Red Dead Redemption 2
Worth it · Shooter · 2019
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $59.99.
- Length
- 50.7h
- Value
- $1.18/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 770 2GB / AMD Radeon R9 280 3GB, 150 GB of storage. Windows only.
Arthur Morgan and the Van der Linde Gang are outlaws on the run. With federal agents and bounty hunters massing on their heels, the gang must rob, steal, and fight their way across the rugged heartland in order to survive.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $14.99. That was January 2025. 69 discounts in the 7 years on record. They run about 60 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 14 percent on value. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Red Dead Redemption ($24.99, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats Red Dead Online ($9.99, scores 58).
17 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2026 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 725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 90 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 56 percent of the 22,053 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (currency, free-to-grind); the score docks it lightly for that.
50.7 hours to finish it, 195 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.9 times the campaign.
Still 29.9K concurrent players, 7 years in.
The drop-off
85% start to 2% rarestNo 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
29.9K 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
I had to do a 5 year prison bid for drug trafficking from 2017-2022. Due to the dates in which I was incarcerated, I wasn't able to fully sink my teeth into this absolute peak as ♥♥♥♥ masterpiece until these past couple of months. I knew it was an enormous game with a lot of high quality content I would want to consume, so I kept putting it off for other games. I had quite the backlog of absolute must play titles by...
After completing the game. I'd say this game is as close to perfect as we could get.
One of the best story-driven games I've ever played. The controls are simple, but what hooked me right away was the incredible attention to detail. The world feels so alive because you can interact with almost everything, and the views are absolutely breathtaking. As you get further into the game, the characters start to feel like real people. The emotional connection is so strong that you truly feel like you're...
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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Red Dead Redemption 2 scores 70/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1174180/red-dead-redemption-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 5, price as of Sep 24.
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