Industry Giant 2
Worth it · Strategy · 2015
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99.
- Length
- 29.8h
- Value
- $0.34/hr
- Reviews
- 86% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 128 MB Graphics Card, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
Economic booms, stock market crashes, oil crises, upswings, triumphs... Now you can become the greatest power in industry!
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
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.49. That was August 2024. 76 discounts in the 11 years on record. They run about 70 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 4 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 70 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Settlement Survival ($19.99, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats Two Point Campus ($29.99, scores 69).
None of the 345 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 61 percent of the 178 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 20 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
64% start to 2% 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
Players
50 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 16:51 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This is my favorite tycoon game of all-time. Don't let the age scare you. This game is tremendous. Shame of the folks that brought out Industry Giant 4, hot garbage compared to the predecessor.
Industry Giant 2 isn't exactly brand-new anymore, but it's still an entertaining and engaging economic simulation. You can definitely feel its age, since the gameplay and quality-of-life features aren't really state of the art, but it's still fun to play through the campaigns. Achievements Required time: 20-30 Hours (for the campaigns) Difficulty (in my opinion): 5/10 DLCs required for 100%?: No As for the...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Industry Giant 2 scores 70/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/271360/industry-giant-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 27, price as of Oct 1.
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