Danmaku Unlimited 2

Danmaku Unlimited 2

Worth it · Shooter · 2014

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $1.49.

Length
1.9h 26.9h to 100%
Value
$0.78/hr
Reviews
92% of 491 positive
No price makes it a BANGER.

Full price

Worth it$4.99

Today

−70%Worth it
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.

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

Raising the score
Value$0.78/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set That is today's sale price. Normally $2.63/hr
Reviews92% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 90% after the small-sample adjustment
Engagement13% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 99 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

Classic Japanese style vertical manic shooting action! Shoot, dodge and explode your way through the second entry in the critically acclaimed Danmaku Unlimited series. Battle through nail-biting bullet patterns and compete for dominance on the global leaderboard!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, GPU with Shader Model 2.0, 113 MB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

Across all 72 discounts in the 13 years tracked, the median cut is 60 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today's $1.49 at 70 percent off still sits 51 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.

Value puts it in the top 5 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 76 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 83 percent. Among the games closest to it, Jamestown ($9.99, scores 78) and ZeroRanger ($11.99, scores 75) both come in lower.

More about Danmaku Unlimited 2

Steam's global achievement data puts about 13 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 1.9-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Inside the two-hour refund window, 86 percent of the 148 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 41 percent of everything written about it.

The main story runs 1.9 hours. Doing everything runs 27, 14 times as long.

The drop-off

82% start to 13% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

A normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements

What players say

Danmaku Unlimited 2 is one of the easiest bullet hell shooters to recommend to someone new to the genre. It still fills the screen with dense waves of projectiles, but the patterns are clear enough that success feels tied to learning rather than impossible reflexes. When I died, I could usually see the mistake I had made and understand what to try differently on the next run. That readability makes a huge...
MotokoRecommendedafter 12hFeb 2026Read on Steam
1 more review
This game is hard my friend, seriously, I was a long time in the 5th stage.but the game is AMAZING, if you like games that look like this, you NEED to play this game cuz you gonna love this game, is so cool when you see you enemy falling and the bosses, o my GOD the bosses are so PEAK, Buy this game if you love shmup games, i beat this game two times in campaign in normal mode and arcade and if i finished this game...
YepsterdamRecommendedafter 4.9hJul 2025Read 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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Danmaku Unlimited 2 scores 83/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/280560/danmaku-unlimited-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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperDoragon Entertainment
PublisherDoragon Entertainment
GenreShooter
Released2014
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements25