Jurassic World Evolution 2
Fair · Strategy · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $59.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 6h
- Value
- $10.00/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 14 GB of storage. Windows only.
Jurassic World Evolution 2 is the much-anticipated sequel to Frontier’s highly successful Jurassic World Evolution. This bold new era in the Jurassic World Evolution game franchise builds upon the ground-breaking and immersive 2018 management simulation.
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $2.99, set in June 2025. 48 discounts in the 5 years on record. They run about 70 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 5 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 4 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Planet Zoo ($44.99, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats Jurassic World Evolution ($44.99, scores 62).
Critics scored it 76. Players sit 14 points higher at 90 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
9 of the 799 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 60 percent of the 1,777 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 6 hours; clearing it takes 108, which is 18 times the campaign.
5 years after release it still had 1.4K people in it at once.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 6 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
84% start to 1% 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
1,413 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
Yes for this game for sure. I have been playing the first game for a long time and already enjoyed it, but this one is major step up with the better options of building, better way to manage the park overall and the new flying and swimming prehistoric reptiles variety. If you love dinos and other prehistoric animals I do definitely recommend this game. Game score: 8/10
This game is for the dino lovers, pretty complicated but super fun in sandbox mode
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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Jurassic World Evolution 2 scores 67/100 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/1244460/jurassic-world-evolution-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 15, price as of Sep 24.
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