Warlock 2: The Exiled
Skip · Strategy · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $19.99.
- Length
- 18.8h
- Value
- $1.06/hr
- Reviews
- 70% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, nVidia GeForce 8600 GT or ATI Radeon HD 6570, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Warlock 2 is a turn-based strategy game of fantasy warfare. Rival against Great Mages, lead mighty armies into fierce battles, wield ancient magic and faith as your weapons.
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The value story
April 2017 is where it bottomed out, at $3.99. It has been discounted 101 times in the 13 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 70 percent. Warlock - Master of the Arcane ($24.99, scores 45) outscores it, and so does Age of Wonders III ($29.99, scores 57). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
Of the 298 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026.
18.8 hours to finish it, 226 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 12 times the campaign.
The drop-off
75% start to 1% 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
22 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
Is it unfinished? It sure is Is the UX horrible? Yes, it is truly horrible compared to games on its genre and year. Is it janky? Yes, it is Is it worse than Civilization V? Yes, it's worse Is it fun? AH HELL YEAH BROTHER WE ISEKAI FANTASY LESGOOO
A simple relaxing game, especially if you play the sandbox campaign. The story campaign is always forcing you to do things you are not ready yet to further the story. There are many more events outside of your control. The game is very magic and mage focused with a wide range of units and enemies. 70/100
Played this game years ago in campaign mode: it was fine, albeit low challenge. Played this game in sandbox mode: it cheats like crazy. By turn 10 when the player can only field a few units to explore, the computer players have multiple cities. Even by 1990s standards, that's a terrible way to compensate for pitiful AI
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Warlock 2: The Exiled scores 28/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/205990/warlock-2-the-exiledThe 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 6, price as of Sep 24.
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