DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS™ 2

DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS™ 2

Worth it · RPG · 2019

Steam Deck Unsupported

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 50% in the Winter Sale 2025.

Today

$49.99Worth it

Typical seasonal cut

$24.9950% offBANGER

Cost per hourS
$0.91/hr
ReviewsS
92% of 8,129
Critics
85 players 7 higher
Genre rank
Top 1% RPG
Why
It needs 4% off ($47.80) to be a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $24.99 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
54.9h
To 100%
127.3h 2.3x the story
Achievements
31

Price and sales

Sales
36 on record
Typical cut
40% off
Steam low
$24.99 June 2023
Sale every
63d last September 2026
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $24.99 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
158 now
Cheaper than
2% of its genre
Better reviewed
96% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

92% start to 4% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This 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

36 discounts in the 7 years on record, a median of 40 percent off across all of them, roughly 9 weeks apart. Past sales have already crossed the $47.80 BANGER line 36 times.

Its score puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Terraria ($9.99, scores 97) beats it on value, while it beats RuneScape: Dragonwilds ($29.99, scores 58).

More about DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS™ 2

17 of the 720 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 62 percent of the 406 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.

The main story runs 54.9 hours. Doing everything runs 127, 2.3 times as long.

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

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Cost per hour$0.91/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
For context
Refunds17 of 720 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

What players say

I'm not quite finished with the game but this is probably my favorite game of all time. The story is compelling and there is so much content and a huge world. I really wanted Pokopia but after playing DQB2 I really don't. There is no way it could match up to this.
MonsterYoteRecommendedafter 86hSep 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews
If you are looking for a cozy builder game look no further came for the building stayed for the cozy vibes and the fun characters love this game
Insane WandererRecommendedafter 340h3 found this helpfulRead on Steam
I have to say I like the game, but you need to understand the game flow is heavily interrupted by NPCs just talking nonsense and you have to click through annoying dialogue just to get out of the locked gameplay. The monsters are fun to fight. The music is pretty.
charllandsbergRecommendedafter 7.4h3 found this helpfulRead on Steam

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

About the game

DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS™ 2 is a block-building RPG set in a fantasy land threatened by an evil cult. Explore, battle, build and harvest in the charming single-player campaign or build big projects in the online sandbox mode for up to 4-players.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, AMD Radeon HD 7750 (2GB) / NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 (2GB), 12 GB of storage. Windows only.

Cite this score

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DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS™ 2 scores 84/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1072420/dragon-quest-builders-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 Oct 15, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+7
Critics85
Players92
Metacritic critics · 8,129 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperSquare Enix
PublisherSquare Enix
GenreRPG
Released2019
Players750Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements31