Orcs Must Die! 2
BANGER · Shooter · 2012
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $3.74.
- Length
- 8.2h
- Value
- $0.46/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 6800 or ATI Radeon x1950 or better with 256MB VRAM, 9 GB of storage. Windows only.
You’ve tossed, burned and sliced them by the thousands – now orcs must die more than ever before! Grab a friend and slay orcs in untold numbers in this sequel to the 2011 AIAS Strategy Game of the Year from Robot Entertainment.
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.49. That was February 2016. 88 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today's $3.74 at 75 percent off still sits 151 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 3 percent on value. It is pricier than 65 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Orcs Must Die! ($2.49, scores 96) beats it on value, while it beats Orcs Must Die! 3 ($29.99, scores 73).
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $39.23. It costs $3.74.
The press gave it 83; the people who bought it give it 92 percent. A 9-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data puts 23 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 5 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 80 percent of the 1,186 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 8.2 hours. Doing everything runs 41, 5.0 times as long.
The drop-off
90% start to 23% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
34 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 actually love this game. I can't believe I've never written a review for it. I've got more time on it than what's said above from another account, but it's about 200 hours or so, enough to know what I'm talking about. The game is incredible, fun playstyles, fun traps, lots of replay potential. Leveling up traps and figuring out the levels are really satisfying, and with the DLC makes it continue even after the...
Basically when we finish the stage, one of us or even both got their games closed. Very frustrating. If it's only one of us, then we can continue, but if both we have to replay the stage. Probably we will finish the game, but we have no place in our heart for sequals.
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Orcs Must Die! 2 scores 89/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/201790/orcs-must-die-2The 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 11, price as of Sep 24.
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