Dungeon Defenders II
Skip · RPG · 2017
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The reviews do not carry it. What it costs you is time.
- Length
- 22.5h
- Price
- Free to play
- Reviews
- 77% positive
Minimum on the Steam store: 3 GB of memory, 20 GB of storage. Windows only.
Dungeon Defenders II is a cooperative Action Tower Defense game packed with roleplaying elements like loot, leveling, and pets.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
Value puts it in the top 18 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 66 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Dungeon Defenders ($14.99, scores 89) beats it on value, while it beats Cultivation Tales ($19.99, scores 0).
Inside the two-hour refund window, 41 percent of the 238 reviews written there were positive, against 77 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 22.5 hours; clearing it takes 143, which is 6.3 times the campaign.
It is still busy. 351 players were in it at once at the last check, across 81 days of tracking.
The drop-off
65% start to 2% 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
351 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
they destroyed a simple but fun idea with a lot microtransaction. i don't mind for quote "skins" cause its a f2p game but CHARACTER'S WHY!!!! there will NEVER be a good reason to put them behind a paywall(a expensive one at that) gameplay balls down to either hope rng doesn't F you on drops cause lol no hope with non regulated player shops(seriously everyone thinks there garbage is worth a arm and a leg. kinda sad...
honestly i really like the concept but its definitely not for everyone. long grind, scarce rewards, and constant crashing of the game you just made and played for 20 mins....then boom, nothing, its all gone, try again. all because of server, "connection time out". Really feeling like a cash grab now.
Good Game A lot of fun and even more with Friends. Charakters feel a lot Different but take a long time to unlock. Defences are unique and can get some cool combos going. F2P players have very limited Inventory as a Bottleneck to incentivise purchases. 7.5/10
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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Dungeon Defenders II scores 49/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/236110/dungeon-defenders-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 12.
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