BioShock™ 2 Remastered
Skip · Shooter · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 29, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.90/hr
- Reviews▼
- 72% of 30,607
- Genre rank
- Top 63% Shooter
Holding it back: Reviews, Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 10.5h
- To 100%
- 23.9h 2.3x the story
- Achievements
- 53
Price and sales
- Sales
- 92 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $2.99 March 2023
- Sale every
- 36d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 185 now
- Recent reviews
- 76% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 16% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 34% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
67% start to 4% 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
It has been discounted 92 times in the 10 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 5 days ago.
It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 66 percent. Among the games that feel like it, BioShock® 2 ($19.99, scores 65) beats it on value, while it beats S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Prypiat - Enhanced Edition ($19.99, scores 14).
More about BioShock™ 2 Remastered
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2025 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 41 percent of the 2,008 reviews written there were positive, against 72 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
10.5 hours to finish it, 24 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.3 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 5 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
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
Bioshock 2 Remastered is a great example of how to port games to Switch. In 2010, I missed this beautiful game in my time and am very glad that I was able to get to know it thanks to the remastered version. The first part of Bioshock is one of the best games of its generation, the poet I did not expect much from the sequel, knowing in advance that Ken Levin had nothing to do with it. But Bioshock 2 is better in...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
very beautiful game definitely best out of the trilogy, fun game mechs, cool characters, always good ending never bad
Game crashes a few times. Lost 2 hours of gameplay, autosave wasn't working. Game crashed trying to save lol
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
In BioShock 2, you step into the boots of the most iconic denizen of Rapture, the Big Daddy, as you explore through the decrepit and beautiful fallen city, chasing an unseen foe in search of answers and your own survival.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 2GB AMD Radeon HD 7770 / 2GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670, 25 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
BioShock™ 2 Remastered scores 29/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/409720/bioshock-2-remasteredReviews 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.