Dead Space™ 2
BANGER · Shooter · 2011
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $3.99.
- Length
- 9.1h
- Value
- $0.44/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
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.
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
The lowest price on record is $1.99, set in December 2021. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 85 in the 14 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $3.99 at 80 percent off still sits 101 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
Take the discount away and it is a 69. With it, 88.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 3 percent on value. It is pricier than 80 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. The nearest things to it, Dead Space (2008) ($7.99, scores 66) and Dead Space™ 3 ($3.99, scores 37), are both worse buys on this math.
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $7.94. It costs $3.99.
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 725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 584 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.
Players
82 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
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...
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...
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 Space™ 2 scores 88/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/47780/dead-space-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 Aug 3, price as of Sep 24.
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