SIMULACRA 2
Worth it · Strategy · 2020
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $7.99.
- Length
- 5h
- Value
- $1.60/hr
- Reviews
- 86% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 16 GB of storage. Windows only.
A dead influencer. An obsessed detective. Three suspects. Piece the truth together by going through the victim’s phone messages, videos, and social media in the follow up to the critically acclaimed SIMULACRA.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.99, set in December 2025. 65 discounts in the 7 years on record. They run about 60 percent off, roughly 4 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 4 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 90 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Scrutinized ($9.99, scores 77) beats it on value, while it beats Breakout 13 ($9.99, scores 66).
Critics scored it 69. Players sit 17 points higher at 86 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Steam's global achievement data puts 36 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 433 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 62 percent of the 113 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
66% start to 36% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Players
4 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 00:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
it was a really fun experience overall :3 Some stuff being timed really made it tense and sometimes took some of the detective part out of the game. I think I had the most fun playing the game with my partner I think alone it might get a little boring. Tho what I really enjoyed was "Who You Messin' Wit (Rex)" 10/10 song
A great mix of th first part and the Doctor Who game. I really liked the game. Not the "Influencers though. The style and the overall gameplay is really well made though. I really liked the RLA parts they make them really extremely well. The two different roles are ok, but they dont really feel like needed. I really enjoyed this part. Its way better than the first part, especially by reaching a logical good ending...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
SIMULACRA 2 scores 70/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1011190/simulacra-2Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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