Shank 2
Fair · Shooter · 2012
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 3.9h
- Value
- $2.56/hr
- Reviews
- 82% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1.5 GB of memory, NVIDIA Geforce 6800 Ultra (256MB) or ATI Radeon X1950 PRO (256MB) or greater, 1.5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The fan-favorite 2D brawler is back as ex-mob hit man Shank returns to action in Shank 2. With those closest to him under attack, Shank is once again forced on the offensive. Now he must put his trusty arsenal of handguns, shotguns, automatic weapons, chainsaws, machetes, grenades, plus all-new weaponry and moves to use in order to...
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.49. That was October 2015. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 70 in the 14 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 15 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 21 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 65 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Shank ($9.99, scores 70) beats it on value, while it beats Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken ($4.99, scores 58).
Critics scored it 72. Players sit 10 points higher at 82 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Of the 509 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 68 percent of the 501 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 19 percent of everything written about it.
3.9 hours to finish it, 19 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 4.7 times the campaign.
At 3.9 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
82% start to 3% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
4 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
𝔸 𝕓𝕣𝕦𝕥𝕒𝕝 𝕤𝕪𝕞𝕡𝕙𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕠𝕗 𝕓𝕝𝕒𝕕𝕖𝕤 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕓𝕦𝕝𝕝𝕖𝕥𝕤 Shank 2 is the kind of game that refuses to slow down. From its opening moments to its explosive finale, it delivers a relentless barrage of combat, violence, and stylish action that feels like an interactive action movie drawn straight from the pages of a graphic novel. The story once again follows Shank, a brutal antihero who solves nearly every problem with blades, bullets...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Shank 2 scores 63/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/102840/shank-2The BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 6, price as of Sep 24.
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