Outlast 2
Fair · Shooter · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
A BANGER at $5.72, only fair at $19.99.
- Length
- 7.2h
- Value
- $2.78/hr
- Reviews
- 91% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 1GB VRAM, NVIDIA Geforce GTX 260 / ATI Radeon HD 4870, 30 GB of storage. Windows only.
Outlast 2 introduces you to Sullivan Knoth and his followers, who left our wicked world behind to give birth to Temple Gate, a town, deep in the wilderness and hidden from civilization. Knoth and his flock are preparing for the tribulations of the end of times and you’re right in the thick of it.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
June 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $1.99. 61 discounts in the 9 years on record. They run about 80 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. 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 6 weeks. It becomes a BANGER at $5.72, a level the record has reached 34 times.
On value it sits in the top 19 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 73 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 86 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Outlast ($14.99, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats Scorn ($3.99, scores 49).
Critics scored it 75. Players sit 16 points higher at 91 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Steam's global achievement data puts 23 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. Of the 799 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 6 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 88 percent of the 6,856 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
67% start to 23% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
119 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
A really good horror game. It's pretty overhated just because it isn't as good as the first one, which I can understand, but I still think it's a really good game. I especially enjoyed the School sections. The whole game feels pretty cryptic, which also fits really well with the plot and makes you question what is actually going on. Some parts were genuinely stressful and did a great job creating tension. There were...
Outlast 2 was a weird experience because the entire time I was playing it, I was pretty scared...but then when I thought about it as the credits rolled, I realized that I was never really in danger ever, just constantly in expectation of it. Enemies were never really making me feel afraid and I hardly ever had to heal myself or fret over batteries. But the vibes were so thick and spooky, I hardly ever noticed. It...
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Outlast 2 scores 64/100 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/414700/outlast-2The 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 13, price as of Sep 24.
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