Shadow Warrior 2
Worth it · Shooter · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $2.99.
- Length
- 7.6h
- Value
- $0.39/hr
- Reviews
- 87% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GT 560Ti (1024 MB) or Radeon HD 6850 (1024 MB) or better, 14 GB of storage. Windows only.
Shadow Warrior 2 is the stunning evolution of Flying Wild Hog’s offbeat first-person shooter starring the brash warrior Lo Wang, who must again wield a devastating combination of guns, blades, magic and wit to strike down the demonic legions overwhelming the world.
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
November 2022 is where it bottomed out, at $2.99. 77 discounts in the 10 years on record. They run about 80 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today's $2.99 at 90 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
At full price it scores 52. The current cut is what makes it a 77.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 9 percent on value. It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 76 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Shadow Warrior ($2.99, scores 84) beats it on value, while it beats After the Fall® ($19.99, scores 46).
78 from critics against 87 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data says about 16 percent of players ever finish it. On a 7.6-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 9 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2023 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 68 percent of the 2,539 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 7.6 hours; clearing it takes 25, which is 3.3 times the campaign.
At 7.6 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
77% start to 16% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
61 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
Successful developers attempt to combine Doom/Serious Sam and Borderlands in one piece. Recommended, both main quests and side quests are engaging with tons of humour.
An absolute hidden gem of a game and a massive improvement on the first entry into the series reboot. It's like the first one but mixed with Doom and Borderlands - satisfying weapon-play and traversal mechanics, and RNG with some RPG lite. Can't wait to replay it in a few years.
Its okay... just certain things like music or voice-lines get repetitive. Made me just lose interest half-way due to annoyance. Like it means to be funny or not taken seriously like so at times but still. Only giving a negative review for not being my type of game. There was a time i gave it a chance... didnt like it but couldnt return game due to hour mark; So later after handful of years i tried to returned and i...
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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Shadow Warrior 2 scores 77/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/324800/shadow-warrior-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 Sep 13, price as of Sep 24.
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