2Dark
Fair · Narrative · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $2.49. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 8.8h
- Value
- $0.28/hr
- Reviews
- 78% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Nvidia Geforce GT 9800 / ATi Radeon HD 4870, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
2Dark is a stealth adventure game developed by Frédérick Raynal, the pioneer of survival horror games and creator of Alone in the Dark®. Make your way through the lairs of psychopaths, unravel intrigue where madness mingles with horror, and, above all, save the kids!
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
June 2020 is where it bottomed out, at $2.49. It has been discounted 70 times in the 10 years tracked here, typically at 90 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today's $2.49 at 90 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
At full price it scores 38. The current cut is what makes it a 52.
On value it sits in the top 18 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 61 percent. Little Nightmares ($4.99, scores 88) outscores it, and so does Hello Neighbor Alpha 4 (free, scores 61). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
Critics scored it 68. Players sit 10 points higher at 78 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
1 of the 367 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026.
The drop-off
25% start to 3% 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
3 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
Cool dark story, but terrible controls and ridiculous difficulty spikes. Would be fine for $5, but not $25.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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2Dark scores 52/100 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/435100/2darkThe 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 23, price as of Sep 24.
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