Rise of Industry 2
Skip · Strategy · 2025
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 15, under the fair line, at $34.99.
- Length
- 54.2h
- Value
- $0.65/hr
- Reviews
- 64% of 220 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 5 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
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About the game
Navigate the competitive industrial landscape of vibrant 1980's USA! Make strategic manufacturing decisions, optimize production chains, acquire technologies, and expand your global business network with key contacts. Opportunities await those savvy enough to capitalize on them!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia 1060 or AMD Radeon RX 580, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 10 discounts in the 17 months tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.
It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 87 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Captain of Industry ($34.99, scores 77) and Rail Route ($24.99, scores 67) both outscore it.
The drop-off
56% start to <1% rarestNo 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
What players say
very good game, significant improvement from ROI1. Its quite complex supply chain simulator - although after You finish 3 scenarios the rest is just replicating with minor adjustments. I had really good time playing it. can´t wait for the 3rd part ;)
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
It has took a lot of extra effort to understand how to play this new version of the game as the tutorial was not clear enough to the point I got stuck. Hence I opted to play without the tutorial, but was still confused, but after I watched a youtube video which explained the basics of linking supply routes, having a VP of operations, selling produced product via contracts and purchasing resources which arrive at...
The first game was a masterpiece. They could have just updated the graphics for the second game and released it and it would have been great. However, they changed the gameplay mechanics and the loop is just not fun.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Rise of Industry 2 scores 15/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2532490/rise-of-industry-2Reviews 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 30, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.