Warhammer: Vermintide 2
Fair · Roguelike · 2018
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $29.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 10.8h
- Value
- $2.78/hr
- Reviews
- 85% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 or AMD Radeon HD 5870, 60 GB of storage. Windows only.
The critically acclaimed Vermintide 2 is a visually stunning and groundbreaking melee action game pushing the boundaries of the first person co-op genre. Join the fight now!
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.49. That was November 2024. 85 discounts in the 9 years on record. They run about 80 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 28 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 68 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide ($29.99, scores 54) and Diablo® IV ($12.49, scores 15).
3 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 51 percent of the 3,887 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (cosmetic); the score docks it lightly for that.
HowLongToBeat players log 10.8 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 124, 12 times as much.
8 years after release it still had 2.1K people in it at once.
The drop-off
74% start to 6% rarestNo 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
2,124 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
3000 hours. It's a lot of time to put into a game. What will you get out of this game? In general, a simple-to-pick-up, yet always-room-to-grow sort of game where there always is one more challenge to nail down. The characters, and weapons, are varied and interesting. The banter between the characters is witty and has charm. You'll develop favorite missions and missions you absolutely dread, and yet press on you...
I got this game and loved the bloody, medieval atmosphere, I especially love rpgs with this kind of vibe, fewer fiddly little details to worry about and more actual combat. I was hooked for a while, met a lot of cool people, and grew a bit attached to Kerillian and Krub. Overall, it's a good game; it's worth buying some of the map expansions, like the one with the well, and the lobby also has interesting details.
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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Warhammer: Vermintide 2 scores 64/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/552500/warhammer-vermintide-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 12, price as of Sep 24.
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