SteamWorld Dig 2
Worth it · Action · 2017
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99, a BANGER if it drops to $9.21.
- Length
- 7.3h
- Value
- $2.74/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 348 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
SteamWorld Dig is back! Dig deep, gain riches and unearth the terrors of the underworld in this platform mining adventure influenced by classic Metroidvania style games.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
June 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $1.19. It has been discounted 79 times in the 9 years tracked here, typically at 70 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Past sales have already crossed the $9.21 BANGER line 64 times.
Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, SteamWorld Dig ($9.99, scores 78) beats it on value, while it beats 8Doors: Arum's Afterlife Adventure ($19.99, scores 42).
85 from critics against 95 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data puts 21 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. 4 of the 494 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 75 percent of the 288 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 7.3 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
78% start to 21% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Players
29 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 21:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I was initially unsure about the concept of this game. Having to constantly go back up to sell ores? I was convinced it was going to be a slog. Little did I know, I was about to play one of the finest, most well-crafted metroidvanias of all time. The game is very generous with travel points. Each area has like 5-6 of them, which means getting back up and back down is never an issue. Exploring the caves was...
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Cite this score
SteamWorld Dig 2 scores 71/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/571310/steamworld-dig-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 Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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