Dead Rising 2: Off the Record
Skip · Action · 2011
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 41, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.53/hr
- Reviews▼
- 77% of 4,313
- Critics
- 66 players 11 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 24% Action
Holding it back: Reviews, Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 13.1h
- To 100%
- 39h 3.0x the story
- Achievements
- 50
Price and sales
- Sales
- 94 on record
- Typical cut
- 70% off
- Steam low
- $4.99 June 2017
- Sale every
- 43d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 20 now
- Cheaper than
- 6% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 70% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
59% start to 2% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
94 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 70 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 4 days ago.
Its score sits in the top 24 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 70 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Dead Rising® 2 ($19.99, scores 44) beats it on value, while it beats Strange Brigade ($49.99, scores 39).
More about Dead Rising 2: Off the Record
66 from critics against 77 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
This site sampled 730 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 13 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 47 percent of the 406 reviews written there were positive, against 77 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 13.1 hours. Doing everything runs 39, 3.0 times as long.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 13.1 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 4 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
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
Overall: 7.5/10 Story: I have a lot of nostalgia for both this and the OG Dead Rising 2, but having revisited them all these years later, I really don't like the narrative in this one. I understand that this whole game is meant to be a "what if?" scenario that doesn't take itself too seriously, and I respect that they actually went out of their way to provide significant twists/changes to the plot so it's not...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I love base Dead Rising 2 but never got to play Off the Record. Been having a blast with it. All the core systems with new weapons, areas, and the return of Frank West with his camera. Great fun. With the community patch and a PlayStation buttons mod it has run flawlessly for me but I know others have not been so lucky. Such a fun game to just run around in and that is even easier to do in this version thanks to the...
even if you download a community made patch that restores gamepad support the game still crashes like every 10 minutes lmao dont even bother
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
You are Frank West – photojournalist and original hero of the Dead Rising Willamette incident – taking center stage experiencing the re-imagined Fortune City outbreak.
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: Off the Record scores 41/100 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/45770/dead-rising-2-off-the-recordReviews 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 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.