The Darkness II
Fair · Shooter · 2012
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
A BANGER at $5.53, only fair at $29.99.
- Length
- 6h
- Value
- $5.00/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
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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.
An intense first person shooter that delivers a twisted and gripping narrative of tragedy, modern crime drama, and supernatural horror.
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.49. That was October 2025. 88 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 80 percent off, roughly 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. Past sales have already crossed the $5.53 BANGER line 19 times.
On value it sits in the top 28 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 90 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 UNLOVED ($4.99, scores 33).
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 8. This site sampled 544 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 4 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 70 percent of the 843 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 2.5 times the campaign.
The drop-off
84% start to 35% finishPeople genuinely stick with this one. Steam global achievements
Players
19 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
The only regret I have about playing Darkness II is that I did not keep an accurate count on how many times "The Darkness" is mentioned in the dialogue. Some of the game mechanics are old and didn't age well, but the raw form of the game is excellent. This title isn't really meant to be played in stealth mode (except for the darkling segments) and you will get more enjoyment if you are more of a run and gunner...
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I was really enjoying The Darkness II and making good progress through the game, but unfortunately I ran into a game breaking bug that completely stopped me from continuing. After entering one of the vents, I simply cannot get back out. It feels like there is an invisible wall or some kind of invisible blockage preventing me from leaving the vent. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the game, verifying the game...
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 Darkness II scores 56/100 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/67370/the-darkness-iiThe 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 11, price as of Sep 24.
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