Orcs Must Die! 2
BANGER · Shooter · 2012
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $3.74.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.46/hr
- ReviewsS
- 92% of 19,662
- Critics
- 83 players 9 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 2% Shooter
Watch this gameAlready a BANGER on sale. Pick a lower price.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 8.2h
- To 100%
- 41.2h 5.0x the story
- Finish
- 23% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 27
Price and sales
- Sales
- 90 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $1.49 February 2016
- Sale every
- 40d last November 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 21 now
- Cheaper than
- 33% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 90% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
90% start to 23% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.49. That was February 2016. 90 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 2 percent. It is pricier than 67 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 percent. The nearest things to it, Orcs Must Die! 3 ($7.49, scores 73) and Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap ($14.99, scores 26), are both worse buys on this math.
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $39.04.
More about Orcs Must Die! 2
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 18. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 5 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written June 2020 to October 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.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
So, first thing is first, never played multiplayer. I ain't got no friends to play games with. Not but a few good eggs who will jump into the occasional TF2 game, like Negative Xero. No, I play solo. Game is pretty decent, a solid step up from the first Orcs Must Die! Mechanically it is fundamentally the same, but there are more trap options to play with. And that is where this game's strengths are, finding fun...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Fun and goofy game that doesn't take itself too seriously. I don't generally care for tower defense games, but this one shines since you've got your caster. Great sense of humor, and I'm generally critical of games trying to be humorous because it's a tough needle to thread. Never played coop, but I imagine that's even better.
Horrible crashing issues. Tried a lot of different things and nothing works. I do not recommend this game.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
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.
Cite this score
Orcs Must Die! 2 scores 89/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/201790/orcs-must-die-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 Nov 4, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.