ENDLESS Space™ 2

ENDLESS Space™ 2

Fair · Strategy · 2017

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 75% in the Winter Sale 2025.

Today

$39.99Fair

Typical seasonal cut

$9.9975% offFair

Cost per hour▼
$2.06/hr
Reviews▼
83% of 23,160
Critics
80 players 3 higher
Genre rank
Top 6% Strategy

Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews

Watch this gameOne alert at $9.99 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
19.4h
To 100%
153.7h 7.9x the story
Achievements
115

Price and sales

Sales
71 on record
Typical cut
75% off
Steam low
$7.99 January 2022
Sale every
46d last October 2026
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $6.37 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
315 now
Recent reviews
80% 30 days
Cheaper than
1% of its genre
Better reviewed
86% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

29% start to <1% 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

It has been discounted 71 times in the 10 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.

Its score sits in the top 6 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 86 percent. The nearest things to it, ENDLESS Space™ - Definitive Edition ($9.99, scores 60) and HUMANKIND™ ($49.99, scores 20), are both worse buys on this math.

More about ENDLESS Space™ 2

Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2023 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 57 percent of the 719 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.

Finishing takes 19.4 hours; clearing it takes 154, which is 7.9 times the campaign.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Last discount ended 16 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
Replayability~116h to replay
Steam Workshop mods and replay time. The value score counts hours well past the 19h main story
MonetizationNone
No in-game purchases. Paid DLC exists and is not docked
Holding it back
Cost per hour$2.06/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
Refunds1 of 800 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

Sweeping graphics, strange alien cultures and deadly battles that rage across the galaxy and the faces of many planets in the galaxy-damn fine piece of work all around. Love it, going to go play now....
phaqyuRecommendedafter 1487h8 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Endless Space 2 - An incredible space opera occasionally hijacked by its own DLC! Endless Space 2 is one of the most beautifully crafted 4X strategy games out there, and its greatest strength is undoubtedly the incredible flavour of its factions. These aren't just your usual sci-fi civilizations with slightly different bonuses slapped onto them. Every faction has its own identity, philosophy, history, and mechanics...
WeskerRecommendedafter 215hOct 2026Read on Steam
Terrible. Do not buy, even on sale. If you enjoy a game that constantly interrupts you with annoying pop-ups, then maybe this is for you. Otherwise, save your money. I bought this cheap on a deep discount and I still regret it. It tries to be a grand strategy game, but it is no Civilization and never will be. The balance is completely broken. It feels like the developers made this exclusively for stone-cold...
vhounsellNot recommendedafter 572h3 found this helpfulRead on Steam

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

About the game

ENDLESS Space™ 2 is a Strategic Space Opera, featuring the compelling “just one more turn” gameplay, set in the mysterious ENDLESS Universe™. As the leader of your civilization, will you impose your vision and build the greatest stellar empire?
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel HD 4000 / AMD Radeon 5800 series / NVidia 550Ti, 8 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
ENDLESS Space™ 2 scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/392110/endless-space-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 Nov 6, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+3
Critics80
Players83
Metacritic critics · 23,160 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperAMPLITUDE Studios
PublisherAMPLITUDE Studios
GenreStrategy
Released2017
Players1.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements115