RAGE 2

RAGE 2

Skip · Shooter · 2019

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The verdict

SKIP IT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

It scores 8, under the fair line, at $39.99.

Cost per hour▼
$3.77/hr
Reviews▼
63% of 17,084
Critics
73 players 10 lower
Genre rank
Top 86% Shooter

Holding it back: Monetization, Reviews

Why
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Time and effort

Main story
10.6h
To 100%
32.8h 3.1x the story
Finish
4% reach the ending
Achievements
64

Price and sales

Sales
47 on record
Typical cut
75% off
Steam low
$7.99 November 2022
Sale every
46d last October 2026
Lowest now $7.19 at Fanaticalall-time low $4.99 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
23 now
Cheaper than
3% of its genre
Better reviewed
17% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

86% start to 4% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

It has been discounted 47 times in the 7 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 83 percent. RAGE ($9.99, scores 52) outscores it, and so does DOOM Eternal ($29.99, scores 64). Both sit among its closest neighbours.

More about RAGE 2

Critics scored it 73, but players land 10 points lower at 63 percent. The reviews were kinder than the room.

Steam's global achievement data puts about 4 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 10.6-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 13 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2022 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 36 percent of the 2,037 reviews written there were positive, against 63 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (currency, infinite spend); the score docks it lightly for that.

The main story runs 10.6 hours. Doing everything runs 33, 3.1 times as long.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 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

Raising the score
Engagement4% finish
How far players get (achievements). It can only add points
Holding it back
Cost per hour$3.77/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
MonetizationCurrency, Infinite spend
Loot boxes / pay-to-win drag the score down
DRMBethesda.net account needed
Needs a second account on top of Steam, a small friction discount
For context
Refunds13 of 800 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
In-app purchasesCurrency, Infinite spendPCGamingWiki

What players say

I played this on Xbox and had to purchase this again on Steam. The game still holds up well and imo way better than the first game. The Deluxe version is an absolute must and well worth it. I complete this game on the Xbox with the same version and never had to buy Rage coins. People review bombing with anything related to having to buy them is nonsense. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO SPEND MONEY ON RAGE COINS! It's a fun FPS...
A Steam playerRecommendedafter 10h6 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
An underrated gem of a game. Plays and feels like modern Doom games. Had it on PS4 but it looks and plays much much better on a modern pc.
A Steam playerRecommendedafter 10hOct 2026Read on Steam
I'm gonna be very harsh for this one, but generally speaking, I'm tired of game companies creating big open world, dropping some shitty repeatable side content, thinking it's somehow equals to full game and walk away. This game is a full on open world slop, like they did it in Mafia 3 or Far cry 5, where you need to do slop points on the map to earn "respect" in that region/faction to do another mission, which there...
A Steam playerNot recommendedafter 20hOct 2026Read on Steam

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

About the game

RAGE 2 brings together two studio powerhouses – Avalanche Studios, masters of open world insanity, and id Software, creators of the first-person shooter – to deliver a carnival of carnage where you can go anywhere, shoot anything, and explode everything.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 780 3GB or AMD R9 280 3GB, 50 GB of storage. Windows only.

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
RAGE 2 scores 8/100 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/548570/rage-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 Oct 14, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players-10
Critics73
Players63
Metacritic critics · 17,084 Steam player reviews

Details

Developerid Software
PublisherBethesda Softworks
GenreShooter
Released2019
Players750Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements64