Don't Be Afraid 2

Don't Be Afraid 2

Skip · Action · 2024

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 24, under the fair line, at $16.99.

Length
3.2h
Value
$5.31/hr
Reviews
72% of 273 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Next discount: likely between Oct 27 and Nov 9, at about $8.49 (50% off). Calls like this were right 78% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks. Its own discounts have started about 46 days apart.

Discounted in each of its last 8 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

Holding it back
Value$5.31/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews72% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds2 of 198 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

Descend deep into the nightmare that seamlessly blends with reality in this uncanny horror escape room game. Can you find your way out of the horrid mansion or will you succumb to your fears? Can you face and overcome your past, or will it break you?
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 or AMD R9 270X, 12 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

Across all 21 discounts in the 2 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.

It is pricier than 88 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 61 percent. Among the games that feel like it, SOMA ($29.99, scores 70) beats it on value, while it beats Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs ($19.99, scores 20).

More about Don't Be Afraid 2

It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 3.2 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.

The drop-off

92% start to 5% 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

What players say

compared to the first one not quite as demented but definitely still has a strong sinister vibe and some of the puzzles were actually in a loose sense were done pretty well its probably harder to make some puzzles interesting as each person likely perceives things differently though that later half i relied a bit more heavily on guide than i usually prefer not to mention the narrator though really has a grandiose...
RAMBLINGxMUTERecommendedafter 3.8h3 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Don't Be Afraid 2 is a psychological horror adventure developed by Eneida Games and Cat-astrophe Games and published by Eneida Games, Untold Tales, and GamerSky. Acting as a continuation of the original game, it follows David, a man attempting to live a normal life after surviving unimaginable horrors during his childhood. Rather than presenting a straightforward horror tale, the game explores the lasting emotional...
xxadonisxxRecommendedafter 14hJun 2026Read on Steam
sometimes i think horror games focus on puzzles and not being scary way too much
BoredNot recommendedafter 2.1h1 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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Don't Be Afraid 2 scores 24/100 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/2631880/don-t-be-afraid-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 29, 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

DeveloperEneida Games
PublisherEneida Games
GenreAction
Released2024
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements19