Sanctum 2
Worth it · Shooter · 2013
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $2.99.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.25/hr
- ReviewsA
- 90% of 14,392
- Critics
- 77 players 13 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 4% Shooter
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 12.1h
- To 100%
- 57.8h 4.8x the story
- Finish
- 3% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 50
Price and sales
- Sales
- 100 on record
- Typical cut
- 80% off
- Steam low
- $1.49 April 2014
- Sale every
- 39d last November 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 9 now
- Cheaper than
- 33% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 84% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
76% start to 3% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.49. That was April 2014. 100 discounts in the 13 years on record, a median of 80 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart.
Its score sits in the top 4 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 67 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 84 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Sanctum ($9.99, scores 80) and Silica ($24.99, scores 25).
More about Sanctum 2
77 from critics against 90 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 3 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 12.1-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 5 of the 458 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 76 percent of the 991 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
12.1 hours to finish it, 58 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 4.8 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 12.1 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
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
Soild and fun tower defence with a nice twist on the genre, can be bought very cheap on several sites. You should buy yourself a copy and 3 more copies for friends and family for funzies.
1 more review, not recommended
It's a downgrade from the first game in almost every way. You don't get to build big mazes anymore because of the limit on blocks. There's now a limit on towers and upgrades for each player for some reason even in survival mode (15 combined, which is 5 fully upgraded towers or 15 unupgraded ones). You also can't preview tower upgrades anymore, have to invest blindly. Weapon upgrades are also no longer a thing. Some...
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About the game
Sanctum 2 is the sequel to the world’s first Tower Defense/FPS hybrid game. Pick from four unique character classes and embark on a mission to protect the oxygen-producing Cores from hordes of deadly aliens who are threatened by their existence.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Shader Model 3.0, 256 MB VRAM, 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Sanctum 2 scores 82/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/210770/sanctum-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.