Hot Springs Story 2

Hot Springs Story 2

Fair · Strategy · 2022

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $8.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
13.8h 40.6h to 100%
Value
$0.65/hr
Reviews
85% of 223 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 10 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

Raising the score
Value$0.65/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Holding it back
Reviews85% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 82% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 182 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

A "hot" new hot springs resort sim with a ton of new exclusive features!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 246 MB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

23 discounts in the 4 years on record, a median of 28 percent off across all of them, roughly 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 10 days ago.

Value puts it in the top 7 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 84 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Game Dev Story ($8.99, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats Havendock ($5.99, scores 56).

More about Hot Springs Story 2

Finishing takes 13.8 hours; clearing it takes 41, which is 2.9 times the campaign.

Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 13.8 hours it is short enough to finish on one.

The drop-off

82% start to 7% 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

Players

Players online
17 when we last checked, on Oct 1, 04:56 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

No idea what it is about these games, but I can happily lose myself for hours. Keep em' coming Kairosoft!
orteils4Recommendedafter 26hNov 2023Read 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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Hot Springs Story 2 scores 63/100 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/2089450/hot-springs-story-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 27, 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

DeveloperKairosoft Co.,Ltd
PublisherKairosoft Co.,Ltd
GenreStrategy
Released2022
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements6