Left 4 Dead 2
BANGER · Shooter · 2009
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
A BANGER today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 80% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$9.99BANGER
Typical seasonal cut
$1.9980% offBANGER
- Cost per hourS
- $0.97/hr
- ReviewsS
- 98% of 1,068,020
- Critics
- 89 players 9 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Shooter
Watch this gameOne alert at $1.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 10.3h
- To 100%
- 62.8h 6.1x the story
- Finish
- 6% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 101
Price and sales
- Sales
- 74 on record
- Typical cut
- 80% off
- Steam low
- $0.99 November 2022
- Sale every
- 54d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 22,798 now
- Recent reviews
- 97% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 46% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
70% start to 6% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
74 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 80 percent off across all of them, roughly 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 1 percent. It is better reviewed than 99 percent of its genre. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Killing Floor ($19.99, scores 94) and Counter-Strike Nexon (scores 17).
More about Left 4 Dead 2
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 puts about 6 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 10.3-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 10 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2026 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 92 percent of the 36,621 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.
1,068,020 people have reviewed it, which is a big enough crowd to settle the number.
At 10.3 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $1.99 (80% off). Predictions like this were right 92% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
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
What players say
Left 4 Dead 2: The Immortal King of Co-op Zombie Shooters When Valve released Left 4 Dead 2 in 2009, barely a year after its predecessor, skeptics wondered if it was too soon for a sequel. Fast forward to today, and the game stands as an undeniable masterpiece that has stubbornly refused to age. It isn't just one of the best zombie games ever made; it is the definitive cooperative shooter experience, setting a gold...
2 more reviews
The best game in my Steam Library. You can play both campaigns of L4D 1 and 2 in one game! The best feature in this game is the mods on workshop. You can remaster the game and fix any issue using mods and stuff. With mods, you can play almost anyone you want, even Ryan Gosling! Very fun game and highly recommended.
I've known about this game for years but never actually got to play it until now. I used to watch VanossGaming play it all the time. Definitely one of the best zombie games. 10/10
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
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.
Cite this score
Left 4 Dead 2 scores 97/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/550/left-4-dead-2Reviews 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 Nov 3, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.