Lingo 2

Lingo 2

Worth it · Narrative · 2025

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $9.99.

Length
15h 39.9h to 100%
Value
$0.67/hr
Reviews
93% of 476 positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 6 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 9 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

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

Raising the score
Value$0.67/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews93% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 91% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 329 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

About the game

Lingo 2 blends word puzzles and impossible geometry, with brand new puzzle mechanics and a large, colorful world to discover. Welcome back!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 102 MB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

Across all 9 discounts in the 2 years tracked, the median cut is 30 percent, about 10 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.

On value it sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 61 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. The nearest things to it, Manifold Garden ($19.99, scores 64) and Antichamber ($19.99, scores 66), are both worse buys on this math.

More about Lingo 2

This site sampled 329 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2025 to August 2026.

Finishing takes 15 hours; clearing it takes 40, which is 2.7 times the campaign.

The drop-off

98% start to 20% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

Players online
7 when we last checked, on Oct 7, 11:56 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

Yep! It's possible to get all achievements without any direct guide. Be ready to pull out a dictionary and thesaurus, though.
oogaRecommendedafter 112hAug 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
this game is awesome and my braincells are working overtime. I feel like a lost child at Walmart.
Lil Jimbob33Recommendedafter 19hJul 2026Read on Steam
i'm gonna try to push myself to beat this game, and i might even change my opinion by then. but for now, i just can't recommend it. i really really really liked the first lingo. i liked it so much that i was willing to overlook the many downsides it had. what lingo 2 does, is it takes those downsides and doubles them. i hate the main mechanic of collecting letters, it just doesn't work in a game like this. my...
reckless sekrisNot recommendedafter 4.9h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Lingo 2 scores 82/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2523310/lingo-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 Sep 28, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperBrenton Wildes
PublisherBrenton Wildes
GenreNarrative
Released2025
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements14