How to Survive 2
Skip · Shooter · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 27, under the fair line, at $14.99.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.56/hr
- Reviews▼
- 69% of 11,023
- Critics
- 69
- Genre rank
- Top 66% Shooter
Holding it back: Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 26.9h
- Achievements
- 49
Price and sales
- Sales
- 98 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $2.99 June 2020
- Sale every
- 38d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 20 now
- Cheaper than
- 33% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 26% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
66% start to 1% rarestThis 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
It has been discounted 98 times in the 11 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 5 days ago.
It is pricier than 67 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 74 percent. Among the games that feel like it, How to Survive ($14.99, scores 58) beats it on value, while it beats How To Survive: Third Person Standalone ($9.99, scores 2).
More about How to Survive 2
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 8 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 45 percent of the 1,556 reviews written there were positive, against 69 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 5 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
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
What players say
This game grows progressively harder past the learning curve, and your reward for beating the storyline is an enemy type that has guns. This game sucks.
1 more review, not recommended
The level design is the biggest offender. Every single quest boils down to the same loop: go to a location, kill the same handful of enemy types, loot, come back. Over and over. The enemy variety is almost nonexistent, and the game outstays its welcome by a long stretch. Levelling up feels meaningless because the skill tree is bland, it's progression for the sake of a number going up, nothing more. Playing solo is a...
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About the game
Dead or Alive? Make up your mind, stranger. We don’t like that undead business here in Louisiana…Survive solo or with friends as you look to fulfill your basic needs of food, water and shelter, crafting your own tools and weapons while you secure your camp and face flesh hungry zombies.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, DirectX 11 compatible, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
How to Survive 2 scores 27/100 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/360170/how-to-survive-2Reviews 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 13, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.