Shelter 2
Skip · Narrative · 2015
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $24.99.
- Length
- 1.9h
- Value
- $13.15/hr
- Reviews
- 85% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, GeForce 240 GT or Radeon HD 6570 – 1024 MB (1 gig), 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
As a powerful Lynx, you will make your way through vast open landscapes. In the harsh tundra, you will raise and strengthen your cubs by mastering your skills for hunting prey. Do everything you can to prepare your little ones for the vicious entities dwelling in the wilderness.
What drives the score
How to read this
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
It has never been cheaper than $1.49. That was December 2017. It has been discounted 68 times in the 12 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 8 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 8 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 32 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 82 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Shelter ($0.74, scores 69) beats it on value, while it beats Through the Woods ($19.99, scores 19).
58 from critics against 85 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
3 of the 373 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 75 percent of the 1,108 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 33 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 1.9 hours. Doing everything runs 10, 5.3 times as long.
The drop-off
30% 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
Players
5 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
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Shelter 2 scores 42/100 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/275100/shelter-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 1, price as of Sep 24.
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