The Darkness II
Fair · Shooter · 2012
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 90% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$29.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$2.9990% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $5.00/hr
- ReviewsS
- 92% of 21,268
- Critics
- 77 players 15 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 30% Shooter
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 6h
- To 100%
- 15.3h 2.6x the story
- Finish
- 35% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 50
Price and sales
- Sales
- 90 on record
- Typical cut
- 80% off
- Steam low
- $1.49 October 2025
- Sale every
- 36d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 60 now
- Recent reviews
- 90% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 7% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 88% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
84% start to 35% 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
90 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 80 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Past sales have already crossed the $5.53 BANGER line 21 times.
Its score sits in the top 30 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 88 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Quake 4 ($14.99, scores 62) beats it on value, while it beats Killing Floor: Incursion ($19.99, scores 0).
More about The Darkness II
77 from critics against 92 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data puts 35 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 18. This site sampled 552 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 5 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 70 percent of the 846 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 6 hours; clearing it takes 15, which is 2.6 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
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
Very fun even in 2026 where all the new games suck, Pc specs don't matter since the game is old, the biggest down side is you must lock the game to 60 fps like most old games due the janky collision physics.
2 more reviews
It's quite funny how in another game (Dying Light 2) that I am playing you carry a special flash light to blind the enemies and throw ultra violet glow sticks to also blind the enemy and in this game the tables are turned as that is what the enemies do to you as you get the power from the darkness and must stay in the shadows to keep the dark powers working, otherwise you just shoot them with a multitude of dual...
fun game, had a great time well worth the $3 i paid, if you get stuck in vents turn on v-sync weird fix but it works, and if some of the cutscenes are super loud i turned the volume down in my sound mixer settings and that did the trick
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About the game
An intense first person shooter that delivers a twisted and gripping narrative of tragedy, modern crime drama, and supernatural horror.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1.5 GB of memory, 256MB NVIDIA GeForce 8600 / ATI Radeon HD 2600, 10 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Cite this score
The Darkness II scores 56/100 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/67370/the-darkness-iiReviews 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 4, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.