River City Girls 2

River City Girls 2

Skip · RPG · 2022

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

WAIT.

It has sold at a fair price before.

Today

$39.99Skip

On its price record

$37.30Fair

Length
12.4h 22.9h to 100%
Value
$3.23/hr
Reviews
85% of 2,030 positive
It needs 74% off ($10.28) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $37.30 or less.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 4 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

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$3.23/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews85% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds2 of 529 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

About the game

The River City Girls are back! Misako, Kyoko, Kunio, and Riki - joined by newcomers Marian and Provie - hit the streets for an all-new beat-'em-up adventure! Team up for local or online co-op and explore a massive world packed with new abilities, enemies, locations, and more!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 or equivalent, 6 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

It has been discounted 16 times in the 4 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

Value puts it in the top 20 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 87 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Full Metal Furies ($19.99, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats Immortals Fenyx Rising ($39.99, scores 29).

More about River City Girls 2

2 of the 529 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2022 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 70 percent of the 198 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

90% start to 4% 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

Well, I have a new favorite beat-em-up. Great in single or multiplayer. I guess my only complaint is that I hit max level less then half way through the game.
ozzmaRecommendedafter 29h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews
I'm not far enough in the game to say much but loving it so far!! I do wish the moves had more info before buying them but that is a small complaint
JB5502Recommendedafter 4.6hAug 2026Read on Steam
really fun beat em up. good music. good voice cast. the hosting feature where only one person needs to own the game and 3 more people can be invited to join is great.
Chipi Toe TekRecommendedafter 14hJul 2026Read on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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River City Girls 2 scores 49/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1920480/river-city-girls-2
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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 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperWayForward
PublisherWayForward
GenreRPG
Released2022
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements62