Parkan 2

Parkan 2

Skip · Shooter · 2014

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 36, under the fair line, at $3.99.

Length
6.5h 20.9h to 100%
Value
$0.61/hr
Reviews
73% of 392 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.

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$0.61/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Holding it back
Reviews73% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 111 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

Parkan II is an original concept game that will allow you to feel as a pilot of a spacecraft lost somewhere in the universe. Become a pirate or mercenary, get money to buy the most powerful cruiser and show them all who is to be the new master of the galaxy. Unforgettable adventures in the Parkan II universe await you!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

It has been discounted 65 times in the 13 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 80 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

It is cheaper than 85 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 65 percent. Among the games that feel like it, PULSAR: Lost Colony ($19.99, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats STAR WARS™: Squadrons ($39.99, scores 14).

More about Parkan 2

6.5 hours to finish it, 21 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.2 times the campaign.

What players say

Besides a small interlude with a PS2, I've been a PC gamer my whole life, as such, I've been mainly exposed to genres that thrived inside the PC space: Point and Clicks, RTSes, FPSes, CRPGs, and of course, Space-sims. Ever craving novelty, I got into the niche of hybrid genres, and a mix that I never got to see for the longest time was the FPS/free range Space-sim type, certain games have superficially explored it...
Italian SkeletonRecommendedafter 21h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Used to play it a lot in Athlon XP times, almost finished it. Decided to play it again nowdays. Great gaim even counting all bugs and glithes. Too sad gaming turned wrong way... Old times were better.
vlkarpenkoRecommendedafter 1.6hJan 2025Read on Steam
Parkan 2 is an interesting concept and fun to play especially for its low price point however the game is held together by ducttape. Finishing the game took a lot out of my pacience as loading saves slowed down to a crawl, the game frequently crashed on saving, there is a nasty slow down on your ship. All in all bugs you can push past but requires effort doing so. And with every corner possibly your last you want to...
LeogrimNot recommendedafter 32hMar 2024Read on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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Parkan 2 scores 36/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/289400/parkan-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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

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Details

DeveloperNikita
PublisherFulqrum Publishing
GenreShooter
Released2014
Players150Kowners, SteamSpy estimate