BioShock® 2
Fair · Shooter · 2010
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it. Price from Oct 20.
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.90/hr
- ReviewsA
- 89% of 15,030
- Critics
- 88 players 1 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 20% Shooter
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Watch this gameOne alert at $16.10 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 10.5h
- To 100%
- 23.9h 2.3x the story
- Achievements
- 68
Price and sales
- Sales
- 46 on record
- Typical cut
- 67% off
- Steam low
- $2.99 June 2026
- Sale every
- 46d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 27 now
- Cheaper than
- 16% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 80% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
51% 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
The lowest price on record is $2.99, set in June 2026. It has been discounted 46 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 67 percent, about 7 weeks apart.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 20 percent. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 80 percent. Among the games that feel like it, BioShock™ ($19.99, scores 77) beats it on value, while it beats BioShock™ 2 Remastered ($19.99, scores 29).
More about BioShock® 2
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 3 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2021 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 70 percent of the 1,616 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 10.5 hours. Doing everything runs 24, 2.3 times as long.
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What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
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What players say
i had so much fun playing this game as it's the only bioshock game you can play from a big daddy pov, in my opinion it's very underrated, The story is very great plus The Minerva Den dlc is cool and got a cool story. overall it's a Great game
2 more reviews
By far the best Bioshock game out of the 3 in the series, the only issue with the OG version is that it crashes a lot, so save often
Generally a refinement of the first game in nearly every way, personally. While the story choices are not in the kind of depth as later games like Prey or Dishonored (at least Prey definitely came later), it at least had a little *more* going on than the first. I liked the games arsenal, though I did opt to take the passive that restricts you to your drill and a few utility options. It's a fun challenge and there is...
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About the game
Set approximately 10 years after the events of the original BioShock, the halls of Rapture once again echo with sins of the past. Along the Atlantic coastline, a monster has been snatching little girls and bringing them back to the undersea city of Rapture.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 11 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
BioShock® 2 scores 65/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. Price last read Oct 20. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/8850/bioshock-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 6, price as of Oct 20. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.