BioShock™ 2 Remastered
Skip · Shooter · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $19.99.
- Reviews
- 72% positive
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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.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
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- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. The score is docked for the missing length.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $2.99. That was March 2023. It has been discounted 90 times in the 10 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 5 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
It is pricier than 74 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 62 percent. BioShock® 2 ($19.99, scores 49) outscores it, and so does BioShock™ Remastered ($19.99, scores 43). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 41 percent of the 2,005 reviews written there were positive, against 72 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
67% start to 4% 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
198 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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BioShock™ 2 Remastered scores 22/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). Length is not in our data, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/409720/bioshock-2-remasteredThe 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 12, price as of Sep 24.
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