DG2: Defense Grid 2
Worth it · Strategy · 2014
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 75% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$9.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$3.9960% offWorth it
- Cost per hourS
- $0.96/hr
- Reviews▼
- 87% of 3,477
- Critics
- 81 players 6 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 5% Strategy
Holding it back: Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 10.4h
- To 100%
- 29.4h 2.8x the story
- Achievements
- 65
Price and sales
- Sales
- 54 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $3.74 August 2015
- Sale every
- 76d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 26 now
- Cheaper than
- 29% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 91% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
86% start to 6% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
54 discounts in the 12 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 11 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 5 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 71 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 91 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Sanctum ($9.99, scores 80) beats it on value, while it beats AI War: Fleet Command ($9.99, scores 63).
More about DG2: Defense Grid 2
This site sampled 401 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 63 percent of the 227 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
10.4 hours to finish it, 29 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.8 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 10.4 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
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
Liked the game mechanics in the first one better, but DG2 isn't bad if you liked that one.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Great strategy is timeless. Build, adapt, and defend across dynamic maps, solo or online - every session brings new strategies, new solutions, and new surprises. Now is the perfect time to enter the grid.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 3 GB of memory, DirectX 10 video card manufactured after 2006, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
DG2: Defense Grid 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/221540/dg2-defense-grid-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.