Spark the Electric Jester 2
Fair · Action · 2019
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $12.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 2.3h 7.7h to 100%
- Value
- $5.65/hr
- Reviews
- 89% of 758 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $6.88 or less.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
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
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About the game
Fast paced 3D action platformer.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760, 12 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 39 times in the 7 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 10 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 7 percent on value. It is pricier than 80 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Hot Lava ($19.99, scores 88) and Spark the Electric Jester ($7.99, scores 74) both outscore it.
More about Spark the Electric Jester 2
This site sampled 372 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 3 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written June 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 76 percent of the 145 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 20 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 2.3 hours; clearing it takes 8, which is 3.3 times the campaign.
The drop-off
50% 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
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 10, 20:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
It has it's flaws, cutscene animations are pretty rough and the controls felt a bit overly complicated at first, but if you like 2000s era sonic games, fast paced platforming with cool movement tech and/or parry focused combat mechanics this one DELIVERS. Apparently it's their first 3D game, in some parts it really shows but in terms of controls, responsiveness and level design they absolutely crushed it. A bit...
2 more reviews
Idk its ok I guess. I never played Sonic Adventure which is apparently what this game is like. The transition of this game to 3D compared to game 1 comes with some hiccups. The camera is a nightmare, jerking all around throughout the level. Also the platforming can be a bit floaty with a strange sense of momentum, as well as intermittently inputs being eaten. A lot of the game plays itself it feels as you just run...
Honestly a rough playthrough, game is a short one even though that doesn't present as a main problem for me. This game lost a ton of its soul in the transition to 3D, I gave it a lot of leeway to impress me but it failed to do so throughout the course of the entire game, the stages were good but by the time you got to actually get to some hard ones the game felt the need to throw another boss in your face. I never...
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Cite this score
Spark the Electric Jester 2 scores 58/100 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/1079210/spark-the-electric-jester-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 Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.