Dragon Age II: Ultimate Edition
Fair · RPG · 2020
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $7.49. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 28.8h
- Value
- $0.26/hr
- Reviews
- 81% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro 256 MB; NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS 256 MB cards, 7 GB of storage. Windows only.
You are Hawke, a refugee seeking to escape the darkspawn-plagued land of Ferelden and become Champion of Kirkwall. Rise to power and fight epic battles while making decisions that determine the course of civilization.
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $2.99, set in June 2024. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 39 in the 6 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart. Today's $7.49 at 75 percent off still sits 151 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
This sale is doing real work. 56 at list, 60 today.
On value it sits in the top 8 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 78 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Hogwarts Legacy ($59.99, scores 61) beats it on value, while it beats Dragon Age™ Inquisition ($9.99, scores 40).
4 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 43 percent of the 468 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
Players
140 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
Dragon Age 2 is one of those games that has very glaring flaws yet somehow manages to shine in other areas that keep you playing. The first thing that caught my attention and impressed me is the storytelling format. Having the entire plot narrated by Varric was an excellent narrative choice. The characters overall are decent but the ones that truly stood out to me and made the journey memorable were Varric Merrill...
It seems to be a complete upgrade compared to the first part, both in terms of graphics and atmosphere with gameplay. Yes, there is something new, a continuation of the story, there are old characters, but the game itself is not as exciting as the first part. Solely to pay homage to the series I bought into the collection.
I'm a big fan of DAO and the real-time with pause battle style it had. When this game came out I was very disappointed at first to see the change to a more action gameplay. I still played it and absolutely fell in love with it. Years later I still come back to it. Gameplay is nothing like DAO, but the story and the characters are just great. If DAO is an epic adventure, where fights are tactical and challenging...
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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Dragon Age II: Ultimate Edition scores 60/100 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/1238040/dragon-age-ii-ultimate-editionThe 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 Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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