Guacamelee! 2

Guacamelee! 2

Fair · Action · 2018

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
8.8h
Value
$2.27/hr
Reviews
91% positive
It needs 20% off ($15.91) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
8.8h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
15.7h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$2.27
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$19.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
91%
3,388 reviews, as of Sep 26
Metacritic
84
critic score
Players
75K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2018

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Shader Model 5.0 (DX11 support required), 2 GB available graphics memory, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.

Head back to the Mexiverse in this long-awaited sequel to the smash hit Guacamelee! Uppercut your way to victory across stunning new hand-crafted levels. Featuring a dense and colorful world, new luchador moves, sassy new bosses, twice the enemies, and 300% more chickens!
Description from the Steam store page.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Reviews91% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Holding it back
Value$2.27/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
Length8.8 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach75K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 446 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

The lowest price on record is $3.99, set in November 2019. It has been discounted 76 times in the 8 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales.

Value puts it in the top 4 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Guacamelee! Gold Edition ($14.99, scores 69) beats it on value, while it beats Rayman® Origins ($19.99, scores 56).

Of the 446 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 69 percent of the 121 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.

At 8.8 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.

The drop-off

76% start to 3% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements

Players

6 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 21:48 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

You can never go wrong with a sequel to add more or improve upon, and for the most part, Guacamelee 2 delivers on everything that made the original a fantastic game! It comes with a handful of new additions like a skill tree for different upgrades, 4 player co-op action, and a few revamped combat options that will provide a good challenge, as this sequel will heavily test you more so than the first! The game is...
NocticityRecommendedafter 25hAug 2026Read on Steam
In order to get the good ending, you have to play very hard platforming levels and in those levels they pair the inconsistent mechanic with the requirement of a precise timing and positioning, the result is very very bad experience. The game doesn't have a good quick travel system, you can only teleport from one main area to other main area other than that you have to walk, it is tedious.
CherrymochaNot recommendedafter 11h2 found this helpfulRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

Cite this score

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Guacamelee! 2 scores 64/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/534550/guacamelee-2
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Reviews 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 Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.

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Critics vs players+7
Critics
84
Players
91
Critics and players agree on this one.
Metacritic critics · 3,388 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperDrinkbox Studios
PublisherDrinkbox Studios
GenreAction
Released2018
Achievements49