Risen 2: Dark Waters
Fair · RPG · 2012
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 26h
- Value
- $0.38/hr
- Reviews
- 80% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 512 MB Radeon 3870 / GeForce 8800 GTX, 5.5 GB of storage. Windows only.
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.
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.99. That was October 2022. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 95 in the 14 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. 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 6 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 9 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 61 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 74 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).
69 from critics against 80 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
This site sampled 637 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 41 percent of the 305 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
77% start to 2% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
32 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
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
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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Risen 2: Dark Waters scores 58/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/40390/risen-2-dark-watersThe 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 15, price as of Sep 24.
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