The Surge 2
Skip · RPG · 2019
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $29.99.
- Length
- 20.5h
- Value
- $1.46/hr
- Reviews
- 75% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 59% over the last 30 days against 75% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 2 GB, AMD Radeon R9 280 / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950, 20 GB of storage. Windows only.
In a bid to survive, explore the sprawling, devastated Jericho City. Fight ferocious threats in brutal, unforgiving combat, slashing and tearing the limbs off your opponents to steal their equipment.
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 $2.99, set in November 2025. Its cuts run 80 percent off as a rule. There have been 65 in the 7 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 37 percent on value. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, The Surge ($14.99, scores 43) beats it on value, while it beats Mortal Shell ($29.99, scores 17).
Players rate it 75 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 59 percent. Something recent has soured the room. 11 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 33 percent of the 957 reviews written there were positive, against 75 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
Players
81 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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The Surge 2 scores 37/100 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/644830/the-surge-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 Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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