EVERSPACE™ 2
Fair · Shooter · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $49.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 28.6h
- Value
- $1.75/hr
- Reviews
- 86% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 (4 GB) or AMD Radeon RX 6400 (4GB), 35 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
EVERSPACE 2 is a fast-paced single-player spaceship shooter with exploration in space and on planets, tons of loot, RPG elements, mining, and crafting. Experience an exciting sci-fi story set in a vivid, handcrafted open world full of secrets, puzzles, and perils.
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
It has never been cheaper than $9.99. That was December 2025. Its cuts run 40 percent off as a rule. There have been 45 in the 6 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 26 percent on value. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 73 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy ($59.99, scores 59) beats it on value, while it beats Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel ($39.99, scores 45).
Steam's global achievement data says about 9 percent of players ever finish it. On a 28.6-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 9 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2024 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 71 percent of the 927 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (cosmetic); the score docks it lightly for that.
Finishing takes 28.6 hours; clearing it takes 68, which is 2.4 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
The drop-off
62% start to 9% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 28.6-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
331 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
This is exactly what I wanted when I was looking for a space game. It is a beautiful game and has been incredibly fun so far, looking forward to getting into it even more
Surprisingly fun and engaging, although more gear than skill-based for many fights, which can be EXTREMELY FRUSTRATING. The checkpoint system is not well-designed, so you will loose 20-40 minutes of playtime when your ship spontaneously explodes from an invisible mine, or mega weapon you never saw coming. It desperately REQUIRES a lock-on key, dogfights would be so much more fun and less frustrating with one...
A fun Space looter shooter, works well on linux apart from the game sometimes crashing when warping to star systems when using lumen- global illumination, just turn if off and it work fine
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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EVERSPACE™ 2 scores 58/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1128920/everspace-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 15, price as of Sep 24.
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