Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days

Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days

Skip · Shooter · 2010

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 3 of 8 sales

It scores 20, under the fair line, at $9.99.

Cost per hour▼
$2.44/hr
Reviews▼
67% of 9,880
Critics
66 players 1 higher
Genre rank
Top 74% Shooter

Holding it back: Reviews, Cost per hour

Why
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.

Recent reviews trending up: 82% over the last 30 days against 67% all-time.

Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Time and effort

Main story
4.1h
To 100%
11.5h 2.8x the story
Achievements
58

Price and sales

Sales
67 on record
Typical cut
90% off
Steam low
$0.99 December 2017
Sale every
37d last October 2026
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $0.79 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
8 now
Recent reviews
82% 30 days
Cheaper than
46% of its genre
Better reviewed
23% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

78% start to 3% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

It has been discounted 67 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 90 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

It is less well reviewed than 77 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Watch_Dogs® 2 ($49.99, scores 45) beats it on value, while it beats Mafia III: Definitive Edition ($29.99, scores 4).

More about Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days

Players rate it 67 percent positive over its lifetime, and the last 30 days run 82 percent. It is aging into a better game than its average suggests. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 12 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2021 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 46 percent of the 1,799 reviews written there were positive, against 67 percent overall, and those are 26 percent of everything written about it.

4.1 hours to finish it, 12 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.8 times the campaign.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 3 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
MonetizationNone
No in-game purchases. Paid DLC exists and is not docked
Recent reviews82% (30 days)
Trending up vs lifetime, a small lift
Holding it back
Cost per hour$2.44/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
Refunds12 of 800 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

What players say

Replaying this many years later. Such a wholesome, cozy, relaxing game. Brings back so many memories. 10/10, one of the best games I've ever played. An absolute masterpiece. My only issue is that it's way too short. It's the type of game you wish you could teleport into and never leave.
K-JetronicRecommendedafter 13hOct 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews
The best "worst game" I've ever played. Ran through it with a friend. Made it much better. Extremely buggy tho. Crashed multiple times. Hit reg is horrible lol. Buggy mess. But it was less than two bucks on sale. We had fun.
WestR0gueRecommendedafter 2.7h5 found this helpfulRead on Steam
someone posted a review saying '2 bald guys wiped out half of china. 10/10 game' - played this in one sitting on co-op with my friend - we really were 2 bald guys going from bad to worse wiping out half of china - 10/10 game
AmeerRecommendedafter 3.3hOct 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

Pure adrenaline of non-stop action in Single Player, Online Co-op and Multiplayer. Double the pleasure and mayhem with new multiplayer DLCs! (click for details)
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Nvidia 7800 / ATI X1800 or better (Shader Model 3.0, 512 MB Video Memory). Windows only.

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days scores 20/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/28000/kane-lynch-2-dog-days
Embed the live badge

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 Nov 8, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+1
Critics66
Players67
Metacritic critics · 9,880 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperIO Interactive
PublisherSquare Enix
GenreShooter
Released2010
Players750Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements58