Escape Goat 2

Escape Goat 2

Worth it · Action · 2014

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $9.99, a BANGER if it drops to $5.09.

Length
4h 10.5h to 100%
Value
$2.50/hr
Reviews
95% of 460 positive
It needs 49% off ($5.09) to be a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.09 or less.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 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
Reviews95% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 93% after the small-sample adjustment
Holding it back
Value$2.50/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
Refunds0 of 54 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

Escape Goat 2 is a puzzle platformer game where you use machinery, the environment, and a friendly mouse to progress through a dungeon.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, NVIDIA GT/S 4xx, Intel 4000 or equivalent, 205 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

The value story

Across all 53 discounts in the 13 years tracked, the median cut is 60 percent, about 12 weeks apart. It becomes a BANGER at $5.09, a level the record has reached 51 times.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 2 percent on value. It is pricier than 75 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Pikuniku ($12.99, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats Life Goes On: Done to Death ($12.99, scores 62).

More about Escape Goat 2

76 from critics against 95 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.

4 hours to finish it, 11 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.6 times the campaign.

Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 4 hours it is short enough to finish on one.

The drop-off

17% start to 3% 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

Cite this score

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Escape Goat 2 scores 73/100 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/255340/escape-goat-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 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+19
Critics76
Players95
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 460 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperMagicalTimeBean
PublisherDouble Fine Presents
GenreAction
Released2014
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements16