How to Survive 2
Skip · Shooter · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $3.74.
- Length
- 26.9h
- Value
- $0.14/hr
- Reviews
- 69% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, DirectX 11 compatible, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
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.
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
June 2020 is where it bottomed out, at $2.99. It has been discounted 96 times in the 11 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today's $3.74 at 75 percent off still sits 25 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
It is pricier than 62 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 72 percent. Among the games that feel like it, How to Survive ($3.74, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats How To Survive: Third Person Standalone ($9.99, scores 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 September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 45 percent of the 1,555 reviews written there were positive, against 69 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
66% start to 1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
10 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 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.
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...
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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How to Survive 2 scores 27/100 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/360170/how-to-survive-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 16, price as of Sep 24.
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