Plantera 2: Golden Acorn
BANGER · Strategy · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $4.99.
- Length
- 5.6h
- Value
- $0.89/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 205 MB of storage. Windows only.
The round blue Mellows return to tend to the Garden once more. Grow plants, bushes, trees, animals, water features and the great magical oak tree that has been rumored to have placed its seed there. Tend to the oak tree and grow it to the sky to harvest its Golden Acorns.
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
The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.84, set in March 2026. It has been discounted 36 times in the 3 years tracked here, typically at 40 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is cheaper than 63 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Rusty's Retirement ($6.99, scores 96) beats it on value, while it beats Plantera ($2.99, scores 78).
The math says it holds its tier up to $8.54, and you are being asked for $4.99.
Steam's global achievement data puts 43 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 371 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 95 percent of the 138 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 5.6 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
90% start to 43% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
What players say
Beat most of the game in a single frantic ~3h sitting, and it was a lot of fun, just like the first game. After that, it's the extensive, extended endgame. The upgrades are categorized as "god mode" and it doesn't look like there are (m)any upper limits. -I've got 25 land upgrades and there are still more available for very high prices. -plenty of room to upgrade to higher-value crops, if I want to grind out all the...
Plantera 2: Golden Acorn does an excellent job addressing the weaknesses of the original. This time around, the experience feels fuller and much less of a grind. Issues Addressed: •Minimal Variety: 5 new "items" were placed in each category, on top of introduced fresh categories to explore. •Pitiful Upgrades: upgrades feel meaningful right after purchase for both the preexisting upgrades and the powerful card...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Plantera 2: Golden Acorn scores 91/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1091920/plantera-2-golden-acornReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.
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