HELLDIVERS™ 2
Skip · Shooter · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $39.99.
- Length
- 31.9h
- Value
- $1.25/hr
- Reviews
- 76% positive
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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.
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.
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
The lowest price on record is $29.99, set in February 2026. It has been discounted 15 times in the 3 years tracked here, typically at 20 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 6 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 50 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Aliens: Fireteam Elite ($29.99, scores 56) beats it on value, while it beats Predecessor (free, scores 28).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 12 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 46 percent of the 19,907 reviews written there were positive, against 76 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, 87 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.7 times the campaign.
1,161,477 people have reviewed it, which is a big enough crowd to settle the number.
2 players here own this. Their libraries average 65 BANG. See the leaderboard →
The drop-off
95% start to 11% 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
53.4K 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
Imagine you're an ODST in the multiverse, and the galaxy is under attack by terminators that killed john connors planet, and the flood that destroyed the first halo installation, and the bugs from the starship troopers universe all at the same time. That is this game
Yes It is recommended for democarcy and LiberTEA. For newer player please download the Helldiver app in playstore or surf the web for Helldiver companion app in PC. It help you decide which planet to play on so that as community can liberate planet faster as the game deliberately hides progress percentage especially those liberating city mechanics.
Game just crashes on loading screen after the new update. And im tired of having to mindlessly run around for super credits just to get 1 semi decent good gun that they'll more than likely nerf. Was fun for a while, but I think they have so much potential that is unrealized.
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.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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HELLDIVERS™ 2 scores 38/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/553850/helldivers-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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