Risen 2: Dark Waters
Fair · RPG · 2012
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
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
$9.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$2.4975% offFair
- Cost per hourS
- $0.38/hr
- Reviews▼
- 80% of 6,828
- Critics
- 69 players 11 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 12% RPG
Holding it back: Reviews
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.49 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 26h
- To 100%
- 45.8h 1.8x the story
- Achievements
- 49
Price and sales
- Sales
- 96 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $1.99 October 2022
- Sale every
- 45d last September 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 17 now
- Cheaper than
- 38% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 75% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
77% start to 2% rarestThis 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
Across all 96 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 12 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 62 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 75 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Gothic II: Gold Edition ($19.99, scores 91) beats it on value, while it beats Risen 3 - Titan Lords ($14.99, scores 42).
More about Risen 2: Dark Waters
69 from critics against 80 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
This site sampled 644 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 41 percent of the 308 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
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
What players say
I know people think this is the weakest of the Risen games, but for me, the whole pirate and island exploration just hit a spot I didn't know I had. The story is meh, but the whole setting had me hooked. I went with a ranged playstyle, and it was just a "blast" to play. I liked it, but I understand the criticism it is getting.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
It was an good game not for everyone but i had a lot of fun playing it risen 1 was kinda better despice being more ugly tho but it was an solid game 33hours to finish it is honnest
I love Gothic, Gothic 2 or even the first Risen, but this.. well... How can a much younger game from the same studio be so much worse in every aspect than older ones... At least Jaffar was funny and lockpicking not annoying
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Set several years after the end of Risen, raging titans have devastated the world and pushed humanity to the brink of existence. Subsequently, monstrous creatures have risen from the watery depths of the sea and their attacks have brought all seafaring to a grinding halt.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 512 MB Radeon 3870 / GeForce 8800 GTX, 5.5 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
Risen 2: Dark Waters scores 58/100 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/40390/risen-2-dark-watersReviews 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 8, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.