vehicles across land, air, and sea. Choose from a broad range of weapons and equipment, configure loadouts, navigate with maps and a compass, and work with squadmates as you pursue mission objectives.
Play solo or join multiplayer scenarios, from cooperative missions to larger battles. Use the Eden editor to build and share custom scenarios, or explore community-made maps, equipment, and game modes that can substantially change the experience.
Players often enjoy Arma 3 for the freedom to shape military scenarios, the range of community-made content, and the coordination involved in squad play. Reviews also value its deliberate tactical combat and large-scale battles, while noting that these experiences take time to learn and can be rough around the edges.
Authentic, diverse, open: Arma 3 sends you to war. The third installment in the legendary Arma franchise is the gold standard military sandbox on PC, featuring combined arms warfare, authentic weapons and assets, and a wide variety of single- and multiplayer content. Arma 3 now includes the Apex and Contact expansions, offering hundreds of hours of additional gameplay right out of the box. And for those who want all available official content from the get-go, Arma 3 Platinum includes the base game and every official expansion and DLC.

Deploy into massive open worlds where ballistics are realistic, maneuvering keeps you alive, and teamwork is your strongest weapon. Drive tanks, fly jets, command a squad, or play a range of infantry roles: Arma 3 gives you the freedom to fight your way in the most comprehensive military sandbox on PC, now enhanced with the Apex and Contact expansions.

From battling it out on the arid islands of Altis and Stratis in the East Wind campaign, to infiltrating the fierce jungles of Tanoa in the cooperative campaign of the Apex Protocol, to navigating mankind's encounter with an alien presence in First Contact, Arma 3 offers countless hours of replayable singleplayer and cooperative campaigns, scenarios, showcase missions, challenges, virtual arsenal and garage, and more.

Fight online in the massive military sandbox that is Arma 3. Form a squad and team up against your enemy in the official Combat Patrol, Escape and Warlords multiplayer scenarios, or jump into one of the many popular unofficial game modes developed by the Arma 3 community. Experience engaging multiplayer scenarios in Arma 3 Zeus, where Game Masters can curate and influence the battlefield of other players in real-time. To get the most out of your multiplayer milsim experience, you can even join one of the long-standing and dedicated multiplayer community units.

Customize your loadout down to the last detail for any mission and engagement. With over 80 weapons, customizable loadouts with short- and long-distance attachments, and a plethora of clothing and equipment to choose from, Arma 3 opens up a world of tactical opportunities.

Head into combat on foot, drive various types of light and heavy armor, operate autonomous vehicles, or take to the skies in helicopters and jets. Conduct combined arms operations over air, land, and sea, with over 40 intricately modeled and accurately simulated vehicles to drive and pilot.

Master combined arms warfare across the sun-scorched Mediterranean islands of Altis, Stratis, and Malden, navigate the dense, hostile jungles of the South Pacific in Tanoa, and survive the militarized temperate woodlands of Livonia. Arma 3 features massive terrains totaling over 610 km² of open-world terrain.

Explore over 160,000 user-generated items available for download on the Steam Workshop, ranging from custom weapons and vehicles to intense singleplayer scenarios and entirely new multiplayer game modes. Create your own intricate and immersive scenarios with Arma 3's comprehensive and intuitive Eden editor, and share your content with the community.

Arma 3 can be enhanced with a vast library of DLC that adds new assets, capabilities, and transports you to entirely new theaters of war. Additional weapons, tanks, jets, helicopters, and more are available for purchase as official DLC and Creator DLC (CDLC) to expand and customize your Arma 3 experience. Expansive terrains transport you to the treacherous jungles of Vietnam, the fields and forests of Cold War Germany, and to the sun-scorched desert of the Sahara, and more, giving you thousands of additional hours of playtime. For those who want all available official content from the get-go, Arma 3 Platinum includes the base game and every official expansion and DLC.

| Platforms | Windows, macOS |
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| Achievements | 123 |
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| Players | From 2 (maximum not specified) |
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| Multiplayer | Arma 3 supports online multiplayer with both PvP and co-op, and Steam lists LAN PvP and LAN co-op. Official multiplayer includes Defend, Seize, and Zeus, while reviews describe many community-hosted modes such as King of the Hill, Wasteland, Altis Life, Exile, Invade & Annex, Warlords, Liberation, Antistasi, Escape, roleplay, survival, deathmatch, and battle royale. The game is heavily server- and community-driven, with Steam Workshop content and mods expanding multiplayer substantially. |
| Multiplayer & mods | Multiplayer is strongly shaped by mods and user-created scenarios. Steam Workshop support and modding tools enable new multiplayer game modes, maps, factions, mechanics, and total conversions. Reviews indicate many servers require specific DLC or mod sets, and communities often organize play around mod collections. |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 22 listed on Steam |
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| AI disclosure | Several post-release languages (specifically Bulgarian, Hungarian, Ukrainian, Slovak, and Latin) were experimentally translated using an AI model. The quality of these translations is not guaranteed, and they may contain mistakes.All other languages were translated by a team of human translators. |
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| Metacritic | 74/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |