Lucius II
Skip · Action · 2015
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $19.99.
- Length
- 6.2h
- Value
- $3.22/hr
- Reviews
- 62% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 275 or better, 5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
Lucius is taken to the psychiatric ward of St. Benedict’s Hospital by unsuspecting caretakers. The Book of Revelation predicts the birth of a child that would end up ruling the world with an iron rod. The first part of this prophecy has been fulfilled. It is time to take care of the rest.
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
March 2017 is where it bottomed out, at $1.99. 109 discounts in the 12 years on record. They run about 85 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 93 percent. On the same math Lucius ($9.99, scores 52) and Amnesia: The Dark Descent ($19.99, scores 71) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
48 from critics against 62 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data says about 17 percent of players ever finish it. On a 6.2-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. 3 of the 601 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 37 percent of the 423 reviews written there were positive, against 62 percent overall, and those are 22 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
64% start to 17% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
2 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
This feels more like a fan made game rather than an original sequel. 3 years apart from the previous (already mid) one and somehow manages to underperform in all aspects. Avoid this one.
＊MY ADVICE＊ Play LUCIUS 1 instead of 2. 1) TUTORIAL They forced a horrendously long cinematic intro just to show a 360° view of Lucius… non-skippable... WHY make me sit through a 30s meaningless scene? The tutorial itself is confusing. And I accidentally skipped part of it. WHY make it so easy to skip? (Don't press X on an Xbox controller or you'll skip the tutorial.) 2) GAMEPLAY So repetitive. You kill a bunch of...
tbh i like this one more than the first game, its more fun killing people in here
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Lucius II scores 8/100 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/296830/lucius-iiThe 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 Sep 20, price as of Sep 24.
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