Resident Evil 2 (1998)
Worth it · Action · 2026
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99.
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.61/hr
- ReviewsA
- 91% of 2,429
- Genre rank
- Top 3% Action
Holding it back: DRM, Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 6.2h
- To 100%
- 15.8h 2.5x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 6 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $4.99 April 2026
- Sale every
- 23d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 62 now
- Recent reviews
- 92% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 24% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 96% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 6 times in the 7 months tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 3 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 4 days ago.
Its score puts it in the top 3 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 76 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Resident Evil (1996) ($9.99, scores 70) beats it on value, while it beats Resident Evil 3 Nemesis (1999) ($9.99, scores 67).
More about Resident Evil 2 (1998)
10 of the 499 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2026 to October 2026. In its first 30 days on sale, 6 of 146 sampled reviews came from refunders. Inside the two-hour refund window, 79 percent of the 668 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 31 percent of everything written about it.
6.2 hours to finish it, 16 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.5 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 4 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
About the game
Command Leon S. Kennedy, a rookie cop who stumbles onto the carnage reporting for his first duty, or play as Claire Redfield, desperately searching for her missing brother. Cutting edge 3-D accelerated graphics that create a terrifying, photo-realistic experience.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 1660(6GB) or Radeon RX 5600XT(6GB), 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Resident Evil 2 (1998) scores 69/100 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/4249110/resident-evil-2-1998Reviews 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 Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.