Spelunky 2
Worth it · Roguelike · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 65% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$19.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$6.9965% off
- Cost per hour
- $0.72/hr
- ReviewsS
- 93% of 22,090
- Critics
- 91 players 2 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 5% Roguelike
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $6.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 27.7h
- To 100%
- 165.8h 6.0x the story
- Finish
- 16% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 32
Price and sales
- Sales
- 33 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $6.99 September 2025
- Sale every
- 55d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 159 now
- Recent reviews
- 89% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 9% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 92% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
79% start to 3% rarestA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 33 times in the 6 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 5 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Risk of Rain (2013) ($9.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Fury Unleashed ($19.99, scores 63).
More about Spelunky 2
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 14 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2023 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 74 percent of the 1,226 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 27.7 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 166, 6.0 times as much.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $6.99 (65% off). Predictions like this were right 87% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
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
If you enjoy the first Spelunky, this sequel is like a similar but longer and more difficult experience with much more to uncover and do in varying playthroughs. Some may certainly prefer the quicker, more streamlined experience of the original. For example and without spoiling anything except what you do in the first zone, in the original there is nothing extra to do in the mines except find a key and unlock a...
1 more review, not recommended
Pretty damn awful if you ask me. The game seems to suffer from mechanics that don't play nicely. How quickly your character moves, vs the concept of safely navigating all the traps and enemies. How sensitive the analogue/Dpad is with how short of a range your whip is makes for a frustrating combo. I managed to make it a decent amount into the game with the prequel, but this is unfun and frustrating. The camera is so...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Spelunky 2 builds upon the unique, randomized challenges that made the original a roguelike classic, offering a huge adventure designed to satisfy players old and new. Meet the next generation of explorers as they find themselves on the Moon, searching for treasure and missing family.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 750, 604 MB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
Spelunky 2 scores 81/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/418530/spelunky-2Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 6, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.