Left 4 Dead 2
BANGER · Shooter · 2009
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $9.99.
- Length
- 10.3h
- Value
- $0.97/hr
- Reviews
- 98% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Video card with 128 MB, Shader model 2.0. ATI X800, NVidia 6600 or better, 13 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $0.99, set in November 2022. 73 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 80 percent off, roughly 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 8 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 99 percent of its genre. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Left 4 Dead ($9.99, scores 97) and Killing Floor ($19.99, scores 94).
Critics scored it 89. Players sit 9 points higher at 98 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Steam's global achievement data says about 6 percent of players ever finish it. On a 10.3-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 9 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written June 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 92 percent of the 36,471 reviews written there were positive, against 98 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 10.3 hours; clearing it takes 63, which is 6.1 times the campaign.
17 years after release it still had 25.1K people in it at once.
At 10.3 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
2 players here own this. Their libraries average 65 BANG. See the leaderboard →
The drop-off
70% start to 6% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 10.3-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
25.1K 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
A 2009 Game That Aged Like The Purest Wine You play as Coach, Ellis, Nick and Rochelle, four survivors trying to make their way through a zombie apocalypse from Savannah to New Orleans. Every campaign has its own personality through its environments, events, level design and atmosphere, and having the original Left 4 Dead campaigns included makes the amount of content even better. For a game this old, there's still...
If only Valve knew how to count to three.. but this will go under the greatest gaming classics no doubt.
juego muy divertido y muy inclusivo, todos los compañeros que me tocan son retrasados
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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Left 4 Dead 2 scores 98/100 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/550/left-4-dead-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 Sep 10, price as of Sep 24.
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