Evil Genius 2: World Domination
Skip · Strategy · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 23, under the fair line, at $39.99.
- Length
- 24.1h
- Value
- $1.66/hr
- Reviews
- 69% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GT 1030 2GB, Radeon RX 550 2GB, 18 GB of storage. Windows only.
A satirical spy-fi lair builder where YOU are the criminal mastermind! Construct your base, train your minions, defend your operations from the Forces of Justice, and achieve global domination!
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
March 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $1.99. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 31 in the 6 years tracked, about 11 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 73 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Buggos ($9.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Ruinarch ($24.99, scores 7).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 6 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 24.1-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 11 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2024 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 49 percent of the 782 reviews written there were positive, against 69 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 24.1 hours; clearing it takes 48, which is 2.0 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
94% start to 6% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 24.1-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
68 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 02:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Evil Genius is half a great game welded to a screensaver. The first stretch is a delight - building the lair, setting traps, actually feeling like a criminal mastermind. Then the wheels come off. The entire second half collapses into clicking regions on the world stage and waiting for minions to finish training, an endless loop of queue, wait, repeat that asks nothing of you and gives nothing back. There's no...
Failed to Capture the Original After all these years, Evil Genius 2 finally launched, and yet since launch day, I still haven't felt the urge to go back and play it. What makes that even more frustrating is that I constantly find myself going back to the original Evil Genius instead. Evil Genius 2 just feels overdone in a lot of ways. It has more modern features and plenty of changes, but somewhere along the way, I...
I can definitely see where this would get mixed reviews. It's great when it's all shiny and new, but when you get into the thick of it, the whole process gets TEDIOUS! Let me try and get a little more detailed on why that is. The most fun I had with the game was when designing a STUPIDLY LONG CORRIDOR of nothing but shark traps, but you don't get sharks until over 20 hours into your "Glorious Campaign". And...
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No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Evil Genius 2: World Domination scores 23/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/700600/evil-genius-2-world-dominationReviews 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 Sep 17, price as of Oct 1.
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