Magicka 2
Fair · Action · 2015
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 6.2h
- Value
- $2.42/hr
- Reviews
- 82% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce 550 or better / ATI Radeon HD 5850 or better, 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The world’s most irreverent co-op action adventure returns! In the next chapter of Magicka, players ascend from the ruins of Aldrheim to experience a Midgård almost wiped free of Wizards after the Wizard Wars, with the few that do remain having either gone mad or extremely hostile toward all others
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $3.74, set in January 2017. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 102 in the 12 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 6 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 4 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 85 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Magicka ($9.99, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats LEGO® Harry Potter: Years 1-4 ($19.99, scores 64).
Steam's global achievement data says about 5 percent of players ever finish it. On a 6.2-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 12 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written October 2021 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 59 percent of the 1,567 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 17 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 6.2 hours. Doing everything runs 32, 5.1 times as long.
The drop-off
69% start to 5% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 6.2-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
26 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
this sh*t is gass Batman ligitematly one of the best wizard games out there, there is a dificulty spike but it makes you learn to get gud or have overwhelming numbers on your side honeslty one of my top 10 games of all time
Incredibly disappointed. Nowhere near as fun as the first game. The colours are far more muddy and muted so you can't see anything after you leave the first level; the enemies have more ability to control the field than you do via constant gap closing jumps/dashes or poison puddles and wall spawning; every single enemy rushes you down or leads big AoE ranged attacks that frequently apply poison or fire; nearly...
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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Magicka 2 scores 65/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/238370/magicka-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 12, price as of Sep 24.
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