Ziggurat 2

Ziggurat 2

Worth it · Roguelike · 2021

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $24.99.

Length
16.5h
Value
$1.51/hr
Reviews
90% positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
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Length
16.5h
typical playtime (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
56.4h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$1.51
price ÷ typical playtime
Price
$24.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
90%
1,518 reviews, as of Sep 27
Players
150K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2021

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 460 1GB or better, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

Ziggurat is back, and now it's even better! Use powerful weapons and spells to break through hordes of enemies and explore labyrinthine dungeons in this hectic roguelite FPS, while you improve your skills and discover new equipment.
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Raising the score
Reviews90% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 89% after the small-sample adjustment
Holding it back
Reach150K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Value$1.52/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
Length17 hours
Typical playtime on HowLongToBeat. Endless games score on players, so hours stay out of it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds4 of 419 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

The lowest price on record is $6.24, set in March 2026. Its cuts run 30 percent off as a rule. There have been 38 in the 6 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 24 percent on value. It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 75 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Ziggurat ($14.99, scores 61) and Heavy Bullets ($9.99, scores 54).

4 of the 419 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 82 percent of the 173 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.

HowLongToBeat players log 16.5 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 56, 3.4 times as much.

The drop-off

85% start to 3% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

12 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 17:49 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

The best First Person mage series This game is easily one of my favorites of all time n its my favorite comfort FPS game to unwind to. Ignore my Steam playtime. My actual playtime for this game is much more outside of Steam. - First person view n animations are superb! - Can work even on a potato yet looks beautiful to date due to the cartoonish style it uses. - Replayability is all through the roof since there are...
A Steam playerRecommendedafter 5.7h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
The best UX I've seen. Great graphics and great replay ability due to random generation of EVERYTHING besides your skills. These developers really cared about their work and it shows.
Pikablu1617Recommendedafter 198hAug 2026Read on Steam
If you're wondering, why the game is called Ziggurat ... I really don't know. It sounds like a game about rats with cigarettes. Don't worry though, Ziggurat has the rogue-lite fantasy FPS formula for you. Always wanted to feel like a badass magical kid with glasses and a scar on your forehead? This game got you covered. You get magical weaponry like spellbooks, magic wands, you name it. Survive and try not get...
extradipbonelessRecommendedafter 30hAug 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Ziggurat 2 scores 70/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1159560/ziggurat-2
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Reviews 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 Sep 27, price as of Oct 1.

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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperMilkstone Studios
PublisherMilkstone Studios
GenreRoguelike
Released2021
Achievements60