SteamWorld Heist II
Worth it · RPG · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $29.99, a BANGER if it drops to $18.19.
- Length
- 20.3h
- Value
- $1.48/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely between Oct 13 and Oct 26, at about $7.49 (75% off). Calls like this were right 78% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks. Its own discounts have started about 45 days apart.
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 60% ($11.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 75% ($7.49)
- Last discount ended
- 6 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
Skill-based gunplay meets turn-based tactics in SteamWorld Heist 2! Aim carefully, bounce bullets, and pull off trick shots in high-stakes heists. Choose your crew and utilize 150+ items to navigate real-time naval battles and daring missions in this 30+ hour adventure to stop a deadly water crisis.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
March 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $7.49. 22 discounts in the 2 years on record. They run about 60 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 6 days ago. Past sales have already crossed the $18.19 BANGER line 20 times.
Value puts it in the top 3 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Tactical Breach Wizards ($19.99, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats The Dungeon Of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet Of Chaos ($34.99, scores 70).
The press gave it 81; the people who bought it give it 93 percent. A 12-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 7 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 20.3-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 6 of the 443 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 69 percent of the 107 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
The drop-off
88% start to 7% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 20.3-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
26 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 07:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Having played numerous Tactical strategy games before (and games of all sorts) since forever, I said confidently that Steamworld Heist was one of the top 5 games of all time. Playing this game on a couch with friends was a complete blast and everything. This is the only strategy game that's really worth it playing with other people, since the human behind the controller is doing the aiming and the shooting. Anyways...
Water hides new loot Bullets bounce through sunken ships Steam sails on the tide
Great sequel! At first I missed the simplicity of the first game, but once you get the hang of it this one really adds a lot more choices and variations. I also like that the sub exploration itself is a minigame with exploration hidden treasures. One of the very few turn-based games that I really like, and it is a great change and a contrast to most other stressing real time games. I can find myself spending almost...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
SteamWorld Heist II scores 76/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2396240/steamworld-heist-iiReviews 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 Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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