HELLDIVERS™ 2
Skip · Shooter · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 32, under the fair line, at $39.99.
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.25/hr
- Reviews▼
- 74% of 1,181,582
- Genre rank
- Top 60% Shooter
Holding it back: DRM, Reviews
Why
Recent reviews trending down: 32% over the last 30 days against 74% all-time.
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Time and effort
- Main story
- 31.9h
- To 100%
- 88.2h 2.8x the story
- Achievements
- 38
Price and sales
- Sales
- 16 on record
- Typical cut
- 20% off
- Steam low
- $29.99 February 2026
- Sale every
- 49d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 23,702 now
- Recent reviews
- 32% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 3% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 39% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
95% start to 11% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 16 times in the 3 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 20 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 61 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Aliens: Fireteam Elite ($5.99, scores 56) beats it on value, while it beats Predecessor (free, scores 27).
More about HELLDIVERS™ 2
Players rate it 74 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 32 percent. Something recent has soured the room. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written in October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 46 percent of the 19,886 reviews written there were positive, against 74 percent overall, and those are 2 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (unlock); the score docks it lightly for that.
31.9 hours to finish it, 88 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.8 times the campaign.
1,181,582 people have reviewed it, which is a big enough crowd to settle the number.
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
What players say
Arrowhead hates the modding community. Do to their recent decision regarding modding and EAC countermeasures, I have decided to shelve this game until I'm truly desperate for something to play. Punishing hardworking modders for hard work in fixing the bugs that Arrowhead is clearly to lazy to care about is just the tip of the iceberg. I can't in good conscience, continue to support this game after this terrible...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Cracking down on mods instead of actually fixing issues in the game we have requested for 2 years is a real kick on the balls. -Stratagem ball bouncing -Excessive ragdoll -Excessive volumetric fog spam that makes the game run worse -Being unable to mix and match armor and armor passives -Hellpod steering locking up forcing you to land where the game wants you to go, often leading you to your death -Inconsistent...
I have played this cursed and glorious game for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of hours upon the PlayStation. Then I acquired another PlayStation. Then mine eldest offspring claimed my account, for it possessed many fine weapons. So I fled unto the second PlayStation. Then mine other offspring discovered that account also possessed many weapons. I could not, in good conscience, deprive my sons of democracy. Thus was I...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
The Galaxy’s Last Line of Offence. Enlist in the Helldivers and join the fight for freedom across a hostile galaxy in a fast, frantic, and ferocious third-person shooter.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti or AMD Radeon RX 470, 135 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
HELLDIVERS™ 2 scores 32/100 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/553850/helldivers-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 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.