Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin
Fair · Multiplayer · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $39.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 41.3h
- Value
- $0.97/hr
- Reviews
- 83% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIAGeForce GTX 960 / 2GB VRAM or AMD Radeon RX 560 / 2GB VRAM, 28 GB of storage. Windows only.
A new adventure awaits you in this second installment of the turn-based RPG series set in the world of Monster Hunter! Become a Rider and form bonds with friendly monsters known as Monsties to fight alongside them as you take part in an epic story.
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How to read this
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The value story
December 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $14.79. 34 discounts in the 5 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 2 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 9 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 87 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen ($29.99, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas ($14.99, scores 49).
This site sampled 799 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2022 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 57 percent of the 825 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (time-limited); the score docks it lightly for that.
HowLongToBeat players log 41.3 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 143, 3.5 times as much.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
The drop-off
78% 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
118 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 played stories 1 on my og 3ds, and this game is such an improvement on it in so many ways. So much QoL, visual improvements, the obvious benefits of pc hardware over a 3ds allowing for that kind of stuff. The changes made to the hunting horn is somewhat controversial in the transition from stories 1 to 2, but i find that the melody mechanic was very slow to get off for the loss of damage you got over the other...
OH MY GOD this game is SO GOOD I just finished playing it so I'm rewriting this whole review. at first the game is easy, the game holds your hand until you unlock online tournaments which takes about 8 hours, after that however the game becomes REALLY fun the story is incredible enough that I literally couldn't stop playing it, I was constantly curious what would happen next. If you like RPGs PLAY THIS IMMEDIATELY
Imagine my horror when Navigatin' Navirou graced the screen again. Honestly if I have any critique its that it feels ♥♥♥ bizarre to not have the original protag in this. In alot of ways this is a love letter to the MHS1 crew and the new characters are great but I don't think it'd be too hard to allow them to meet Protag on some new journey... The Ena backstory would have to change a bit but... what going on with her...
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Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin scores 58/100 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/1277400/monster-hunter-stories-2-wings-of-ruinThe 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 12, price as of Sep 24.
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