Dishonored 2

Dishonored 2

Fair · Action · 2016

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; 80% in the Winter Sale 2025.

Today

$29.99Fair

Typical seasonal cut

$5.9980% offWorth it

Cost per hour▼
$2.40/hr
ReviewsA
90% of 67,209
Critics
86 players 4 higher
Genre rank
Top 5% Action

Holding it back: Cost per hour

Why
It needs 22% off ($23.32) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.99 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
12.5h
To 100%
45.9h 3.7x the story
Finish
14% reach the ending
Achievements
50

Price and sales

Sales
72 on record
Typical cut
80% off
Steam low
$2.99 November 2023
Sale every
42d last October 2026
Lowest now $5.39 at Fanaticalall-time low $2.40 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
675 now
Recent reviews
90% 30 days
Cheaper than
2% of its genre
Better reviewed
96% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

88% start to 14% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

A normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

It has been discounted 72 times in the 10 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 80 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

Against its own genre its score lands in the top 5 percent. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Dishonored ($9.99, scores 98) beats it on value, while it beats Dishonored®: Death of the Outsider™ ($29.99, scores 49).

More about Dishonored 2

Steam's global achievement data puts about 14 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 12.5-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 9 of the 799 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2024 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 51 percent of the 2,336 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.

12.5 hours to finish it, 46 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.7 times the campaign.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Last discount ended 31 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
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Engagement14% finish
How far players get (achievements). It can only add points
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Cost per hour$2.40/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
Refunds9 of 799 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

Best art direction in any game ever, with way more game mechanics than you'll ever need
savage cabbageRecommendedafter 95h8 found this helpfulRead on Steam
1 more review, not recommended
The game feels like it should be objectively better than its prequel. Every single aspect seems expanded upon on the surface, but it always feels wrong. Stealth and exploration feel incredibly unrewarding compared to the first game, the entire story seems really dull and while Dunwall felt claustrophobic and like a city in actual dire circumstances, Dishonored 2 makes sure to *tell* you that e.g. the city of Karnaca...
WhyNotZoidbergNot recommendedafter 27h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam

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

About the game

Reprise your role as a supernatural assassin in Dishonored 2. Declared a “masterpiece” by Eurogamer and hailed “a must-play revenge tale” by Game Informer, Dishonored 2 is the follow up to Arkane’s 1st-person action blockbuster & winner of 100+ 'Game of the Year' awards, Dishonored.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 660 2GB/AMD Radeon HD 7970 3GB or better, 60 GB of storage. Windows only.

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Dishonored 2 scores 64/100 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/403640/dishonored-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 5, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+4
Critics86
Players90
Metacritic critics · 67,209 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperArkane Studios
PublisherBethesda Softworks
GenreAction
Released2016
Players3.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements50