Gothic II: Gold Edition
BANGER · RPG · 2005
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $19.99.
- Length
- 35.4h
- Value
- $0.56/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, 3D graphics card with 32 MB Ram, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
Gothic II: Gold Edition brings together the excitement of Gothic II and the add-on Night of the Raven to your fingertips!
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $0.99, set in September 2021. It has been discounted 91 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 14 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Gothic 1 ($19.99, scores 57) and Gothic® 3 ($19.99, scores 63).
$37.10 is where it would stop being a BANGER. Today it is $19.99.
The press gave it 79; the people who bought it give it 94 percent. A 15-point gap in the buyer's favour.
This site sampled 744 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 4 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 75 percent of the 1,918 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.
35.4 hours to finish it, 83 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.4 times the campaign.
Players
404 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
Very enjoyable game, solid 8/10. I played NotR for my first playthrough which was... a VERY rough start my God. Imo enjoyed this way more than Gothic 1 Remake, and I should maybe give the original a try at some point. Things of note: - Game will physically NOT cap at 60fps in windowed mode unless you get the DX11 patch. So definitely get that. - While some patches are included here, union is not. You should install...
A little buggy (Marvin saved me a couple of times), and definitely old, but still one of my favorite RPGs of all time. There is something about going from a wimp who can be killed by a large rat to an uber Demi-God that can defeat all comers, even Dragons! I played the Gothic 1 Remake and just had to have more Gothic, so played this game as well. Recommend the mod that provides quicksaves and also used the Union mod...
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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Gothic II: Gold Edition scores 91/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/39510/gothic-ii-gold-editionThe 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 Aug 1, price as of Sep 24.
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