Dead Rising® 2
Skip · Action · 2010
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $19.99.
- Length
- 14.4h
- Value
- $1.39/hr
- Reviews
- 78% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 8800GTS or better, ATI Radeon HD 3850 or better, 8.5 GB of storage. Windows only.
The sequel to the million-plus selling Dead Rising, Dead Rising 2 takes the zombie survival horror to Fortune City, America’s latest and greatest entertainment playground.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
March 2013 is where it bottomed out, at $4.99. It has been discounted 92 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 70 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 2 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 21 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 73 percent. Among the games that feel like it, How to Survive ($3.74, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats Dead Rising 2: Off the Record ($19.99, scores 41).
Steam's global achievement data says about 11 percent of players ever finish it. On a 14.4-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. This site sampled 799 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 12 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2022 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,221 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 815 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 45 percent of the 977 reviews written there were positive, against 78 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (finite spend, unlock); the score docks it lightly for that.
The main story runs 14.4 hours. Doing everything runs 52, 3.6 times as long.
The drop-off
48% start to 11% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
64 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
Overall: 8.5/10 Story: I remember playing this game back on PS3 and while I wouldn't consider the narrative to be all that thought provoking or groundbreaking, I still found it surprisingly enjoyable all these years later. What it lacks in originality, it makes up for with a strong sense of personality and a story that's very easy to get invested in. Chuck is a cool protagonist because, besides being a badass former...
Dead Rising 2 is a pretty decent sequel to the first game, although it kinda slips in some aspects that kind of keeps it from being a better game than the original. Dead Rising 2 is a zombie survival game where you run around a Las Vegas ripoff city called Fortune City trying to find anti-zombie meds for your kid while trying to uncover and expose a conspiracy that you're forced into. It shares a lot of aspects with...
Coop Doesn't work. I would not recomend this game if you are looking to play with friend.
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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Dead Rising® 2 scores 44/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/45740/dead-rising-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 15, price as of Sep 24.
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