Just Cause 2
Worth it · Shooter · 2010
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it 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
$14.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$1.4990% offWorth it
- Cost per hourS
- $0.85/hr
- ReviewsA
- 91% of 51,683
- Critics
- 84 players 7 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 6% Shooter
Holding it back: Monetization
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $1.49 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 17.7h
- To 100%
- 85.8h 4.8x the story
- Achievements
- 50
Price and sales
- Sales
- 97 on record
- Typical cut
- 90% off
- Steam low
- $1.49 November 2018
- Sale every
- 45d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 143 now
- Recent reviews
- 84% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 33% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 86% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
87% start to 3% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 97 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 90 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 6 percent. It is pricier than 67 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 86 percent. The nearest things to it, Just Cause™ 3 ($19.99, scores 66) and Mad Max ($19.99, scores 77), are both worse buys on this math.
More about Just Cause 2
9 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2023 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 79 percent of the 7,711 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 19 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (cosmetic, unlock); the score docks it lightly for that.
The main story runs 17.7 hours. Doing everything runs 86, 4.8 times as long.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 19 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
A perfect sequal to a brilliant series. Who knew having a goal of nothing but blowing things up could be so much fun.
2 more reviews
i unironically enjoy this game more than GTA V, like, way more, the comparison is not even close, night and day difference in terms of enjoyment.
HOW did they fit THIS into TEN GIGABYTES ???? One of the biggest sandbox game maps ever manages to fit into a folder a twentieth of the size of any modern Call of Poopy game. Yes I understand that asset file sizes are much smaller and reused in places to save space, but LOOK AT HOW FRICKIN' BIG IT IS!!!! An action-packed masterpiece! I haven't played it as much as Just Cause 3 (brain attracted to newer games) but I...
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About the game
Dive into an adrenaline-fuelled free-roaming adventure with 400 square miles of rugged terrain and hundreds of weapons and vehicles.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, DX10 compatible graphics card with 256 MB of memory, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
Just Cause 2 scores 80/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/8190/just-cause-2Reviews 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.