La-Mulana 2

La-Mulana 2

Worth it · Action · 2018

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $24.99.

Length
47.3h
Value
$0.53/hr
Reviews
86% positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
47.3h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
62.5h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$0.53
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$24.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
86%
1,088 reviews, as of Sep 27
Metacritic
79
critic score
Players
150K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2018

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Graphic board with at least 1GB of VRAM, 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

The long-awaited sequel to La-Mulana, La-Mulana 2 follows Lumisa Kosugi as she explores the ancient ruins of La-Mulana. Desperate to find the cause of the recent slew of monsters appearing from the ruins, Lumisa discovers the "other" La-Mulana: the ruins known as Eg-Lana.
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Raising the score
Value$0.53/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Engagement29% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Reviews86% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 85% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
Length47 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach150K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 382 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

September 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $9.99. It has been discounted 72 times in the 8 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales.

Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 percent. Among the games that feel like it, JUMP KING QUEST ($14.99, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats Pronty ($17.99, scores 52).

Steam's global achievement data puts 29 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. This site sampled 382 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026.

It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.

The drop-off

84% start to 29% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

Players

12 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 17:49 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

I recommand this game because it really deserves it, but beware before even considering it : This game is insanely hard, in EVERY FU**ING WAY Seriously, from level design where being touched by a simple bat would cause a chain reaction that will lead you to your doom, or bosses who decides to kill you just because, and kill you even moar, and once again, the die and retry aspect of this game hits the roof. And I...
ComposMentisRecommendedafter 41hAug 2026Read on Steam
If you somehow found yourself in the reviews of La-Mulana 2 to determine if you want to buy the game, just purchase it already. It's a substantially better designed game where I found myself getting stuck way less than the first game. The tunes and bosses are excellent, the puzzles are great and substantially less obtuse than the first game, and the game's visual style looks wonderful. With how cheap this game goes...
RobRecommendedafter 137hJun 2026Read on Steam
whenever i lightly tap left or right, it ends up holding down that direction until i input another movement direction. ive found threads of other people experiencing the same issue and the solution being to install 3rd party software to have your controller mapped to the keyboard instead. this issue presented itself to me on a winning run against a boss, which killed me. i have no idea how this bug exists when...
Network50Not recommendedafter 33hJul 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

Cite this score

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La-Mulana 2 scores 71/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/835430/la-mulana-2
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Reviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.

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Critics vs players+7
Critics
79
Players
86
Critics and players agree on this one.
Metacritic critics · 1,088 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperNIGORO
PublisherPLAYISM
GenreAction
Released2018
Achievements51