The Evil Within 2
Fair · Shooter · 2017
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
A BANGER at $13.36, only fair at $39.99.
- Length
- 13.3h
- Value
- $3.01/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
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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.
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.
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
October 2022 is where it bottomed out, at $5.99. 58 discounts in the 9 years on record. They run about 80 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks. The math puts its BANGER price at $13.36. The record reaches that level 40 times.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 17 percent on value. It is pricier than 94 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 60).
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 8. 13 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2023 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 71 percent of the 835 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 13.3 hours; clearing it takes 29, which is 2.1 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 13.3 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
80% start to 44% finishPeople genuinely stick with this one. Steam global achievements
Players
176 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
This is another one of those games which are good if we look at them by themselves, and... moot if we compare them to the earlier game. This is the issue with Steam's recommendation system: would I recommend it? Yeah. Do I think this game deserves a bit of backlash for the direction it took after the first game? Absolutely, and I'll explain more about it later. But Steam will just turn all of that into a statistic...
The Evil Within 2 does a lot of things better compared to it's predecessor but I have to admit it has lost some of it's mystery and uniqueness. Which happens a lot in sequels. But if you love the first game and/or any RE game. You will love this. It's still pretty scary.
After playing The Evil Within 1, I immediately jumped into this game because I was a huge fan of the first one and wanted to know more about the story. First of all, the graphics are definitely improved. The textures, environments, and overall look of the game are much better. However, there is a big change of gameplay compared to the first game, and that is the more open areas. Unlike EW1, which is more linear and...
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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The Evil Within 2 scores 66/100 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/601430/the-evil-within-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 14, price as of Sep 24.
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