Dead Space™ 2
Worth it · Shooter · 2011
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 80% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$19.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$3.9980% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.20/hr
- ReviewsS
- 94% of 30,361
- Critics
- 87 players 7 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 15% Shooter
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Monetization
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 9.1h
- To 100%
- 16.3h 1.8x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 86 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $1.99 December 2021
- Sale every
- 41d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 122 now
- Recent reviews
- 94% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 16% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 94% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
Across all 86 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 6 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $7.94. The record reaches that level 85 times.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 15 percent. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Dead Space (2008) ($19.99, scores 72) beats it on value, while it beats Dead Space™ 3 ($19.99, scores 32).
More about Dead Space™ 2
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 11 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written October 2023 to August 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,424 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 1,200 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 80 percent of the 2,420 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (time-limited); the score docks it lightly for that.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 31 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
Dead Space. You can't say you've played survival horrors until you've played Dead Space. There is something about the story, the gameplay and the characters that make it so engaging. I've played every game in the franchise, including the mobile and Wii games and I even have one of their development art books. Dead Space is an IP that just can't replicated anywhere else. Callisto Protocol tried to make itself what...
1 more review, not recommended
FACK YOU... AND FACK YOUR MARKER!!! Dead Space 2 is weird. There's a lot more items, but it doesn't have the weapon filtering system of the remake so there are a lot of junk ammo drops that are just sold for cash, so in practice you don't have as much as you think. There are way more enemies so you need a lot more drops. Dismemberment is more of an afterthought in that game - your lethality and enemy lethality and...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Three years after the Necromorph infestation aboard the USS Ishimura, Isaac Clarke awakens from a coma, confused, disoriented, and on a space station called The Sprawl. Explore this world and its zero-g environments to discover the truth about the Unitology and its role in the Necromorph epidemic.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Dead Space™ 2 scores 69/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/47780/dead-space-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 Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.