Azure Striker Gunvolt 2

Azure Striker Gunvolt 2

Fair · Action · 2020

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
4.8h 11.9h to 100%
Value
$4.16/hr
Reviews
93% of 602 positive
It needs 43% off ($11.45) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $11.45 or less.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

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

Raising the score
Reviews93% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 91% after the small-sample adjustment
Holding it back
Value$4.17/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 340 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

The ultra-refined 2D side-scrolling action you remember from "Azure Striker Gunvolt" is recharged and better than ever! In Gunvolt 2, series anti-hero Copen joins the fray as a playable character! Copy abilities from defeated boss characters and use them as your own!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 1GB VRAM (NVIDIA GeForce), 5 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

Across all 63 discounts in the 6 years tracked, the median cut is 60 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

On value it sits in the top 7 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. On the same math Gravity Circuit ($5.94, scores 79) and SANABI ($14.99, scores 84) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.

More about Azure Striker Gunvolt 2

None of the 340 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2020 to August 2026.

The main story runs 4.8 hours. Doing everything runs 12, 2.5 times as long.

The drop-off

74% start to 5% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

Players online
1 when we last checked, on Oct 10, 09:54 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

Azure Gunvolt 2 is more Azure Gunvolt. It looks good, sounds good, and this time plays good too. This game includes more levels and a second playable character with a full campaign. It is still plagued by some faults that existed in the first game, but they are not as severe here. It is the same run-and-gun Mega Man style gameplay, but with much better level design. Narratively speaking, it assumes you have played...
*Not*DominicwildRecommendedafter 20hDec 2025Read on Steam
1 more review
Azure Striker Gunvolt 2 is a fast-paced, electrically charged 2D action-platformer that builds upon the foundation of its predecessor while refining its mechanics and presentation to near perfection. Developed and published by INTI CREATES, the studio renowned for its expertise in side-scrolling action games, it represents the best qualities of classic Japanese game design-tight controls, layered combat systems...
xxadonisxxRecommendedafter 15hOct 2025Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Azure Striker Gunvolt 2 scores 59/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1065180/azure-striker-gunvolt-2
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Reviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperINTI CREATES CO., LTD.
PublisherINTI CREATES CO., LTD.
GenreAction
Released2020
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements25