Castle of no Escape 2
Skip · Roguelike · 2016
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The reviews do not carry it. What it costs you is time.
- Length
- 3h 6.9h to 100%
- Price
- Free to play
- Reviews
- 77% of 461 positive
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
About the game
Explore 6 x 6 x 6 = 216 rooms of randomly generated hazards and enemies while collecting the necessary artefacts. Hundreds of monsters are roaming inside, guarding the sword shards — the last known thing to be capable of defeating the demonic castle owner.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 64MB VRAM, 205 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It is less well reviewed than 61 percent of its genre. Dead Cells ($24.99, scores 95) outscores it, and so does Star of Providence ($14.99, scores 84). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Castle of no Escape 2
Inside the two-hour refund window, 63 percent of the 126 reviews written there were positive, against 77 percent overall, and those are 37 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 3 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 7, 2.3 times as much.
The drop-off
11% start to 5% finishA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
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1 more review
Castle of no Escape 2 is a retro dungeon crawler that feels completely dedicated to recreating the harsh and mysterious atmosphere of old-school fantasy games from the 8-bit era. From the moment the game begins, it becomes obvious that modern conveniences and accessibility were never part of the design philosophy. Instead, the game embraces brutal difficulty, cryptic mechanics, limited guidance, and constant danger...
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Cite this score
Castle of no Escape 2 scores 44/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/542350/castle-of-no-escape-2Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.