Quake II
Worth it · Shooter · 2007
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99, a BANGER if it drops to $8.82.
- Length
- 7.1h
- Value
- $1.41/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
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Windows only.
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What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.24. That was June 2017. It has been discounted 70 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 60 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 7 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks. Past sales have already crossed the $8.82 BANGER line 35 times.
Value puts it in the top 6 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 96 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, DOOM + DOOM II ($9.99, scores 96) beats it on value, while it beats Quake ($9.99, scores 82).
Of the 613 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 4 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 88 percent of the 1,617 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 19 percent of everything written about it.
7.1 hours to finish it, 17 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.4 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 7.1 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
27% start to 5% 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
80 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Original Quake 2 and its expansions were alright and fun enough, but they were clearly lacking some things and unfinished. But this remaster by Nightdive? It's top-notch 90s fps gaming, even better than Quake 1. It has various qol improvements, ranging from adding unused attacks to enemies, an objective marker (thank god), graphical improvements that don't stray far from the original look and various gameplay...
Thanks Steam, I can play Quake 2, with modern hardware, widescreen etc, with nightmare bots and friends without tinkering and configuring or downloading mods. All in one place, WORKING! What a blast Im having :)
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Quake II scores 83/100 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/2320/quake-iiThe 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 13, price as of Sep 24.
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