DG2: Defense Grid 2
Worth it · Strategy · 2014
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99.
- Length
- 10.4h
- Value
- $0.96/hr
- Reviews
- 87% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 3 GB of memory, DirectX 10 video card manufactured after 2006, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $3.74, set in August 2015. 53 discounts in the 12 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 11 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 11 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 3 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 70 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 62).
This site sampled 401 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to September 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.
The drop-off
86% start to 6% 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
32 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
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DG2: Defense Grid 2 scores 69/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/221540/dg2-defense-grid-2The 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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