Initial 2 : New Stage
Skip · RPG · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 18, under the fair line, at $24.99.
- Length
- 4.5h
- Value
- $5.55/hr
- Reviews
- 69% of 413 positive
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Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 2293 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
“Initial Ⅱ” is a fast-paced hack & slash featured Action RPG. It tells a tale of both the super-power war and the friendship. Our Heroine wields 4 types of weapons and can dynamically switch between them at will. Hope you like it!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 3.9 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX750, 13 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
14 discounts in the 8 years on record, a median of 40 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 328 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 75 percent. Among the games that feel like it, 嗜血印 Bloody Spell ($24.99, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats Book of Yog Idle RPG (free, scores 15).
More about Initial 2 : New Stage
Inside the two-hour refund window, 54 percent of the 170 reviews written there were positive, against 69 percent overall, and those are 49 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
97% start to 3% 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
What players say
takes all the good from the first game and improves in almost every way, the game did come out badly optimized but seems to run pretty good now after many patches still fps drops from time to time but for the most part runs well now!
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
This game is so much better than the first one..if you played first one you will notice how great it became and how much love ..developers put into making this game...you now have 4 weapons to choose..you also have more abilities..and also this is an optional (to choose to play all game alone or together with 2 AI players)..is your choice..but i consider much nice with teammates as they can help you a lot and also...
Initial 2 takes all the good from the first game and throws it out of the window. This game feels like an unfinished tech demo and just not fun to play as an action game. It's really sad if the developer sees this as an improvement. To make things worse, the horrible translation makes unbearably annoying characters even more irritating. If you're looking for a good hack and slash/action game, look elsewhere.
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Cite this score
Initial 2 : New Stage scores 18/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/904310/initial-2-new-stageReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.