SpellForce 2 - Anniversary Edition
Skip · RPG · 2009
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $14.99.
- Length
- 31.2h
- Value
- $0.48/hr
- Reviews
- 75% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 512 MB DirectX 9.0c compatible card with shader model 3.0, 9 GB of storage. Windows only.
SpellForce 2 - Anniversary Edition presents the award-winning SpellForce saga hits: "SpellForce 2 – Shadow Wars" and the add-on "SpellForce 2 – Dragon Storm" for a spectacular game experience!
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The value story
June 2017 is where it bottomed out, at $1.49. It has been discounted 87 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.
Value puts it in the top 26 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 78 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, SpellForce - Platinum Edition ($9.99, scores 59) beats it on value, while it beats Kingdom Wars (free, scores 19).
2 of the 424 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 53 percent of the 164 reviews written there were positive, against 75 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.
Players
19 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
SpellForce 2: Anniversary Edition remains one of the more fascinating fantasy hybrids ever created because it refuses to commit entirely to a single genre. Instead of choosing between role-playing mechanics and real-time strategy gameplay, the game fully embraces both, resulting in an experience that feels expansive, ambitious, and surprisingly immersive even years after its original release. The Anniversary Edition...
This game is sheer nostalgia for me. I played this more than a decade ago when I was in high school, and loved the RPG and the strategy, and the story telling, the myth, the magic, and character building. When I found this on Steam, I brought it on an impulse. But playing it has brought back many fond memories, as well as a renewed appreciation of the game. The graphics are dated, but very enjoyable. Sometimes, the...
jesus this is buns and it is so buggy - tried to patch via unofficial, following the guides but it did not work - anyway... that would not help it much. if you played the first game, theres a decent chance that you will not enjoy this one and upwards in the spellforce series.
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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SpellForce 2 - Anniversary Edition scores 45/100 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/39550/spellforce-2-anniversary-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 Sep 4, price as of Sep 24.
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