The Last of Us™ Part II Remastered

The Last of Us™ Part II Remastered

Worth it · Shooter · 2025

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

BUY IT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 5 of 6 sales

Worth it at $49.99, a BANGER if it drops to $18.01. Typically $39.99 in seasonal sales. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17.

Cost per hour▼
$2.16/hr
ReviewsS
91% of 58,488
Genre rank
Top 16% Shooter

Holding it back: Cost per hour

Why
It needs 64% off ($18.01) to be a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $18.01 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
23.1h
To 100%
45.2h 2.0x the story
Finish
55% reach the ending
Achievements
45

Price and sales

Sales
8 on record
Typical cut
20% off
Steam low
$33.49 September 2026
Sale every
52d last September 2026
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $28.95 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
1,442 now
Recent reviews
88% 30 days
Cheaper than
2% of its genre
Better reviewed
86% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

85% start to 55% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

It has been discounted 8 times in the 2 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 20 percent, about 7 weeks apart. $18.01 is what it would take to make this a BANGER, and nothing in its history goes that low.

Against its own genre its score lands in the top 16 percent. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 86 percent. Among the games that feel like it, DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT ($39.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats The Last of Us™ Part I ($59.99, scores 47).

More about The Last of Us™ Part II Remastered

Steam's global achievement data puts 55 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 18. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 13 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 74 percent of the 1,264 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.

It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 5 of its last 6 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 29 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
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Engagement55% finish
How far players get (achievements). It can only add points
Holding it back
Cost per hour$2.16/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds13 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

𓆩🖤𓆪 THE LAST OF US PART II I thought I was playing a zombie game… turns out I signed up for emotional damage.💔 The infected are INSANE, even on Easy difficulty 💀 and the combat feels so damn smooth. Every fight gets my heart racing. I honestly don't understand why people hate this game for being "woke." I played it for myself, and I genuinely loved it. The story, the characters, the emotions… it stayed with me...
Vinayak JoshiRecommendedafter 13h15 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews
honestly one the best games i played the story hits just right leaving you wanting more i also have taken time to learn both Abby and Ellie and I'm not one the people that like one or the other i like both from their own views as characters but 10/10 game replayed part 1 and part 2 many times
calvert09Recommendedafter 155h10 found this helpfulRead on Steam
The DEI bs I'm sure you've heard about, well it is real and present. There's so much about it that I hate, but all that aside... this is a solid game. The over all story is pretty compelling. The gameplay, the atmosphere, the sound design, the level designs, the animations, controls and combat. It's all rather exquisite. I can admire what they've built. I came into this with a negative opinion and I'm fairly...
caileanmordRecommendedafter 12hOct 2026Read on Steam

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

About the game

Experience the winner of over 300 Game of the Year awards, now on PC. Discover Ellie and Abby’s story with graphical enhancements, gameplay modes like the roguelike survival experience No Return, and more.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650, AMD Radeon RX 5500XT, 150 GB of storage. Windows only.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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The Last of Us™ Part II Remastered scores 68/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2531310/the-last-of-us-part-ii-remastered
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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 Oct 31, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Details

DeveloperNaughty Dog LLC
PublisherPlayStation Publishing LLC
GenreShooter
Released2025
Players750Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements45