Victoria II
Worth it · Strategy · 2010
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 75% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$19.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$4.9975% offWorth it
- Cost per hourS
- $0.77/hr
- ReviewsS
- 92% of 20,039
- Critics
- 75 players 17 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Strategy
Holding it back: Recent reviews
Why
Recent reviews trending down: 53% over the last 30 days against 92% all-time.
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 25.9h
- To 100%
- 252.2h 9.7x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 124 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $2.99 October 2014
- Sale every
- 38d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 525 now
- Recent reviews
- 53% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 7% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 97% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
124 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 1 percent. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Victoria 3 ($49.99, scores 27) and Imperator: Rome ($39.99, scores 17).
More about Victoria II
Critics scored it 75. Players sit 17 points higher at 92 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Players rate it 92 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 53 percent. Something recent has soured the room. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 10 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 66 percent of the 1,089 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 25.9 hours; clearing it takes 252, which is 9.7 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 19 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
My 2nd favourite Grand Strategy game before EU4. Works really well for the period it is set in, and still more enjoyable than Victoria 3, even without mods.
2 more reviews
Absolutely terrible, horrendous, incomplete, filled with bugs, objectively one of the worst games to ever exist. But still better than Victoria 3 though.
A classic game that, while complex, you don't have to relearn every update, and all the mods today will work for the most part.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Carefully guide your nation from the era of absolute monarchies in the early 19th century, through expansion and colonization, to finally become a truly great power by the dawn of the 20th century. Victoria II is a grand strategy game played during the colonial era of the 19th century, where the player takes control of a country, guiding...
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 8800 or ATI Radeon X1900, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Victoria II scores 84/100 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/42960/victoria-iiReviews 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.