No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle

No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle

Skip · Action · 2021

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The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 30, under the fair line, at $19.99.

Length
8.1h
Value
$2.47/hr
Reviews
74% positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
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Length
8.1h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
13.7h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$2.47
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$19.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
74%
1,235 reviews, as of Sep 26
Players
75K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2021

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX750Ti, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.

Continue the fight in the HD remaster of the second entry in everyone's favorite assassin action series! After falling down the ranks of the United Assassins Association, Travis Touchdown whips out his beam katana to reclaim his rightful spot at the top.
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Holding it back
Value$2.47/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews74% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
Length8.1 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach75K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds3 of 598 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

The lowest price on record is $9.99, set in February 2024. It has been discounted 34 times in the 5 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 8 weeks between sales.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 49 percent on value. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre. On the same math Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name ($49.99, scores 60) and Like a Dragon: Ishin! ($39.99, scores 48) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.

This site sampled 598 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 3 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written June 2021 to September 2026.

The drop-off

82% start to 5% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

What players say

No More Heros 2: Desperate Struggle is a great sequel to No More Heros, HOWEVER the bosses are kind of lack luster, and the final boss can suck my left dingleberry I got grabbed twice then punched out a window, other than the poopy doo doo caca final boss the story was great! :)
Brian_MushRecommendedafter 10h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
Game is fun, but from a technical side, it's a total mess. Crash, after crash, after crash. I dont have patience for this, and it's a shame, because the game is fun
PalNot recommendedafter 3.4h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle scores 30/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1420300/no-more-heroes-2-desperate-struggle
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Reviews 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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Details

DeveloperGRASSHOPPER MANUFACTURE INC.
PublisherXSEED Games
GenreAction
Released2021
Achievements22