Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon 2
Fair · Action · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 4.5h
- Value
- $3.33/hr
- Reviews
- 85% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 512MB VRAM (NVIDIA GeForce), 502 MB of storage. Windows only.
Koji Igarashi and Inti Creates are back with more retro sword-and-whip action! Curse of the Moon 2 brings classic 2D action and a dark, 8-bit aesthetic together with modern playability.
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
The value story
January 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $5.24. 62 discounts in the 6 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 12 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Gato Roboto ($7.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Valfaris ($24.99, scores 43).
Of the 535 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 68 percent of the 254 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.
4.5 hours to finish it, 16 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.6 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 4.5 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
73% start to 8% 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
10 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 23:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
There are parents who are sometimes harsh and make their children cry because they despise them, and there are parents who are sometimes harsh and make their children cry because they love them. This game is like the latter. "Impossible" was a term that came constantly in my mind, and yet there I was succeeding at doing the impossible, then later succeeding at doing the harder version of what I had called...
A great sequel to the first part, feels less hardcore. Amazing music design, old-school, pixelated graphics and atmosphere. Very similar to the second part of Castlevania on the NES. It's definitely worth playing, especially for old school fans.
Well, my feelings here are same as in the prequel. Art and music are really charming and nice. Vibes are great. Story is good enough, Characters actually had a glowup, as in they actually seem more real. New interactions between them are a really good addition. But when it comes to gameplay...I actually think this one is worse than the prequel. The difficulty is almost comically high, and I was playing on casual. I...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon 2 scores 51/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1257360/bloodstained-curse-of-the-moon-2Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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