Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2 (2001)
Skip · Action · 2012
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $6.99.
- Reviews
- 67% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 7, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
In this sequel to the critically acclaimed Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver, reassume the role of Raziel, and travel back through the currents of time into various eras of Nosgoth's past in your relentless pursuit of Kain.
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- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Action game (about 6 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $0.97. That was November 2017. It has been discounted 81 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 86 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales.
It is less well reviewed than 83 percent of its genre. Legacy of Kain: Defiance (2003) ($6.99, scores 53) outscores it, and so does Blood Omen 2: Legacy of Kain ($6.99, scores 22). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
77 on Metacritic, 67 percent from players. A gap this way round is usually launch damage or a slow decline.
Of the 497 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 7 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,221 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 976 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 44 percent of the 380 reviews written there were positive, against 67 percent overall, and those are 42 percent of everything written about it.
Players
1 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2 (2001) scores 17/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). Length is estimated at 6 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/224940/legacy-of-kain-soul-reaver-2-2001The 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 Aug 1, price as of Sep 24.
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