The Caligula Effect 2
Fair · RPG · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $49.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 27.3h 71.9h to 100%
- Value
- $1.83/hr
- Reviews
- 92% of 473 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $42.34 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each 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
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About the game
Redo is a world without sorrow created by the virtuadoll Regret. Virtuadoll songs give Redo residents respite from their struggles. Our protagonists discover the truth and form the Go-Home Club to return to reality. Make your way home with companions bearing heavy burdens in this school-themed RPG.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 or AMD Radeon HD 7750, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
18 discounts in the 4 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 7 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Ikenfell ($19.99, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats Bloomtown: A Different Story ($24.99, scores 60).
More about The Caligula Effect 2
Of the 340 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2022 to August 2026.
Finishing takes 27.3 hours; clearing it takes 72, which is 2.6 times the campaign.
The drop-off
90% 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
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Sep 29, 03:53 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
It's a shame this game has gone so under the radar. Is it rough around the edges due to a tighter budget? Yes. But it's got an incredibly unique combat system, an impactful and differentiating story, and an excellent cast of characters. It doesn't outstay its welcome in length. I was incredibly surprised by how good this game was. Give it a chance if you're a fan of JRPGs!
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
The most significant improvement over the first game is that Caligula Effect 2 has a much better understanding of its characters. They're no longer a collection of exaggerated personalities that, at their worst, come across as simply edgy. Instead, they're people with believable struggles that explain why they ended up in Redo in the first place. This applies to both the Go-Home Club and the antagonists. The party...
The game seems fine but I just want to post this before I forget: There is an achievement you get immediately upon starting a new game, and 90% of players have that achievement. Following this, you watch a 20-minute series of cutscenes with no actual gameplay, and at the end you get a second achievement for "completing" the prologue. 84% of players have this achievement. So I'd like to use this platform to recognize...
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No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Caligula Effect 2 scores 65/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1933740/the-caligula-effect-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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.