Magicka 2

Magicka 2

Fair · Action · 2015

Steam Deck Unsupported

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 75% in the Winter Sale 2025.

Today

$14.99Fair

Typical seasonal cut

$3.7475% offFair

Cost per hour▼
$2.42/hr
Reviews▼
82% of 13,879
Genre rank
Top 5% Action

Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews

Watch this gameOne alert at $3.74 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
6.2h
To 100%
31.6h 5.1x the story
Achievements
47

Price and sales

Sales
103 on record
Typical cut
75% off
Steam low
$3.74 January 2017
Sale every
35d last October 2026
Lowest now $3.59 at Fanaticalall-time low $2.49 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
8 now
Cheaper than
13% of its genre
Better reviewed
86% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

69% start to <1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

Across all 103 discounts in the 12 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

Its score sits in the top 5 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 87 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 86 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Magicka ($9.99, scores 68) beats it on value, while it beats LEGO® Harry Potter: Years 1-4 ($19.99, scores 63).

More about Magicka 2

This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 12 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written December 2021 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 59 percent of the 1,571 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.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Last discount ended 31 days ago.

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Replayability~32h to replay
Co-op and replay time. The value score counts hours well past the 6.2h main story
MonetizationNone
No in-game purchases. Paid DLC exists and is not docked
Holding it back
Cost per hour$2.42/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
Refunds12 of 800 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

What players say

Magicka 2 keeps the fun spell-combination system, but the overall experience feels weaker than the original. The combat can become repetitive, the controls are still awkward, and the game lacks the same charm and impact. Fun in short sessions, but hard to recommend overall.
tessslaNot recommendedafter 2.0h5 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Dear Paradox Team, First of all, I would like to congratulate you. You are, without a doubt, the most brain-dead company I have come across recently. Thanks to you, I have finally realized that the people running such large corporations are not as experienced, knowledgeable, or cultured as one might think. You have proven to me that life and becoming an executive at a company have nothing to do with intelligence or...
CMYLMZNot recommendedafter 3.9hOct 2026Read on Steam
A review actually about the game. It is fun and completely chaotic. Super fun to play with a group of friends casually. Creative and fun spell combination system.
VyerranRecommendedafter 6.5h6 found this helpfulRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

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
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

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.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Magicka 2 scores 64/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/238370/magicka-2
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 5, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Details

DeveloperPieces Interactive
PublisherParadox Interactive
GenreAction
Released2015
Players3.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements47