Shank 2
Fair · Shooter · 2012
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 75% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$9.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$2.4975% offFair
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.56/hr
- Reviews▼
- 82% of 3,637
- Critics
- 72 players 10 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 22% Shooter
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.49 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 3.9h
- To 100%
- 18.3h 4.7x the story
- Achievements
- 20
Price and sales
- Sales
- 71 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $1.49 October 2015
- Sale every
- 46d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 2 now
- Cheaper than
- 46% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 61% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
82% start to 3% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 71 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 22 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 61 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).
More about Shank 2
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 508 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 4 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 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, 18 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.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
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About the game
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...
Minimum specs
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.
Cite this score
Shank 2 scores 63/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/102840/shank-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 Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.