ELEX II
Skip · RPG · 2022
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 36, under the fair line, at $12.49.
- Length
- 35.3h
- Value
- $0.35/hr
- Reviews
- 73% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 12 GB of memory, Radeon RX 5600 XT / Geforce GTX 1060, 90 GB of storage. Windows only.
In this sequel to the vintage Open World RPG ELEX, Jax must once again unite the free people of the Science-Fantasy world of Magalan against a new threat - the Skyands, who want to change the face of the planet forever.
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
It has never been cheaper than $12.49. That was September 2025. 35 discounts in the 5 years on record. They run about 67 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 38 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Risen 2: Dark Waters ($2.49, scores 58) beats it on value, while it beats Ashen ($39.99, scores 15).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 12 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written October 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 44 percent of the 430 reviews written there were positive, against 73 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 35.3 hours. Doing everything runs 76, 2.2 times as long.
The drop-off
68% start to 6% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
86 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 15:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
The game is mediocre at everything. Mediocre graphics, mediocre story-telling, horrible combat (to the point it feels like an alpha release game). I only played it due to nostalgia for the company's earlier projects (mainly Gothic), but it's clear they're just milking the franchise now. They didn't put love or any kind of polish into this product.
Games like this should be illegal. I just spend 20+ hours on a character only to learn that my stat allocations have soft-locked me out of the rest of the game. My only choice is to spend hours grinding against the lowest level creatures in the game to try and salvage it. The leap from early to mid-game is insane and nearly impossible to get right. You will fail at it the first time unless you have played this...
This game is very good from the Story line thruout all of the play action. I would recommend it anyone who really enjoys beautiful maps, scenary, good story line, and great gameplay.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
ELEX II scores 36/100 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/900040/elex-iiReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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