Receiver 2
Worth it · Roguelike · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
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
$19.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$9.9950% off
- Cost per hour
- $2.56/hr
- ReviewsA
- 91% of 3,090
- Genre rank
- Top 10% Roguelike
Holding it back: Reach
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $9.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 7.8h
- To 100%
- 39.7h 5.1x the story
- Achievements
- 34
Price and sales
- Sales
- 31 on record
- Typical cut
- 25% off
- Steam low
- $9.99 June 2024
- Sale every
- 84d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 15 now
- Cheaper than
- 9% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 85% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
64% start to 5% rarestA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 31 discounts in the 7 years tracked, the median cut is 25 percent, about 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 10 percent. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 85 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Into the Radius VR ($29.99, scores 80) beats it on value, while it beats Receiver ($4.99, scores 53).
More about Receiver 2
This site sampled 560 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 11 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 70 percent of the 336 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 7.8 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 40, 5.1 times as much.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $9.99 (50% off). Predictions like this were right 92% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
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
What players say
This is one of the best games I've ever played. It has the most engaging and immersive controls I've ever seen
2 more reviews
never have I purchased such a fantastic interactive self-help/cult indoctrination audiobook! sillyness aside, this is a really good game, the gunplay is utterly unique and super cool (once you get used to it), the gameplay style focuses on extremely careful movement and shooting, the audio design is very good (same goes for the OST, man that rank up music...); the only real complaint one might bring up is the...
This is basically gun training + manual wrapped up in a video game. If you ever thinking of owning a firearm, you should play this game and listen to the tapes
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Receiver 2 simulates every internal part of each firearm based on manufacturer schematics and gunsmithing resources. Learn exactly how each sidearm works, including how to load and unload them, clear malfunctions, and operate their safety features.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, DX10 (shader model 4.0) support, VRAM 2+ GB, 5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Receiver 2 scores 75/100 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/1129310/receiver-2Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.