The Evil Within 2
Fair · Shooter · 2017
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair 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
$39.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$7.9980% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.98/hr
- ReviewsS
- 92% of 31,227
- Critics
- 80 players 12 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 18% Shooter
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $7.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 13.4h
- To 100%
- 28.5h 2.1x the story
- Finish
- 44% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 51
Price and sales
- Sales
- 60 on record
- Typical cut
- 80% off
- Steam low
- $5.99 October 2022
- Sale every
- 47d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 124 now
- Recent reviews
- 88% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 3% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 89% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
80% start to 44% 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
The value story
The value story
60 discounts in the 9 years on record, a median of 80 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $13.41. The record reaches that level 42 times.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 18 percent. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Metro Exodus ($29.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Resident Evil Village ($39.99, scores 61).
More about The Evil Within 2
80 from critics against 92 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data puts 44 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 18. 13 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2023 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 71 percent of the 838 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 13.4 hours; clearing it takes 29, which is 2.1 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 13.4 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $7.99 (80% off). Predictions like this were right 87% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Last discount ended 5 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
I want to make a comparison between different aspects of TEW1 and TEW2 to clarify which aspect I believe each game does better. 1. Visuals And Overall Atmosphere: The first game in my opinion has one of the most unique and visually appealing aesthetics of any survival horror game I've ever seen. The gritty atmosphere is probably one of my most favorite parts of the original game; it saddens me that TEW2 very clearly...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
This is a perfect sequel for the first game, though a bit longer than i expected to be because the game gets much more of your time than the first one whos more linear, the start with the open world felt really good, but the more it went down the more it bothered me, still it was a better game than the first one, i really enjoyed the survival horror elements and references from other games and movies, sadly we will...
A step backwards from the previous game. I got it over a year ago~ and finished it today. I just didn't want to continue playing like I did the previous game. The open-ish world aspect really ruins it for me. The villains are also really lame. I don't remember if I got DLC with this, but its not like im going to bother to play it
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Detective Sebastian Castellanos has lost everything, including his daughter, Lily. To save her, he must descend into the nightmarish world of STEM. Horrifying threats emerge from every corner, and he must rely on his wits to survive. For his one chance at redemption, the only way out is in.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 660 2GB / AMD HD 7970 3GB or better, 40 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
The Evil Within 2 scores 66/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/601430/the-evil-within-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 7, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.