Watch_Dogs® 2
Fair · Shooter · 2016
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $2.49. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 19.5h
- Value
- $0.13/hr
- Reviews
- 82% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, 27 GB of storage. Windows only.
Welcome to San Francisco. Play as Marcus, a brilliant young hacker, and join the most notorious hacker group, DedSec. Your objective: execute the biggest hack of history.
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
It has never been cheaper than $2.49. That was June 2026. It has been discounted 81 times in the 10 years tracked here, typically at 80 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today's $2.49 at 95 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
Take the discount away and it is a 45. With it, 60.
On value it sits in the top 24 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 65 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Rise of the Tomb Raider™ ($29.99, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats Watch_Dogs™ ($1.99, scores 57).
9 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 44 percent of the 8,422 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 19.5 hours. Doing everything runs 47, 2.4 times as long.
10 years after release it still had 863 people in it at once.
The drop-off
36% start to <1% 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
863 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
How to complete 90% of the missions in this game: - Step 1: Find a high rooftop outside the restricted zone - Step 2: Deploy your drone and remote RC car - Step 3: Hack police database and report a gang boss as a wanted fugitive - Step 4: Hack the gang database and call a hit on the police responding to the call - Step 5: Sit back and watch World War 3 erupt while you casually download the objective files Way more...
What is Watch_Dogs® 2 about & why it's relevant The game Watch_Dogs® 2 does a great job if it comes to explaining how the modern world looks like, how companies & governments are screwing us all up for their own profits where they go as far as to decide for us whether we need help or not. While they don't explicitly name these companies (most likely for legal reasons), they use parody names instead as well as...
would play more of this game, but the flickering bug with nvidia cards is impossible to fix, for a game thats partnered with Nvidia, Ubislop sure know how to forget there own games even exist. FIX YOUR FREAKING GAME
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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Watch_Dogs® 2 scores 60/100 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/447040/watch-dogs-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 12, price as of Sep 24.
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