The Shinri Game 3 is a quiz game with an emphasis on asking the player pointed questions and gauging their personality from the responses they selected for those questions. With this third game in The Shinri Game series, the theme switches to historical scenarios that the player is quizzed on. They are shown a short story featuring characters from different eras of history, and the following questions are related to that story. The Shinri Game 3 was the final game in the series to be released on the Super Famicom. The series would continue on the Sony PlayStation for several more years, however, culminating with The Shinri Game 10 in 2001.