Dead Rising® 2
Skip · Action · 2010
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Under the fair line today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 75% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$19.99Skip
Typical seasonal cut
$4.9975% offFair
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.39/hr
- Reviews▼
- 78% of 8,935
- Critics
- 78
- Genre rank
- Top 20% Action
Holding it back: Monetization, Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 14.4h
- To 100%
- 51.9h 3.6x the story
- Finish
- 12% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 50
Price and sales
- Sales
- 94 on record
- Typical cut
- 70% off
- Steam low
- $4.99 March 2013
- Sale every
- 43d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 20 now
- Cheaper than
- 6% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 75% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
48% start to 12% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 94 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 70 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 4 days ago.
Its score sits in the top 20 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 75 percent. Among the games that feel like it, How to Survive ($14.99, scores 58) beats it on value, while it beats Dead Rising 2: Off the Record ($19.99, scores 41).
More about Dead Rising® 2
Steam's global achievement data puts about 12 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 14.4-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 799 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 13 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2022 to October 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,368 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 545 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 45 percent of the 981 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.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 4 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
Good times were had on the Xbox 360 and new ones will be made on PC, But first thing to do is turn on Controller in PC Settings and get clowndr2fix to skip intros and give compatibility to all controllers.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
game be so fun you be like drum on bombie head and he be like ah! and you be like hey little girl i give you drug and you alasoo be like lightsaber and gable yahoo fun
JFC this game did not age well. I still really enjoy the first original Dead Rising, I don't know how the made it worse. The hitboxes, the bosses, the slow running, the magnetized zombies... holy lord.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
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.
Cite this score
Dead Rising® 2 scores 44/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/45740/dead-rising-2Reviews 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 Nov 8, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.