Intrusion 2
Worth it · Shooter · 2012
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 70% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$9.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$2.9970% offWorth it
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.85/hr
- ReviewsA
- 90% of 2,344
- Critics
- 80 players 10 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 15% Shooter
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 3.5h
- To 100%
- 9.2h 2.6x the story
- Finish
- 5% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 14
Price and sales
- Sales
- 52 on record
- Typical cut
- 70% off
- Steam low
- $1.99 October 2018
- Sale every
- 95d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 1 now
- Cheaper than
- 46% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 83% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
62% start to 5% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
52 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 70 percent off across all of them, roughly 14 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 15 percent. It is better reviewed than 83 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Defy Gravity Extended ($1.99, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats Zombotron ($14.99, scores 60).
More about Intrusion 2
80 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 5 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 3.5-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 3 of the 341 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 78 percent of the 292 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 17 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 3.5 hours. Doing everything runs 9, 2.6 times as long.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $2.29 (77% off). Predictions like this were right 92% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
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
If there was a way to track my playtime on the demo I played on all sorts of websites when I was younger it would be nearing hundreds A genuinely amazing side-scrolling shooter, simple gameplay with good physics, fun to fight bosses accompanied by a soundtrack that frickin' rips. Length is about hour and a half but it's well worth it imho. Only setbacks would be that it's locked to 30 fps and it's pretty much...
2 more reviews
if you played the original flash browser game intrusion 1 first before playing intrusion 2 on steam, you are a real OG.
For four agonizing, soul-crushing years, I endured this game on Y8. Four years of raw, unadulterated suffering, watching a slideshow at a cinematic 12 FPS while my laptop cooked my thighs like a cheap microwave steak. My brain melted, my retinas burned, and my mouse hand developed a twitch that my doctor refuses to diagnose. I was basically training like Goku in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber, except instead of heavy...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
"This is some of the most fun I've had with a game so far this year, and it will go down as one of the best side-scrolling shooters of all time." - 9/10, Destructoid
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, DirecX 9 compatible, 102 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
Cite this score
Intrusion 2 scores 69/100 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/214970/intrusion-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 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.