Skullgirls 2nd Encore
Skip · Action · 2013
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Under the fair line today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 90% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$24.99Skip
Typical seasonal cut
$2.4990% offWorth it
- Cost per hour▼
- $7.57/hr
- Reviews▼
- 88% of 32,490
- Critics
- 83 players 5 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 14% Action
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Recent reviews
Why
Recent reviews trending down: 66% over the last 30 days against 88% all-time.
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.49 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 3.3h
- To 100%
- 68h 20.6x the story
- Achievements
- 45
Price and sales
- Sales
- 86 on record
- Typical cut
- 70% off
- Steam low
- $2.24 June 2015
- Sale every
- 42d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 81 now
- Recent reviews
- 66% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 4% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 94% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
28% start to <1% rarestThis 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 86 discounts in the 13 years tracked, the median cut is 70 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 5 days ago.
Its score puts it in the top 14 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Lethal League ($13.99, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats Fraymakers ($19.99, scores 44).
More about Skullgirls 2nd Encore
Players rate it 88 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 66 percent. Something recent has soured the room. Of the 799 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 17 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2024 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 76 percent of the 3,422 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.
3.3 hours to finish it, 68 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 21 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 3.3 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 5 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
What players say
Genuinely top 3 fighting games ever, (not) only because of how interactive it is from universal mechanics alone.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I'd love to suggest people play this game for the technical aspect and beautiful character animations but im too ugly so they'd assume I just play for the tits
years ago got this game to support it (was never big in fighting games) but it deserved, then it became popular and started to change, started to hate its own community for liking it, disgusted by it self, and when that didn't work because the only people who would even give this game a chance where the original players, but now once again it try to censure its own community in the dumbest way possible and...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
--Main Stage Game at Evo 2022!-- The ultimate Skullgirls experience: Featuring 14 hand-animated characters, fully voiced story mode, countless palettes, and unparalleled GGPO-based multiplayer netcode.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel HD3000, 14 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Skullgirls 2nd Encore scores 49/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/245170/skullgirls-2nd-encoreReviews 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.