Prototype 2
Skip · Action · 2012
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $39.99.
- Length
- 10.1h
- Value
- $3.96/hr
- Reviews
- 77% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT with 512 MB RAM, ATI Radeon HD 4850 with 512 MB RAM, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $6.59. That was February 2021. It has been discounted 107 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. 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.
Value puts it in the top 33 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 69 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Prototype™ ($19.99, scores 49) beats it on value, while it beats SCUM ($44.99, scores 26).
Steam's global achievement data puts 37 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 31 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written January 2023 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,221 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 548 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 33 percent of the 1,921 reviews written there were positive, against 77 percent overall, and those are 19 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
82% start to 37% finishPeople genuinely stick with this one. Steam global achievements
Players
144 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
Way better than the first in my opinion. The controls feel more responsive and actually do what I tell them to do, and the combat is more fair and gives you more options in the way you approach things. You can also dual wield transformation-arm weapon things, which is really smooth and nice. For a few bucks this is a great 8.7/10
A bit too easy when you can shield spam your way through many enemies.The combat is balanced though, and makes you feel like a superhero. The game has aged well.
This game is freaking awesome. If you don't mind gore and are looking be absolutely cracked then play this
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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Prototype 2 scores 37/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/115320/prototype-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 13, price as of Sep 24.
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