Q.U.B.E. 2

Q.U.B.E. 2

Skip · Action · 2018

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Under the fair line today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 80% in the Winter Sale 2025.

Today

$24.99Skip

Typical seasonal cut

$6.2475% offFair

Cost per hour▼
$4.72/hr
Reviews▼
84% of 1,752
Critics
76 players 8 higher
Genre rank
Top 19% Action

Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews

Why
It needs 81% off ($4.63) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $6.24 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
5.3h
To 100%
7.8h 1.5x the story
Achievements
29

Price and sales

Sales
47 on record
Typical cut
75% off
Steam low
$2.49 December 2022
Sale every
54d last October 2026
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $2.49 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
2 now
Cheaper than
4% of its genre
Better reviewed
89% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

72% 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

Across all 47 discounts in the 9 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

Its score puts it in the top 19 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Outer Wilds ($24.99, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats INDUSTRIA ($19.99, scores 25).

More about Q.U.B.E. 2

Critics scored it 76. Players sit 8 points higher at 84 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.

This site sampled 379 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Last discount ended 31 days ago.

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
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Cost per hour$4.72/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
Refunds0 of 379 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

as a fan of the original qube i was excited to hear about/play the sequel with raytracing and more modern specs the game looked super cool, and ran at a stable 80 fps which was definitely fine for me. it did deviate quite a bit from the original game (flora taking over the facility, the more detailed textures), a bit to my disappointment but understandable given it's a sequel. the puzzles were slightly...
LOL <(^^,)>Not recommendedafter 3.7hApr 2026Read on Steam

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

About the game

Q.U.B.E. 2 is the sequel to the hit first-person puzzle game Q.U.B.E. You are Amelia Cross, a stranded archaeologist who has awoken among the ruins of an ancient alien landscape. With the distant help of another survivor you must solve the puzzles of this mysterious world and find a way back home.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 or AMD Radeon 6870 HD series card, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Q.U.B.E. 2 scores 45/100 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/359100/q-u-b-e-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 Oct 20, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+8
Critics76
Players84
Metacritic critics · 1,752 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperToxic Games
PublisherTrapped Nerve Games
GenreAction
Released2018
Players350Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements29