Curious Expedition 2
Worth it · Roguelike · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99.
- Length
- 8.7h
- Value
- $2.30/hr
- Reviews
- 89% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, DX10 compatible video card, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
Curious Expedition 2 is a turn-based narrative roguelike set in a reimagined version of the late 19th century that uses procedural gameplay and story elements to create completely unique and epic adventures every time you play.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
July 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $4.99. 53 discounts in the 6 years on record. They run about 55 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 19 percent on value. It is pricier than 82 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 78 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Riftbreaker ($29.99, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats Dead Age ($14.99, scores 57).
Critics scored it 76. Players sit 13 points higher at 89 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Of the 728 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 4 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 73 percent of the 259 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
At 8.7 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
82% start to 2% 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
58 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
【ENGLISH VERSION】 I played the second game first in this series, haven't tried the first one yet (heard people say the first is better, but I won't comment on that). I've played a lot of similar games, and this one's art style really hits the spot for me. The story is also pretty engaging (with some moments that are both funny and heartbreaking). One thing I really wanna rant about: when I found out I could change...
Curious Expedition 1 had better flowing gameplay, better art, better variety and had a better interface. For a sequel, it just seems like a pale imitation of the first with fewer options, fewer playable characters, and just plain less fun to play than the original. The music was better in the first too. CE2 is like if you asked an AI to remake CE1 I hope if you ever make a CE3, that you return to the roots in...
This game is an incredibly charming piece of RPG. I really love the art style and the gameplay is absolutely replayable
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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Curious Expedition 2 scores 74/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1040230/curious-expedition-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 18, price as of Sep 24.
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