Path of Exile 2
Skip · Multiplayer · 2024 · Early Access
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $29.99.
- Length
- 37.7h
- Value
- $0.80/hr
- Reviews
- 75% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 (3GB), Intel Arc A380, or ATI Radeon RX 470, 100 GB of storage. Windows only.
Path of Exile 2 is a next generation Action RPG from Grinding Gear Games, featuring co-op for up to six players. Set years after the original Path of Exile, you will return to the dark world of Wraeclast and seek to end the corruption that is spreading.
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Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
June 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $29.99. In 86 days of price history it has never once been discounted.
Value puts it in the top 28 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 67 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Path of Exile (free, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats Diablo® IV ($12.49, scores 15).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 10 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2026 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 63 percent of the 5,672 reviews written there were positive, against 75 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (cosmetic, currency); the score docks it lightly for that.
HowLongToBeat players log 37.7 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 177, 4.7 times as much.
223,848 people have reviewed it, which is a big enough crowd to settle the number.
Players
16.7K players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
This game is gas but PLEASE make the 4k textures a separate download/optimize the storage. Other than that so much fun
Make a build yourself without any prior knowledge, the build works until it doesnt. Search up a build guide online: you destroy everything including your fps. Game fun.
Is PoE2 a good game? Absolutely, most people out there will enjoy it. Do I like it? As a PoE1 and Diablo-style ARPG fan, this is not for me at all. I think that the building systems in this game are a step up from 1 but the more deliberate and "souls-style" (I don't care if the Reddit elitists say its not - you literally mid-roll like in Dark Souls 1 and bosses have Elden Ring-style delayed attacks) combat is not...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Path of Exile 2 scores 37/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2694490/path-of-exile-2The BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 2, price as of Sep 23.
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